Preparedness for when

charlies-aunt

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Haven't seen the collapsible lanterns in Poundworld.

I got mine from the 99p Store.

So did I :rotfl: What I meant was that when briefly cash rich on 29th I will be investing in fairy lights, collapsible lanterns and several packs of those amazing batteries

Scum-forpe is such a sophisticated cosmopolitan city for shopping - the 99p Store is only a few steps from Poundworld so both will be having a visitation after payday!

RAS

GreyQueen wrote: »

And if you hold it up to the light you get to see a watermark of the most peculiar-looking bird. Sort of like a pigeon with a neck as long as its body, looking as if a child drew it. A very young child, prolly.

That's the Zimbabwe bird GQ. Highly revered. Having seen a lot of fakes, in the absence of dimples just below its tail feathers and in the presence of any sort of eye in the head, it will be forged.

GreyQueen

I can't see it's tail feathers, RAS, it appears to be sitting on a brick with zig-zags on it?

Is the "Zimbabwe bird" a species or is it a heraldic-type symbolic bird? Sort of like a unicorn in that everyone knows what it should look like but it isn't real?

Butterfly_Brain

paidinchickens wrote: »

Evening everyone.

DH has got the lottie bug. Not bad as he was adamant he didn't want one We have gone for an hour and stayed most of the day and the boys have gone a little bonfire crazy. We haven't got a clue what we're doing but we are certainly having some fun along the way.

Apparently a tramp used live in our lottie shed until he fell asleep with a ciggie and burnt it out so we spent most of Saturday doing runs to the tip with burnt remnants.

Absolutely right on the keeping quiet on what you have in regards to stash as when DD noticed the pantry was full she no longer goes to the shop and uses us as a local open all hours.

PiC x

Not of the tramp I hope :eek::eek::eek:

Butterfly_Brain

Here is my pride and joy and my Birthday, Christmas and Anniversary present for the next ten years :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:Please ignore the lack of skirting board DH still has that to do :P

RAS

GreyQueen wrote: »

I can't see it's tail feathers, RAS, it appears to be sitting on a brick with zig-zags on it?

Is the "Zimbabwe bird" a species or is it a heraldic-type symbolic bird? Sort of like a unicorn in that everyone knows what it should look like but it isn't real?

The brick with zigzags is Great Zimbabwe, a major historical ruin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Zimbabwe

The birds were decorative soap stone carvings found in the ruins.

Part of the underlying message is probably that the site was built by the ancestors of the Shona who are the largest ethnic group and to which Mugabe belongs and who supported ZANU in the war of independence.

Which is a snub to the Ndebele people and to those descended for the T'swana, Zambian and Mozambiquans imported as ag labs by the Empire.

GreyQueen

:T Oh BB what a beauty. I think I have stove envy. That's one of the bad things, isn't it?

Stoves are clearly the way to go, and more power to your elbow for getting one, I can't think you'll ever have cause to regret it. Comes to something when people have homes with CH systems which they can no longer afford to use.

RAS, thanks, I heard the term Great Zimbabwe somewhere - on Radio 4 in recent weeks I think, came in part-way thru something, some argumment that when Europeans first "found" it, they couldn't believe it was an indigenous civilisation, because it didn't match their bigotted impressions of what Africa was about.

I've told people many a time that there are lost civilisations in Africa inc lost city states and they look bemused. I shall have to educate myself more on these matters. I read a lot, but there are never enough hours in the day, dammit; so much to see and learn.

ETA; BB, I like your wallpaper, lots.

pineapple

notjustlaura wrote: »

My mum's on methotrexate and, so far as I know, has no problems with it.

Dad was on it - no problems.

craigywv

BB your stove is great ,I hope you have many a cosy night around it xxx .....................on another note BOB whats the name of the batteries again I forget and thank u very much xxx

pineapple

This is going to look so beautiful for Christmas!

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Here is my pride and joy and my Birthday, Christmas and Anniversary present for the next ten years :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:Please ignore the lack of skirting board DH still has that to do :P