Buying, selling and writing lists

Buying

Right, well, you can tell that it's getting closer to take-off time because I've started buying inane thing. Well, maybe they're not all inane, but just why I've chosen to buy so many Piglets is another matter, especially as I already have quite a lot of Piglets.

I bought:

Piglet Pin badge

Pooh and Piglet Pin Badge

2 Piglets, 1 quite large, 1 quite small

1 Small piglet

Very Small Piglet

500GB backup backup drive

... and case to put it in

Extra SD card

Spare batteries for camcorder

And now you maybe wondering why I bought pink PJs. If you know me you will appreciate that this is really just not my thing. The pink that is. PJs are definitely my thing. So here's the reason beside it.  I decided that maybe if I did something a bit different with the parachute jump, it could attract me more attention and get me more sponsorship. So I decided that one thing might be to do it wearing a Piglet costume. The only problem with that was in not having a Piglet costume and not being able to find one, anywhere. Plenty of costumes for small children but there's no way I'm fitting into a 6 year old's costume. So my next thought was to do it in PJs. Partly because I am such a big fan of PJs, but mainly as a tribute to the 'Pyjama Protesters', a group of people in a Leonard Cheshire Care Home who were fed up having no choice over when they were dressed into day clothes and put back into pyjamas, no choice when to go to bed or get, just very little choice about anything in the lives. So they protested by refusing to get out of pyjamas and eventually things did change. This is well-known disability history event, although documentation of it is very hard to find Read this article from the Leeds Disability Studies Website where there is a single paragraph about it. And it wasn't the only time people have protested in pyjamas but may have been the first.

Which is all very well, but I know that what you really want to see is me wearing pink pyjamas. Well, maybe later.

Selling

And the other thing I've been doing is setting my my online car boot sale to boost my sponsorship fund. I'm been rounding up anything that I might be able to sell and listing it all on eBay. So far I've listed about half the stuff I've got. I've taken pictures of the rest but they will have to wait now till next Sunday. Apparently the best day of the week for selling things is Sunday, in the afternoon, so that's my strategy. If you're not the sponsoring sort, but would like to help DASH in some way then head over to eBay and see what's in my shop. And remember... IT'S FOR CHARITY.

New Piglets

All the piglets