I sold three of my lots on Ebay yesterday. Yay! Only the Siemens pocket text reader failed to attract a bid. But then it doesn't work terribly well. (For those of you not keeping up with "The Crazy World of Rob Miles"(tm) I've been reduced to selling trinkets on Ebay to fund my somewhat rash purchase of Digby, the Sony Aibo E220A with a heart of gold). Selling on Ebay is great fun. Nothing much happens for the first week, and then you watch the bidding leap all over the place in the last five minutes. My advice to sellers is (1) use Paypal (seems to take all the effort out of the payment  process - although I now have to get the money out of my Paypal account and into my bank) and (2) don't worry if nobody bids for ages.

Thanks to my selling expertise I've now managed to fund the back end of the dog. I'll have to find some other money making scheme to pay for the front. 

But first I need to post off the items to the winning bidders. So it was down to the shops for brown paper, sticky tape and padded envelopes. Then off to Ye Olde Post Office to send the TiVo in a rather large package. This was greeted with some degree of confusion at the counter. "You want to send a parcel?, Hmm, Not sure how you do that...". After fun and games filling in forms and ticking boxes the items were ushered away from me with a promise that they would reach their recipients by 12:00 tomorrow. Here's hoping. I've just thought; What do you call a French Mime who works in a Post Office? - Parcel Marceau.

And now to the Thursday Question. In the UK driving test there are three driving manouevers (or however you spell it) which you must be able to do:

Three point turn, reverse round a corner, parallel park.

But you only get asked to do two of them in the test itself. Suppose that I decide not to learn how to parallel park (to quote Clueless "Why learn to park. Everywhere you go has valet"). What are my chances of getting away with it?