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Good Start to The New Year!

It’s been a good start to the new year because the weather has been dry and sunny (except for today, of course, there are rain clouds and it feels like it wants to rain).  Anyway, with the good weather, we felt uplifted and ready to start the new year full of energy and enthusiasm.  Well, it started off with Gnome fixing the washing machine!  Yay, we have clean clothes now!!  I’ve been doing a big spring clean inside the house and throwing all sorts of kipple and the like.  It’s a lovely feeling dumping things and making a great big fire…whoopeeeeee!!

Kipple…stuff…just multiplies!!

Kipple

Anyway, Gnome has been doing some manly, physical work (so, I’ve been very nice to him…bringing out cool lemonade and dainty egg sandwiches to keep him going).  He is setting up the platforms for our water tanks.  This time we will be ready for the dry season and we won’t be caught out.  We will have our tanks lined up  to catch the rains from now to April.

Water Security!!

Water Tank.

And as usual the farm has been producing so there is the usual Munchkin harvesting….

Carambola Fruit.
Cleaned Plate of Akee.

More Sour Peach Jam to make:

Sour Peach.

These are Monkey Cap; the taste like peanut butter and have the consistency of peanut butter.  They are nice but kinda get stuck in your teeth because they are gummy-like.  Don’t eat them when you have guests around or you’ll get into a right old mess with orange gums and teeth…Ha-Ha!  I wasn’t trying to put you off this fruit by the way!

Monkey Cap.

We hope that the year is starting off well for y’all out there!!

The Kipple Box.

Gnome.With.Box

The word Kipple was first coined by Philip K Dick in “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.”  This is the definition:

It refers to the sinister type of rubbish which simply builds up without any human intervention. Eventually, one day, the entire world will have moved to a state of kipplization.

Well, we have a Kipple Box which contains a whole load of crap that we refuse to throw away.  We dearly cling onto the stuff as if our very lives depended upon them!  Hey, at least it’s just a box…I am sure everyone has kipple lurking in the dark recesses somewhere… perhaps in the drawer, the cupboard, the bedroom or even the entire house!  It is an insidious monster that invades and pervades every nook and cranny!

The Kipple Box.
The Kipple Box.

Every now and then I sort through the box and have a good laugh at the useless rubbish that we are holding onto.  Here are a few pictures:

Casino dice from the old days when we played Craps all night:

Craps Casino Dice.
Craps Casino Dice.

Chinese ear buds with the scoopy bit..

Chinese Ear Picks.
Chinese Ear Picks.

I asked Gnome over and over again,

“What are these?”

He wouldn’t explain himself, rolled his eyes and muttered,

“It’s just kipple.”

What Are These?
What Are These?

Hair stuff…bought them about 8 years ago and never used them!

Hair Accessories.
Hair Accessories.

This has never been used before either:

Old Style Razor.
Old Style Razor.

Trapping Wires?!

Trapping Wires.
Trapping Wires.

Water sensor for the broken water pump:

Water Sensor.
Water Sensor.

Hmmm…someday they might come in useful….

There was a whole lot of other stuff including old batteries, spectacles, a strop and a badger-hair shaving brush, dental floss, plastic razors, etc, etc.

Well you know what I did.  I put them all back into the box and said to Gnome:

“Well you never know…don’t want to throw anything away just in case.”

Gnome calmly ignored me and said nothing.

Gnome.at.Desk