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[666jjp]

if looks could kill!!

[grizz]

50 minutes ago, 666jjp said:

if looks could kill!!

Roadkill Kitty

[666jjp]

1 hour ago, grizz said:

Roadkill Kitty

don't tell anyone i am really cute 🐱

[grizz]

One of those days. 
 

I really miss America and my family there. 
 

Every now and then it hits hard. 

 

 

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[bezzabsa]

as someone else who shares a life with someone with horses - be prepared to find straw everywhere....and I mean EVERYWHERE!!!!! Also the smell never really goes away..

Plus anything to do with osses is bloody expensive!!!

[grizz]

11 hours ago, bezzabsa said:

as someone else who shares a life with someone with horses - be prepared to find straw everywhere....and I mean EVERYWHERE!!!!! Also the smell never really goes away..

Plus anything to do with osses is bloody expensive!!!

Just spent 70 minutes going through that with her. 
 

Knowing that I will be no 7 in the chain. 

[GlenAnderson]

I’d have no issues with being number seven with someone who accepted that they were in a similar position for me. Being number seven to someone who expects to be number one to me, or for me to put all their other priorities ahead of my own is where it all falls down. 
 

And yes, I am speaking from direct experience. 

[grizz]

8 hours ago, GlenAnderson said:

I’d have no issues with being number seven with someone who accepted that they were in a similar position for me. Being number seven to someone who expects to be number one to me, or for me to put all their other priorities ahead of my own is where it all falls down. 
 

And yes, I am speaking from direct experience. 

 

I understand that. 
 

And it would be interesting to see how it pans out. 
 

Right now it’s a stranger I have met   
 

Sometimes it works. 
 

Mostly not. 
 

I like my home and if that works for her….. cool. 

[grizz]

Bootfair finds. 

 

French made VW Beetle model for Craig £3.00

Playing cards 50p each 

Toy cars 6/£1.00

Steel rulers 50p each 

Vice grip £1.00

Hand forged scissors £3.00

 

 

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[Westbay]

"Hand forged scissors £3.00"

 

Tin snips ?

 

Playing cards are expensive at 50p each  😂

 

[grizz]

25 minutes ago, Westbay said:

"Hand forged scissors £3.00"

 

Tin snips ?

 

Playing cards are expensive at 50p each  😂

 

maybe sailmakers

[grizz]

The Cousins’ family was active in Garden Street from the early 1820s, when first Cousins & Co (silver-plater) and then Hobson & Cousins (Jonathan Hobson and Joseph Cousins) manufactured scissors and Britannia metal ware.  Hobson & Cousins was dissolved in 1825.  By 1828, Joseph Cousins was manufacturing scissors, knives, and Britannia metal in Garden Street.   By the 1830s, he had begun specialising in fine scissors and was later to add tailors’ shears to his product line.

Joseph Cousins and his wife Mary had three sons – John, Joseph, and Edward – and by the end of the 1840s, the business was Joseph Cousins & Sons.   In 1851, the Garden Street business employed 20 men.  At the Great Exhibition (1851), where it was given an Honourable Mention, Cousins displayed:

•    Paper scissors and bankers’ scissors; tailors’ scissors; horse-trimming scissors.
•    Ladies’ cutting-out and fancy scissors.
•    Grape-scissors and flower-gatherers to hold.
•    Gentleman’s budding scissors and flower-gatherers.
•    Gentlemen’s nail-scissors; left-handed scissors.
•    Gardeners’ budding-scissors to hold.

Joseph died on 4 September 1853, aged 67; his wife Mary on 15 August 1858, aged 65.   Their son Joseph Cousins, who lived at Red Hill, died on 4 June 1855, aged 31.  All were buried in the General Cemetery.   The two surviving sons, John and Edward, took over the business, which continued to produce fine scissors and tailors’ shears in Garden Street.  In 1861, it employed ten men, four women and two boys.  By the 1870s, both men lived in the Crookes/Broomhill area.   John told the Census (1881) that the firm employed 20 hands.

Edward Cousins, Spooner Road, died on 25 July 1886, aged 57.  John Cousins, Parker’s Road, died on 17 July 1890, aged 72, leaving £5,141.  They, too, were buried in the General Cemetery.  The business continued in Garden Street, with Mrs Emma Cousins – John’s widow – listed as partner in 1901.  She was later joined by her son, John Cousins (1873-1947).  The Garden Street factory diversified into tinmen’s and painter’s tools, besides scissors.  Emma Cousins, Belton House, Parker’s Road, died on 7 June 1915, leaving £536 to her sons John and Frederick.  Between the Wars, the firm became known as simply ‘Cousins’ and continued to make hand-forged painters’ and plumbers’ tools in Garden Street.  By the 1950s, it operated from John Street and Club Gardens Walk.  It ceased business in about 1970.  No trade mark has been traced.

 

[bezzabsa]

nice to see real boot sale finds - all the ones round here are mainly tatt from temu/ali express or market traders

[grizz]

15 minutes ago, bezzabsa said:

nice to see real boot sale finds - all the ones round here are mainly tatt from temu/ali express or market traders

I am pretty much going to one in three or one in four these days. 
 

Super shit shit there and only half a field of cars. 

[grizz]

So yesterday I went ahead and made something silly that’s been spinning around in my head a few years

 

An F-Bomb

 

Know what is?

 

Sure you do. 
 

I found a bunch of about 8 discarded Helium canisters last week. 
 

There is a sub section of dumbass morons here in England who suck it to get high. 
 

They usually toss the empty bottles out along the road. 
 

These morons dumped a box of empties and I collected them. 
 

The process includes welding, making a rear circular “wing” painting satin black, red, green and clear lacquer. 
 

Photos. 
 

 

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[grizz]

Welded it all together 

 

Stud on top. 
 

Red n Green paint. 
 

F-Bomb done

 

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[grizz]

Spoiling you guys. 

 

After my pleasant evening with Jo on Friday……

 

I got WOOD Boys.  

 

Hardly know the girl yet. 

 

And straight to Caveman mode.  

 

Yup. 

 

No regrets. 

 

Question is….. What happened next? 

 

 

HAZARD A GUESS?? 

 

 

 

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[jim89]

2 hours ago, grizz said:

 

Spoiling you guys. 

 

After my pleasant evening with Jo on Friday……

 

I got WOOD Boys.  

 

Hardly know the girl yet. 

 

And straight to Caveman mode.  

 

Yup. 

 

No regrets. 

 

Question is….. What happened next? 

 

 

HAZARD A GUESS?? 

 

 

 

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She* did too ?

 

😁

[SilverMachine]

7 hours ago, grizz said:

 

Spoiling you guys. 

 

After my pleasant evening with Jo on Friday……

 

I got WOOD Boys.  

 

Hardly know the girl yet. 

 

And straight to Caveman mode.  

 

Yup. 

 

No regrets. 

 

Question is….. What happened next? 

 

 

HAZARD A GUESS?? 

 

 

 

. 

splinter?

[jim89]

1 minute ago, SilverMachine said:

splinter?

I read that as sphincter 😳

Must be all that Olivia Rodrigo business 😎