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Posted on 01/03/19 08:51:23 AM
Steve Caplin
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Challenge 745: Half a kettle
On a recent visit to my favourite tea shop in Ely, Norfolk, I noticed this bizarre half kettle hanging from a hook on the wall.

I can’t imagine why anyone thought it worthwhile to manufacture half a kettle. What other everyday objects might profitably be cut in half?

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Posted on 01/03/19 2:13:51 PM
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This is going to have us all going off half cocked ........





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Posted on 01/03/19 3:26:57 PM
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Maybe it's meant for one of those tiny houses where storage space is at a premium.

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Posted on 01/03/19 3:56:14 PM
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Posted on 01/03/19 4:08:56 PM
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Re: Challenge 745: Half a kettle
For someone who only wants half a cup of tea?

I'll get me coat...

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Posted on 01/03/19 4:12:44 PM
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Challenge 745: Half a kettle
Steve Caplin wrote:
What other everyday objects might profitably be cut in half?


My gas and electric bills?

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Posted on 01/03/19 8:12:36 PM
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Re: Challenge 745: Half a kettle
DavidMac wrote:
Steve Caplin wrote:
What other everyday objects might profitably be cut in half?


My gas and electric bills?


DavidMac wrote:
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Steve Caplin wrote:
What other everyday objects might profitably be cut in half?

Steve said objects. I don't think bills count.

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Posted on 02/03/19 11:38:22 AM
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Posted on 02/03/19 1:21:14 PM
Nick Curtain
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Re: Challenge 745: Half a kettle
Subtle and clever Ben.
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Posted on 02/03/19 7:36:27 PM
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Re: Challenge 745: Half a kettle
I’ve half a mind to enter this Challenge. Unfortunately I’m half a world away on my hols. Fortunately I missed half term.

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Posted on 02/03/19 9:15:19 PM
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Re: Challenge 745: Half a kettle
GKB wrote:
I’ve half a mind to enter this Challenge. Unfortunately I’m half a world away on my hols. Fortunately I missed half term.


Look at it this way... you're half-way home.

Posted on 02/03/19 9:17:12 PM
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Not half the price


Posted on 03/03/19 6:19:31 PM
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Re: Challenge 745: Half a kettle
More perspective games for Steve .......

Although it's hardly what Milne could have had in mind, I thought the idea of sitting on a staircase that ".... isn't really anywhere!" lent itself to a stair that couldn't actually exist.



I once met Christopher Robin in the late 'sixties. He was a very introverted and shy man. He disliked his father's books and what they had done to his life, especially as a schoolboy when he was mercilessly bullied. He said his father was in fact a very distant and cold father in reality.

On the same occasion I also met Ernest Shepard the illustrator - by then well into his eighties. He regretted bitterly having sold Disney the rights to his Pooh illustrations and felt they had utterly failed to understand their whimsical nature and had completely vulgarised them. (I can't help but agree). He could deliver minutes on end of vitriol on Disney without drawing breath!!

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Posted on 03/03/19 8:01:09 PM
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Re: Challenge 745: Half a kettle
David, your perspective work is indeed intriguing.

Posted on 03/03/19 8:03:11 PM
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Re: Challenge 745: Half a kettle
Steve asks? "What other everyday objects might profitably be cut in half? "







Posted on 03/03/19 8:30:35 PM
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Frank wrote:
David, your perspective work is indeed intriguing.


Thanks Frank. It gives me huge pleasure to try and manipulate our perceptions. Not sure why ..... but 'tis thus.

I can only agree wholeheartedly with the message in your own image ............

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Posted on 04/03/19 10:34:23 AM
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Re: Challenge 745: Half a kettle
I may not have time to contribute this week but as ever I am enjoying everyone else's work. David, I have every sympathy for Shepherd - never a fan of A.A. Milne ("tonstant weader fwowed up" as Dorothy Parker said) but Shepherds illustrations were sublime - the Disney version is a complete travesty.


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Posted on 04/03/19 11:56:26 AM
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Re: Challenge 745: Half a kettle
josephine harvatt wrote:
I may not have time to contribute this week but as ever I am enjoying everyone else's work. David, I have every sympathy for Shepherd - never a fan of A.A. Milne ("tonstant weader fwowed up" as Dorothy Parker said) but Shepherds illustrations were sublime - the Disney version is a complete travesty.



Although as an adult they seem so terribly twee, I loved the books as a child. I still have my dog eared, scribbled in copies from then. Written mostly between the wars they are a reflection of another era.

As you say, Shepard's illustrations were sublime. He had an old leather suitcase full of originals and my job was to photograph them. To handle these first hand was a sensation impossible to put into words. As part of the same job we visited all the sites (100 acre wood, Pooh sticks bridge, etc) from which the illustrations were drawn. Almost fifty years ago and I still remember it like it was yesterday.

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Posted on 04/03/19 4:35:53 PM
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Re: Challenge 745: Half a kettle
DavidMac wrote:
josephine harvatt wrote:
I may not have time to contribute this week but as ever I am enjoying everyone else's work. David, I have every sympathy for Shepherd - never a fan of A.A. Milne ("tonstant weader fwowed up" as Dorothy Parker said) but Shepherds illustrations were sublime - the Disney version is a complete travesty.




What an incredible experience that must have been.
Although as an adult they seem so terribly twee, I loved the books as a child. I still have my dog eared, scribbled in copies from then. Written mostly between the wars they are a reflection of another era.

As you say, Shepard's illustrations were sublime. He had an old leather suitcase full of originals and my job was to photograph them. To handle these first hand was a sensation impossible to put into words. As part of the same job we visited all the sites (100 acre wood, Pooh sticks bridge, etc) from which the illustrations were drawn. Almost fifty years ago and I still remember it like it was yesterday.




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Posted on 04/03/19 7:48:05 PM
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Re: Challenge 745: Half a kettle
A lot more technically challenging than I had expected this one. There has to be an easier way to enjoy half a bottle of wine



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