Yes true, a trendy local shop has roofing slates at £18.50 each, none of your recycled stuff, but new probably Chinese slates. For no extra charge they include two handy mounting holes at the top.
Apparently they are selling as kitchen notice boards (chalk not included).
It makes me wonder what other regular items we use/buy could be re-purposed at a massive mark up?
I had to pay about four pounds each when I needed a few about a year ago, after high winds, and that was from a builders merchant .(essex)
mrcheerful
"repurposed"...... aaaghhh
That's in the same set of words as "leverage" used as a verb, and "momentarily" used inappropriately instead of "momently"
I could only find it in the American Heritage Dictionary (but that seemed like a contradiction in terms.)
.andy
To email, substitute .nospam with .gl
"Do It Yourself" language.........nothing wrong in that!
.gl
Maybe, but I've yetrto hear "presentarily" :-)
Probably due to family / work on both sides of the Atlantic.
From Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press
2003 (although not listed in their dictionary of American English)So to reiterate, any other regular items that have be given an alternate purpose for great profit?
Ol. Lwpf typdnyu desptk gy dneigl!
Bont
I didn't know you could speak Welsh.
Christian.
I can't.It's do it yourself language, nothing wrong with that.
As long as it communicates the message, which most doesn't.
But I'm sure you knew that.
Mary
Almost!
Wayne Sleep to
It's only between acts ...
Mary
In message , Bob writes
I'm sure Bush will utter it in due course
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