Corks, What Else Are They Good For?
Well? What else are they good for? Does anyone have any uses for corks?
Apart from the two obvious ones, hanging from a hat or sealing a bottle, I can think of no other uses.
My wife has had a run on one of her favourite tipples, namely Prosecco and for some reason, I have had the urge to keep the corks. I cannot furnish you with a ‘why’.
Maybe it was just so I could add a paragraph or two to this post, though that's a little thin if I’m honest. Last night bought about the latest addition, bringing the total up to five. It just seems a shame to throw them away.
Some vague memory is showing me a cork with a coin wedged in the end, I might have to research that when I have less important things to do.
One last question and again I am searching for inspiration. Below is the empty bottle from last night, I should add at this juncture that I did not consume any of the contents of this rather fetching piece of glassware, I merely washed it up this morning.
It seems a shame to throw such an aesthetically pleasing vessel away, so for now, it will remain somewhere in the kitchen, gathering dust.
Now, forget about the corks, what can we do with this, apart from sticking a candle in the top?
My better half believes you can get some kind of gadget that turns bottles into lamps!! She’s not wrong, I’ve just checked and found exactly that on eBay, yay, I now have a renewed purpose in life.
I’m not sure how the image looks on your device but on mine, it’s been squashed down somewhat, it looks more like a brandy decanter.
Maybe I’ll do a follow-up when the ‘bottle lights’ arrive, that’s right, I went ahead and ordered a couple.
Talking of homemade ‘objet de curiosité’, recently I have been playing with candles, more specifically, recycling spent candles.
Let’s be honest, those fancy scented candles can work out to be expensive, especially if you’re using them all day to cover the smell of dogs (more so when they’re wet, ‘damp dog smell’ is very much an acquired taste).
Over the last couple of weeks, I have been recycling the wax from said candles, we even bought some wicks so that we could make new ones, now that’s what I call proper recycling.
I have also only just found out that candle wax is predominantly made from soy, which I did not know.
It’s been quite therapeutic, not cathartic but good all the same.
On the left side of the above image, there is part of a plant we have sitting on the shelf. How are your powers of deduction, can you guess what it is?
That’s your lot for today, the chiropractor is calling and we don’t want to be late for that, do we now.
