Banging About - Old Men, 'BB', & 3 Dice in an Ale Flagon:

This is my Christmas Special   - I thought that I should celebrate early - as you never know how things may be later in the year ..

Did I mention that I like Copper and Brass?

Looks like that silver lining could take a second 330 ml bottle..

Repurposed item below - but not extinguished ..

Two different but freshly arrived Copper items - a Repurposed SIMPLEX Fire Extinguisher to use to stand Walking Stick GUNS and other Canes .. (dusty antique Hot-Water Bottles in background (Patina).

and a 'Tavern Gambling Tankard' with three dice in it's bottom

Eight Georgian copper Farthings dated 1799, inset through the tankard sidewall. - I had no idea such a thing existed until I saw this one and bought it ..

- but I do understand this "18th Century" flagon likely was a 'second generation' made at the end of the 19th C by the 'ARTS & CRAFTS' Copper movement based in Newlyn, Cornwall UK. - Either way it's an antique beer sipper with shaky dice in it's bum - encouraging me to drink more beer ..

NEWLYN.

So beautiful before the emmets flood-in & crawl over everything ..

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The 4kg heavy 'Fire Extinguisher' is perfect as a stand or holder for umbrellas and cane stick guns and is looking better after a quick clean-up ..

More Distinguished than Extinguished ..

Yeah - there are still a few things that turn-me-on (even at my age) .. Old Copper & Brass, Gun Stuff, cold beer on hot days, - & Brigitte Bardot movies.

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Further to 'Pocket Pistols' being triggered by loose stuff like KEYS carried in the same pocket .. Here is a sorry tale:

- Getting ready for bed at around midnight I threw my jeans on to my clean clothing pile, in my unlit  bedroom, and thought that I saw a flash of light through the window - so I shuffled the pants around and my parked car again flashed it's lights at me .. Ah said I, one of my eleven keys (police regulation security, doors, approved safe, disapproved safe, transport-lockboxes, ammunition safe etc.) has triggered my remote key fob - then - "Oh feck - does that mean the bloody thing is unlocked?". - Now me being nekkid, in the dark of night - I left the house, without the exterior LIGHT - to avoid partial exposure, 

She's Gone .. aged 91

and, racing like an 82 y.o. - I tripped down the last of three concrete steps - bounced off the car and fell to the concrete.  - Thrown like a wooly ewe, in searing leg pain - I struggled-up from the wet concrete, locked the car, and listing badly, climbed back, into the house - to clean and bandage my skinned knee, - shinbone, - and foot - which did all heal OK after some scabby weeks.

Life is good eh

Season's Greetings

Marty K.

IN THE INTEREST OF PUBLIC SAFETY - WE ALL MUST INSIST THAT all NZ POLICE EMPLOYEES QUALIFY FOR, - OBTAIN, AND MAINTAIN THE SAME STANDARD NZ FIREARMS LICENCE in exactly the same way that we other citizens are required to. - How can NZ Police claim to be SAFE & well trained without achieving a Firearms License?