eBay My World: junglegreenfinch( 527)

Well,l remember long hair and beehives and flower power and Carnaby Street and Mary Quant and winkle pickers and bell bottoms so wide you could host a party under them! And nice people put the petrol in your car for you and phones had rotating dials!

Old memorabilia, old stuff! China, vintage clothing, allsorts really - when you have cleared out the homes of a hoader Mother and Mother-in-law, it makes you kind of take stock of your own life. Like - do I really want my poor kids to have to sort through all this stuff when I'm gone? So my aim is to find good homes for most of it before I go.

Useful things which I haven't got - like a bird table, which my husband has been going to make for me for the last 10 years! And Christmas presents - how great to have them delivered to your door!

English, French

Gardening, swimming, walking, reading, theatre, grandchildren's activities

Stephen King, Harry Potter, Dennis Wheatley, Lord of the Flies, Flowers in the Attic.

The Great Escape, The Italian job, E.T., 2001 A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, Billy Elliot, Kes, Jungle Book, Fantasia, The sound of music(it always makes me cry), anything with John Cleese or Rowan Atkinson in it.

Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Queen, Westlife, ELO, David Bowie, Beatles, Meatloaf, Pavarotti and other tenors, Beethoven, Mahler, rousing patriotic British songs(as in the Last night of the Proms)

Tomorrow's World, Panorama, Top Gear, Spooks, Waking the dead, Fawlty Towers, Only fools & horses and Eastenders-(yes, sorry, the only soap I watch!)