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No takers? I expected this one to be shot down as soon as it hit the page!
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They are sugar nips.
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Well done Wendy! Exactly right..... Now we need another object....
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What is it?
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A roll of soldering wire?
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Could be fuse wire 🤔🤔
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Tom has it right Kev.... Very old fashioned fuse wire, probably 15amp. Well done Tom, now we need another object.
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No takers?
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It looks like the handle from a pair of clippers.
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Is it a horse riding spur?
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Wendy has it! Well done. Now we need another object.....
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A bit different this morning...... What does the black stain on the wall of the bakery over the window immediately tell the knowledgeable observer?
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Is it a swarm of flies?
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Sorry Gloria but no......
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Has it had a red dot to signify plague, and then blacked out once it’s cleared. Just throwing random guesses in 😂
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Sorry Gloria but no. It is a concrete physical thing, a consequence of a particular circumstance and tells us something interesting about the bakery.....
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Was someone famous born there?
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No Gloria, think about how the machinery in the bakery was driven!
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Is it oil or grease staining from the end of shafting used to drive machinery in the bakehouse?
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Yes Ian, you've got it. There must have been a cast iron shaft box in the wall holding the bearing for the end of a line shaft....
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Can you tell me what this is?
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It's a prototype of the Royal Navy's latest weapon for dealing with enemy submarines. It hunts them and opens them up like sardine cans! :extrawink:
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If only? Sorry Peter! :biggrin2:
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Is it driving the belted wheel or vice versa?
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