What's your hobby?

Yes, only the furniture was imported from Germany, and she also had a whole store with tiny packages of various well-known products, such as Persil washing powder etc., also from Germany.

I wonder if she would recognise this? did she have anything like this in her dolls' house kitchen? They were German tinplate toys which remained in circulation for years after they stopped producing them. You'd find them in dusty boxes in the stockrooms of toyshops. We had one like this in our dolls' house. I loved it, but the door of the oven was an absolute bloody bugger to open. It was on a spring and by standards of modern toys it was a death trap to little fingers :)

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No, it's not the one. She had another one. Apparently she was also given a larger stove with small pots to play with. In this furnace you could burn such small white cubes. From today's point of view, this seems very dangerous to me. Good thing she didn't start a fire.

Hey, Atch, are you going to keep that book a secret? It's not like a code to activate a nuclear war...

Why are you so obsessed? She said already she is not going to give the info.


Can I ask what appeals to you in those?
I'm very practical (to the point it can be a vice) and I think that's why I like renovating, building flatpacks etc. That is also why I like furniture restoration/ flipping.

I am devout however of any artistic talent and any crafts don't interest me at all.

Why?

1. She is embarrassed about how bad it is in grammar and style.
2. What she wrote can be used against her in a civil or criminal trial.
3. She plagiarized another book.
4. She never wrote a book.
5. She is planning to publish a better version.
6. She revealed secrets she wants to keep secret.

Did I miss anything?

She doesn't want us to know. And who can blame her?
One idiot already used every scrap of information he has to track it and another can't let it go after hearing no.

Yes, she just want to remain anonymous.

Hey, Mr. Embarrassment, publishing a book and staying anonymous are not mutually exclusive. It is done every day...
I did it, too.


So 7 billion people knew but a dozen more would be a calamity?

...for a reason. What's that reason? NOYFB is not a reason.

I took mine down for a very simple reason...I found myself in a mob-controlled fascist country and decided that the risks were too high compared to the benefits.

Ale jesteś upierdliwy. Nie chce to nie chce i koniec. Maybe you'll understand it better in Polish.

Maybe she revealed a bit more about herself in the book. Maybe she just doesn't want people here to read it. Maybe it's not your f business.


No, only few selected people knew that it's her book. Others might have seen it, read it but didn't know Atch.


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For some people it's the intricate workmanship of the craftsmen made pieces which are tiny replicas of the real thing but to me I don't mind if they're just mass produced things from a factory. I love the fact that you can recreate any real life setting in miniature and if you're into interior design it's great fun. I'm also sure that it's partly a hangover from my childhood. I have great memories of playing with my little house, maybe that's what it is.


It might have been Modella or Jean of Germany. I wonder if any of this furniture looks familiar to her.

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No, hers were different

No, it's a thing of the past, but today she has a collection of large porcelain dolls, and it started with the largest one that I bought for her.

And the last one I also bought for her, it's a small porcelain doll that the big one can carry in her pocket. A doll for a doll, so to speak.

What is that exactly? 🤔


What does that mean?

@Paulina
I'm one of those guys that can do things, make things and repair things.

Last year I decided to put a new floor all through the downstairs of my house so it would flow from one room to the next and be splendid. When I decide to do something I spend a lot of time thinking of exactly how to go about it. A friend from the allotments lays floors for a living and I tortured him. The basic choice was what kind of floor. I decided on solid hard wood. Next I decided to install a few additional electrical sockets and to insulate the heating pipes before putting the floor down. That mutated into totally rewiring the house which I did, every electrical cable, socket, light fitting and consumer unit (fuse box) was replaced. When I was doing that I discovered a major problem with insect infestation in the roof. I then had to replace the back half of the roof reusing the existing tiles. The front half will be done this spring/summer. The net result of that additional work was that my solid wood floor was downgraded to engineered wood. Engineered wood is softwood with a 7mm layer of hard wood on top, it goes together like click flooring but supposedly looks and feels like hard wood, it doesn't, It looks grand though but...

I used to restore those old VW camper vans which involved learning how to weld which I became competent at but never to an expert level. All my mates used to bring their cars to me or get me to fix stuff in their houses from central heating to plastering, putting new doors on a the like. It helped that My Da was a roofer and I worked on building sites and did homers from I was about 11 or 12. My job used to be to carry roofing tiles up to my Da while he did his stuff. I just like working with my hands and using a bit of brain power to do a safe and reasonable job.

I spend 8 hours a day in front of a computer and almost hate every second of it. I really enjoy working on the allotment, my shed is plumed into the mains water. I discovered that welding is a skill you need to practice when I decided to make a wood burning stove from an old gas cylinder. The stove works but looks really amateurish.

In Poland we call such a person "złota rączka" (golden hand) :)


I'm interested in interior design and I love watching house renovation/makeover shows on TV - your story reminded me of some of them where they would always find some kind of "surprises" of this kind :))) Btw, how old is your building?


I can understand that. When I was at high school I studied a lot and at some point I had really enough of sitting at home all the time with my head in the books. It was almost suffocating. In those moments I was dreaming of being at my grandma's place in the countryside and digging my hands into the soil and breathing the fresh countryside air *sigh*


Nothing beats making something with your hands though :)))

A plant/flower that is 'leggy' means that it has a really long stem with just a few leaves at the top. It would look a bit straggly. Might need pruning or placing in a better position for light. Depending on the plant, you might need to stake it for support.

My hobby is stealing dogs.

Yeah and eating them.Russians have to do what they can to survive in their poor nation.

You do not eat dogs in Britain?

Hahaha! We are not pi$$ poor like Russians.

We can afford beef, lamb, chicken, pork and many other meats......

Yes, but this is only because of colonialism.

Thank you for the explanation! :)


o_O

Could you maybe elaborate on that? ;D

What would you like to know?

If you are in the market for a Schnauzer, for example, I would recommend equipping yourself with some cod liver.

If we are talking a Dachshund - then of course I would suggest carrying some smoked meats in your pocket. Perhaps a toy or two.

Much more thrilling than just buying them. And cheaper!

... and, of course, as a good oprichnik you can always use the stolen dog's head for a noble purpose. ;)

@Torq
Have you forgot Schweik?!?!

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