What a fiasco - barn clearance yields thorny Tuscan problem
Clearing out the barn in readiness for conversion to an apartment, the above flasks came to light - there's around 80 of them; 25 litres each, and some date back to the 19th Century or earlier. Wide mouthed ones were for oil, narrow for wine. (Before the Tuscan got his hands on it the estate was one of the largest wine producers in the area.)
Any bright ideas what can be done with the things? Storage is not an option, and I'm reluctant to crush them.
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put them on ebay, or better still bring some free ones to London.
Another idea
clean them and fill them with herb infused organic oil and sell them to guests (when suitably pissed)
Make Molotov cocktails out of them, and drop them on the Palace of Westminster from a low-flying DC 3.
Hitch, eBay would work, provided I could persuade the suckers, sorry, investors in art, to pick them up. The oil idea is a good plan, too. Perhaps I coudl fill them with methadone and send them to those ex-bloggers suffering from cold turkey, Mr H!
Kill, not big enough. I feel an oil drum would be more productive. I like the DC3 concept though - you could charge people to watch the fly-bys.
The idle brother is an apothecary and alchemist in deepest Somerset, in Lilith territory. His own garden has taken on the appearance of a pikey's yard, but amongst the flotsam and jetsam there are several of these bulbous flasks, which he claims to have a use for.
He might very well wish to add to his collection. I warn you that his means of payment will almost certainly not involve money.
Are these Guido's dead soldiers? No wonder he's slow out of the sack some mornings.
Idle, any sort of product that turns peasant wine into Sassiciaia will do, no cash required.
anon - aha! You have solved the mystery of from whom the plaintive Irish dirges were emanating last night. And the depressing jigs.
Fill them with different levels of water and get a glockenspiel hammer and learn to play them as a huge watery musical instrument! It would be better at parties than that trick where you set your hat on fire. No one is ever surprised by that you know....
I say keep tham in strategic places around the estate just so as you can take a contended but organic pee whilst taking the night air.
paolo could then empty them in the morning
Not necessarily out of the question, Tuscan; there was a programme on quaint alchemist types (inc idle bro) on channel four about ten years ago. In his review the next morning, the Torygraph telly critic said "we were then introduced to XXX, an alchemist living on his family's farm in the Westcountry, who rather optimistically suggested that the Philosopher's Stone may yet be rediscovered...."
Mutley, an inspired suggestion. have you seen Broadway Danny Rose, by any chance?
Hitch, I already do that, with old bales of straw.
Idle, you intrigue me strangely. I will be neart Somerton in April (decent gun dealer there BTW) - close?
TT I know the gun dealer you mean.
Another idea, during the 1960's and 70's I recall seeing people growing plants in those things, with a cork on to keep in moisture.
Now Gianni wop , wouldnt consider buying one as is , But maybe as a plant microsytem sold by la tuscana on a market?
I still say you go with infused oil
Somerton is about fifteen miles west of the fellow, Tuscan.
When are you planning to attend communion at the Three Moles next?
Hict, I am amazed. Son No. 1 was fascinated by the damascus barreled numbers. I will be back there this spring.
Idle, ah, a near neighbour of the outlaws, then. I hope to be in the GU29 area in around 6 weeks. Will keep you fully posted in ordwer that you may flee the area at the apposite moment.
I was thinking of ebay too; would surely find a buyer there. another way would be to use them to demarcate your land? sort of like a decorative fence....
Or maybe some other wine producer might like them?
Have the peasant create a wall out of them for your new appartment binding them together with mud. A sort of Stig of the Dump affair. It would be an interesting and historical aspect, no ?
I tend to side with killemallletgodsortemout's idea.
Eve - they're put of fashion for wine, too bulky; small producers now use stainless steel flasks, sadly.
E-K I like it - I used to work with a chap whom I nicknamed Stig. He'd spend (25 years ago) around £5k per month on paintings, yet arrive in the office in his bike gear which consisted of outer trousers held up with baler twine - lovely chap, lost touch with him. Barking mad of course.
Ron, Killem's plan is sound but they're not that manouvreable.
Could you make gardens-in-a-bottle with them? A new enterprise for the Tuscana perhaps?
Re the wall suggestion - there is a motel (sorry, the name escapes me) on the road into Queenstown (NZ) which has one (front) wall made entirely of glass bottles laid on their sides and cemented together. Attractive, decorative, original and very effective. Could save you a euro or two in building costs as 80 large ones will cover a substantial area.
Fleet waaaaaayayyy too seventies for the Tuscana. I was up for it, though.
NAB - if you'd have let me know 24 hours earlier I could have saved them See tomorrow's post...
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