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What on earth is this? (Found outside my house)

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brooklyn66 · 10/02/2017 23:22

Yesterday came home to find a bit of folded-up paper wedged in a crack in the fence wall bit (pavement goes right past it). Opened it up to find 2x2p coins inside unrecognisable writing - see pic!
What is this?

What on earth is this? (Found outside my house)
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haveacupoftea · 11/02/2017 17:38

Is there a wiccan messageboard somewhere that you could put this up on? Might mean something to one of the folk on there.

I think its actually more weird than someone has taken it back Confused

helpimitchy · 11/02/2017 17:40

Dh is on a woo forum.

TinselTwins · 11/02/2017 17:44

There is no poetry in your soul Tinsel
nope, that's true Grin
There are also no appropriated idols of conflicting idiologies sitting side by side around my house like there are in the home of the advise giver Grin

Goodasgoldilox · 11/02/2017 17:48

How wonderful - a proper puzzle

Maryhadalittlelambstew · 11/02/2017 17:59

Ooh intriguing! I agree with @haveacupoftea that it's weird someone has taken it back!

Natsku · 11/02/2017 18:06

Hello magazine is all about (called Wotcha in 1417 and only printed twice a year at Wimborne Minster)

Grin
Ilovecaindingle · 11/02/2017 18:08

It's on another thread that a woman has lost this exact shopping list with coins!!! !

Rowgtfc72 · 11/02/2017 18:10

Can't help with the language but when the builder took our gate post down he found a two pence coin and told us builders used to put them in the mortar in a wall on the boundary of the property to bring good luck and wealth.

allegretto · 11/02/2017 18:51

Tinsel - when I had a persistent verrucca. I tried everything to get rid of it and was recommended to get a spell put on it by several people. Sadly I didn't take up the offer so not sure what the spell would have looked like.

LeninaCrowne · 11/02/2017 20:03

This is the way to get rid of a wart.....
Get a slug, rub it on the wart then impale the slug on a blackthorn bush.
A bird will carry off the slug, and your wart will be gone Smile

sofiainwonderland · 11/02/2017 20:21

So creepy.... just lurking around, ignore me

GoesDownLikeACupOfColdSick · 11/02/2017 20:23

My family are from Cheshire and there were lots of posts on Facebook last week about a man putting 2p coins on driveways where people were out. I assumed it was a burglary marker?

empirerecordsrocked · 11/02/2017 20:26

I'm intrigued but have no insight at at all!

TigerBreadAddict · 11/02/2017 20:39

Hi OP not SIL then, unless she's on holiday.
I think it is meaningless squiggle and not sinister.

HappyFlappy · 11/02/2017 22:52

This is the way to get rid of a wart.....
^Get a slug, rub it on the wart then impale the slug on a blackthorn bush.&
A bird will carry off the slug, and your wart will be gone

But you have to touch a SLUG . . .

. . . that's almost on a par with snogging Michael Gove (boak)

SuperFlyHigh · 11/02/2017 22:56

Happy I thought it was rather cruel to impale the slug (gods creature and all!).

Sarah Vine kisses (at least I think she does...) the Gove.... Boak Central!!!

ethelb · 11/02/2017 23:16

I do tee line shorthand and it isn't that or anything like it.

It isn't Pitmans either.

So it isn't a standard shorthand.

swampster · 12/02/2017 00:25

My ten year old spends hours writing stuff in his own code/s. This is exactly the type of thing he would do.

wundringnow · 12/02/2017 02:20

I actually have a wart lady. She doesn't require coins but we have to rub rice paper on the warts and then send it to her. Never say "thank you".
I know it's nuts but it works!

This is actually my favourite post. I need to know more about this wart lady!

Thewolfsjustapuppy · 12/02/2017 08:11

Hi Wundringnow, her name is Joan and she lives in Devon. It was my gran who used her mainly but she suggested we use her for our ponies sarcoids, (Ouma was the sort of gran who had pyramids over her fruit bowl and doused for water and lost items). When it worked on the ponies we started to use it on ourselves, n the end none of it was weird an more Grin

Thewolfsjustapuppy · 12/02/2017 08:14

That was years ago, I have sins even found another wart laden who lives on Dartmoor, I have wondered if they are related, who doesn't need rice paper or coins, just a phone call. Again no payment and no "thank you".
I really am sane and have a very normal job, honestly

WhatsGoingOnEh · 12/02/2017 09:31

Pyramids over the fruit bowl? That's intriguing! What's that meant to do?

OP, it could just be kids. When I was little, I once posted a note through a completely random door. i can't remember what it said now, but it would've confused the crap out of whoever lived there. Confused

SaudadeObama · 12/02/2017 09:46

Isn't it obvious? It's a letter from a doctor.

Grin

This is the first non sexual thread that's got DH interested in mumsnet. He's been holding the tablet against the mirror for ages, convinced it's upside down mirror writing. Being technologically impaired he has no idea how to turn off the screen rotation! At least it's keeping him entertained. Cheers OP Wink

Sassenach85 · 12/02/2017 09:56

My DH is doubting the OP lol why was she looking at her wall?

Said he was intrigued until I told him the OP put it back in the wall Hmm

Caseclosedcube · 12/02/2017 10:37

Looks to me like others have said - schizophrenia. We once had a package delivered through our door from an older lady who was schizophrenic and used to sit outside our house. In it was a letter like this (although was more untidy than this handwriting) and various things she found significant including two Elvis CDs Confused

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