Seen on the news today (I had to watch the news twice as I didn't catch it the first time). A Japanese seaweed farmer using a peg to hold the hood of his rain coat up by pegging it to his peaked cap. All my thoughts go out to the Japanese at the moment, more worries over radiation being found in the sea at 3000 times the "permitted" level.
I use an old Tala icing turntable as a soldering turntable in my workshop....
Spring is here, and this brings out the students in Manchester to play. I spotted a group of them playing cricket on a piece of waste ground behind the college using a sign as a cricket stump. I expect there will be some jumpers for goal posts seen soon too.
This isn't the most inventive other use for a peg, pegging up posters is quite close to pegging up washing, but as it is St Patricks Day tomorrow it seems a timely choice to post an Irish pub.It was in this charnel house of blood, sweat tears and tragedy that the pub we today know as the Lass O' Gowrie was born." (from the pubs own website)
Contributed by Will Pollard.
This might be a bit too weird..?
Spotted outside Manchester Piccadilly station today. Cyclists seem a very resourceful bunch..as these couple of improvised baskets illustrate. Also a bonus plastic bag seat cover.
This is the example I used to use in the lectures..sadly it fell apart..Archie has hot glued it back together for this photo..If you have a light bulb and no electricity, how can you make light? Use the lightbulb as an oil lamp.
Bit of an obvious one this..but I had to mention it. This is the very paperclip I use to unblock the paper shredder in the office. (REMEMBER.always unplug electical items before poking them with anything metal.) Paperclips are also useful for pressing reset buttons.
This project might be harder than I first envisaged.On the train from Manchester to home, I spotted a young lad using a a Metro Newspaper rack to stand his bike up in. It was quite hard to photograph through the window and I was also moving away in the opposite direction, but I think you can just about see it?
Spotted a Blakemere Craft centre in Cheshire, a wheelie bin chopped in half to house the air pump for the bouncy castle.
This is the coathanger that started the idea. I photographed this at Platt Hall in Manchester last year. Platt hall is a museum of costume , and therefore very apt that a skirthanger was used to prop open the window.
