fulton Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 Was disappointed, some years ago when building my summer house and workshop, to find it was cheaper to buy the nails in little packets from B&Q than my local builders merchants loose. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 97406 Posted July 9, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 9, 2023 4 minutes ago, fulton said: Was disappointed, some years ago when building my summer house and workshop, to find it was cheaper to buy the nails in little packets from B&Q than my local builders merchants loose. Didn’t they use to sell nails by the pint? I may be making this up, as Google seems to want to send me for a manicure and varnish session when I search, but I’m sure they used to. 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hroth Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 39 minutes ago, Sidecar Racer said: I expect that the counterpoised masses on the woman in the foreground help keep her upright, though she still seems to require a pole to assist her stability.... 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
durham light infantry Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 14 hours ago, melmerby said: And these days the packaging costs more than the item. However if you go to this place, you will find things sold loose by quantity or weight (nails, screws, etc.) It's in Kendal and I make a Bee line for it whenever I'm there. It was the go to place for hardware when we lived in Keswick. Firns in Cockemouth was the same but it succombed during Covid. Here in Mid-Durham we have 2 excellent hardware emporiums, selling everything from loose nails to fire grates and god knows what else. Added bonus of the fully equipped joiners shop behind Coxhoe Timber, where I can get Ikea table tops cut down to size for baseboards. Long may they survive. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post durham light infantry Posted July 9, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted July 9, 2023 All together now.... 3 19 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billbedford Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 (edited) Is that Whitechapel? Edited July 9, 2023 by billbedford 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
durham light infantry Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 2 minutes ago, billbedford said: Id that Whitechapel? Don't know. Came up on Facebook. Signage probably authorised by someone under 50, or irony impaired. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted July 9, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 9, 2023 1 14 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CameronL Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 (edited) Richard Stilgoe sang a great song about this whole hardware situation. Edited July 9, 2023 by CameronL 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 19 minutes ago, durham light infantry said: Don't know. Came up on Facebook. Signage probably authorised by someone under 50, or irony impaired. Wimbledon Common! Or Stepney! Not Milton Keynes though, they aren't proper Wombles! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 1 hour ago, durham light infantry said: All together now.... It's a recycling depot! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 1 hour ago, durham light infantry said: All together now.... 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted July 9, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 9, 2023 I sometimes wonder whether Elisabeth Beresford was travelling in the same coach as me on a Southampton - Waterloo train in the early summer of 1968. I was with my then girlfriend and was inspired while passing through Wimbledon to speculate about a place-name association with Wembley, that was related to a secret underground community that lived in tunnels between the two places, called the Wimbles. Furry rodents and litter collection weren't involved though. When the Wombles TV show started (1973) I recalled the conversation and discovered the first book had been published in 1968. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 4 minutes ago, petethemole said: I sometimes wonder whether Elisabeth Beresford was travelling in the same coach as me on a Southampton - Waterloo train in the early summer of 1968. I was with my then girlfriend and was inspired while passing through Wimbledon to speculate about a place-name association with Wembley, that was related to a secret underground community that lived in tunnels between the two places, called the Wimbles. Furry rodents and litter collection weren't involved though. When the Wombles TV show started (1973) I recalled the conversation and discovered the first book had been published in 1968. I always reckoned that Terry Pratchett was basing his characters on people he bumped into in pubs. Some of them do seem familiar and I did meet him a few times in a Rock pub in Liverpool. He did seem to be taking notes. So maybe ones of those characters is based on me! 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chris p bacon Posted July 9, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 9, 2023 33 minutes ago, Steamport Southport said: So maybe ones of those characters is based on me! you don't have a supply of sausages made from lips and tails by chance...CMOTD 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Vistisen Posted July 9, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 9, 2023 2 hours ago, chris p bacon said: you don't have a supply of sausages made from lips and tails by chance...CMOTD Are you Corporal Nobbs? 3 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 15 minutes ago, Vistisen said: Are you Corporal Nobbs? You're supposed to say "You are Corporal Nobbs and I claim my $5AM!" 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted July 9, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 9, 2023 My local could have easily furnished CMOT Dibbler, Detritus, The Librarian, Nanny Ogg, Cohen the Barbarian, Susan, and, serving behind the bar, DEATH. I identify as Rincewind, failed useless wizard and abject coward… 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Gold chris p bacon Posted July 9, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 9, 2023 1 hour ago, The Johnster said: My local could have easily furnished CMOT Dibbler, Detritus, The Librarian, Nanny Ogg, Cohen the Barbarian, Susan, and, serving behind the bar, DEATH. I identify as Rincewind, failed useless wizard and abject coward… Who rode in, not on a horse, but driving a small yellow locomotive........ Oh, if only.. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted July 9, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 9, 2023 7 hours ago, durham light infantry said: All together now.... Shouldn't that sign be reversed? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted July 9, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 9, 2023 19 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said: In my 'local' Menards in the Chicago suburbs Looks like a long trip from Portland🙂 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted July 9, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 9, 2023 12 hours ago, 97406 said: Didn’t they use to sell nails by the pint? Nails were usually sold by the pound. Often using a greengrocer's type scale, so they could tip them in a bag. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 5 minutes ago, melmerby said: Looks like a long trip from Portland Indeed so. Haven't lived there in many years. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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