Tea? (Part 2)

[TheDoctor]

Have you had the Brasso on it?

 

[Night Train]

I have new glasses.

I bought two pairs of glasses of the same type, both with magnetic clip on sunglasses. The idea was that I could put away one pair safe and the other pair would have the use of two sets of sunglasses, one set in the car the other with the bike.
Doesn't work.
The manufacturing tolerances are so bad that they are not interchangable!

Had I know that I would have had one pair as reactolites instead.

Oh well.

 

[Arch]

Hoorah for bin food! I have come home richer to the amount of one tin of soup and a tupperware box of basmati rice.

Amazing what people throw away.

Tea? (It's not out of a bin, if you're worried about that....)

 

[Night Train]

Arch is a 'Freegan'!
Well done!

 

[Night Train]

Actually, check the rice isn't bad before eating.

 

[Arch]

Actually, check the rice isn't bad before eating.

Yeah, we've given it a good sniff and it seems fine, but I'll check it again before I decant it into my big rice jar - it's dry, not cooked. It looks like someone kept their rice in this tub, and then cleared out their cupboards lock stock and barrel.

There was a bag with tins of soup, tomatoes, chick peas, and some individually wrapped cereal bars. We rejected the open bags of flour.

There was also a clothes airer, which my colleague was convinced wasn't actually broken, but had somehow been folded so ineptly that it looked as if it was. He stuggled with it for a while, but eventually gave up, on the grounds that neither of us needed another clothes airer.

Also, we've devised the 'toilet roll log'. I've been stacking toilet roll tubes inside one another at home for ages, got it to 15 crammed inside one tube, because the tighter packed our cardboard collections are, the better (more stuff in the same volume of skip). I took it in to show off and someone said "Would that burn in the stove like a log?". So we're going to make some more, to see how they work out. So now, whenever we see a toilet roll tube, we hoik it out into a bag, to compile logs.

At the moment, we're collecting (by separating from the rest of the recycling) toilet roll tubes, actimel bottles, jam jars with lids, blue glass, stamps, readable/saleable books, maps, nice decorative paper, interesting tins, and anything we think we can get 20p for in the donations box. Pretty soon, we'll be reusing more than we recycle!

 

[Arch]

I have new glasses.

I bought two pairs of glasses of the same type, both with magnetic clip on sunglasses. The idea was that I could put away one pair safe and the other pair would have the use of two sets of sunglasses, one set in the car the other with the bike.
Doesn't work.
The manufacturing tolerances are so bad that they are not interchangable!

Had I know that I would have had one pair as reactolites instead.

Oh well.

Oh for goodness sake, how hard can it be to get that right!

I'm sure you can sort it out. Zip ties and gaffer tape, man, zip ties and gaffer tape!

I was at a wedding on Saturday, and the bride had a dress with a narrow grey/green sash, in a crinkled style. My companion remarked that it looked a bit like gaffer tape! How practical would that be!

 

[Night Train]

I was at a wedding on Saturday, and the bride had a dress with a narrow grey/green sash, in a crinkled style. My companion remarked that it looked a bit like gaffer tape! How practical would that be!

How about this?

From this site: http://forladiesbyladies.com/index.php/2009/05/29/10-prom-dresses-made-of-anything-but-fabric/
Some are, erm, interesting?

 

[coffeejo]

The diapers one scares me

 

[Arch]

Hey, I like the bubblewrap one - you'd certainly be popular all night, although a little flatter by the end of the evening....

Seeing the ringpull one... The latest craze among the kids at St Nicks is collecting ringpulls. After they got in and trashed our bags of alu cans, we told them we'd collect some for them, but if anyone else messed up the cans, they wouldn't get any. We've given them a few large handfulls already.

A kid came in on Friday, with a handful he'd collected from cans he found lying around in bins and stuff. I said we were collecting them too and he said "Oh, d'wanna buy these for 50p?".

"No", I said, "we're collecting them to give to you kids. What do you want them for, anyway?"

"I dunno!"

 

[Speicher]

What do people use the actimel plastic teeny tiny bottles for?

Have you seen Dell's post in the Exchange/Free section about some touring shoes, size 5?

 

[coffeejo]

What do people use the actimel plastic teeny tiny bottles for?

I'm guessing that a tiny percentage will keep 1 for shampoo for travelling and put the rest in landfill. Everyone else will skip the travel shampoo and put them straight in the bin.

 

[Speicher]

Possibly, but they have a foil lid (sort of) not a screw top cap that can be reused. You could make a set of skittles for dolls, I suppose. Well not you personally, but lickle kiddiewinks could.

 

[Arch]

What do people use the actimel plastic teeny tiny bottles for?

We've found a way to recycle them for some cash for St Nicks. (Well, once we've signed up, that's a job for tomorrow I think)

http://terracycle.co.uk/brigades/the-danone-yogurt-brigade.html?locale=en-UK

They are also useful as toppers for garden canes, to stop you poking your eye out on them when you bend down.

Oh! an idea for next spring, we could collect the other branded ones, paint them jolly colours, and sell them in sets for canes!

 

[coffeejo]

I have an image in my head of a plasticy cork hat