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Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

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  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    As I've grown tired of OH nicking my cufflinks (he's still not found his missing ones, and has 4 single ones) I'm making him some more. Isaac's in bed, and OH is out at a trustees' meeting.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • zagubov
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    fc123 wrote: »
    I would also go for David Bowie...that's the only big name that would draw me as he has been a musical like all my life....from Ziggy when I was about 10 to now.
    Maybe Madonna...but I don't think she does them.

    I guess if you swim to IoW someone has to go ahead with the kit.
    I would quite like to do that too one day.

    Yep always wanted to do a festival, but they were rare and prettyu far away when I was a teenager. DW is keen for us to go when the kids are out of the way. :beer:
    David Bowie's remarkable. Shame he wasn't well at the time of the Olympics (not that he cried off for health reasons officially but it must have been part of the decision).
    Nikkster wrote: »
    Wet wipes. And not too much fibre (esp towards the end of the festival).

    I think you may need the early astronauts "zero-residue diet"!
    Not sure what was in it but the idea was that there should be nothing left to come out the other end so I'm supecting it was just bovril.:D
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  • Generali
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    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    As I've grown tired of OH nicking my cufflinks (he's still not found his missing ones, and has 4 single ones) I'm making him some more. Isaac's in bed, and OH is out at a trustees' meeting.

    Oooh, interesting. How do you make a cufflink please?

    I bet the Generalissimos would love to make me cufflinks that I wear to work!
  • lostinrates
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    zagubov wrote: »


    I think you may need the early astronauts "zero-residue diet"!
    Not sure what was in it but the idea was that there should be nothing left to come out the other end so I'm supecting it was just bovril.:D
    Nikkster is familiar with that one.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    Generali wrote: »
    Oooh, interesting. How do you make a cufflink please?

    I bet the Generalissimos would love to make me cufflinks that I wear to work!

    I'm sure there are lots of ways - the easiest might be those sort of knotted silks ones with a plastic back.

    I've previously made OH Tahitian pearl ones, which he's not lost, but has left in my parents' house in Kent, so are unavailable. That involves taking a half-drilled pearl (OH's ones are dark green with silver overtones), and fixing it on to a cufflink fitting.

    But in this case, I'm going to make them out of silver clay, embed a fitting, carefully (when dry) sand it down and shape it, fire it, then fit on the rest of the bar to go the other side of the cuffs.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • Nikkster
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    lostinrates wrote: »
    Nikkster is familiar with that one.

    I wouldn't want to combine that and a festival though :eek:
  • Spirit_2
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    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    I'm sure there are lots of ways - the easiest might be those sort of knotted silks ones with a plastic back.

    I've previously made OH Tahitian pearl ones, which he's not lost, but has left in my parents' house in Kent, so are unavailable. That involves taking a half-drilled pearl (OH's ones are dark green with silver overtones), and fixing it on to a cufflink fitting.

    But in this case, I'm going to make them out of silver clay, embed a fitting, carefully (when dry) sand it down and shape it, fire it, then fit on the rest of the bar to go the other side of the cuffs.

    How/where will you fire it?

    Your accumulation of talents is starting to annoy me by the way. Where is the green with envy smilie when you need it?:D
  • misskool
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    Spirit wrote: »
    How/where will you fire it?

    Your accumulation of talents is starting to annoy me by the way. Where is the green with envy smilie when you need it?:D

    If ndg is using fimo, then oven baking will suffice if i remember this corectly?
  • PasturesNew
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    Generali wrote: »
    Oooh, interesting. How do you make a cufflink please?

    I bet the Generalissimos would love to make me cufflinks that I wear to work!
    Depends what you like and your skillset. You could make some with two old buttons and a paperclip if you wanted. At the other end of the scale you can melt down your own gold, then carve something from a cuttlefish, before casting them, then solder those to the through part and mount a diamond in each one :)
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
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    edited 8 July 2013 at 11:57PM
    Nikkster wrote: »
    'glamping' .

    The only way to go.

    Unless you have friends in low places, and manage to secure VIP hospitality passes, so you don't have to glamp at all but can return to a nearby comfortable hotel each night.

    Which we have for T in the Park next weekend. :)

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