Heavy!

[ladyofastolat]

Note to self: When a very large and very very very heavy box turns up, totally packed to the gunwales with small bits of metal do not carry it out to the car by yourself. Get a passing Big Strong Man to do it. Do not stubbornly set your chin, heave the box up off the floor, and set out. Especially do not do this when your car is at the far end of the car park, and every delivery van and mobile library in the area is manoeuvring between you and your car, causing you to constantly stop and give way. My arms have turned into jelly now, as if my bones have disappeared and been replaced my mush. I try to tell my arm to grip that mug of coffee, and instead it goes fl-bump! and lands six inches short, its fingers limply trying to pick up some scissors.

Also, do not look at the label on the box and find out quite how much money said small bits of metal cost.

Comments

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Would these be small, yet strangely expensive, bits of metal for one's husband?

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Yup. Although some of them, or so I'm told, don't belong to him, but are ordered on the behalf of some strange woman he knows who shares some of his unusual hobbies... ;-P

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

He's spending money on the hobbies of strange women??? ;-)

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Adding an explanation now would just spoil the effect. ;-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

No, there's no need to explain. None at all. I'm sure that neither he nor the strange woman in question would want their habits to be shared with the rest of the world. And even if they did, would we wish to know?

;-)

[chainmailmaiden]

You should have called your post heavy metal :-D

Most of mine's aluminium so I don't think I'm to blame for much of the weight, though I suspect I'm to blame for most of the price. Which given the circumstances is probably not a good thing as I obviously should have saved my money to give to the plumber rather than the blacksmith...

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

I suspect that you could recoup a large part of the cost by selling stuff. Purple is very popular in FnH, as is lightweight armour... lightweight purple armour is probably as close to cash a you can get :-)

[chainmailmaiden]

Sell it!?!

That would be like giving up my first-born child! Oh, hang on... maybe not such a bad idea ;-D

[nilsigma.livejournal.com]

Mousetraps?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

LOL :-)