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27/09/2026 12:01 pm
It was our 45th wedding anniversary yesterday.
A few weeks ago I went online and found that the appropriate gift for my lady wife is sapphire, but in candle-light and without my glasses I misread it as sulphur (UK spelling).
So in an untypical fit of extravagance I got her a gift-wrapped 5 gallon carboy of this rather attractive yellow crystalline substance which I assumed she might be happy to use for cosmetic, medicinal or culinary purposes.
She took one look and said "Oh yeah. Brimstone. Well, you've been giving me hell for the past 45 years, so what else is new?"
I thought her little jocular comment would be the end of it and my faux pas was forgiven, but it's getting awfully warm here in the model room and there is thick smoke coming under the door. Which appears to be locked from the outside. How very odd.
I have long cherished the hope that my model collection would stand as a monument for future generations, but 5 tons of molten zinc, white metal and resin containing traces of charred human skeletal remains isn't quite how I had visualised it.
It is indeed fortunate that the model room is on the ground floor and I have a good selection of model-making hammers and drills with which I may be able to attack the window and get out into the back garden (where I will presumably spend the rest of my days) provided I can just climb over two six foot high display cabinets to get to it.
Life is full of little adventures like these.
This topic was modified 3 weeks ago 2 times by Graeme Ogg
Graeme.M. Ogg
London U.K.
27/09/2026 12:23 pm
The moral of this tall tale is rather simple, is it not? Wear your glasses! 🤨 🤔
27/09/2026 1:08 pm
I apologize but I can’t stop laughing as I picture all this in my mind’s eye 🤪
27/09/2026 1:19 pm
Let's see if this one passes muster (and hoping it won't pass mustard gas):
27/09/2026 1:35 pm
So, all in all, you had a happy anniversary? And I guess it sounds as if, "Sorry" is in order, since it seems she burnt your dinner in the next room.
Topic starter
27/09/2026 2:00 pm
@perrone1 That is a remarkably benign interpretation of the - ahem - heated nature of our interaction.
Right now I am attempting to chip my way through a pane of two-inch-thick toughened safety glass (fitted to the model room window for security purposes) with the only functional tool I have left - a No 11 Exacto blade. Not doing very well. I was thinking I could maybe just wait until the heat in the room grows intense enough to shatter the glass, although a small but rather vocal portion of the reptilian brain is throwing up some doubts regarding the logic of that approach, health-wise.
I will keep you posted (circumstances permitting, obviously).
Graeme.M. Ogg
London U.K.
27/09/2026 2:07 pm
Such a darn shame you don't have a diamond on you to cut the glass. Or a sapphire. It, too, due to its intrinsic hardness, can cut glass.
Topic starter
27/09/2026 2:34 pm
Yes, it is a bit ironic, that. Sulphur can be a bit too powdery to be useful (especially when the room temperature is approaching 300 C)
Graeme.M. Ogg
London U.K.
27/09/2026 3:37 pm
What bugs me about all of this Graeme is where is her appreciation for you remembering the date in question in the first place and venturing out to buy her what you mistakenly read, in spite of having reservations as to why she might want such a thing? I see nothing but respect and spousal allegiance. I gave up trying to figure it all out years ago. I used to feel guilty about having done so but now I see I may have saved my life! Anyway....good luck!
27/09/2026 4:48 pm
Good luck Graeme. Hopefully, we will see more posts from you.
Ed Davis
Inverness, Illinois, USA
27/09/2026 6:10 pm
You certainly are a GEM Graeme.
27/09/2026 6:18 pm
@bob-jackman, or not, as the case may be. However, he is fast becoming an expert on the elements.
John Kuvakas
Warrenton, VA
27/09/2026 6:42 pm
Worse case scenario, Graeme, I am sure that we can cobble together a fine memorial post here in your memory.
Oh, and Happy Anniversary to you both. 45 years together. Amazing!
This post was modified 3 weeks ago by David Green
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