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OK, here are the rules. This is all tat. It is of no use to us. It might, however, be useful to somebody else, and we are Giving It Away. First come first served; but you must either:

a) live quite near me (NE London) or
b) plan to come to the October or November Tun or
c) have definite plans to see me before Novacon or
d) be coming to Novacon and be able to take it away from there.

None of this tat is going to hang around our house longer than Novacon. Exception: I will post Very Small Things. Very Small Things are annotated VST in the list. Exception II: I cannot bring Very Big Things to the Tun; they are annotated VBT in the list.

Incidentally, if we still have tat for you from previous tat rounds, then we want to unite you with it on or before Novacon if possible. Comments about how we might do this welcome.

On with the tat:

An SMC Barricade wireless router. We have an Airport Extreme now. This one is slightly temperamental but works fine. It has web-based configuration, WAN, LANx3, printer (parallel) & modem.

An unused Aerolatte. Unwanted gift. We are given an Aerolatte as a present about every 18 months on average; I think this is our fourth. They froth milk for coffee and (especially) hot chocolate.

A Clie SJ30 with dodgy digitizer syndrome; needs redigitising every five minutes or so but is otherwise fine.

The rather fine hat I wore at my wedding; sort of white satin veiled job -- see here. Worn once... so there's some makeup on the inside rim but it's otherwise fine. When new this was an exceptionally beautiful and expensive hat. (VBT probably) Could probably be profitably dyed black by a goth.

A device which allows you to hang a mobile phone around your neck. (VST)

Copies of the Good Beer Guide for 2003 and 2001.

A small statuette of a moose

A wooden knifeblock for six knives

A coupon for £5 off a purchase of £45 or more at www.lookfantastic.com (VST)

An indoor fountain -- in last chance saloon, because we can't give electricals to charity shops or give & take days; it will have to go in the bin. It's quite soothing and pretty, in a sort of mathom way.

A Tefal white 2-slice Avanti toaster. This works fine; we've just upgraded to the four-slice version, finally admitting that we needed to be able to toast more than one bagel at once.

A small oil filled electric radiator -- handy for the bits of your house where the central heating doesn't reach, or maybe a garage? Even, plausibly, for those days where it's not quite worth turning the heating on, but it's just a bit chilly. (VBT)

A screech alarm of the sort you carry around in your handbag. Gas powered, apparently very loud.

Ordnance Survey complete street atlases of Herts, Berks, Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Staffs.

A-Zs of London (quite old), Sheffield, Birmingham, Newcastle upon Tyne.

A-Zs of Norwich, Nottinham, Folkestone/Hythe/Dover/Deal, Blackpool, Exeter. (VST)

Street maps of Rugby/Daventry, Caernarfon, Wigan, Rochester, Edinburgh, Southampton. (VST)


An A4 colour print of the cover of Plokta 17, the Millennium version. I have one on my wall already so I surely don't need this one. I would have thought most of the rest of you would be perfectly happy with the web version, but who knows? (VST)

A 1.5-9v car adapter (settings for 1.5, 3, 4.5, 6, 7.5, 9 and 12v) for cD players. I suspect it originally had a batch of alternate endpieces for different fittings, but now it only has one.

Date: 2004-09-17 08:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yonmei.livejournal.com
I put in a bid for an item of tat some time ago: what, if anything, happened with it? I was quite willing to pay postage, if you were willing to wrap it up and take it to the post.

Date: 2004-09-17 08:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yonmei.livejournal.com
Specifically, the "baby listener"...

Date: 2004-09-17 08:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bohemiancoast.livejournal.com
Also two books. They got distracted by a Scheme; specifically that Lilian was coming to stay so we were going to put her and your tat into a suitcase (which was in any case Lilian's...) and she would take it home with her. Needless to say, things did not progress smoothly.

I will fish the stuff out this weekend and post. You don't need to pay me postage -- the reason I've stopped posting tat is that I'm rubbish at packing things up and taking them down to the post office, so I'm restricting it to envelopable items.

Sorry for the delay.

Date: 2004-09-17 08:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yonmei.livejournal.com
That's okay. There was also the possibility that we might have met up when I was in Cambridge, but we didn't. Such is life.

Will see you at some point, hopefully, but I would like the babylistener before December.

Date: 2004-09-19 08:01 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] dougs.livejournal.com
> ... but I would like the babylistener before December.

*raises eyebrow*

Date: 2004-09-19 11:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yonmei.livejournal.com
*raises eyebrows*

Date: 2004-09-17 08:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] coalescent.livejournal.com
A Clie SJ30 with dodgy digitizer syndrome; needs redigitising every five minutes or so but is otherwise fine.

Ooh, yes please. I should be at both the next two tuns.

Date: 2004-09-17 09:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bohemiancoast.livejournal.com
OK, it's yours. [livejournal.com profile] flickgc said you were after a Clié. You should know that dodgy digitizers are really irritating.

Date: 2004-09-17 11:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alexmc.livejournal.com
what is a dodgy digitizer?

Date: 2004-09-17 11:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bohemiancoast.livejournal.com
it means that when you press the touch-sensitive screen, the touch registers in the wrong place. So you have to open up an appropriate application and reset it.

Date: 2004-09-18 04:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] coalescent.livejournal.com
Thanks. I'd like to have a play around with a PDA, and I can't afford to buy one at the moment, so getting a second-hand one to experiment with seemed like the way to go. :)

Date: 2004-09-17 09:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tamaranth.livejournal.com
I'd like the screech alarm, please (how big is it?)

Date: 2004-09-17 09:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bohemiancoast.livejournal.com
About the size and weight of a chunky whiteboard marker.

Date: 2004-09-17 09:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alexmc.livejournal.com
I'd appreciate the wireless router for the front room. The one I've been using for ages is a bit broken.

Thanks

A Suggested donation to Fan Fund?

Alex

Date: 2004-09-17 09:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alexmc.livejournal.com
I ought to do this too as my supply of tat is getting silly

Date: 2004-09-17 09:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bohemiancoast.livejournal.com
OK, tis yours.

Donations to fan funds not needed, but you know, always like books...

Date: 2004-09-17 11:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alexmc.livejournal.com
well I have half a room full of books "for sale" but I am worried that if I donate them they may just end up at Oxfam...

Date: 2004-09-17 11:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bohemiancoast.livejournal.com
No, no, but am super selective! Got any more Ian McDonalds? The Steph Swainston? Anything on my Amazon wish list?

Date: 2004-09-17 09:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sneerpout.livejournal.com
I would like to baggsy the non-goth hat, please. Also the mobile phone hangy thing and the screech alarm.

We still owe you pintage for the last lot of not-tat-at-all you gave us. Just as well I plan to be at the next Tun, of you'd end up with alcohol poisoning at Novacon.

Date: 2004-09-17 09:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sneerpout.livejournal.com
Scratch request for screech - I've just seen Tanya's comment!

Date: 2004-09-17 09:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bohemiancoast.livejournal.com
OK, non-goth hat is yours, though might count as a Very Big Thing so I'll have to think about how we unite you with it.

Date: 2004-09-17 09:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bohemiancoast.livejournal.com
also mobile phone hangy thing

Date: 2004-09-17 09:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sneerpout.livejournal.com
Quite... I'd look really silly cycling home wearing it.

Date: 2004-09-17 01:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pickledginger.livejournal.com
Hee!

*wants piccies*

Date: 2004-09-17 03:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] numbat.livejournal.com
To judge from the photos I've seen of you and that hat you won't so much wear it as shelter beneath it. Oh, and I suspect you'll develop the urge to stand on wedding cakes...

Date: 2004-09-17 11:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] headgardener.livejournal.com
Small oil-filled electric radiator: home offered for this. Not that I've encountered this form of heating device before, so would need briefing on its care, feeding etc.

Date: 2004-09-17 11:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bohemiancoast.livejournal.com
Er, I think you just plug it in... Don't get it wet. Being an electric heater, it's ferociously expensive if you leave it on all the time. I think it's 2kW though can't quite remember.

Will exchange for a roll of anti-slug copper tape and an enormous quantity of yellow cherry tomatoes (still going strong! Yum!). We'll bring it over; when would suit?

Date: 2004-09-17 12:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-gardener.livejournal.com
Any time tomorrow would do; or failing that, any time next weekend (Sunday is the Allotment Association's AGM and bi-annual workday, so we'll be out for all of the afternoon and probably part of the morning too.) Thanks!

Date: 2004-09-17 03:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] headgardener.livejournal.com
Thank you and SC for instant delivery service of electric panel heater. Job for tomorrow (or when I get a round tuit): re-arrange my study so it can fit under my desk and keep my tootsies warm. Hope the slug tape works, and that y'all can dispose of the cake over-supply from CARA's AGM.

Date: 2004-09-17 12:26 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] akirlu.livejournal.com
I'll have that color Plokta cover; it's one of my favorite of your Photoshop collages. If I feel very project-ish, I might even use it to make a t-shirt with, but otherwise, we must have a little free wall space somewhere...

Date: 2004-09-17 12:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bohemiancoast.livejournal.com
OK, tis yours. I'll put it in the post.

want tat!

Date: 2004-09-17 01:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] frostfox.livejournal.com
I'll relieve you of Aerolatte (now Annie bought me coffee bean grinder and keeps me in complementary beans - there are advantages to having a best friend who's a manageress of a Starbucks) and the Cheshire maps.

How tacky is indoor fountain? Dorothy keeps making noises about wanting one, I'm not sure Bill really deserves the Chinese water torture though...

Occers to me that I haven't picked up the last tat I had off you (LOTR tapes for car) must come down Real Soon Now.
Elderly cat and no money main excuse.

Cat has decided poofe is place of choice to sleep on at moment, even though he falls off at least once a night, causing much hillarity.

Re: want tat!

Date: 2004-09-17 02:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bohemiancoast.livejournal.com
OK, Aerolatte and Cheshire maps are yours. Indoor Fountain is Hardly Tacky At All! Dorothy and Bill will love it. A perfect fit! We'll set it aside for you.

yes, you must come down!

Re: want tat!

Date: 2004-09-17 03:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] frostfox.livejournal.com
More or less tacky than the Glowing Flowers of Doom?
Suspicious of Northwich.

Re: want tat!

Date: 2004-09-18 02:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bohemiancoast.livejournal.com
Really startlingly much less tatty than the Glowing Flowers of Doom. I mean, if we had any space at all in our life for an indoor fountain, this would be a perfectly nice one. I was delighted to get it; it's just that having sorted out somewhere for it to go and plugged it in we realised in fairly short order that it was actually one of those things that nobody really needs.

Date: 2004-09-17 02:36 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] timill
I'll cheerfully take the beer guides and all the maps/street guides/A-Zs if we can figure out a way to pass them over (and if not, not).

Are you in Cambridge next weekend (25th)?

Date: 2004-09-17 03:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bohemiancoast.livejournal.com
OK, beer guides and all remaining maps are yours.

yes, we'll be at Austin's. Will you be coming over to that? Sounds like a deal.

Date: 2004-09-18 12:11 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] timill
We should be there.

Date: 2004-09-17 03:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] del-c.livejournal.com
I can't believe you're chucking the moose statuette.

Not that I want it...
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