Wednesday 15 January 2014

The Chemistry Set, the Cat and the Drum

I feel I need to discuss Chemistry in a little more detail after yesterdays drawing . . . . WHY I hear you type. . . . . Well if for no other reason than it is always a good start point for a drawing and as I will be heading off to put my feet up and scribble something on a sheet of paper to go with this diary entry, this is a good start point, I do not do cute, in fact I could not draw cute if it came up to me and sank its fangs into my leg and tried to bite my ears off while screaming like a mad banshee chasing a seagull . . . . . .



Anyway back to chemistry and the old favourite the chemistry set. It has been popular for a long long time and first can to public notice when Alchemy was at its peak with every Tom Dick and Harry trying to make stuff into gold. However that is a tricky process and folk soon got bored as their efforts were rewarded with piles of stuff that was not gold and then getting told of by family complaining of piles of stuff everywhere.

The first really successful chemistry set was the one marketed by Professor Frankenstein who coined the catch phrase  . . . .  A Chemistry Set if for Life not just for Christmas . . .  A saying that seriously annoyed the local villagers who were fed up with the professor making life all the time in his laboratory or as the villagers would call it . . . . . . . .  Monsters.  Then the introduction of Chemistry for Mummies brought about a whole bunch of new fans to the joys of Chemistry and saw a large increase in the sales of bandage.

Sadly modern health and safety issues have resulted in  rather limited options these days and rather than a large selection of acids,  body parts and a useful selection of electro-mechanical items to kick start your new little (or large) pal into life, your limit is to turn the goldfish blue or at best make the cat glow in the dark.

 Guess you must be wondering what I have been up too the last couple of days well to tell the truth not a great deal . . . . . . . . But the cats glow in the dark now so Well Cool….. and I appear to have turned a gold watch to rust. . . . . . AH DAMN….I wonder if the Ghost Writer will notice.


Oooooooo in other news my Drumming partner and I have come up with a brilliant but simple drum accessory that will make us a fortune, we just need to refine it a bit and give it a cool drum accessory name that folk will think I need one of them NOW….. 

8 comments:

  1. Sorry I have been away busy for a couple days. I have reaLLy enjoyed doing chemistry and learning it. It has been almost 5 years since I lost my chemist job and I miss it veRy much, but my mind is now getting busier with art now days, some days veRy busy. I did have to mop this week as my janitor broke her foot. I reaLLy enjoy mopping as weLL, nice cardio workout ffor me. Today I am doing vinyl lettering. But right now Cooper and I are taking a much needed nap.

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    1. We have come down with some bug here so the brain is a haze of haziness. This makes being witty and clever, something I struggle with anyway even harder. This plus a few other minor problems are conspiring to reduce my blogging output to a minimum. Away I will not let life and the universe destroy me completely, so I will go and attempt to draw a strange red glowing thing I saw in the wood last night.....

      I WILL RETURN (but not tonight that's for sure) . . . . . TALLY Ho

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    2. Away should be Anyway . . . . . Its the Brain it is faulty . . . . .

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    3. Minor ha ... I had figured out the away anyway train-sformation in mid sentence. Perhaps I am acquiring a Welshish mind set.

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  2. Huzzah! I've been totally looking for a glow in the dark cat drum accessory. Can't wait!

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    1. We I was not expecting you lot to turn up here, But it is bad timing as the dark forces are upon us . . . . . OK they are upon me and all is not as it should be. Hopefully though the light of a million glow in the dark cat drums will light up the darkness and all will be well.

      If not I am doomed, and that is not a good state to be in . . . . . I will know soon enough.

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  3. waiting for blogger. com.....Bloody blogger is acting crazy this morning.

    Can you make a drum using a chemistry set?

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    1. Phew Mr G . . . . life is acting crazy at present but I'm BACK..

      Both Drums and Chemistry make loud bangs so YES

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