Bargain Hunter

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I watched a clipping from a newspaper for a couple of months. It was an advert for eight Daphne Du Maurier books. She's one of those authors who has interested me, without ever quite reading her - if only as a source for three Hitchcock movies. I saw the documentary and the slightly bizarre dramaticisation of her life on earlier this year ... and wanted to read her.

Yeah. But would I? I have unread books from the 1980s. £25 seemed a good deal, but was it, really?

I lost the clipping, the deal disappeared from the Guardian website, as did the offer for Humphrey Lyttleton CDs and potatoes (not Humph potatoes, although I would buy those, there was an offer for potatoes, which might have been in The Times). [it's back again.]

Last week in The Works I was staggered to find books - including the Du Maurier, for £14. Bargain. No Birds, though.

Am I going to read them? H'mmm.

Then today, Virgin - or Zavvi or Zivva or whatever they are called now - had the complete Curb Your Enthusiam for £35 - half price what I nearly paid for it last year. I could take what I saved and see if The Guardian still has the Beethoven offer. 

H'mm.
 

I also have a large number of brussel sprouts, because they are cheap. They curry well. I wonder if they pickle? They could eke out my picalilli.

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If memory serves, there is a short story collection, but not the one including "The Birds". Rebecca, Jamaica Creak,* Frenchman's Creek,** maybe The Loving Spirit, I'll Never Be Young Again, The Parasites, My Cousin Rachel, Castle Dor and The Flight of the Falcon. Will check later.


I think full price was something like £75.


* No, she ceaked of her own accord.

** Yes, I know I've manhled those two titles. It was for a punchline.***


*** Please yourself.