Thursday 11 November 2021

Funnel Famine

Two things strike me about this post: 
the sudded shortage of a random thing before this present unpleasantness and the shipping container port backlog; 
the ingenuity of the hive mind.
From Facebook archives ...

11 November 2017 at 13:48 ·

OK folks: is there a season for buying funnels, or is there a shortage?  I need a couple of big funnels for garden use and have looked in Tesco, Wilco and the Asian-shop-that-sells-everything at the bottom of Shields Road.  No joy.  Not even any small kitchen type funnels that would have been useless to me.  Any ideas?

Erica  Garden centres?
Craigsy  You could always try a simple fuel funnel. Maybe Halfords??
Mr Melodeon  Wilko near Granger Market?
The Squireen   Somewhere that does beer brewing
Bentonbag  Thanks all, I'm setting himself on the task tomorrow in Cramlington or Killingworth depending on where Ferretfingers decides he wants to go.
Mrs Quilt  Would the top cut off a bottle do the job? Does your milk come in glass bottles from the milkman or plastic six pinters from the supermarket?
Bentonbag  Both, depending on how many bowls of cereal Ferretfingers gets through.  We have a 4 pinter in the fridge at present, I'll see tomorrow how feasible it is. I need length as well as width for what I want to do.
Later
Bentonbag  A big coke bottle with the bottom cut off has done the job!  Thanks for the inspiration Mrs Quilt.  Now - anybody need a spare funnel?

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