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Title: Look what I bought!!!!
Post by: undercarriage plan on August 18, 2005, 11:07:20
Well, Wardy, took your advice and got a scythe!! Isn't she pretty!! ;D It's only a little one, couldn't get a big one in the car......Sad thing is, got far more of a buzz getting this than clothes etc.... :-\ On the black and white theme front, all sorted, little black dress and pearl necklace, boring, but cheap! ;D ;D ;D Lottie
Title: Re: Look what I bought!!!!
Post by: aquilegia on August 18, 2005, 11:12:37
You'll just have to go out and buy yourself a big black cape now!
Title: Re: Look what I bought!!!!
Post by: undercarriage plan on August 18, 2005, 11:14:31
Oh Aqui!!! You're right, humpph! Tried son's batman one, not quite right....... ;) Lottie  ;D
Title: Re: Look what I bought!!!!
Post by: Derekthefox on August 18, 2005, 20:52:54
That is smashing Lottie! If you ever spot a left handed one, will you ask the shopkeeper to reserve it for me please ? Or is that handle reversible . . . ? I love using hand tools, but have never got on with a right handed scythe . . .  :(

Well I can at least live in hope . . .  :D

Derek
Title: Re: Look what I bought!!!!
Post by: Roy Bham UK on August 18, 2005, 21:05:05
That's interesting Derek, I assume then that you are left handed and play a right handed guitar, ???  have you ever thought about changing the strings around the other way? or is that not possible? ???
Title: Re: Look what I bought!!!!
Post by: undercarriage plan on August 18, 2005, 21:46:03
You lost me too, Derek, easily done though, I suffer from the concentration of a slug..... Surely you just put it in your other hand? Or am I being more dense than normal..... ??? Lottie :-\
Title: Re: Look what I bought!!!!
Post by: daveandtara on August 19, 2005, 00:02:51
cool toy lottie,
about the party, are you sure we can't persuade you to buy a cruella wig?
it won't cost much and you can take it off after you make your entrance.
go on, you know you want to  ;D
Tara xx
Title: Re: Look what I bought!!!!
Post by: undercarriage plan on August 19, 2005, 08:09:10
OK, bit more persuasion........wavering here......where would I get such an object? If I was wavering......which I'm not...or am I?    Oh dear....back to drawing board.... :-\ Lovely tool though, eh??? ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D Lottie
Title: Re: Look what I bought!!!!
Post by: wardy on August 19, 2005, 10:45:05
If that's a scythe what's a sickle ???  ;D  Does it matter?  No!  ;D


That will go nicely with your little back dress  ;D
Title: Re: Look what I bought!!!!
Post by: undercarriage plan on August 19, 2005, 11:19:56
I thought so, Wardy! Little black dress, pearl necklace, scythe.....just goes together. like strawberries and car oil... ;D ;D ;D  Lottie
Title: Re: Look what I bought!!!!
Post by: Mrs Ava on August 19, 2005, 11:51:06
Sythe - http://www.fellpony.f9.co.uk/country/haytime/ley1.jpg

Sickle - http://www.vidaverde.co.uk/images/sickle%201.jpg
Title: Re: Look what I bought!!!!
Post by: wardy on August 19, 2005, 14:15:46
Ta EJ   So I was right then?  She has a ickle sickle  :)
Title: Re: Look what I bought!!!!
Post by: undercarriage plan on August 19, 2005, 14:28:37
Size isn't everything, you know.....it's how you use it ;D ;D ;D
Lottie
Title: Re: Look what I bought!!!!
Post by: lorna on August 19, 2005, 18:59:31
I agree about size so for goodness sake be careful what you do with that sickle!!!!!!!!!! NO NO LOTTIE!!!!! I just meant we don't want to land up with a shortened version of Lottie. ::) Lorna.
Title: Re: Look what I bought!!!!
Post by: undercarriage plan on August 19, 2005, 19:07:32
Oops!! Decided twirling probably not wise..... :-\ ;D !! Thanks Lorna, will step away from the sharp implement thingy.  Mind you, could don black cape, lurk in shadows of greenhouse and give little thugs a run for their money........ ;) Lottie
Title: Re: Look what I bought!!!!
Post by: ellkebe on August 19, 2005, 19:52:50
Little black dress, pearl necklace .... scythe - that's a disturbing image  ;D
On a serious note though, I wouldn't leave that anywhere the 'little dears' could get their hands on it.
Title: Re: Look what I bought!!!!
Post by: Derekthefox on August 19, 2005, 20:16:51
Right yes, just catching up here . . .
ok, Yes sickle of course . . . silly me!

Roy, yes I am left handed and play the guitar right handed - don't have any choice on a piano . . . just decided it's a right handed world so I will have to live with it, or pay a disgusting amount just to have a left handed guitar. The construction of a classical guitar is not symmetrical, so restringing it would not sound correct.

Lottie, you sweep in a particular direction to use the sickle?  ie anticlockwise?
As a left handed user I would sweep in the opposite direction, and the sickle would therefore be upside down . . . think about it . . . it would point towards the ground because of the angle of the handle . . .

Never mind, I tried ! ! !  :D

Derekthefox  :D
Title: Re: Look what I bought!!!!
Post by: Hyacinth on August 19, 2005, 20:43:48
Derek,

Browse Anything left-handed.co.uk, gardening & DIY section - £40 buys you a 16" scythe - oh! and you get 5p change  ;D

Spensive business, being a southpaw, innit?

Cheers!

Title: Re: Look what I bought!!!!
Post by: Derekthefox on August 19, 2005, 20:46:25
Caeggy handed apparently . . . thanks for that link Alishka

If I had a blade, I would make my own sickle, must scrat around at work, see if I can get a decent piece of steel . . .

Thanks though . . .

Derekthefox  :D
Title: Re: Look what I bought!!!!
Post by: Derekthefox on August 19, 2005, 21:26:47
Apparently that is correct FB, but it has its limitations !

Sorry Lottie, you have my apologies, looks like your thread has been hijacked, now seems to be about lefthanded guitar players ! ! !  ;D

Please don't hit me with your sickle . . . .

Derekthefox  :D
Title: Re: Look what I bought!!!!
Post by: undercarriage plan on August 19, 2005, 21:46:34
Sharpening as we speak...... :o :o :o Kept high on wall in garage, away from little  hands.......Lottie ;D
Title: Re: Look what I bought!!!!
Post by: undercarriage plan on August 19, 2005, 21:59:41
To sharpening? Or lower on garage wall....  ;);D Lottie
Title: Re: Look what I bought!!!!
Post by: Derekthefox on August 20, 2005, 20:29:08
I will keep well away too methinks he he he

Derek  :D
Title: Re: Look what I bought!!!!
Post by: wardy on August 20, 2005, 20:44:02
Yes, Derek why can't you turn your geetar upside down?

Go on, have a go  ;D
Title: Re: Look what I bought!!!!
Post by: undercarriage plan on August 20, 2005, 22:14:07
Upside down and play with teeth, please....... ;D Lottie
Title: Re: Look what I bought!!!!
Post by: jaggythistle on August 21, 2005, 15:19:25


Wait.....because he has to retrieve em from the glass  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Look what I bought!!!!
Post by: Derekthefox on August 22, 2005, 20:34:57
Thank you for that Jaggy ! ! ! :D