Odd things you find when doing DIY

LOL!

Take a picture and send it :-)

Mary

Was he high on inhibitor?

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.

I want to kiss that frog!

Its probably a prince in disguise

Mary

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

Your choice!

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

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.

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

Yup.

NO witches since then at all.

Margaret *Thatcher* ?

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

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

Thanks, I wasn't aware.

She came earlier, according to Dennis..

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

So it was bondage after all :-)

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.

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.