MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Stanley]

Door to hall where the alarm is was shut Maz.

[chinatyke]

How many beans make five?

Bean, bean, bean and a half, half a bean and a bean

[PanBiker]

Well you're in the parish.

[Stanley]

Now, how about the object?

[Cathy]

I hope it isn’t edible.

Is it something that has been Mummified?

[Stanley]

Oh Cathy! Later you'll realise what a quandary you have put me in. For a start off it's almost mummified but no great age. It's not edible like dried fish, I can't say more than that. Keep looking and thinking, you are, in a way, on the right track.

[Tizer]

Is it another sausage, a very long one wrapped in leaves or cloth and left to `mature'? Those Johnny Foreigners eat some strange things!

[plaques]

Pipe tobacco prior to shredding and cremation.

[Stanley]

Well done Ken. It's a ball of pigtail twist.
Cathy, the reason you put me into a quandary was that this was the classic chewing tobacco.
Next one?

[Cathy]

Thank goodness it wasn’t a Snake, that was my next thought.

Reminder... when we sailed to Australia in 1964 , thru the Suez Canal (there was a war happening and the firing was ceased so we could pass thru) one of the places we stopped sold our Dad some food (under pressure) , apparently the adults were told not to buy anything while visiting the ports, but he brought it back to the ship and hid it in wardrobe. Time passed and the smell got so bad that our steward ( a blond Elvis Presley) had to come into the cabin to do investigations into the smell! Embarrassing . In those days Mothers and daughters were put in one cabin, and Fathers and sons were put in another.

[Gloria]

Cathy, the mind boggles as to what that could have been.

[Marilyn]

I have no memory of what Dad may have done, though I do remember Mother saying we mustn’t look out of the porthholes as there were men with guns out there. I didn’t know what guns were (aged four and a half) but I wanted to see the pretty lights.
And the lights I managed to see were ever so pretty...

[Stanley]

Just remembered that the twist was also known as lady's pigtail as it was the tobacco favoured by women.



What is it?

[Tizer]

For warning of gas attack?

[Big Kev]

Looks like castanets with a handle. So based on that I reckon it's a percussion instrument.

[Cathy]

Marilyn, the lights would have been the Rock of Gibraltar. I think we had to get up during the night to see them. 3.00am ?
What I remember is going thru the Suez and seeing soldiers on the side.

[Tizer]

Same thing, just a different application - and you can make butter with it in your spare time.

[Stanley]

Kev got it immediately, ancient Egyptian percussion instrument.
Next one?

[Big Kev]

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[Wendyf]

Looks like the rear light from an early seventies vehicle.

[Big Kev]

It's a rear light but I''ll need a make and model

[Gloria]

Is it from a ford cortina? Mark 1

[Big Kev]

It is but which one? There were several models

[Gloria]

Mark one?

[Big Kev]

That didn't last long
Well done Gloria.

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