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Posted by mamanchauffeuse (U5201740) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
Today I found a battery (one of those slim discy shaped affairs, for watches etc) still in its packaging but in a most unexpected place.
It was found within our boundary, but was Not in the house, shed, greenhouse or garage. I shall be kind and say that it wasn't in the car either.
It wasn't on the ground.
So, where was it?
The usual rules apply - open to all. Extra points given to those who are amusing or surreal in their answers even if they are nowhere near the truth. Prizes may well be awarded.
Clues, when given, shall be factually correct but as misleading as I can make them.
There will almost certainly be the odd evil laugh. ;¬)
maman
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Posted by mamanchauffeuse (U5201740) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
I will be back later, but have to log off for a bit. Have fun while I'm gone.
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Posted by Aladdin Sane (U7712924) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
In a birdhouse halfway up a tree?
Sparrows wear watches, too, y’know. They set the alarm for half past five and then proceed to wake me up.
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Posted by Dirigibles was here (U7278225) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
Up a tree.
In the bird feeder.
On top of the water butt.
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Posted by Nomadnomore - XNo - Quiz Queen (U3180380) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
It was on top of a pile of logs.
You'd been taking photos of the re-modelled house and garden when the battery in your camera ran out. You called to one of your ever-willing children to bring you out a new battery which they did, willingly.
You then changed the battery, placing the spent one on the pile of logs. You carried on taking photos and forgot to dispose of the spent one responsibly in the recycling.
See, easy peasy.
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Posted by Nomadnomore - XNo - Quiz Queen (U3180380) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
Bother, missed the bit about it still being in it's packaging.
OK, as before but the willing child brought out a pack of two batteries and your camera only requires one. You accidently left the spare one on the pile of logs and responsibly disposed of the spent one in the recycling.
Phew, I think I recovered that one OK without anyone noticing.
, in reply to message 1.
Posted by kk forever in the cyber atlantis of mustardland (U4670994) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
Nicked by a magpie who dropped it and now has corrosion on its beak, to complement its colouring ... so it's snagged on the washing line ;~)
In your hair.
You'd be amazed what I've found in mine in the past
Expecting a visit from the Boys maman was checking that all her stashes were safe. The ones in the copius number of water cisterns Chez Chauffeuse. Check. The one beneath the sliding panel in the base of the master bedroom wardrobe. Check. The one dangling from the chandelier disguised as a left over Christmas decoration. Check. The hidden compartment beneath the budgies cage. Check. The one behind the fired earth tiles above the aga. Check. So good so far. Only the big one to go. She went down to the cellar and keyed in the code to the hidden room beyond the wine store. Nothing. The battery was dead. There was only one thing for it. Maman raced up to the bell tower to signal to Control that she was in battery meltdown. And there it was, lying next to the highpowered assault rifle cartridge case. A small circular battery still in its packaging. But how had it got there? The only thing that maman could surmise was that Special Branch, or MI6 or whatever they call themselves these days had accidentally dropped it when they were rebugging the house. Still, their loss was maman's gain...........
Could it be the spare one for the Pope's pacemaker.
The Vatican have a policy of buying two for the price of one whenever they can, they then offer the second item to pilgrims, on my numerous visits to his holiness I have taken away packs of sausages, prawns, a light bulb and dental floss. Best eve? a bottle of Hungarian Red, 1995, with "please now brush your teeth" on the label. Priceless.
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Posted by mamanchauffeuse (U5201740) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
Tee Hee!
You have all succeeded in making me laugh. You are all variously wide of the mark, but definitely up in the surreal/entertaining stakes!
maman
, in reply to message 1.
Posted by Mister Legs (U15599971) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
up a tree
I saw a whole box of the things tucked away under some bushes on the walk between here and ainsbury's a while ago - flipping hundreds of them there were - I left them there
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Posted by Gayer-Anderson Cat (U13637930) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
On a lilypad in the garden pond.
G-AC
Aha, is stakes a hidden clue? Something to do with a horse, or (getting very enthusiastic), GG.
Great Gatsby, Green Goddess, Golder's Green....
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Posted by Lady Trudie Tilney Glorfindel Maldini (U2222312) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
It was found within our boundary,
Ìý
Now that sounds as though you live at Pemberley (although weall know Eliza lives there). So it could be anywhere on the estate - the falconry, in the haha, the mews, the coach house......
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Posted by TooManyPosts (U2440869) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
On the roof of the house or garage.
Buried in the earth.
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Posted by mamanchauffeuse (U5201740) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
Wotcha Leggsy!
They it wasn't up a tree, although we do have plenty of trees it could have been up, as it were.
Not that it will help at all, but it was somewhere it could have remained unseen for some considerable time.
maman
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Posted by Kate McLaren etc (U2202067) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
In a pile of bird poo. It was one of those tiny batteries for hearing aids and a bird swallowed it in error, thinking it was a berry.
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Posted by Mister Legs (U15599971) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
was it under one of Eddie's mooning gnomes?
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Posted by mamanchauffeuse (U5201740) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
Nope, not on a lilypad nor anything else floating in the pond, not in bird poo and not under a gnome. Not buried and not on a roof. Not in a building of any sort.
Am now wondering if I should have said curtilage instead of boundary ;¬)
maman
I don't suppose you were cutting a savoy cabbage in the kitchen garden, or should I say potager, and found it nestling among the leaves.
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Posted by TooManyPosts (U2440869) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
Not that it will help at all, but it was somewhere it could have remained unseen for some considerable time.Ìý
In your purse.
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Posted by TooManyPosts (U2440869) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
In an obese family member's folds of fat.
In the guttering.
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Posted by kk forever in the cyber atlantis of mustardland (U4670994) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
Am now wondering if I should have said curtilage instead of boundary Ìý
Your fences have curtains? Now that's the sort of eccentricity only the extremely wealthy can aspire to ;~)
Does your postbox have a hearing aid (sans battery) so it can be ready for the postman?
Is the battery on the bird table, so elevated that the top can't be easily seen?
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Posted by mamanchauffeuse (U5201740) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
None of the above.
I can see how a battery of that type might get mixed up with coins if it wasn't still vac-packed onto cardboard, but it was, so it didn't.
maman
, in reply to message 23.
Posted by mamanchauffeuse (U5201740) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
Not in guttering.
"In an obese family member's folds of fat."
You've clearly never met any members of my family......
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Posted by mamanchauffeuse (U5201740) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
KK - nothing to do with the postbox, which isn't in the house and is within the curtilage, so it would have been a good guess.
Not on the bird table, but again it was a good thought.
The flea is seriously cramping my style here. :¬(
maman
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Posted by Lili Bolero and the band played on (U10534540) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
In the pocket of someone's jeans that were hanging on the washing line.
(I have washed and ironed an MP3 player in similar circs).
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Posted by mamanchauffeuse (U5201740) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
Fraid not, it wasn't in any piece of clothing hanging from the washing line, in case someone felt tempted to list as many as they could think of....
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Posted by Eliza Bennet (U2508760) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
Was it in the orangery, Maman? Obviously you need to keep spare batteries in there for the clockwork oranges.
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Posted by TooManyPosts (U2440869) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
Compost heap.
Mixed up with seed packets kept near plants.
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Posted by mamanchauffeuse (U5201740) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
Hi there, Eliza - no, not in a building of any sort.
Ahem, clockwork oranges don't need batteries 'cos they're, um, clockwork.
Did you know that decades ago battery tech was such that you couldn't take them too far up a mountain? They'd start to leak, so if you wanted to film up Everest or K2 you'd be advised to borrow a clockwork camera from a museum.
Julie Tullis was allowed to borrow one for an expedition - Idon't think it was her last to K2, may have been a previous.
maman
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Posted by Eliza Bennet (U2508760) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
You have a point about the clockwork oranges. Although the latest models might well have a dual power source like those solar-powered radios have a facility for charging from the moans because this is Britain, after all.
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Posted by mamanchauffeuse (U5201740) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
Not in compost heaps and not with seed packets, sorry.
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Posted by Eliza Bennet (U2508760) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
Bluddy iPad. If my solar-powered radio charged from the moans I'd never need mains electricity for it ever again...
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Posted by Nomadnomore - XNo - Quiz Queen (U3180380) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
Stop distracting me, I'm supposed to be cooking (strike that out) doing the books. I'm up to the bit where I reconcile Paypal and Sagepay with the website and the bank and it is sooooo tedious.
OK then, I'll have another quick shot.
Definition of "curtilage" according to Wiki:- "It delineates the boundary within which a home owner can have a reasonable expectation of privacy and where "intimate home activities" take place."
The property boundary defines the legal limit of ownership of any parcel of land.
Hmmmmm. What might need batteries for "intimate home activities" I wonder.
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Posted by SussexCornflower InTheFinalCountdown (U13833966) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
Was it on the antlers of a passing deer?
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Posted by kk forever in the cyber atlantis of mustardland (U4670994) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
Hmmmmm. What might need batteries for "intimate home activities" I wonder.Ìý
As a coin token to operate the former seaside pier telescope, positioned on the boundary but which serendipitously breaches the curtilage.
Obviously.
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Posted by Kate McLaren etc (U2202067) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
Was it contained within something, or was it in plain sight?
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Posted by stolenkisses (U6230663) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
On a windowsill? Under the doormat? On top of a fence-post?
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Posted by Amy Bridge (U2239711) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
That must be a clue.
Decades ago, some mountaineer lived in your house and was about to leave for Everest when he realised that if he took this battery with him if would leak at the top. So, taking a moment of quiet contemplation while sitting on your iron-work garden bench before setting off, he realised this and took it out of his rucksack, and tucked it safely in the iron-work of one of the bench's legs, so he could find it again on his return. Course, with all the excitement of climbing Everest, and showing his wife his holiday snaps (taken with a clockwork camera borrowed from a museum) when he got back and everything, he forgot all about the battery and it stayed there for years until you found it.
So there you go. What's my prize for getting the right answer?
(Good to see you maman, btw)
Amy x
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Posted by Staddlestone (U6618327) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
At the bottom of the rain water butt.
In the lawn mowers collecting box.
In/ under / by the bar-b-q
In the clothes peg bag/ box or whatever.
In those funny half Wellington gardening shoes
In a flower pot.
On the Christmas tree...(well mine is outside waiting for me to re-cycle it!)
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Posted by TooManyPosts (U2440869) on Wednesday, 13th February 2013
Somewhere in the outhouse.
Behind the trellis.
In a bush.
In a beehive.
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Posted by Dirigibles was here (U7278225) on Thursday, 14th February 2013
Resting on top of your flag pole? It's been there since the Diamond Jubilee/Olympics, when in true patriotic style you ran up a flag, and there was a small battery powered broadcast facility attached, which enabled you to address your subjects from on high.
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Posted by mamanchauffeuse (U5201740) on Thursday, 14th February 2013
Ok, take 2 on getting my phone to post......
No-one has got it yet.
It wasn't in plain sight, and probably wouldn't have been found for some time if it hadn't been for special circumstances yesterday involving my washing machine breaking down.
Having said that there were 2 previous opportunities to find it and I really can't explain why the 2 people who had those opportunities didn't find it.
maman
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Posted by Dirigibles was here (U7278225) on Thursday, 14th February 2013
Balanced on the water stop-cock?
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Posted by mamanchauffeuse (U5201740) on Thursday, 14th February 2013
Nope.
Is it time for an evil laugh yet? Maybe later.....
maman
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Posted by Lili Bolero and the band played on (U10534540) on Thursday, 14th February 2013
Inside or near the Electricity Meter?
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Posted by mamanchauffeuse (U5201740) on Thursday, 14th February 2013
Nope. (that's inside the house)
I have to go for a bit, so I'll leave you with this clue -
It was found within 1m of an outside door, but not the front door. (evil laugh)
maman
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Posted by Lili Bolero and the band played on (U10534540) on Thursday, 14th February 2013
In the Guinea Pig hutch?
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