MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Stanley]

I forgot to mention that I think the tractor they used to tow the wagon was powered by compressed air in a holding tank. I was having a smoke in the canteen one day and I noticed a sign-writer working on the large painted notice behind the serving counter. He was drawing a red line under the current entries. When I asked him what he was doing he took me to the window and showed me a large hole in one of the bunded locations where the explosives were packed in flimsy wooden huts. If my memory serves me right two women had been killed in an unexplained explosion a couple of weeks before.

Try this oldie....

[Marilyn]

Another familiar one I think?

[Stanley]

That's why I said it was an oldie.... Rack your brains Maz!

[Marilyn]

I will let someone else get the gold star...

[Stanley]

Big clue, it's cast iron vaulting..... Question is where?

[Stanley]

I'm sure someone remembers it. I shall give it one more day and then reveal all.....

[Stanley]

You have all forgotten haven't you.... This is the cast iron vaulting in the cross tunnel which connects both bores of the Standedge railway tunnels. (LINK) In 1871 on the completion of the second of the two original tunnels, the floor of the cross tunnel was paved with encaustic tiles, the area decorated and the directors held a dinner there. The vaulting and tiles were still in place when I broke the law and trespassed the tunnels in 1978. There are cross tunnels into the old canal tunnel as well and at that time it was closed to traffic but has since been reopened.



What is and where does it live?

[Cathy]

Is this the Quokka again from Rott Nest Island?

[Marilyn]

I agree with Cazza.
We had planned to visit the island, but every time we mentioned it, we got such negative responses from all sorts of locals, that we gave it a miss.

[Stanley]

Of course it is! I landed that one right at your collective feet didn't I. Rott Nest is OK , at least it was when I went there. I like the quokkas......
Next for shaving?

[Stanley]

No volunteers? Try this one.....

[Cathy]

A prehistoric painting, probably on rock.

[Marilyn]

Is it something you cooked ( possibly as far back as the last century), that you forgot you had at the back of the freezer?!

[Pluggy]

I'm with Maz.

[Gloria]

A greasy rag.

[Stanley]

Sorry, nobody is there yet. You have all seen this. Look at the shine on it......

[chinatyke]

Crude from the Sabden Treacle Mine.

[Stanley]

No, but you are a tad closer.....

[chinatyke]

Skin on the contents of an old tin of varnish. Or same on a rice pudding?

[Marilyn]

The contents of a handkerchief found in the robes of a Holy Manchurian Man, estimated to have frozen to death at least 4 million years ago?

[Marilyn]

It's a product tag? From a flour or sugar sack etc...like a waxed seal.

[Cathy]

Found in a drain or under a bridge.

[Tizer]

Whatever it is he ought to book an appointment now to have it seen to before it gets any worse!

[Cathy]

Maybe the Aliens have landed

[Stanley]

I love the replies! China is closest actually but not there yet but you have had enough punishment.... It's a close up of the skin on a very good (and expensive) Israeli date. Chaudrey's sell them and I allow myself two a day, they are wonderful and reputedly very good for you.
Next for shaving......