Time to part

Don’t worry, the title has nothing to do with me continuing blogging or not … although I do admit that I’ve been absent for a while. But, as mentioned before, February is such an un-inspirational month that I find it hard to come up with catchy subjects to entertain you.


However, today something has come up. Something new and challenging! I want to get on eBay! I’m not keen about the idea, but it’s the only way not to let ‘valuable’ items go to waste.


I’ve mentioned before that my mother is de-cluttering in an attempt to make life easy for me when she eventually dies … which I hope will not be for another twenty years or so. I have also mentioned that my father used to work from 1948 till 1980 as a flight engineer and technical controller with Sabena, Belgium’s national airway company. When in 2001 the company went bankrupt due to ill-management by its new partner Swissair, my father had already died; four years before his lifetime dream’s bankruptcy. I’m so happy he never lived to see the images of the return of the last Sabena flight to its home base in November 2001, where it was given a last salute by the Brussels’ airport fire brigade.

Photo from the internet:
Sabena poster promoting the World Fair in Brussels in 1958.

But back to eBay. In the days that Sabena was still a well-reputed company they used to publish a kind of year-book with brilliant photos of their destinations and achievements over the last 365 days. My father had a subscription to the series and my mother has kept all the volumes since the early sixties till … I don’t quite know. I know they cost 300 Belgian Francs then (+/- 7.5 euro nowadays). I also remember us being very proud of them  showing them all the time to whoever was interested.

Now my mother wants to chuck them with the waste paper. I just can’t bear the thought. But I don’t have room to keep them myself. As I’m an only child having no children of my own, I think it would be right to ‘offer’ the books to someone who really appreciates them: a former Sabena employee maybe who has (grand)children and who feels the same pride my father had towards his employer. So I want to sell them on eBay. That way I’m sure they won’t end up with someone who has no respect for them. Have you ever sold anything on Ebay, and can you give me some tips! I surely would appreciate them? Thank you in advance.