Could you be a budding Charlie Parker? Thelma Howland, acting head of Northwood Primary School on the Isle of Wight, has given up the sax to concentrate on keyboards, so she’s selling her hardly played Yamaha alto sax, complete with hard case.

Price: pound;600

Contact: thelma@thelmahowland.net

Spanish hideaway

Stave off the winter blues with a break in a luxury apartment in the hills above Marbella. If you fall in love with the place, it can be yours for 380,000 euros (pound;256,237) and you will have the cost of your holiday rental refunded. Valerie Simpson, vice principal at Cambridge Tutors College, Croydon, is offering her spacious Spanish hideaway for rent or sale. It has three double bedrooms, two bathrooms, loungediner, kitchen, utility room, garage, storeroom, satellite TV, DVD player and air conditioningcentral heating, in a gated complex with communal gardens and pool.

Lounging on one of three south-facing terraces, with views over a golf course and Gibraltar and North Africa in the distance, you’ll forget all about your lesson plans.

Price: between pound;300 and pound;700 a week

Contact: thesimpsons990@tiscali.co.uk

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