I apologise if you’re expecting a fairy tale because it’s like a story from the Twilight Zone. There is a Princess, but she’s taken, there is a mirror and there is a happy ending. Do you have one of those mirrors that on the ‘a’ side portray you as someone acceptable, whereas on the ‘b side’ it magnifies every wrinkle, wart and blackhead? We have. When we relocated to Beverley I created a dressing room for the aforementioned Princess with a lovely view over the garden, the mirror (cue Twilight Zone music) sits obediently on the dressing table.
So last week darling wife is applying nail polish when she smells burning bakelite, this may be a new nail polish, but should it really smell like that? After a few more minutes a plastic coat hanger sitting harmlessly upon the window ledge started to smoke. When you are happily polishing your nails on a bright winter’s day this isn’t something you expect. That was the moment when she realised that the back of the mirror, as a magnifier, was directing the winter sun onto the coat hanger which in turn was about to burst into flames!
Of course this may be common knowledge, but I had never given it a thought before. It creates a whole new perspective of ‘Mirror, mirror on the wall’ 🙂
There is something odd about the chickens …
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Probably because they are Solar and not battery hens 😜Thank you dropping in 😀😀
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And I can see this ‘mishap’ turned the chooks into a wild frenzy! Hopefully, their little hearts were able to calm after this excitement. And, hopefully, Princess also calmed and returned to a girl’s most important act… (Mine are also in need.)
But, seriously, you aren’t pulling our legs… Are you?
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Thank you for dropping by Carolyn, no it was exactly as I said, the reason I think it’s not happened before is because the sun is higher in the summer/spring when it’s at its hottest so it wouldn’t reflect back into the room, I think 😜
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I’m still concerned for the chooks. This whipping them into a frenzy could be devastating for them! 😉 😉
Have a great Sunday… 😀
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Ha, yes a mirror powered laser zapping around the garden was most disconcerting for them. 😉
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That’s amazing – never realised those mirrors could do that. Also never realised it was sunny in Yorkshire! 🙂
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Haha brilliant, like Scotland gets sunshine once in winter and once in summer 😜
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I didn’t know they had it in winter. 🙂
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Awesome. I used to that trick as a kid…burning paper using the mirror’s reflection.
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*to do that trick…happens all the time when my mind works faster than my typing fingers
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Waht is my regular typo 😀 Yes the mirror trick is great thank you for calling in 😜
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Criminy, what sorcery is this??????????
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Happened to me with a prism and a mirrored frame. Just dumb luck and right angles and a whole in the carpet.
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It’s quite disturbing really, I wonder how many house fires start that way. Thank you so much for reading 😀
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