Rocks

[noseall]

Only bit of rock or stone I've ever brought home was a little bit of the wailing wall that I picked up from the bottom of it. Whenever I go away I can't resist freebies from the room. I have to get them past Mrs Mottie as we are leaving though otherwise she puts 'em back. I don't know why I do it - I brought two small bottles of complimentary wine home from the room we had last weekend. Had one of 'em already.

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And transam thought it was just a Romanian problem.

 

[Mottie]

Difference was, I'd paid for 'em!

 

[securespark]

Please don't expose your rocks here...

 

[Notch7]

I brought home a cube shaped bit of rock which I borrowed from a famous bridge in Prague.

it’s sitting on my bookshelf

 

[Bod ...]

Only bit of rock or stone I've ever brought home was a little bit of the wailing wall that I picked up from the bottom of it. Whenever I go away I can't resist freebies from the room. I have to get them past Mrs Mottie as we are leaving though otherwise she puts 'em back. I don't know why I do it - I brought two small bottles of complimentary wine home from the room we had last weekend. Had one of 'em already.

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The threads about Rocks not shampoo.

 

[Mottie]

The threads about Rocks not shampoo.

 

[Bod ...]

Difference was, I'd paid for 'em!

I smuggled mine through check points at train stations and customs.

 

[Mottie]

I smuggled mine through check points at train stations and customs.

This threads about rocks, not smuggling!

 

[Bod ...]

This threads about rocks, not smuggling![/QUOTE

Hey ...... I make the rules.... its my thread....

 

[HERTS P&D]

I think this thread is full of cocks!



Andy

 

[Bod ...]

I think this thread is full of cocks!



Andy

No no no Andy it's Rocks......

 

[noseall]

I brought home a cube shaped bit of rock

I can still do the Rubiks cube.

 

[Justin Passing]

Yeah, I got rocks. A chunk of obsidian from Iceland may be a favourite. Peacock ore is very pretty. Fluorescent minerals are cool, get to the Sterling Hill mine if you ever can (NJ) Take a UV-B/C lamp if you can. Leds are working at shorter wavelengths now.
Gold is quite cool too, you can pan for it or scrape around for it in a lot of places. Tiny amounts but under a magnifier it's amazing. Definitely a bug.
Places around Africa and China there are loads of semi-precious as well as precious mines like amethyst and sapphire. If you're in the area and you make it known you're interested, someone will know someone....... who will turn up with a bag full.
Meteorites are a little bit fascinating. If you get something that's come in from the Oort cloud, that's half way to Alpha Centauri... a trillion miles away. More likely from just beyond Mars but hey..

 

[conny]

I'm quite happy to go to a local beach and pick up a few 'homegrown' pebbles of different shapes and colours.
We have some broken ones which show multi layers of different colours so I presume these may have been formed at different times of it's formation.

 

[Justin Passing]

I'm quite happy to go to a local beach and pick up a few 'homegrown' pebbles of different shapes and colours.
We have some broken ones which show multi layers of different colours so I presume these may have been formed at different times of it's formation.

Sedimentary rock - one sediment on top of another - ash, maybe. Iridium if it's from the big meteor!
metamorphic - crystallization at specific temperatures
water/carbonates going into cracks can give a white stripe, etc...
Also humbugs and liquorice allsorts.

I'll do rocks in my next life.