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Vince said:
A lot of Grier's place is tiled, I don't think you would put door stoppers there. Wall-mounted? I have never noticed!
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I do have one metal door stopper given to me as a present once. I wrapped and glued tough rubber around it to protect my tiles. It still works 29 years later. I don't use it a lot though.

Not sure how a wall mounted door stop might work. Maybe a chain between door and wall held by hooks?
 
Vince said:
I am beginning to realize that men don't really notice the contents of other peoples' homes. He does have a pool table but I don't see his niece snapping six of them. Dried flowers?
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No, not my dried flowers thank goodness. Too high for her. She stresses me but is very engaging like an hyper pixie buzzing about.

I never noticed those fossils of yours Vince, your cat takes my attention mostly, and you too.;)
We men see the world differently for sure. :confused:

My pool table is almost child proof with its 17cm diameter legs. Although a big 64 year old child did damage it, several times.
 
Apologies for missing all four replies above
and finally replied to now. I'm still very busy with more than several projects on the boil. Even 2 hours on my car today on a fiddly mechanical job. Three times I dropped bits and pieces deep into the engine bay that took ages to recover. Magnets, steel wire, a torch and blue tack worked to recover them: a nut, a spring washer and a new plastic gromet. Then seeing it all came about from a design fault I fixed it filing and cutting off hard plastic bits. It fits nicely now.
I spent hours even today with my old crook mate as his morning carer had left him and his place in a mess which took me ages to clean up and then a good chat with him. He's not good and was hot and groggy when I arrived. The house was like a Sauna with no fans on, all windows shut, 39C today, even the ones on the cool side of his house, ... I wrote a long note to the next carer for this evening who is a very conscientious and hard worker. A young and smart Kenyan lady doing her masters in Education.
Thankfully his sister returns to Perth in 16 days.
 
Would you like some more clues. You're all getting warmer and the hint I was thinking of would be a dead giveaway.
I'll think of something less obvious.

How's this, I just did a walkabout in the house and saw I have six types of my item with lots of these types scattered about most of my home.
I weighed each of the six types on my kitchen scales and they came in at: 17g, 60g, 37g, 28g, 34g and a super light pair at 4g each.
The 60g type is metal that my youngest daughter gave me 8 of.
 
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Good evening Thomas. I just got out of bed. He does have gnomes but they're all outside, and you could multiply those weights by 20.
 
looker-on said:
(Animal) Figurines, gnomes?
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I like and have figurines in my house Thomas and even a little screwed down Leprechaun guarding my letter box, but no, it's not any sort of figurine.

My item is more utilitarian if sometimes a little decorative. The bulk of these items I have are very plain but very functional. I use the plain ones a lot and have many of them despite my pixie niece snapping many of them in half, giggling and laughing. They're cheap, especially my plain ones. The shy little nephew builds tall structures with my Domino set until the pixie knocks them down scattering them all over. Tears and finding all the tiles and he's never lost one yet! A smart little boy. He loves helping me in the kitchen too and laying out the the table, with 7 of my item he places carefully as I showed him.

Now that's a big hint, I think.
 
Grier said:
I like and have figurines in my house Thomas and even a little screwed down Leprechaun guarding my letter box, but no, it's not any sort of figurine.

My item is more utilitarian if sometimes a little decorative. The bulk of these items I have are very plain but very functional. I use the plain ones a lot and have many of them despite my pixie niece snapping many of them in half, giggling and laughing. They're cheap, especially my plain ones. The shy little nephew builds tall structures with my Domino set until the pixie knocks them down scattering them all over. Tears and finding all the tiles and he's never lost one yet! A smart little boy. He loves helping me in the kitchen too and laying out the the table, with 7 of my item he places carefully as I showed him.

Now that's a big hint, I think.
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I appreciate that but I'm being completely stumped and will have to wait for the brainy ones.
 
Vince said:
Coasters or place mats.
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Coasters it is Vince, well done.

My cheap ones are just cork which works great. They snap easy as my pixie niece demonstrated. My grand daughter is another such pixie but in Melbourne.

I remember I used an old leather coaster to balance my polluting gas heater. My ultra light ones my youngest made for me at Kindy with pictures of Alan Bond and Robert Holmes a Court, now covered with years of coffee stains, in their faces. I treasure them.

So your turn Vince.
I'm a bit sporadic atm so best I don't lead I reckon.

Is it a lump of clean coal?
 
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Grier said:
My cheap ones are just cork which works great
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Mentioning that some were made of cork may have helped jig this old brain Terry. I have used cork, cardboard and wood coaster, cant say I have ever seen one metal one..
 
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Hi Craig,

I usually use thick strong Pixie proof wooden ones for my dining table. The metal Heineken ones my daughter got when she worked for Crown Casino Perth, a great place for laundering dirty money.
As you can see below I have many cork ones for general use like once a month I have swag of old mates come over to play pool, drink Cola and eat copious amounts of unhealthy snack foods.

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So Vince, have you thought of your secret item yet?

Not something obscure please, I'm feeling a bit thick after many recent labours.
 
OK night owls. This item sits on my desk and is of no use in the dark.

Jess I am trying to remember what goes into a "hot toddy".
 
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