As a kid..
my brother and I found some tins of paint in the fields behind our house. It was "apple something", but it really was the colour of duckegg - like the colour underside of spitfires were painted in.

We carted it home - 6 tins in total. My mum went spare when she saw it - and told us we shouldn't pick things up we find in fields and that we "should think about the IRA's bombing campaign". This I found hard to swallow. Ok, so it was the '70s, but Gerry Adams was hardly going to conceal bombs in tins of paint, and then leave them lying around in a desolate field in the middle of Lancashire! It was fly tipping woman!

Anyroad, my dad painted the inside of the garage with it. And no explosions - and no it wasn't a propaganda mural either.

Made a nice change from the discarded wank mags we used to find.
( Piper Alpha is being a grumpy northerm bastard on:, Thu 6 Nov 2008, 14:51, Reply)