DrPhill
Cyber Heretic
I collect walking sticks. I make them, and cannot bear to part with them. Each represents another part of my life.......
About ten now. Who needs ten walking sticks?
About ten now. Who needs ten walking sticks?
I suppose I could also say I collect Deloreans, I have one at present but just about to buy another. Wife doesn't get it. To be fair I will probably sell the original one as the second is a bit special.
It can actually reach 88mph
When my daughter was about three I built her a Wendy house in the garden and glazed the Windows with clear acrylic. I kept the off cuts as they might come in handy. Rebuilding my lathe it has a clear perspex cover over the speed plate, which was badly scratched. Out came the acrylic which had been hiding behind my bench ever since I built the Wendy house, my daughter is now 21!I used to collect coins years ago, then photographic equipment, but now I collect all sorts of stuff that i think will be useful. I have difficulty throwing some things out. I'm like a squirrel. I put things away because I might find a use for it and I usually do. Sometimes after 40 years!!!
My dad is exactly the same, loads of walking sticks and thumb staves. He's 98 now and can't walk far. I remember as a kid long walks in the countryside and he would always have a folding saw with him. Often used to dive into the nearest hedgerow and come out with his next project.I collect walking sticks. I make them, and cannot bear to part with them. Each represents another part of my life.......
About ten now. Who needs ten walking sticks?
I'm collecting £5, £10, & £20 notes!SWMBO's Aunt has been collecting £50 notes since she was a teenager. She's drawing the pension now, I often wonder how many she has.
Hah ! A man in denial.I need to see the doctor on Monday I’m cleariy not normal……I don’t collect anything
A man after my own heart. I have a whole shed full of spares for my 1980's S Class, pretty much a whole car minus the shell, and spare engine, gearbox and other bits for the Jeep. Makes perfect sense to me, drives the boss lady nuts !I collect useful materials and parts and tools.
Everybody needs a spare engine and spare gearbox for the car don't we?
Everybody needs a few tons of mild steel materials don't we?
Everybody needs a lorry load or two of sawn timber don't we?
Some of the more odd things found in my stashes:
-A 14 inch metal shaper.
-Some 20 or 30 three phase motors in various sizes
-A dozen or so used propeller shaft glands
-A dozen cast iron woodsstoves
-Quite a few panel doors mostly 18th and 19th century
-A few hundred kilos of old hand forged building hardware. Window hasps and door locks and hinges and so on.
-Cotton enough to caulk half a dozen wooden boats
-A spare welder providing spare parts for the welder I use.
-Some 200 square metres of garvanized corrugated steel roofing.
-Flat belt pulleys and a few line shaft hangers.
-50 kilos of white metal ingots for casting bearings
-A winding machine for rewinding burned out electric motors.
And besides that I also have quite a lot of books.
You can only have as many Sharpe's as he wrote, - real shame! Do you have the short one set at Christmas time? And I believe there’s a new one about to come out. IanBooks, just paperbacks, generally historical works by people such as Bernard Cornwall, Lindsey Davies etc. Lockdown has had a bad effect, there are too many village book swaps springing up! I'm trying not to add to my Sharpe collection!!
Also, a gift from my Gramps, Stamps, particularly GB and India pre 1947. He gave me his collection which was world wide and I spent the £10.00 he left in his will to me on the best 1d Black I could get
Oh, and wood for turning OBVIOUSLY!! Have a barn with a good deal in it and have been told to STOP by my children who don't want to have to clear it out when I'm gone!!
Phil
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