I've got some bad news for readers of this blog, in particular those who've followed the story of our deck furniture.
We purchased, via Trade Me a beautiful macrocarpa table and chairs set in about 2008.
Originally the set was a beautiful golden colour.
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The colour and finish was like this |
The seller gave me a pot of expensive oil and told me how to care for it which I listened to as much as I do when someone is giving me directions.
Needless to say, after a few years the set had lost its golden sheen but was still useable.
A couple of years ago, in a storm a storm, one of the chairs was blown over.
This caused a great deal of anxiety to Richard who is a sensitive chap and for ages afterwards he banged on about asked how the chair was doing.
Now, I'm sorry to say that chair, and its mate have steadily declined to the point where they are unusable.
They will have to go to that place in the sky (via a chemical reaction in which they will, in the presence of heat and oxygen be transformed into carbon dioxide, water vapour, and ash) in various plumes of smoke. I don't think they will be going to meet their creator, a guy named Crockett from Near Leigh Furniture.
I'm on the lookout for a couple of replacement chairs but, in the meantime I'll take better care of the table and the bench seats,
Promise.
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I remember a similar experience I encountered at St Ronins, Eastbourne. John, we'll call him Fred, had a beautiful park bench made with a plaque inscribed with his deceased wife's name and placed it on the lawn beside the the Presbyterian Church. Slowly Sun weathered it until one day a man was employed to restore it. It now is back on the lawn but weather proofed and has retained its original look.
There is another story Trent Horn tells of a baker who wrote the words Mass on a tiny piece of paper and none of his cakes could outway it on a scale...
I like the first (parallel universing) story but the second is just nonsense.
I think I'll change the commenting instruction from: "COMMENTS ARE WELCOMED BUT PLEASE - NO PARALLEL UNIVERSING: to "COMMENTS ARE WELCOMED BUT PLEASE - NO RELIGIOUS NONSENSE".
Trent Horn is obviously an idiot.
Sad news about the chairs.
If Trent is telling the truth then that baker could make a fortune with his writing Mass on a bit of paper. He could market it as anchors for boats (as long as it was waterproof) and anywhere that weights and ballast is needed. It would mean that metals wouldn't need to be mined for these which would be good for ecology.
I'd suggest that he works out a way to transport and store the Mass papers until they need to be used. It could be possible to write mass on the paper with a lower case 'm' for storage and transport and then, once in place where a heavy weight needs to be used the lower case 'm' could be rubbed out and replaced with an upper case 'M'.
Just a thought.
A lot of thinking went into that TC.
Yeah. I'm just following Trent Horn's reasoning.
Which is nonsense of course.
Why did you say that?
I believe Trent Horn's reasoning is sound. Why do you disagree?
Trent Horn simply related a story. A story is a story. It may contain truths.
Well this one didn't contain any truths. It was a lie. It makes for a good fairy tale though or a fable but it is clearly, as your mate Horn knows, bulshit.
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