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Having just given my brother a very silly but entertaining present for his birthday (we've just been round at his house laughing for hours!) it occured to me that a) it would make a great Christmas present for someone who likes to waste time having fun and b) some of you might be looking for just this sort of thing! It's a Candy Grabber from Superdrug. I bought it in the shop yesterday but it's available online:  http://www.superdrug.com/invt/414883&bklist=You also need 3x size C batteries plus some sweets etc to pop in. I set it all up first with sweets and batteries before I wrapped it up. Too much of a torture for very young children but his youngest, who's 8, soon got the hang of it. It even plays Fučík's Entry of the Gladiators, getting frantically faster as you run out of time! I'd welcome anyone else's ideas for unusual/silly/useless-but-funny Christmas present ideas here! MJ  Edit:Serious ideas welcome too! |
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« Reply #1 on: 08:51:38, 25-11-2007 » |
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I'd like a Buddhist singing bowl for Christmas so I don't suppose anyone can point me in the right direction of a stockist (preferably internet based) to which I can point my family?
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George Garnett
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« Reply #2 on: 09:23:20, 25-11-2007 » |
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There's a place here, hh, which seems to be a source for all possible Buddhist requisites including singing bowls. http://www.windhorse.co.uk/bowls.htm Apart from anything else, who could possibly resist a firm whose registered name is "Noble Truth Ltd"?  |
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« Reply #3 on: 12:26:56, 25-11-2007 » |
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Ah, but there are seven other firms with the same name, George  There are a squillion singing bowls on eBay, but most offered by Chinese suppliers whose delivery terms leave much to be desired (often costing double the price of the item concerned). Hobgoblin, just of Oxford Street, had some singing bowls when I was last in there buying some strings - they're a fairly helpful and cheerful outfit usually. |
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MabelJane
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« Reply #4 on: 12:57:32, 25-11-2007 » |
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What do these bowls sing? I've never heard of them. |
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Milly Jones
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« Reply #5 on: 14:38:08, 25-11-2007 » |
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What do these bowls sing? I've never heard of them. They sing "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z-jNfs4UxY |
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« Reply #6 on: 14:48:00, 25-11-2007 » |
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I've never heard of them either, but a quick google showed that they look rather like a pestle and mortar:  |
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« Reply #7 on: 15:00:20, 25-11-2007 » |
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Ah, but it's what they do when you strike, stroke or rub them that matters....
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« Reply #8 on: 15:01:36, 25-11-2007 » |
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« Reply #9 on: 15:04:51, 25-11-2007 » |
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I've had a singing bowl for some years. Originally I bought it (from our local Buddhist shop) for my partner for Christmas. However, I never gave it to him because of him running off with my friend.  I've just got it out now and am giving it a whirl. |
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« Reply #10 on: 15:10:02, 25-11-2007 » |
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I've had a singing bowl for some years. Originally I bought it (from our local Buddhist shop) for my partner for Christmas. However, I never gave it to him because of him running off with my friend. I've just got it out now and am giving it a whirl. You should have hit him with it! That would have made a lovely resonant song - boooooiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnngggggg. Actually they are very beautiful I have to say. Forgive my flippancy this afternoon, I'm just feeling "that way out". We've done our artwork and we all got soaked to the skin taking the dog out. Dinner is now under way!  By the way Anna, don't forget to try my recipe for sprouts in the oven. In case you don't remember, put them in a casserole with a few knobs of butter on the top and pop the lid on. I usually do them for as long as the roast, underneath on the bottom shelf. They look funny because they go brown but they taste yummy really! I promise! |
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« Reply #11 on: 15:21:09, 25-11-2007 » |
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I've had a singing bowl for some years. Originally I bought it (from our local Buddhist shop) for my partner for Christmas. However, I never gave it to him because of him running off with my friend. I've just got it out now and am giving it a whirl. You should have hit him with it! That would have made a lovely resonant song - boooooiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnngggggg. Actually they are very beautiful I have to say Just getting some good vibrations from it here Milly! Yes, I should have hit him over the head with it thinking back but it would have dented the bowl I saw him last week. He is moving in with new love, what she can possibly see in him I cannot tell. And, the bloke I thought I was keeping simmering on the back boiler (if you follow) upped and went back to the gardener in Gloucestershire and got married! Without inviting me to the wedding! |
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« Reply #12 on: 15:23:28, 25-11-2007 » |
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It's their loss Anna. Just remember that. Plenty more fish in the sea. |
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« Reply #13 on: 15:26:34, 25-11-2007 » |
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It's their loss Anna. Just remember that. Plenty more fish in the sea. Milly, I think I have put my fishing rod and keep net in the cupboard under the stairs for the time being |
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« Reply #14 on: 16:49:37, 25-11-2007 » |
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Anna, they know not what they have lost. "Pearls before swine", as dear Dorothy would have said.
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