MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Cathy]

Well done David and Gloria. Feel quite relieved now to know that it wasn't something barbaric.

[Marilyn]

...or chook porn...

[Stanley]

Nice one. Try this, it's a box but what's in it?

[PanBiker]

Basmati Rice

[chinatyke]

Oh Stanley, the answer is almost on the box!

Not Basmati but it begins with the same letter!

[Marilyn]

...and it is 'reserved'...
( keeping schtummmm, lips locked and I have thrown away the key)

[Cathy]

Brandy from Kentucky ??

[PostmanPete]

I think its something that Tripps brought you?

PS - Would you like me to help you sample the contents.........?

[Stanley]

I think Cathy gets that one. And yes, it was a present from Tripps. I shall get Doc in and we'll do a tasting and report.



(Pete, if you call in we'll have a sip....)

[chinatyke]

I think Cathy gets that one.

Only if Kentucky Whiskey is a brandy and not a BOURBON!

[Bodger]

Never mind the foriegn products, try a drop of this, you should find it in most good bars.
http://www.missionliquor.com/Store/Qsto ... roof+750ml.
Here is an English stockist, look at the prices on the right column for vintage years
http://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/P-5792.aspx

[Steeplejerk]

Thanks for the invite Stanley,I could do some damage with that

[Stanley]

Young Tom, you can call in any time you like for a sip... Mind you, if it's better than Knob Creek it will be a miracle!

Try this one.

[Marilyn]

Ouch...looks lethal. (and kind of medical)
Is it for roasting meat?

[Stanley]

Sorry Maz, no. But I can see where you are coming from....

[Marilyn]

Spool holder...

[Cathy]

Which end goes in where... ouch!!

[Stanley]

Maz, you are getting very close! Think about the size of it.....

[Cathy]

Is it part of a roasting spit? Do you scewer it into the meat?

[LizG]

Fishing float?

[Stanley]

Made of solid silver steel Liz, no hope of it floating! Follow the Maz track......

[Marilyn]

(fabric) Bolt Holder...

[Cathy]

Does it hold a skein of cotton or yarn (silk, wool) ???

[Tripps]

This item awakens an amost lost memory of childhood. I'm sure I used to have one. It is of course a rapier as used by Zorro - or it may have been something from the mill. Remember how things used to go in "crazes" yo-yo's marbles hopscotch etc - well these were once a craze.

[Stanley]

It's unfair to push you any further because it is so specialised. It's a spindle from the delivery frame of a mule spinning machine. Maz and Cathy were hovering round this but having never seen one couldn't pin it down. The pulley is for the driving band (special string) and this and similar textile applications of band for driving are the basis of the old saying 'Keeping t'band in't nick'. They sup[ported the cops on the front of the machine.



Taking full cops off the spindles on a condenser mule at Spring Vale, Haslingden in 1979.