Odd things you find when doing DIY

[Kev]

I asked about this a year ago when I found an open ended spanner in a wall cavity and the 24 inch steel rule when I took down a ceiling, I had lost it years before. In a living room upgrade I extended the CH pipes to add an extra rad but wasn't intending to fit the rad until the walls were plastered. One of the caps on the pipe ends leaked slightly but I couldn't be bothered to fix it so left a plastic box under the seepage below where the floorboards were going then every couple of weeks I emptied the water collected. This week I found a frog living living in the drip tray.

[Mary Fisher]

LOL!

Take a picture and send it :-)

Mary

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[Roger Mills]

Was he high on inhibitor?

[Ian White]

When doing up the kitchen in the previous house, we had to remove the plasterboard from a brick pier that was supporting one end of an RSJ. Nailed onto the brickwork *underneath* the plasterboard was a horseshoe.

We very carefully put it back.

[Mary Fisher]

I want to kiss that frog!

Its probably a prince in disguise

Mary

[The Natural Philosopher]

I found a mummified cat in some old thatch. He went back as well.

[clot]

Your choice!

[The Natural Philosopher]

I found a mummified cat in some old thatch. He went back as well.

[Andy Hall]

Wasn't it a traditional thing to do with a new thatching? Not necessarily a cat but some suitable dead animal to ward off the evil spirits.

[Steve Firth]

We had one of those, and a bowler hat and a pair of shoes, all in the same place. And yes, they went back.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Yup.

NO witches since then at all.

[dave]

Margaret *Thatcher* ?

[dave]

Witch all goes to show how superstitious a pastime diy can be!

[Mary Fisher]

Not me.

There's a fake 'Mary Fisher' (often with prefixes or suffixes) who infests several groups. It won't last because regulars know me too well :-)

Mary

[clot]

Thanks, I wasn't aware.

[The Natural Philosopher]

She came earlier, according to Dennis..

[Martin Pentreath]

When I was taking up some floorboards shortly after I moved in to my current house I found under the downstairs floor what appeared to me to be some strange kind of bondage equipment - some quite rusty old metal rings about four or five inches in diameter linked together with some smaller chain links. I put them away and didn't think much more about it.

Then about a year later I came across the part of the Public Records Office site where you can order the 1901 census records for your house, which I did out of interest. In 1901 the father of one of the several families crammed into this house was a scotsman whose trade was harness maker. I suddenly realied what it was I'd found. It must have fallen between the floorboards a century before.

Cheers!

Martin

[Andy Hall]

So it was bondage after all :-)

[Broadback]

My father was left behind at Dunkirk, but got back safely through a souther French port. Instead of reporting back he and 2 mates with him went home for a week, then reported back. While home Mum got a letter from the War Office stopping Dad's army pay, as missing in action. Lucky he was home as this was the first she had heard of it, so no worries. Anyway back to the topic. Well after the war Dad was doing some DIY, took up the floorboards and there was the telegram reporting him missing believed dead. Presumably slid down the wall, between wall and skirting to under the floorboards. Serendipity.

[Doctor Drivel]

An old guy I worked was at Dunkirk. He buried his rifle and made his way to England via fishing boat dressed in civvies. When home they charged him for losing the rifle.