I also found Babylon 5 Season 1 on DVD for £8.00 ex-rental at a video store; I wouldn't normally have gone in there but I parked just across the road while I was buying some resistors for work, and decided to take a quick look before heading home.
Finally, I've managed to pick up several books I was after - the last but one Falco novel, two of Kage Baker's "Company" series, and a couple of other SF hardcovers I wanted but had been putting off buying, all at £3-£4.
VERY pleased... to some extent this sort of luck makes up for things like the blasted dishwasher.