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

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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Looks like it'll be just the thing for repairing kid's books as well.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It's quite thick. Maybe it would work on the cover but definitely not the pages
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    They're mostly board books with lift up flaps that were a little too enthusiatically lifted.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328


    Yesterday in Mytholmroyd, a few miles down the Calder valley from where I used to live...   :(
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Even better than a full moon and storm clouds is a full moon, storm clouds and snowy hills. Very moody out tonight but also very cold. Normally I'd wrap up and go for a night walk but the moon is causing two very unsettled kids as well tonight.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Liriodendron said:
    I still have a reel of cotton-covered copper wire "salvaged" by my grandad during the war from somewhere or other.  It's very useful... I'll have to bequeath it to someone in my will, I think, together with my old 2nd-hand lino knife, with a curved blade, which is just the job for opening compost bags.   :)

    Anyone have any suggestions what I can do with my legacy from my great uncle (he was a ship chandler) - a box of gold leaf? I also have his letter stencils. I assume he used it for signwriting but it seems an expensive way to name a boat. 
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Bookbinders and restorers of furniture use gold leaf, @raisingirl.  Maybe you could advertise it, or contact the Society of Bookbinders for advice?  (My dad was a keen amateur bookbinder and we gave things like that to them after his death.  Incidentally, he would have been 100 yesterday...   :))
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    @raisingirl 😊 OH’s lovely late father was a sign writer and lecturer in paint and decorative techniques. 

    OH says if you check on Instagram there are groups of traditional sign writers who would love to get their hands on your equipment etc. 

    Traditional sign writing is very much ‘on trend’ at the moment, particularly with hipster-ish foodie outlets etc. 

    And yes ... sign writers, furniture and frame restorers (and artists) use real gold leaf. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    @raisingirl, I'm sure any college which does art classes would be able to use the stencils/ gold leaf.
    Devon.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    We use gold leaf on headstones, transfer gold and loose leaf. 23 ct. . 
    Snow laying here making it seem very cold, Moors look lovely, could do with a bit more. 
    Power kept tripping out last night on and off until midnight,  poor Ashley was terrified of the thunder. First time he’d heard it. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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