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  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    Got out a new toilet roll last night, and it has no perforations! Surprisingly annoying, I am hoping that the other rolls in the pack of 9 are not similarly afflicted.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    @Ergates definitely a 'first world' problem :D  I remember the days of being able to read the newspaper in the loo, even when you hadn't taken one in with you.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Hang a pair of scissors on a piece of string off the holder and remember to turn on the light of you go in the dark.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    Ergates said:
    Got out a new toilet roll last night, and it has no perforations! Surprisingly annoying, I am hoping that the other rolls in the pack of 9 are not similarly afflicted.
    Are you sure you bought toilet rolls? Perhaps they are till receipt rolls, or (going back a little), telex rolls.
  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    Is there anyone who has heard of Samuel and Nathaniel Buck? 
    Well, I have a number of their engravings - some mounted and framed, others not.
    Due to an impending house move (well, hopefully), I have a offload several of these.

    How on earth does one decide what to get rid of? If the decision was left to my wife, they'd all go.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    I love the use of investigations and enquiries to make sure the heat is taken out of a tricky political situation. Khalife escape - investigation...they'll be an investigation into the Chinese spying in Parliament...we're still waiting on Covid ...  and what actually happened with Grenfell? Dodgy cladding still abounds - https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-borough-tower-block-grenfell-fire-combustible-cladding-b1087673.html.

    A good investigation warms the cockles of your heart eh?

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    @rowlandscastle444.  You could sell them and buy another house. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited September 2023
    With those engravings the value will depend on whether they’re numbered editions signed by the artist and with provenance. 

    Back then there were a lot of copyists selling work purportedly by the Bucks. 

    Also they could be more recent prints taken using the artist’s original engraved plates. That’s been quite common.  

    Provenance is everything. 🤞

    ETA nowadays printmakers and engravers score deeply across the etching plate at the end of an edition to prevent that happening and hence the value of their prints is preserved. 

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





  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    Lyn said:
    @rowlandscastle444.  You could sell them and buy another house. 
    Thank you for the suggestion @Lyn
    You are obviously with my wife in this. 

    My idea is to take everything, and if I can possibly find space for my pictures, then I keep them. My heart can't let go of my collection. 

    Does anyone else have this problem?
  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    pansyface said:
    No, I’m afraid I’m a tosser. 😊
    In the literal sense, I assume, @pansyface
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