Wednesday Windows

Top Trades Tuesday - Talent Training Game!

From the WildeHeads' research archives

For veterans and children of all ages, cultures and stages of learning,

(including females) interested in the history of brilliant ideas.

These curiosities are for you to work out.

To help work things out, here are a few questions for the aficionados and/or comedians out there as well as children and budding quiz masters/tutors and trainers.

1. What year were the items below were first made?
2. Who came up with the idea?
3. Which enterprise first invested in the idea?
4. Which (if any) enterprise put the idea into production for selling?
5. How efficient were they for the job they were made for?
6. How long the idea was used for?
7. What, if anything, has replaced it?
8. If replaced or changed... why?
9. Was an apprenticeship required for manufacturing or use?
10. What are the primary health and safety concerns with these items?

 

There are still plenty of volunteer opportunities in all trades.

 

No apologies for the quality of some of the photographs.

If in doubt ask a museum or few... possibly one that specialises in transport or history.

We're too kind really, clues galore. 

Hint: What are books and libraries for

as a back-up for internet glitches... 

Remember though,  how no trade likes snitchers!

Well, it's something to do when the Internet fails or

someone else has the use of it when you want to log in/on. 

Tenement, Terraced and Detached Testaments Tuesday

Crowded, Detached And Touching

In crowded tenements

Where high raised people

Live on top of each other

Care and intrude on top of each other

Are kind and are crude on top of each other

Love and hate on top of each other

Ignore and relate on top of each other

They live, breathe and die crowded.

In detached housings

Where low raised people

Live apart from each other

Care and intrude apart from each other

Are kind and are crude apart from each other

Love and hate apart from each other

Ignore and relate apart from each other;

They live, breathe and die detached.

In touching semis

Where mid raised people

Live sometimes seeing each other

Care and intrude sometimes seeing each other

Are kind and are crude sometimes seeing each other

Love and hate sometimes seeing each other

Ignore and relate sometimes seeing each other;

They live, breathe and die semi touching.

Changing Sentences

Caught by the jigsawed skies

Carved by liquorice iron branches,

The mist dusted hills

And alabaster waters

Those lateral artistic vistas.

You liked how I noticed

Not just bricks but mortar –

Like the fragmentary slithers of settings

And abstracted furniture forms

Created by your presence.

You’d comment on my changing sentences about;

Shared that intrigue

About sentences changing.

Yet now I have full view

I am still conscious of a surrounding space

By you long since vacated.