My name is Diana, and I have recently retired. Well actually I had not formed the intention to retire but as I have not had paid work  for two years, I might as well call it retirement rather than saying I am unemployed.  I thought I might dread it but in fact I love it.  Even the prospect of  spending my old age in comparative penury does not completely dismay me, as my needs are few.

My leisure time is now occupied designing and building this website.  I started last year with no prior knowledge of how to go about it and after  much research, trial and error, reading computer books, studying Computer Active magazines and visiting numerous websites, together with hints, help and teaching from various people, here I am.

I have been collecting books for years, always hoping to read them, but always acquiring far more than I could hope to read, because there were too many diversionary things to do, what with a demanding job and family and competing interests like gardening and social activities.  Imagine now having shelves and shelves of  books all ripe for reading, and at last  being free to pick even the longest of them, knowing I can wallow and ruminate to my heart's content.  What freedom, what luxury! 

I decided to design a website so that I could sell books, and other things I have collected over the years, and also to communicate, give advice and comments, and maybe give my writing and creations a bit of exposure.

I am selling:

•  part of my collection of Books and Comics including several first editions, antiquarian books, children's books, fiction, including lots of science fiction, and non-fiction books signed by the author  and leather-bound books.  There are  also  old technical books about  Railways,  Electrical Engineering, Shipping and Radio Hacking,  and quite a lot of  Military, SAS, spying and survival books, including magazines.  Also lots of Poetry Books. 

•  Art

• part of my collection of Beswick Figurines

• affordable Earings which I have hand made, each to a unique design

• some unusual items such as an Edwardian wind-up phonograph (gramaphone) in a mahogany "stereo" cabinet, Wallace and Gromit ornament, general bric-a-brac including porcelain and a safe, and Ephemera  including maps and manuscript legal documents.