The humble bucket

[p.penn]

Sorry

[Steve the Gas]

What number is that in the 'book' ?
Karma.............

[Richard]

Well, here's my idea for a bottomless bucket.

The Down the Lane Barbie Q

Obviously with my busy work schedule I haven't had time to actually get it going, but you can see that the bottom is slightly raised to enable through draft.

It has two cooking levels....

1. Fast Cooking...

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2. Slow Cooking...

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The only slight downer is that you need an existing round barbeque to take the grills from, but these are sold at quite a reasonable price during Autumn.

Richard

[Steve the Gas]

Turning it over must be interesting when red hot

[Mo]

At Whitby folk festival last year we heard a song sung by Sandra Kerr (who was the singer on Bagpuss and is a lecturer at Newcastle's Folk Music degree). It was based on something she was told about a working class family and the 7 lives of a tin bucket as it got older.
1. To hold clean water
2. to pour the water in after you've washed
3. wash the kitchen floor
4. under the bed
5. carrying coal
7. forcing rhubarb

Hmm missed one somewhere - maybe 1 was really 2 - drinking water and clean washing water.

[manda]

I keep my flour in buckets (you know the nappy buckets with lids...new ones I might add!)...keep the flour nice and dry, keeps out weevils etc.

[Shlugh]

@ Steve.

Hubby says they are also good for brewing your wine in. (does that mean I get my bucket full from the bucket?)

You can train your horse to wee in it, to save wet bedding in the stable.

Oh yes, and as a sick bucket on a school coach full of travel sick kiddies.

Shlugh xx

[p.penn]

I always remember many, many years ago, as a young woman, going to a local barn dance and asking where the loo was. I was directed to a rather dark small barn, and there was a bucket in the corner. So there was I....on the bucket, when a horse came and nuzzled me.

[AL37]

[LynneP]

Good one!