Cargo of Lightbulbs incoming

 I decided that the first picture I found with any link to a river I would use..Tilbury is on the River Thames.

The cargo had to be light bulbs of course.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Tilbury

Free for all..

 Thank you Angie for all the great themes…I used the free for all theme as an excuse to tidy the weird snippets from off my desk….this light bulb has been waiting for this moment.

Time Machine..science fiction..science fact.

 I got a little carried away trying to build a Time Machine out of stuff  “I found in the shed”.

It got a little complex..pretty sure it would work though.

The Centre Aisle of Aldi

 Happy Thanks Giving…

Not sure if this happens in America ..but there is a supermarket called Aldi where they have a central aisle which has all manner of odd things for sale..from fluffy socks to gardening tools and everything in between…you go in for eggs and milk and come out with a set of extending ladders and a quilting kit.

Pretty sure I have seen an electric blanket egg cooker too!..I might have imagined that one.

Not sure if this lady has a mop on her head…..they would sell them too.

It would be fun being a giant..(lightbulbs for scale).

 

Double Take..two ways of viewing digestion

 

Old meets older.

 

Free for all…plus a light bulb

 Couldn’t resist adding a light bulb to this ..”light of the World”.

Free Bulbs for All.

Angie , thank you for the great themes…light bulbs are back for the Free for All… :) 

Sometimes the answer isn’t so obvious.

 

The Pantomime always needs some Fairy Lights

 It was at the Savoy Theatre in London that the term “fairy lights” was first coined.

Opened in 1881, the Savoy was the first public building in the world to be lit entirely by electricity, fitted out with 1,200 incandescent light bulbs created by Swan.

A year later, Swan was commissioned by the theatre’s owner Richard D’Oyly Carte to create miniature lights for the dresses of the lead fairies on the opening night of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe.

The dresses were adorned with lights powered by small battery packs hidden beneath the folds of the cloth.

23rd September . The day of the Light Bulb.

 As you are all aware today is the day for presenting the lightbulb..which only happens once every 10 years. Similar to Easter, light bulbs are formed in chocolate and children have to search the car parks and underpasses for light bulbs hidden by the electric fairy. This is to celebrate the historic switching on of the grand filament of  7 Watts.

Or just another excuse for me to put my light bulb catalogues to good use…

World record in lightbulb balancing on a dogs nose.

 

Records of big fruit and just records.

 

Inventions.

 This is the result of a happy accident…page 663 was ripped and revealed the page  behind…they matched up so well I just added a couple  of my ubiquitous light bulbs and Bob’s your uncle….Fanny’s your aunt.

Displaced History….when you call a Viking electrician….

 

Sometimes things just turn up in the wrong places.

 

Happy musical Xmas.

 

More Xmas festive hats.

 

ATCs....for my Xmas list...