the nothing ,anything ,everything thread

[opmania]

This is a thread with no particular

Topic so no one can be off topic 🙂

So if anyone out there has something 

To say about anything you like now

Is your chance

Keep it clean 

And be nice 

See how long that lasts

Can we keep politics and religion out 

Of the conversation 

[ecar3483]

[ecar3483]

Years ago I built a "torch" in a small, clear plastic box, and using a "U" shaped bracket I attached it to the shaft of a walking stick.

When the walking stick was held upright, as though you were standing still, the light would shine on the ground about one pace ahead of you. When you raised the stick, as though to start walking, the light would shine about 2 paces ahead, so you could see where your next step would be.

It was one of those amusing, interesting things to make, but I didn't see much of a future in it. After all, who wants a torch on a walking stick?

Come forward in time, and now torch/walking sticks are a regular feature in some "home shopping" magazine/catalogues.

Even if I didn't have the idea first, I had the idea my way.

[imastawka]

 

[ecar3483]

[ecar3483]

Not that one of these would would last the entire morning, round here...

I like the idea, but convincing the cockatoos that it's not a new toy for them might takes some work.

[lloydslights]

They'd get their "greens".  Though not the proper ones.

[ecar3483]

How to keep a fish happy.

Take a piece of plastic pipe and use a long cable tie to attach a large stone to it so it stays on the bottom of the tank.

"This is My tunnel".

[ecar3483]

I don't need weather radar, I don't need to look out the window, I've got a pair of young cockatoos who work each other up into a state of near hysteria if there's the slightest sniff of rain in the air. They're a worry.

I shouldn't criticise, I've a good dozen cockatooos sitting out the rain under the pergola, at the moment. Sooks.

They're the ones who want me to build the curved top piece of the arch - it'll give them more perching room. I've tried explaining the complications that will, no doubt arise, such as where it's going to go - "Here, under the pergola, obviously" - No, no, the ends of it have to attach to Something... "That's not our problem, you're the one building it... Think creatively...". Bird, it doesn't work like that. You have to take into account little things like my not banging my head on it. "You're always thinking about yourself...".

There are days when I don't feel strong enough to argue with the birds.

[ecar3483]

Is that a camera?

Is that a camera?

Is that a camera?

Take my photo!

Take my photo!

Take my photo!

I've been playing in the mud!

Now it's raining!

What's for afternoon tea?

Is that a camera?!

[ecar3483]

Soul cakes.

A soul cake is a small round cake which is traditionally made for All Hallows' Eve, All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day to commemorate the dead in the Christian tradition. The cakes, often simply referred to as souls, are given out to soulers (mainly consisting of children and the poor) who go from door to door during the days of Allhallowtide (October 31 to November 2) singing and saying prayers "for the souls of the givers and their friends". The practice in England dates to the medieval period, and was continued there until the 1930s, by both Protestant and Catholic Christians. The practice of giving and eating soul cakes continues in some countries today, such as Portugal (where it is known as Pão-por-Deus), and in other countries, it is seen as the origin of the practice of trick-or-treating. In Lancashire and in the North-east of England they are also known as Harcakes. In the United States, some churches, during Allhallowtide, have invited people to come receive sweets from them and have offered "pray for the souls of their friends, relatives or even pets" as they do so.