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On Thursday night I attended a public meeting on Racism, Resistance and Revolution, with the main speaker Brian Richardson, contributing editor to a book of that title. The meeting was excellent and it was enjoyable to meet with the Norwich comrades after a period of not attending meetings.

I used a trip to the library, where I borrowed six books, as a starting point for a nice circular walk taking in the Broadwalk, Harding’s Pits and a walk back along the river front. As you will see from the pictures I have from today (especially the last!) the weather in King’s Lynn is better than it has been for about six months.

Two sets of pictures today, first some from the public meeting…

…and these from today.

 

Before getting to the main meat of what will be a substantial post, a coda to my last post, at the end of which I stated boldly that I reckoned England would win their ODI series against the West Indies. I was proved right, in spite  of a fine innings by Denesh Ramdin, which reduced the margin to 25 runs (still one for every two overs if you think about it – quite comfortable in my book).

There was no post yesterday because I attended a public meeting in Norwich, which I will talk about in detail in tomorrow’s post. Yesterday and early today I did some finishing off work on the March imaging. I have also imaged some lots of for the April sale, and done some work on the April Time Bid sale.

Obviously I have a lot of images for this post, and will limit myself to commenting about one in particular, which is lot 393 in the March sale, and consist of two large metal dishes. These were two big to be photographed together, so I took two pictures and used my editing skills to splice them together as seamlessly as possible.

I hope you like these pictures:

I was out walking for two and a half hours today. I had no originally envisaged quite such a long walk, but decided on a whim to explore the Nar Valley Way, and by the time I diverged from this footpath I was at the Saddlebow Industrial Estate, and headed back into town, following the roads initially until I reached Harding’s Pits, through which I walked to reach the Great Ouse which I followed to the Purfleet, arriving home a rather later than envisaged but having only a missed an over of the third and deciding ODI between England and the West Indies. England were put into bat and have just concluded their 50 overs on 303-6, with Root making a century and Buttler missing out by just one run. I will go out on a limb and predict that having batted that well England will win the match and with it the series.

As usual I have some pictures for you.

Another day at James and Sons. Today I gave the book pictures their lot numbers and put them in the folder for March Images (I had done almost all the editing at home yesterday), updated the database with details from the February sales, and did some more imaging, of a handful of lots that needed careful attention. I recognised one large lot of toy cars as consisting in part of old toys of mine.

As usual I have plenty of pictures for you:

 

The Great Washing Machine Saga is finally and definitively concluded! The repair people arrived this morning, with the correct component and duly fitted it without fuss. So after a mere two and a bit months, considerable anxiety on my part, one change of repair company and one false start, I have a washing machine that is all in one piece.

Congratulations to England on winning a match while a series is still alive – yes they one the second ODI against the West Indies to level the series. Having bowled magnificently to hold the West Indies to 159, the batsmen then made an easy task look difficult, and seven wickets went down before with many a set of finger nails bitten down to the quick (though not mine) before falling across the line.

There will are a lot of images today, because I spent a significant part of yesterday imaging books for the March auction of James and Sons, and  I also have some more pictures from around King’s Lynn, it having once again been ideal walking weather this afternoon. There will probably be more book images tomorrow, as I restricted myself somewhat.

A bright sunny day in King’s Lynn – so much so that not only have I been out for two walks (one for grocery shopping, and the second just as a walk), I have decided to take the gamble of turning my heating off and opening the windows.

In my last post I mentioned that England seemed to be faring well against the West Indies. Sadly they blew it not once (by allowing WI to score 101 off their last 8 overs to finish on 269-6) but twice (also stuttering when a Michael Lumb century seemed to have put them in control of the chase) to end up losing by 15 runs – see the attached pictures for a further comment on England’s recent efforts with the bat.

I saw a piece of vintage stupidity today at the level crossing on Tennyson Avenue, when with the warning sound blaring they decided to go across anyway and only just made it before the barriers closed. They then demonstrated that they were clearly not in any hurry either (when it would still have been stupid but slightly less impossible to understand) by waiting for their more sensible mates to cross at the proper time.

Enjoy the pictures:

The T S Eliot signed book is officially big news – someone from a publication based in the southwest requested information today, so they have received a copy of the press release.

One of the star lots I got to image today was a Waterloo Medal, and as you will see from the media attachments it look good. The other lot that I found especially interesting was an enamelled sign, which was in splendid condition. From a purely technical standpoint the image I produced for lot 126, which was two pictures, one framed and one not, was a good bit of work.

Other than the books, which I shall be attending to on Sunday, there are now only odds and ends left to complete the imaging for this sale.

England are just starting an ODI series in the West Indies, and at the moment would appear to be going well – WI 168-5 after 42 of their 50 overs. How much of this series I will be able to catch remains to be seen, but I hope to listen to some of it live.

Here as promised are some interesting images:

 

A busy and successful day at James and Sons today. On Tuesday Adam Lazzari of the Eastern Daily Press visited James and Sons premises in connection with the press release I sent out about the T S Eliot signed book, and his article appeared in today’s EDP (Thursday is the day the EDP’s main edition comes out). The mood was therefore upbeat right from the word go.

Apart from a brief period assisting a colleague to get the Time Bid sale ready to go live (it was uploaded at 1:30PM today, exactly as planned, and can now be viewed on www.the-saleroom.com) I spent most of my day imaging new lots for the March main sale – highlights below:

 

It being a nice sunny day and me being in a position to take advantage of this I took myself out for a bracing walk this afternoon. I started off by heading for the riverside, turning inland at Harding’s pits before cutting through to the parkland area which I joined at Seven Sisters (near the Stuart House Hotel for those familiar with King’s Lynn landmarks). I then walked past a little effort on the part of our council to make a trip to the park educational – a series of signboards about the solar system, plus some mosaic work on the same subject (this came first). The Uranus signboard had been vandalised – all that was there was bare wood. This really annoyed me, because it is really a very clever display – the signboards being placed appropriate distances apart to represent the distances between each body. I have pictures of the undamaged stuff as you will see.

I enjoyed my walk, but why do people feel the need to commit acts of vandalism? A whole display that someone put a good deal of thought into has been spoilt by one idiot who cannot leave well alone.

Here as promised are some pictures:

I have definite assurances from the repair people that the Great Washing Machine Saga will reach its conclusion on Monday, which is all to the good.

Between highlights from the new lots I have imaged today, and the two documents I sent out to various people about our auction on Saturday (a general press release, and a Cigarette Card special which I sent to four organisations who deal with such things and who I had been able locate on the web) there will be plenty of media attachments for you to enjoy with this post.

The images used for PR purposes were composites/ montages, the one for the  general press release painstakingly assembled from 12 separate images, while the Cigarette Card special required a mere trifle of eight images to be assembled into a coherent whole.

Enough for one post – I hope the attachments go down well:

CIGARETTE CARD SUCCESS FOR JAMES AND SONS SUCCESSFUL SALE FOR JAMES AND SONS