Dumpster diving for fun and profit

[nmg]

Term has ended here in Bath, and the residence is drowned in the usual deluge of discarded kitchen goods. Bath Uni is pretty bad at doing anything with this but sending it to landfill, which makes both ias and I rather pissed off. We've just had our annual dig through the mountain of rubbish (and I do mean mountain - we're talking about a heap 2.5m high and about 4m side to side) and have picked out the following goodies:

• A long mirror
• A Sabatier vegetable knife (needs a little TLC, but nothing that some diligence with a whetstone won't cure)
• A laundry basket
• A bale of bubblewrap 1m wide and about 1m in diameter.

Also spotted a couple of students digging through the pile, which is unsurprising since there are rich pickings to be had for all.

Comments

[pinguthegreek.livejournal.com]

You know, you two make it sound like fun !

[gnommi.livejournal.com]

for some reason I am overcome by the urge to figure out something that you could make using all of the above accoutrements...

[nmg.livejournal.com]

I've considering watching myself stab the bubblewrap with the knife, but I'm blowed if I know what to do with the laundry basket.

I cannot emphasise how cool the bubblewrap is - there must be 50m of the stuff there! Also very useful and timely, since we'll be moving everything to Bath in the next couple of months, and we needed something to pack the good crockery with.

[gnommi.livejournal.com]

oh! i thought that you'd just bought a house in Southampton! How come you're movin everything to Bath?

[nmg.livejournal.com]

FROM Bath TO Southampton. ENGAGE BRAIN BEFORE TYPING, GIBBINS!

[gnommi.livejournal.com]

ok, well at least you managed to curry healthy theorising in the Hobbit and myself! :)

Hobbit has a proposition for ya by the way, he'll approach you tomorro at work and hand you a note under the table, i'll warrant...

[clanwilliam.livejournal.com]

*cough* Has the Stark mentioned about crashspace in the Highlands with beer, Linux and hiking post-Worldcon to you?

Cos we'd love to have you!

[nmg.livejournal.com]

She had, but it'd slipped my mind. Yes, I'd be very interested in some post-Worldcon activities. What dates had you in mind?

[clanwilliam.livejournal.com]

Well, we've got the place from 6-13 August, so you could mosey up for a few days after WorldCon if you wanted to...

[elseware.livejournal.com]

Make a kitten suit.

Not the furry kind, the protevtive kind. Like the bear suit, but bubble wrap and washing baskets will probably only be proof against kittens.

A *bale* of bubblewrap (exclamation mark)

[killtest.livejournal.com]

Pleasure overload.

And a bargain too, have you se what they charge for a tiny amount of that stuff in staioners these days..? eep...

Did get a twinge about "finding" the knife in a pile of detritus. Always remember how I found a large and very sharp kitchen knife at the back of a draw full of clothes when I was a teenager. The hard way. Pushed my hand to the back of the draw to reach something and there it was blade edge on. Every finger tip on one hand. Bled like a pig and couldn't hold anything for a week. Now I'm always careful looking for stuff where the likelihood of sharpycutnslashthings is possible.

But, as I believe the natives around here say, result!

[brisingamen.livejournal.com]

Did you know this post has now been linked to on Rising Slowly – The UK Weather Blog?

[nmg.livejournal.com]

Gosh. Fame of a sort, I suppose.