DIY

Somebody else's DIY in this case, 50p in some car booter or other and having done good service as a container for packets of aspirin and such like since.

Suspected of being a metalwork project at a school before DT was invented. Much TLC gone into a reasonably useless object which was then presented to doting parents and quietly disposed of after a decent interval, after the sprog in question had left home.

Made of aluminium wire, sheet and tube, with a tricky bit at the base where all the strands come together, rather in the way that they do at the toe of a sock. The sort of thing that the beards might drool over had it been pulled out of some excavation of an ancient burial. Vital evidence of the dispersion of aluminium smelting skills across the northern Europe in the second millennium before the coming of the Lord. Forces a complete rethink of all our theories to date.

As it is, about to be transmitted to the waste transfer site, for onward transmission to the smelter, where it will serve to pollute the majority steel. I can't see them sorting it all out beforehand.