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Curmudgeons' Corner 6 - Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we diet 🍵

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    You could sell seeds for blue grass,pink grass, rainbow grass or any colour your customer requires. All you will need to do is change the picture on the packet.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited December 2019
    Can anyone think of anything to do with grappa? I was thinking it would be useful for dealing with scale insects on my roses and fig tree. 
    The varnish in the dining table needs stripping, but the grappa might damage the wood.
    Any ideas anyone?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    B3 said:
    Can anyone think of anything to do with grappa? 
    Blend it with some used chip oil. Soak the mixture into a bag/bucket of sawdust (or porridge oats, if you don't have another use for them). Press the resulting soggy mess into little bricks. Sell them as 'natural' firelighters. 
    Or
    buy some fancy bottles on Fleabay, add a few drops of food dye and a matched flavouring - dab of orange extract, drop of orange colour, or green + peppermint, or red + strawberry. You could even go really mad and put a few flower petals in there if you've got some that aren't too toxic. Sell it as 'art' grappa. The new gin.
    Or 
    Keep it til next year and put it in to a charity raffle as a prize (remembering not to buy tickets yourself).
    Or
    offer it to any numismatists in your neighbourhood as cleaning fluid.
    Or
    Clean the brake dust off your hub caps

    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Some excellent suggestions @raisingirl. Thank you
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    All good suggestions but I always thought it was coca-cola for stripping varnish and rust and cleaning metal!  Grappa would be less sticky tho.

    I've found a couple of recipes you could try - https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1131/roast-chicken-with-grappa

    https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1130/ginos-spicy-aperitivo 

    Very pleased for your sister and kids @wild edges and you should definitely have a go at making your fortune from plastic grass seeds.

    Feeling mildly grumpy today.  I have to take Possum shopping for a new coat and neither of us is good at such shopping.  It is also very dull and grey out there so a bit disappointing as it was beautifully clear and starry last night - no moon or clouds to dim the glow so full on Milky Way and yes, I know the wildlife that feeds at night needed a break after all the wet and windy stuff we've had. 
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    My husband bought it because he thought I'd like the bottle. It's a fine bottle.
    I couldn't believe that it could taste as foul as I remembered. After all, tastes change as we get older.
    It did not disappoint😝😖
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Turn it into limoncello?
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited December 2019
    Not keen on that either- alcoholic washing up liquid. I'm really only considering suggestions that don't involve ingestion😉
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Fuel for your fondue set?
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I like your thinking @philippa smith2. Unfortunately, we have a wooden fence.
    I could paint some on the pavement.
     Shame about the wall. We could have sold it as similar to licking the Blarney Stone but to get the gift of the garb instead of the gift of the gab
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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