MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Stanley]

I'd decided it was a doorknob.... Now you have to think of another one Maz.....

[Marilyn]

I am keeping an eye out for suitable things, Stanley, but nothing has grabbed me yet.

[Stanley]

Bugger, so iot's down to the Old Fart is it? I shall have to have a think.......

[Stanley]

I'm still thinking......

[Marilyn]

I am still looking too.

[Gloria]

I am still waiting

[Stanley]

It's all right nagging but it's hard thinking them up! Try this one....



How come OG address is on there? (Thousands made and distributed....)

[Steeplejerk]

Stanley,its a cup with your photo of the Salford rag and bone man.

[Stanley]

Curses! You clever bugger! Thameside did a campaign on recycling based on the old rag and bone m,en and the only image they could find was mine. They asked me how much I wanted for use of the pic but I told them nothing, just give OneGuy a plug. They put on the mugs as well. Now I'll have to stretch my brain again!
By the way, was anyone else getting anywhere near?

[Stanley]

[Gloria]

Looks like something the tide left in.

[Cathy]

Something in the gutter, but what... ?

[Stanley]

Not quite the gutter but you are on the right track.

[Gloria]

Dried leaves and a cigarette??

[Marilyn]

Remnants of Christmas decorations?

[chinatyke]

Moss and lichen growing on a wall, typically under the eaves?

[Stanley]

Not moss etc. China and not on walls but you are very close!

[chinatyke]

Roofing felt in the rain water guttering ('cos I can't spell troffin/troughing) with some slime growing on it?

[Stanley]

Not there but close enough. It's a fungus that grows at the bottom of some walls on Wellhouse Street. I first drew attention to it a few years ago and it's remarkably persistent. Despite being cleared away a couple of times it has survived.
Now I'll have to think again......

[Marilyn]

Fungus? Oh well, it qualifies as a mystery object as it had us baffled)

[chinatyke]

Not there but close enough. It's a fungus that grows at the bottom of some walls on Wellhouse Street. I first drew attention to it a few years ago and it's remarkably persistent. Despite being cleared away a couple of times it has survived.
Now I'll have to think again......

My neighbours would be harvesting it, and either eating it or using it in Chinese Traditional medicine, send it here.

[Stanley]

[Marilyn]

Love the shiny shoes, Stanley.
Our heads have been together looking at this. Febby thinks the object is an oil/ grease pressure pump device.
I am still deciding. As it is on your carpet am I to assume the objects around it are connected to the device?
I note the spanners that have their own place in the box, and a bit that looks like a winder, that fits in that bit over there I think and you must lever it or rotate it...but why? Then there is the pipe that looks like it belongs on a Bunsen burner.
Thinking...thinking...

[Bodger]

Pressure testing pump ?

[Stanley]

Bodge has got it. It's a pump for hydraulically testing large boilers made by the Vulcan Insurance Company. I don't think it has ever been used. Try this one....



PS. You can always tell a gentleman by his boots Maz!