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[Andy in Germany]

Indeed, as far as the Rhine.



Sorry, we were talking about Genghis Khan, weren't we.

Once I had to do a presentation about Carpentry and I discovered that the trade of 'Cabinet maker' was first recognised as the Great Kahn charged into Europe. I was never able to work out why the Germans looked at the massed armies of the Kahn charging towards them and despoiling everything in their path, and decided the solution was making cupboards...

 

[MikeG]

I'm reading a book called The Village Carpenter at the moment (again). It's the memoirs of a Victorian carpenter, and it's fascinating. The difference between a carpenter and a joiner? Carpenters never used glue. Maybe the Germans had thought of some cunning adhesive-based defense against hordes of horsemen.

 

[Maverick Goose]

Indeed, as far as the Rhine.



Sorry, we were talking about Genghis Khan, weren't we.

Strength in honour this Christmas, good Mundaners!


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPcqddjZ-MA

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Once I had to do a presentation about Carpentry and I discovered that the trade of 'Cabinet maker' was first recognised as the Great Kahn charged into Europe. I was never able to work out why the Germans looked at the massed armies of the Kahn charging towards them and despoiling everything in their path, and decided the solution was making cupboards...

Maybe the original Cabinet maker's made wooden stockades and other defensive woodwork.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Once I had to do a presentation about Carpentry and I discovered that the trade of 'Cabinet maker' was first recognised as the Great Kahn charged into Europe. I was never able to work out why the Germans looked at the massed armies of the Kahn charging towards them and despoiling everything in their path, and decided the solution was making cupboards...

The Germans clearly invented the War Cabinet.

 

[classic33]

Do you know how hard it is to get Marmite in Germany? The natives won't eat the stuff and I have to go to an Asian Supermarket for supplies, or buy it online.

Barbarians, I tell you.

How about if some were brought across. How much would you need.

Odd loads don't bother me. Took a leg vice to Ireland in a rucksack once.

 

[classic33]

I'm reading a book called The Village Carpenter at the moment (again). It's the memoirs of a Victorian carpenter, and it's fascinating. The difference between a carpenter and a joiner? Carpenters never used glue. Maybe the Germans had thought of some cunning adhesive-based defense against hordes of horsemen.

Well you see they had containers that needed the lids removing before reusing them. Where better than at the tables they'd just made?

 

[MikeG]

The Germans clearly invented the War Cabinet.

Oh dear.


Oh dear oh dear.........

 

[Illaveago]

I've just had a couple of raspberry jelly squares to soothe my throat. Translation for across the pond jello!

 

[hopless500]

Hi

 

[Illaveago]

We have just had some runes for tea.

 

[MikeG]

........Took a leg vice to Ireland in a rucksack once.

How does a leg vice even fit into a rucksack?

 

[Lullabelle]

The bin and recycling are out ready for tomorrow.

 

[Lullabelle]

Full of cold and want to sleep for a few days, no chance, work has to be done, it is the last week and so much to do.

 

[perplexed]

My bin was emptied most satisfactorily.

There was a minor crisis in the retrieval act however. I had reversed my car down the drive slightly further than normal. This necessitated the bin having to wait half way down the drive until I next took the car out, enabling my wife to then shimmy the bin through the resulting gap betwixt car and railing.

All is well now.