O/S WOMBLING, Road Coinage, Skips, Roadside 'finds' etc

Brie

C_J said:

Crossed purposes, @Brie!  To say you have lost your marbles means you have gone a bit daft Which I know you haven't.

I knew that!  But decided to expand on the situation of why i had lost my marbles.  Playing with the words as always.

C_J

D'Oh!  Caught me out there Brie 

Katiehound

a touch of double entendre? made me snigger... but wasn't smutty! (Think 'Carry on' films!)

we can't cope with any lost marbles..........

BooJewels

Brie said:

BooJewels said:

I have a feeling that we're a little at cross purposes @Brie.  I don't think I could buy replacements in a shop!  But I've had a good laugh at the idea of keeping them in a jar on the kitchen windowsill.  Maybe that's what I need to do.   

[snip] And face it, if I found your marbles wouldn't that be a bit worrying????  (no cross purposes,  only happy coincidences!)

Ah, I don't know, you might do a better job of looking after them than me!

Katiehound

Clearly not much loose change kicking about these days! (I blame plastic!) it's down to the financial crisis

recently found a penny - whey-hey!
When in Ireland found a 1 cent piece- not sure these are even legal tender now as if you pay in cash the change is either rounded up or down- legally! if you pay with plastic you pay the exact amount

I'll try not spend all that dosh at once.......

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

I was slightly luckier today - found a 20p piece in the road (no traffic) as I left my house 🙂 First find in months.

Brie

Not quite a womble in the normal sense but I needed some change to pay for the weekly art class.  It's £12 and I had a £10 note.  So out comes the piggy bank (exactly that!) which I unplugged and scrounged about and got £2 and scurried off to be creative meanwhile leaving poor (!) piggy upside down on the dining room table.  Came home a couple of hours later with my latest masterpieces and thought I better tuck the pig back where it belongs.  Cork in it's belly and picked up all the coins on the table and fed them back in. 

Except for a very small coin which turned out to be a Canadian dime.  Handy as I'm flying to Toronto on Thursday.  Not that 10c will buy much of anything - used to be a chocolate bar but now you're lucky to get one for much under $2.  

For those womblers who find any Canadian coins do dispose of the pennies.  They aren't used any more.  So if a transaction costs $1.98, you pay $2.  If it costs $2.02, you pay $2.  It was weird the first time I came across this in a shop.

Katiehound

2 pence find today, first find for 2 months! Finds are now like hen's teeth: very rare 

Bridlington1

Katiehound said:

2 pence find today, first find for 2 months! Finds are now like hen's teeth: very rare 

I found 10p when cycling home from work yesterday, this follows on from the 5p I'd found when cycling to work the same day.

I must admit I'm finding less these days but I usually still do find some money once or twice per week, almost always when cycling in my case.

thriftwizard

An odd womble to report here, from last week - four small chard plants, masquerading as weeds, on the side of our road. They will have self-seeded over the fence from one of the neighbouring allotments. As the slugs had polished off my seedlings, I lifted these & popped them onto my plot, where the courgettes had keeled over & vacated some space. They've "taken" well and grown about 6" already - and the roadside verge got strimmed the very next day, so I do feel as if I've actually rescued them!