Suggestions for old trug use!

[zazen999]

It's all a bit Louise Bourgois if you ask me...

[veggiechicken]

Ummmmm Is that good?
You're just too intellectual for my poor brain!

[Snadger]

Mine's waterproof!
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"What ya doing in the bathroom with camera and the mirror Mam?" Its ok, I'm just taling a piccie of myself with a bucket on my head!

[Snadger]

Don't tell Snadge, Mikey, or he'll be down there fossicking - and you know I have first dibs.

I've got an ology...................tippology!

[veggiechicken]

"What ya doing in the bathroom with camera and the mirror Mam?" Its ok, I'm just taling a piccie of myself with a bucket on my head!

A lot of effort went into that! Standing on a stool (no, not that sort, Snadge), adjusting the lighting (flicking a switch) and most of the pics were of the ceiling, half a trug or completely out of focus!.
I did try sitting in the trug but my arms weren't long enough to take the photo - I was also worried that I'd get wedged and the only way to call for help would be posting a message on here. I didn't want to be the butt of everyone's jokes!

[ladylottie]

I've just had a thought - why hasn't anyone suggested that you melt the plastic near the handle and join it back on? You could do that once you've lit the bonfire mentioned earlier

[veggiechicken]

You've just brought back a childhood memory I would prefer to have forgotten. I was about 12 and had horrible pink plastic NHS Specs. Came home from school lunch time, had a fight with my brother and my specs fell off and broke across the bridge. My Dad decided to hold them in the gas flame and melt the bridge and stick it back together. Needless to say it didn't work and the complete bridge melted away and dripped off! I went back to school with my glasses stuck together with a matchstick and elastoplast!. Everytime I leant forward over my books, the glasses would fold up and fall off.
Oh, how the kids laughed!!! I was mortified.

[taff]

I had a similar occurence with the arm of a fetching pair of brown plastic ones....god they were hideous, but you know, they came back in fashion not so long ago.
I still wouldn't wear them though....

[Mikey]

Thats child cruelty VC, would never be allowed these days.

When we picked up specs for my daughter recently the optician said on a number of occasions, if you lose or break these you can come back for a second free of charge. Almost to the point, I think she was saying you can have a second pair free if you call back in a week.

No sticky plasters required nowadays.

[veggiechicken]

NHS specs came in 2 varieties - pinky plastic or wire rimmed round ones in pink or brown (think John Lennon) - except no one had heard of him then. With the wire ones, you could pull the bit around your ears and stretch them so that the wire unravelled like a coiled spring. My brother (Brian) would twang his and make the strangest of sounds. We still laugh about his "prongy" glasses (funny family!) - say nothing!