MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Tizer]

But the markings are not those of an ordinary ruler. They don't usually have so many digits scribed on them. Having 56/64ths for instance seems a bit perverse. Most rulers would have only a digit at the half inch mark or none at all. Does your special one have metric on the other side? Or 10ths of an inch?

[Cathy]

Oh I jumped the gun there, dear dear, think it was around 11pm here, a bit late and I missed Stanley's post.

[Stanley]

Tiz, you're right, that's the difference. It's a pure Imperial rule, marked in 16ths and 8ths on the reverse but without the intermediate markings as it's easy to count the divisions. I have other rules marked the same way with the intermediate numbers but never considered using them. Now I have discovered the advantage of the numbers on the divisions I have swapped from the normally marked rules to others that are the same. If you look at Shed matters you'll see the swap. It's a lot easier to count the divisions with the intermediate numbers in the smaller divisions. You live and learn!
Next for shaving?

[Stanley]

No offers? Try this one.....

[Stanley]

I think that has frozen your brains. It's a foundry pattern made of cast iron for a steam engine lubricator. The black part is a wooden core which would be made of sand so that the casting was hollow. It came from Kirkham's at Bolton when they went out of business, John let me raid the pattern shop because they were all to be destroyed. Such a shame, more to patterns than meets they eye and a very skilled and expensive job making them.
Do you want another? Or are you getting fed up with this topic.....

[Marilyn]

I'm not bored with the topic...I just haven't known what things are lately!

[Cathy]

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What might this be?

[Marilyn]

I can think of three suggestions, all quite different, but I will let others go first in case one of them is right.
I do recognise the tablecloth pattern underneath! We were sat at that on Tuesday...drinking coffee, eating Tim Tams and putting the world to right.

[Gloria]

I am like Marilyn, certainly not bored, just haven't had much of a clue recently.

[Marilyn]

I don't feel so bad now, Gloria!
You are generally the brains of the operation...

[Cathy]

Ditto.
C'mon girls, this one is for you!!

[Tizer]

It's NASA's latest image of Pluto!

[Pluggy]

Pedicure dead skin remover ?

[Cathy]

You've got it Pluggy, good on ya!

[Stanley]

Sorry If I have been too obscure. I wouldn't have got that last one....

Try this one....



What is it and where is it. Maz and Cathy saw this many times in their childhood....

[Marilyn]

We did?
( did we Cazza? )

[Stanley]

I think you must have done Maz if you were wandering about. Only 200 yards from your grandma's house.... Rack your brains! What is it and where is it?

[Pluggy]

I've seen it posted before, I know what it is but I can't remember where it is......

[Stanley]

Maz and Caz must have passed it hundreds of times....

[Marilyn]

Cazza may know then... being considerably more ancient than my young self
(I was only 4 when we left Barlick!)

[Cathy]

Don't wait for me, sorry it rings a bell but not a loud enough one.
Interesting how the tree has grown around implement.

[Stanley]

I'm not going to torture you with it. It's a blacksmith's vice minus its screw and handle. Someone, many years ago has used the tree trunk as a support for it and over the years the tree has grown round it. It was right next to Forty Steps near the beck where the path branches off down Ouzledale to Wapping. I think it was ripped out when the land on that corner was developed for housing, it wasn't there, or is hidden behind the fence, the last time I looked for it.
Have a think and see if you can think of a new object. In the meantime, here's an oldie for you...

[Marilyn]

Coal tongs?

[Wendyf]

Sugar cutters?

[Gloria]

Twitch for horse / cows nose??