Tea? (Part 2)

[coffeejo]

What you trying to say?

 

[Speicher]

I will not, repeat not, increase my bid on a certain item on Ebay. twiddles thumbs, raids biskit tin

What time is it? Let me know when it is 9pm please.

 

[Chromatic]

It has just gone 9. Did you win it?

 

[Speicher]

Yes!

 

[Chromatic]

Congrats!!!

 

[Speicher]

Thank you. Some one bid against me this morning, I put in a very late bid, as high as I thought was reasonable.

As this is a Tea thread, are these allowed to be shown in here? (as they are coffee tins)

 

[Night Train]

I've lost several bids on Bromptons recently. They are all too expensive.

I did win a bid on a pair of used MG Midget leaf springs for 99p They are worth a few quid just in scrap. I contacted the seller to arrange to collect and he said he might as well give them to me and save me the pound! I will pay the pound. It is his first ebay transaction after all.

 

[Speicher]

The added complication of the above items, is that they were on Ebay France. Yes, I know you can ask Ebay to "translate" but what a load of rubbish it translates. The main description and anything else important, it does not translate. I needed to ask the seller a question. so I hastily asked in a simple a way as I could last night, and got an immediate response.

They are about six inches tall, and three inches wide, and so a useful size for storing things.

 

[Speicher]

In my excitement, Night Train, I forgot to ask if you and your family are safe where you are. My geography of that area is almost non-existent.

 

[Arch]

I've lost several bids on Bromptons recently. They are all too expensive.

I did win a bid on a pair of used MG Midget leaf springs for 99p They are worth a few quid just in scrap. I contacted the seller to arrange to collect and he said he might as well give them to me and save me the pound! I will pay the pound. It is his first ebay transaction after all.

Bless him! Not quite got the hang of 'selling' yet...

Nice tins, Speicher. You can never have too many useful tins. I have to be strict with myself on the rounds, or I'd have a million old Quality St or biscuit tins. I do have several decorative ones - an old Quality Street from the 70's and one with a blue and white Delft style pattern, that had biscuits in. And my Earl Grey teabags live in a tin that used to hold Cadbury's chocolates.

I've also got a tin that used to hold something called 'Glucodin', which was a nourishing food powder for invalids. I keep loose change in that one.

 

[Arch]

Hey, I googled Glucodin, and it's still going - it's basically glucose. The tin I have is proably from the 40/50's maybe earlier, judging by the look and language on it.

 

[Night Train]

In my excitement, Night Train, I forgot to ask if you and your family are safe where you are. My geography of that area is almost non-existent.

Yes, thanks, we're fine. The troubles were only about 2-3 miles away but I live in a residential area and there would be little to interest them here, no big local shops here either, other then a Morrisions and a couple of cash converter types. Everything else is too low value to be worth stealing.

An elderly neighbour, who doesn't watch tv, didn't even know about it so when Mum told her this morning the old dear decided to head out to have a look. When she returned she said it was hardly worth the effort, not a lot to see and only one shop partly burned. I think she remembers the Moss Side riots in comparision.

I guess that says a lot for the locals and the council cleaning up.

I remember the Brixton riots when I was in London. We boarded up our shop in advance of it spreading through Hackney but it fell short of us. The quick removable boards we made up stayed in service afterwards as security shutters. Never had a suscessful break in after that.

The recent troubles in Dalston were just round the corner from where I used to live.

 

[Speicher]

Good to hear that you are safe Night Train.

On the subject of tins, for many years on holiday, I tried to find tins like that. It started off buying them very cheaply in shops selling coffee beans. Strangely it is difficult to get tins of that country from that country.

So in Iceland, I found some African ones, and in Sweden, some French ones. I found some lovely Dutch ones in France, in the equivalent of a "Bric a Brac" shop. The French Ebay site has lots of Scotch Whisky tins, and English tea or biscuit tins.

The criteria, for me, is that they need to be in reasonable condition, a good sensible size and have preferably have some foreign words on them. One day, when time permits, I might try to photograph some of the more unusual ones.

 

[Arch]

Yes, thanks, we're fine. The troubles were only about 2-3 miles away but I live in a residential area and there would be little to interest them here, no big local shops here either, other then a Morrisions and a couple of cash converter types. Everything else is too low value to be worth stealing.

I did hear that in Brum, they left the Swiss watch shop alone, and looted Primark...

Eh up Speicher, I'll keep an eye out for interesting foreign tins - so it's not just coffee tins then?

We have a 20p sales box at St Nicks to raise cash from visitors, and we recyclers often contribute books and bric a brac - although we often end up buying them ourselves!

 

[Speicher]

I think I have posted a picture of a biscuit tin and another coffee tin that I bought. I might see if the pictures are still on this thread.

Basically it is

Foreign, with words on it
in good condition
(not the touristy biscuit tin type that you would find toffees in at the airport)

I used to look in kitchen departments of larger shops, but more successful is finding the equivalent of a second hand shop. Then they are much cheaper. There is, of course, a limit to how much time I would spend looking for them. For instance in Lyon near the Cathedral I found a Bric a Brac shop in the same street as the more expensive Antiquey shops.