Just had a break up? Flog your entire life on Ebay.

[Grumpmeister]

Given the way that Gordo is destroying the country does anyone fancy a new life in Oz?

An Australian has decided to sell up on the internet auction site Ebay not just his belongings but his entire life.

Ian Usher says he wants to auction off not just everything he owns but his job too, in one life package.

The 44-year-old says he wants to raise funds for a life-changing adventure after his marriage broke down.

Mr Usher, who emigrated to western Australia from Britain six years ago, hopes that he will be able to raise more than $400,000 (£185,000).

Carpet shop

He wants to leave Australia with just the money in one hand and his passport in the other, on the first plane out.

His employer, at a carpet store in Perth, has agreed to take on whoever wins the auction on a two-week trial - with a view to a permanent position.

The winning bidder will also get an airy open-plan house, a car, a motorcycle, as well as accessories to enjoy his sun-drenched lifestyle, including a spa and several surf boards.

Mr Usher says he is not trying to sell a sob story, but the auction seemed like the least emotionally-charged way to get a clean break.

Comments on the plan via Mr Usher's website are overwhelmingly positive but there is no suggestion of anyone being first in line when the bidding opens in June.

[Snoopy]

Barman ...... fancy a job selling rugs?

[Barman]

Barman ...... fancy a job selling rugs?

Oh Snoopy.... 

[Snoopy]

'shamed

[Barman]

Red cross! 

[Snoopy]

Works for me. Try right click and "show picture"


We Vi$ta users don't seem to have your problems.

[Barman]

Works for me. Try right click and "show picture"

I've done that... 

And copied the address to my browser... 

[Snoopy]

Better?

[Barman]

Better?

Much better... that's the kind of shame-faced look I was hoping for.... 

[Snoopy]

  Odd that but it has now gone to a red cross here too. Fortunately I have downloaded it into my own "pictures" library for future use ..... not that I expect to need it often but when contrition is due 

[Barman]

Odd that but it has now gone to a red cross here too. Fortunately I have downloaded it into my own "pictures" library for future use ..... not that I expect to need it often but when contrition is due 

Vi$ta eh? 

[Snoopy]

Don't start me off  . It's good and easy to use "when it works" but when it doesn't it is a bastard    The current problem, which appears from comment on the net, to be universal is that one cannot spell check emails. Push the tit and you get a message saying "That language is no longer recognised". According to Windows help there is a patch to fix this but will it download? Will it buggery. I am awaiting a patch for the patch. This is beginning to look like the tyres on my old paperboy's bike ..... more patches than original rubber.

[Barman]

 

[Snoopy]

I may be about to rescind my contrition 

[Grumpmeister]

Don't start me off  . It's good and easy to use "when it works" but when it doesn't it is a bastard    The current problem, which appears from comment on the net, to be universal is that one cannot spell check emails. Push the tit and you get a message saying "That language is no longer recognised". According to Windows help there is a patch to fix this but will it download? Will it buggery. I am awaiting a patch for the patch. This is beginning to look like the tyres on my old paperboy's bike ..... more patches than original rubber.

Welcome to the wonderful world of Microsoft beta testing. They must have saved a fortune by releasing Vista and letting the end users do all their testing for them.