escargot
Disciple of Marduk
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Yup, my drawers do indeed hold ALL the answers.I assert that it will come back to our universe inside Escargot's teaspoon drawer.
Yup, my drawers do indeed hold ALL the answers.I assert that it will come back to our universe inside Escargot's teaspoon drawer.
It'll be in my sock drawer by now.This one is absolutely infuriating. Yesterday I was mounting some brackets on the side of a piece of equipment in my office. I had a medium sized screw gripped in my fist and reached out to put it on my desk. As I reached towards the desk, I could feel the screw in my clenched fist... and then I couldn't. By the time I opened my hand onto my desk, it was gone. I didn't feel it slip, didn't see it fall, and didn't hear it land. I performed various experiments with identical screws to see where it could have ended up, each time it was plainly obvious it was falling, and made an audible sound upon impact, and was pretty obvious when I looked for it. I've looked everywhere with a torch to see if I can find the damned thing, no sign of it. I thought it might have, in some inexplicable way, got caught in my clothing, but a search revealed nothing. Grrrr.
A quick run through an MRI scanner will find it if youve happened to absorb it.Sadly not... I've been running a magnetic screwdriver all over the place in the hope of picking up the damned screw.
No way, I've seen what happens when you stick metal in a microwave...A quick run through an MRI scanner will find it if youve happened to absorb it.
Red kites flick very much like vultures.This is minorly strange because I hadn't seen it before : looking out of the train window as I came home from Work yesterday, I saw a flock of birds on a field. The birds were spaced about 2-3 feet apart and were too big for pigeons and the wrong colour for crows. As the train got close, the birds lifted for a moment and then settled again and I realised they were red kites - 40 or 50 of them. I know juveniles can be quite friendly with each other but assumed that birds of prey were essentially territorial.
Good to know that they kept there two meters separation distance!This is minorly strange because I hadn't seen it before : looking out of the train window as I came home from Work yesterday, I saw a flock of birds on a field. The birds were spaced about 2-3 feet apart and were too big for pigeons and the wrong colour for crows. As the train got close, the birds lifted for a moment and then settled again and I realised they were red kites - 40 or 50 of them. I know juveniles can be quite friendly with each other but assumed that birds of prey were essentially territorial.
No intent to insult your housekeeping but when things like that happen you have to be very sure there are no rats or mice in the vicinity. And believe me in even the best kept household they are never terribly far away. They will drag off paper and packaging for nesting or chewing purposes. Potentially leaving any metal bits behind.Very minor bit of strangeness- the day after Simon lost his screw I found an old furniture tack on the carpet in the middle of the bedroom doorway. Rusty old thing, no idea where it came from but it cannot of been there long as this is a bare foot area and yes I do vacuum!
If lost toys are translocating, even in pieces, perhaps my dad's lead soldiers will suddenly appear in Lincolnshire despite having been buried in a garden in Northampton!I have just been on the phone to my mum and she has told me something strange. When she was a little girl she had some cheap porcelain horses she used to play with a lot. Over the passage of time and play they all got smashed and lost.
Earlier this week, she found the body of her favourite horse in the back garden near the greenhouse. A few days later she found a leg but it didn't match the first pony. I asked her if she'd checked the dresser with her collection of other figurines to see if anything had vanished but she said that the porcelain ponies had been long lost before I was born. The thing is we all moved to that address in the 1980s so it's not as if the horses could have been dropped in the garden there in her childhood. It's like they have travelled through time and space to be with her again.
Could it be these porcelain horses were mass-produced, and her recent discoveries were of some other child's (duplicate) set?I have just been on the phone to my mum and she has told me something strange. When she was a little girl she had some cheap porcelain horses she used to play with a lot. Over the passage of time and play they all got smashed and lost.
Earlier this week, she found the body of her favourite horse in the back garden near the greenhouse. A few days later she found a leg but it didn't match the first pony. ...
There is a Chinese tradition of sets of porcelain horses which actually represent the same horse in various postures.Could it be these porcelain horses were mass-produced, and her recent discoveries were of some other child's (duplicate) set?
Why? Did it have it's lipstick out?One horse used to be shown rolling on its back but this was discontinued as undignified.
Only the ones you drew it on!Why? Did it have it's lipstick out?
I didn't see it on my way down
This is a good thought, but no. I've got my work uniform on and don't carry money in those pockets (not really allowed to have cash on us at work).Is it possible it slipped through a hole in your own pocket on the way down?
Maybe you didnt notice it because the sun was in the opposite direction when you walked past it the first time, or you were just distracted, but at least you are 10p to the goodThis is a good thought, but no. I've got my work uniform on and don't carry money in those pockets (not really allowed to have cash on us at work).
I found a penny on the road this morning, because its lucky i picked it up, but its been run over a few timesThis is a good thought, but no. I've got my work uniform on and don't carry money in those pockets (not really allowed to have cash on us at work).
This is the most likely explanation - that my attention was distracted by the dog just as I walked past the ten p the first time. It was just so staggeringly visible even from quite a distance. But yes, I probably just walked over it.Maybe you didnt notice it because the sun was in the opposite direction when you walked past it the first time, or you were just distracted, but at least you are 10p to the good
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A dog napper who stole two dogs from outside an M&S store in Nantwich has been jailed.
Malachy Doherty and his 14-year-old accomplice sparked a massive reaction on social media when they stole two beloved Labradors called Denzel and Welly who were tied up outside the store as their owner shopped.
Thousands of people shared an appeal for information online and South Cheshire Magistrates’ Court heard that led to a tip-off, with police officers tracking down the dogs three days later to Tunstall..
The 37-year-old went on to plead guilty to theft and failing to surrender to bail. He was today sentenced to 27 weeks in prison.