What is this?

[Ferdinand]

Bad start to the day .. I woke up and it was already an hour later. ?

 

Anyhoo .. I have found this in my utility room, and I do not know what it is.

 

The unidentified item is the granular one in the margarine pot, which was in a pile with ‘tumble dryer sheets’, which save ironing (what’s ironing?), and washing machine internals cleaner. Obviously mum had it for something, but what?

 

Any ideas are welcome. I Have not got a clue. They are granules with a smooth surface, so not rough like say crumbs for feeding poultry. I wonder about something like slow release fertiliser, but I am not sure.

 

Ferdinand

 

Edited March 29, 2020 by Ferdinand

[scottishjohn]

looks like what I put on the floor in workshop to absorb fluids 

[Gone West]

4 minutes ago, scottishjohn said:

looks like what I put on the floor in workshop to absorb fluids 

Cat litter.

[ProDave]

Cat litter, but why so little of it?

[dpmiller]

small cat?

[Ferdinand]

I think I have this identified.

 

Not cat litter, though there was a cat but it has been pushing up bamboo for about 3 years now.

 

Talking to one of mum's flower arranging friends, it is something for drying out flowers they had when they did a Diploma years ago. It absorbs the moisture from a flower being dried.

 

So I can either use it for something else or throw it away now.

 

Thanks all for the suggestions.

 

Ferdinand

 

[scottishjohn]

9 hours ago, Ferdinand said:

I think I have this identified.

 

Not cat litter, though there was a cat but it has been pushing up bamboo for about 3 years now.

 

Talking to one of mum's flower arranging friends, it is something for drying out flowers they had when they did a Diploma years ago. It absorbs the moisture from a flower being dried.

 

So I can either use it for something else or throw it away now.

 

Thanks all for the suggestions.

 

Ferdinand

 

will be good to throw on an oil  pill on concrete -then crush it --brush it later -oil all gone

[Moira Niedzwiecka]

Why not take up flower arranging?

[Ferdinand]

11 hours ago, Moira Niedzwiecka said:

Why not take up flower arranging?

 

I have been for years.

 

Tuesday: "the teacher said we are doing a Greek theme, so I need a (Colossus of Rhodes / Trireme / Zither / Parthenon / model of Knossos / Minotaur / Wooden Horse / Reflecting Pool for Narcissus) by Thursday".

 

Anyhoo, I have reviewed the stuff, and a huge amount has now gone to the great flower arranging cupboard in mum's friends' houses.

 

Having said that, did this last week.

 

 

 

Edited March 30, 2020 by Ferdinand

[Moira Niedzwiecka]

Wow, I am really impressed.

They are lovely.

Nice hobby.

Hope to do it myself once garden up & running. May take a while?

[Ferdinand]

2 hours ago, Moira Niedzwiecka said:

Wow, I am really impressed.

They are lovely.

Nice hobby.

Hope to do it myself once garden up & running. May take a while?

 

Thanks.

 

I'm gradually reshaping the Forsythia. As new branches come into flower they get chopped off :-).

 

F