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[Old Hywel]

I see the holly is up. Very subtle, tasteful even.

[oilstain]

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[lightweightles]

Only the female holly tree produces the red berries. If you see a holly tree with no berries its a male .. another piece of useless information you dont need to know ... cheers Les

[Dentman]

More? The Silver King is a female tree, if you need a male then Golden Queen is a Male! 

[Genem]

I suspect most of us have something like this at the back of the shed, just needs a bit of paint and imagination ....

 

[oilstain]

^^^ thats great work

[Genem]

^^^ thats great work

I should add, nothing to do with me, pinched the picture from Facebook !

[Clifford Pope]

If you see a holly tree with no berries its a male ..

Or an isolated female tree with no males nearby to fertilise it.

[Nanuq]

"Okay honey, the lights are up."

[w3526602]

Hi Nanuq,

Do you also have Santa Claus dropping down the smoke hole in your igloo roof?

In 1961, RAF Sharjah, we raided the MT stores for vehicle side lamp bulbs, and electric cable ... soldered the bulbs together, daisy chain style ... wire IN connected to the little silver contact ... wire OUT connected to the metal casing.

20 bulbs, all 12 volt, in series, seemed to be able to handle circa 240ish volts.

There was no insulation around the metal work, but I assume that was OK ... provided none of the bulbs blew. But hey, nothing unusual there, all the civilian (local) electricians carried a short wooden stick for pressing switches.

We only found out by accident that the chain link fence separating the oil store and the battery room was "live". 

At Square Bashing (Boot Camp), we made an electric kettle.
 
Take a big square floor polish tin, and clean thoroughly. 

Add water.

Remove panel from back of a drawer unit, and make 1/2" hole in the middle, lay across to of polish tin.

Remove 1/2" diameter bolt from the billets floor polishing "bumper", and dangle through hole in wood. and into the water,

Remove electric flex from the billet "iron".

Connect red wire to the bolt, and black wire to the polish tin.

Plug in ... I don't think 15A round pin sockets had switches in 1958.. Nor fuses.

It took about 20 minutes to boil the water.

All was well, until somebody knocked the tin over ... the bolt blew a hole through the side of the tin, water all over the polished floor that nobody ever walked on ... we shuffled round with bits of blanket under our boots.

Happy daze!

DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME.

602

PS. My first tropical fish tank was heated by dangling a 40 Watt bulb in the water (not the metal bit)

[Nanuq]

602,  I bet those were some nervous fish! 

Mama fish:  Billy, how many times do I have to tell you?  Don't make waves!
Billy fish:    Awwwwww Mom!!!

[Ray Clayton]

One way to use your series 3 while its standing on your driveway 

 

[Nanuq]

Here's one I like to print and tape inside my windows as I drive around this time of year.

[Dentman]

Didn't realise I'd tuned in to Only Connect !!

[AlexB]

not christmas eve yet. If (un)lucky (like this year and it gets elongated, it might get to stay up until the following weekend

DOwn quicker if my other half goes out for long enough !!