What is it?... answer

And the winner is

BRIAN

Yes, it was the bottom of an Evian bottle. I must admit it looked more like a doorknob to me.

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Talking of water, here's an update on the domestic problem... the Water Board called YESTERDAY, a week late but they came anyway. Now they have said the blockage is not their problem and the matter has been referred back to the insurance company. They in turn have contacted another company who are due to come out TOMORROW to do the work. Naturally, seeing is believing, but I have more faith in this latest arrangement.

I moaned about Severn Trent Water Board on Twitter and got a response from them. The tweeter was keen to find out what was going on and rectify it .... unfortunately I didn't get that response for a few days ... my fault for not looking in.

My apologies to Faye for not preparing a Monday Mirth. I wasn't in the right mood for searching YouTube.

The Answer plus a Discovery!

What was it?

Yes, it was the inside of a car wash taken from inside the car. Well what else can you do whilst waiting for the wash to finish?

Congratulations to Denise, Faye, Mona and Ron who all got it right.

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THE THINGS WE FIND IN CUPBOARDS

The cupboards in my work room cum office are bulging with stuff I rarely use. Consequently I seldom explore the contents. However today in an attempt to find a particular item I came across several boxes of, well, surprises. Stuff that had gone unseen for goodness knows how long. There were packets of cards I’d made several moons ago and forgotten about and in one box there were:

• tools that had gone into hiding for fear of being lost by my beloved; you know the sort of thing, screwdrivers and scissors
• fountain and ballpoint pens (new and unused) that had been presented on various occasions (how many pens does one need to get through daily life?)
• pencils by the score
• craft items in the form of knives, paints, brushes, varnish, white spirit, glass paper, and glue
• copper bracelets and rings
• magnetic bracelets (these indicate how long ago the arthritis hit me – they obviously didn’t work!)
• floppy discs with recorded stuff from WI, now useless pieces of computer equipment
• hatpins on a card, inherited from mother
• and two penny coins: (1) dated 1831 featuring Gulielmus IIII who was King William IV from 1830 to 1837, and (2) dated 1853 featuring a young Queen Victoria. If Victoria came to the throne in 1836 and King William in 1830 they had both done a year before these coins were issued. How strange that we now have a future king, Prince William who will be known as King William V. I have no idea where the coins came from, inherited from either mother or father.
• Another coin in this small collection was a ten cent piece from East Africa dated 1831. Another mystery.

I tried taking photographs of the coins but they didn’t turn out very well. However, here they are as proof that I’m not making this up… grins. The hatpins turned out reasonably well, don’t you think?

More boxes will be delved into when I have the energy to keep saying Ooooh and Aaaah.