Miggimeggi Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 Several years ago at an agricultural show in Africa I saw an exhibit on low cost building methods. One method used bottles and morter - the bottles took the place of the bricks. The demo wall looked quite good with carefully smoothed cement studded with litre beer bottles, bottoms outermost. It gave something of the impression of one of those glass brick walls. Another idea I remember vaguely was to build the walls of a kind of garden cold frame, as described above but leaving the open end of the bottle inside. You then put some water in each of the bottles and put on the usual cold frame type glass lid. In hot, dry weather, evaporation creates humidity in the frame, assuming you would want humidity there. I never tried it, I always imagined it as a wonderful nursery, keeping all those baby mozzies snug and warm.[:-))] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 [quote user="Tresco"]Or the meanest thing Cassis has ever said? I see the winking smiley, but still I'm unsure.[/quote]Oh, come on Tresco - lighten up! [:D] [:D] [:D]Note to self - add more smilies in future. [:D] [:D] [:D]Not sure I've ever been 'snide' to anyone, unless you count a couple of posts to someone who had sent me a rather strange PM calling me a chicken when I declined to answer a strange and all-encompassing question on the meaning of life, the universe and everything (i.e. they asked for a checklist for everything they needed to do/know in order to move to France). In return I sent them a PM calling them an Egg. A bit later they asked on the forum how far it was and how long it took to get from x to y - the sort of daft thing anyone can do for themselves - so I suggested they looked in a road atlas. They took this as a personal affront and it got a bit silly. So I try to ignore their posts as far as possible in case I inadvertently upset their sensibilities again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tresco Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 [quote user="Cassis"] Oh, come on Tresco - lighten up! [:D] [:D] [:D][/quote]Okay[:)] (She said, scurrying away to the nearest daft joke site...[:$]) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 Et voilà - c'est mieux encore! [:D] [:D] [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pun Posted September 6, 2006 Author Share Posted September 6, 2006 Hi Katie,after drinking the cider did you end up getting hick hick hitched?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Katie Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 Hi Pun,I probably got shared with my mates behind Tesco before heading off to a houseparty. As we 14 year olds did in the late 70's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWINKLE Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 I didn't do that when I was fourteen, but I could imagine doing it now.Somehow it's just not the same around the back of Shopi! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 Don't just imagine it Twinks - live it! [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Katie Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 You didn't do it? You was the one who used to arrange nights behind Tesco. Really Twinkle, you are full of it. Two flagons between 10 of us then it would turn into a competition of who could act the drunkest. Cringe. My memory is sometimes very short. If I caught my daughter doing this I would be horrified and consider seeking help. Strange how hypocritical we can get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWINKLE Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 I was never that organised to actually buy a bottle of cider until I started mixing it with lager & black at about 18 years of age. Who remembers snake bites? You're confusing me with someone else (you should have laid off the LSD girl!). I used to poke sticks through the tops of the beer kegs around the back of the Pant social club and put my mouth over the disgusting foam that would explode from it. Class[;-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Katie Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 It was you all along?? I always wondered who got there first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerdesal Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 Mackeson and cider - poor mans Black Velvet ......Ah....the memories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWINKLE Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 Don't know about you Steve but my memory's fine...I can remember last nights bender no problem[:-))] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 God, yes, snakebites down the snooker hall .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerdesal Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 You are much younger Twinkle - wait a few more years [:)] [:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWINKLE Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 I'm afraid I won't get that far!How far would that be then Steve? And how do you know if I'm behind or in front? Oh God listen to me - I've been lying under the wine box for too long again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 How about sherry sold by the pint from a plastic keg? A sort of en vrac in Sunderland? Or port ditto, or bottles of Perlwein at about half a crown. Or home brew made with extra sugar... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris pp Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 Would that be "Pant" as "in the hollow" as I believe it translates from Welsh to English, Twinks??Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 [quote user="Dick Smith"]How about sherry sold by the pint from a plastic keg? A sort of en vrac in Sunderland? Or port ditto, or bottles of Perlwein at about half a crown. Or home brew made with extra sugar...[/quote]Have you been looking in our cave again, Dick? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Quietly impressed that the usual suspects have managed to drag the subject of bevvies into the gardening section.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Katie Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 [quote user="chris pp"] Would that be "Pant" as "in the hollow" as I believe it translates from Welsh to English, Twinks??Chris[/quote]I am impressed with that Chris. Promise me you did not use a dictionary though.Oh and Mark, please feel free to join in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Now what use would Chrispy Pea have for a Welsh dictionary in deepest Vienne, Katie? [IMG]http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i26/cassiscassis/misc/table.jpg[/IMG] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Katie Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Well it has other uses. Even if it is just impressing a couple of Welsh birds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWINKLE Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 [quote user="chris pp"]Would that be "Pant" as "in the hollow" as I believe it translates from Welsh to English, Twinks??Chris[/quote]Not to be confused with "in the hole"[Www] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris pp Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Welsh Dictionary? Nah, not me, the answers far more simple than that.Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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