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I love that place, it's mint.

Today I purchased Start Trek IV, VI and VIII for £3 each. Having bought II from play the other day, I've now got all the good ones.

You can have a right rummage in there and normally find something cool.

Just a bit of advertising for my favourite places. It's nearly as good as the Kent Road shop.

That Kent Road shop has some ace currys in the freezer at the back. When i used to live in old town i lived just round the corner from it. I loved that place  :D

   You're right, sometimes you get a bit of STFC memorabilia, or general football stuff turning up in there.....the Prospect one on the other side of ther Road has some tidy stuff in as well.....I miss Victoria books, which was in Wood Street.....although I had to stop myself going in, as I invariably bought some old book, which I didn't really need, probably because it had good pictures in.

That old bookshop used to amaze me as a kid. Just seems to keep on going. You'd get towards the back and then there was that staircase down, with the wall still lined with book shelves. Then you'd get into a basement full of more books. I wonder what happened to them all when it closed down.

this all reminds me of when I used to work in a charity shop. best job I've ever had.

Is this the one next to Corals?

Its quality in there used to fo in there all the time when I was skint and living in Old Town, found a Michelin man once and a Guiness Toucan 8)

I'll probably become one of those old fellas the compusivly collect rubbish.

Mr Trebus  8)  

''You have no right''

Charity shops are ace, I got a well cool leather bike jacket from Oxfam for £15  :D

 Probably took them off to Hay on Wye and flogged them there.....Hay is one of those places sufficiently near to get a visit every couple of years....their Festival of Literature isn't a patch on Swindon's, mind.

Going to start calling you Redbullzeye Jnr

 8)

an absolute cast iron fact is that in year 3 i wrote a chutney poem  8)  that's right, chutney poem, in class and got to recite it on the radio, they recorded said recital, in that very charity shop

that shop was amazing. the idea of books being used as shelves for more books is a concept that shold've caught on

I have to keep out of charity shops,i always end up buying books that i never read,a sort of mania overtakes me and i have to buy them because they are so cheap. Then i end up giving them back to the same shops i got them from in the first place :oops:

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  He'll need the aviators as well!!  Trouble is you get the pauld "you look well gay" comments

I went Charity shop shopping today.

Theres a copy of Champ Manager 97-98 in one of the ones in Havelock Square for £1.50,same games on E Bay at £13 with 10 bids and 24 hours left if anyone can be arsed.

I got Russell Brands Booky Wooky and John Peels Autobiography.

Charity shop shopping is ace. We've got a big Dotty House in Melksham (the pick of the bunch, really) and I quite often pick up books and stuff, the odd CD.

   Think I I may need a new screen the old site fitted in my screen quite happily this one doesn't...is there anything I can do?

   I decided this because reading this thread, but not seeing any avatars, or taking any notice of dates...I read something and thought it sounded just like somnething I would write....to discover it was something I'd written...weird.

 Should have known it was an old thread, because FB had money to spend in a charity shop.

you need to turn down the steam vario-regulator three notches Reginald and remove the old pennyweight from the counter booble and relax in your chair with some brown ebony shag.
Job done.

 These computer thingys would definitely run better if powered by steam.

  PS...brown or ebony shags are always welcome.

Right click anywhere on your desktop and select properties. In the settings tab you need to slide the screen resolution slider thingy to the right.

 Cheers Si...that's much better and not a Walschaerts valve gear in sight

I bought Tomb Raider - The Last Revelation in that charity shop the other day. My mum sent me to the post office and I had some change. £1. Bargain.

 Was that you sat outside fB....looked a bit hairier than the last time I saw you.  If I'd have known it was you, I wouldn't have told you to fuck off when you asked for change.  You still wouldn't have got any mind.

The Dorothy House charity shop in Bradford on Avon refused my jumble the other day!!!

last time they get stuff off me! I like to go to Cats protection shop in Melksham or Nam as I belive in cats more anyway

you believe in cats more than what?

cancer?

I don't think either are fictional.

Im not quite sure what I meant really  :-[

Im just cross at them fussing about my jumble

What's your definition of jumble?

stuff that I no longer need - It wasnt crap - it was mostly clothes - some still had labels on - a pair of Russelll and Bromley shoes too

I think they get annoyed when people dump a bag full of unsorted stuff on them, half of which is just rubbish. I had a conversation with the lady in Vic Hill shop about it before. Quite often if you walk past you'll see a couple of bin bags of stuff outside the door even though there's a sign up saying "please don't leave donations outside the door" or something. Normally on Sundays.

when i was hitching round europe in the late eighties there used to be this bookshop in paris next to the notre dame cathedral, you could work in the shop for the afternoon and they would give you a bed for the night, the beds were hidden amongst the books on the shelves, was fucking amazing place.

Why did they refuse it? Did they say?

Anyway, textile banks are a pretty good way of getting rid of old clothes.

Yeah but some of the clothes were brand new - They are a bit funny in the Bradford on Avon shop - I feel like they look down on me - she just said they werent accepting donations or something - I think it might be cause she knows my boss - he found out they spent 20 grand on curtains for the old shop and made a complaint

Why would you get rid of brand new clothes? Did you get too fat for them?

 Do you enjoy a good handbagging?

It was my revenge for her nastiness earlier

No - sometimes I buy things in haste/sales etc and never wear them

Oh and when was I nasty???

Don't worry I was only joshing