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Come Inside... => The Snug => Topic started by: Bar Wench on March 09, 2009, 03:40:12 PM
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I want a wooden old fashioned standard lamp. Why the hell are they so hard to find!?!?! And when you do find them why do they cost over £100!!!!!! I don't want some chrome uplighter thingy. Or a glass monstrosity!
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And why do you want one?
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I want a wooden old fashioned standard lamp. Why the hell are they so hard to find!?!?! And when you do find them why do they cost over £100!!!!!! I don't want some chrome uplighter thingy. Or a glass monstrosity!
Try British Home Stores or your local Car Boot markets on Sundays. You'll find one there eventually ~ tho' you'll then have problems finding suitable bulbs for it if the Govt gets its way. ::)
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freecycle (http://freecycle)
And why do you want one?
Why wouldn't I want one?
I was doing sewing last night and even with the main light on I couldn't see the stitches. But I like old fashioned furniture so don't want some new fangled metal thing.
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freecycle (http://freecycle)
And why do you want one?
Why wouldn't I want one?
I was doing sewing last night and even with the main light on I couldn't see the stitches. But I like old fashioned furniture so don't want some new fangled metal thing.
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Next Saturday or Sunday, go to the local "town tip" or wherever your locals give the heave-ho to their pre-loved bits of domestic furniture, take a flask of tea and some sarnies and wait...
Before long someone will turn up with and old wooden standard lamp cloud9: If they don't I'm sure you'll have found countless other rescuable items to fill the back of the car and all at no cost. You'll also have observed a fascinating and revealing episode of surburban life eveilgrin:
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At out local tip it is illegal (allegedly) to remove stuff. But then they are privatised and keep the best tat for themselves. ::)
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Once an item has been placed on the tip it becomes the property of the tip owner, whoever that may be. Usually a crisp fiver into the hand of the tip attendant resolves this niggling point of law.
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So, Wenchy is spending a day at a tat tip ::) She will have to hire a truck to get home
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Well, she hasn't actually acknowledged the idea yet.... but it's surely tempting eveilgrin:
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Why is it called a standard lamp? rubschin:
Why not a floor standing lamp? After all one has a table lamp or a desk lamp.
Answers on a postcard to arrive no later than midday on Wednesday.
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rubschin:
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Well, she hasn't actually acknowledged the idea yet.... but it's surely tempting eveilgrin:
Prolly searching t'internet for cheap lorry hire... whistle:
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Well, she hasn't actually acknowledged the idea yet.... but it's surely tempting eveilgrin:
Prolly searching t'internet for cheap lorry hire... whistle:
Why does she want one higher ~ surely she'd get more onto a low loader.
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Imagine how rare non-standard lamps must be...? rubschin:
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Why is it called a standard lamp? rubschin:
Why not a floor standing lamp? After all one has a table lamp or a desk lamp.
Answers on a postcard to arrive no later than midday on Wednesday.
I'm betting that you have been inundated.............
My Mother has one will see what I can do BW has shelve type things on it and everything, well, not everything obviously.
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Wiki knows...............feck all.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/standard_lamp
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Yes yes ~ we know WHAT it is what we want to know is WHY?
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Yes yes ~ we know WHAT it is what we want to know is WHY?
Mum always use to call lamp posts "lamp standards". Anyhoo, one dictionary definition of standard is "something that stands or is placed upright" rubschin:
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In the same way that rose standards are those tree things.
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And the Evening Standard used to be a tree thing...
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Yes yes ~ we know WHAT it is what we want to know is WHY?
Mum always use to call lamp posts "lamp standards". Anyhoo, one dictionary definition of standard is "something that stands or is placed upright" rubschin:
So did my mum ~ come to that so do I but table lamps also stand upright. Sory but there has to be a better reason
Oh and Wenchy A Standard Rose is something quite different ~ for a start you can't read by the light of a standard rose although I will grant that a ceiling rose usually has a lamp hanging from it.
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And the Evening Standard used to be a tree thing...
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