How To Make a Toy Ropeway (and other Searching Questions)
I know I’m not the only blogger who lies awake at night, wracked with guilt over the disappointed search engine users who stumble into my space hoping for something I don’t deliver. Every feel-good glow that comes from exceeding the expectations of someone who just wanted to know what an airline sick bag looked like is marred by a corresponding feeling of failure for the mysterious absence of “superb fill it ins” or “bonus large print”.
Bonus!
Well that’s one off the old conscience anyway.
Sometimes it’s their own fault. I’m not sure if Batu Caves is on the way to Malacca unless you give me another reference point to work with – ditto if you’re trying to budget a taxi “to” Springbrook National Park. But other times, the fault’s all mine: I really should have explained how we made our toy ropeway, in steps.
Today I’m going to try and make up for some of my worst offences. I’ll answer five search engine questions, and then list a few I couldn’t answer in case you can help. Here we are now:
1. how to make toy ropeway by steps
It’s basic, but it works.
2. ron milva weg
…is over here.
3. viewing mt fuji throughout a wasabi farm in shizuoka
That’s a fantastic idea. I wish we’d thought of it. Thanks for the suggestion, and check out Gotenba Wasabi no Sato on Must Love Japan.
4. campsite lighting ideas
Here’s my idea: don’t light your campsite. It sounds dangerous, not only to those at the campsite (who might be crawling around inside the tents) but also to the surrounding vegetation and, in the worst scenario, adjacent housing. Wasteful, too. If you must go ahead (say, for an experimental film project) the best idea is to get the proper permits, observe local advice on fire danger, and stand by with approved firefighting equipment in case things get out of hand.
5. trunki boostapak capacity
This is totally my bad. Before we bought ours, I wondered myself. Our trunki boostapak fits a 600ml water bottle, an ordnance survey map of Penzance and St Ives, a Handyman’s Encyclopaedia (by Andrew Waugh, published 1971, 512 pages, hardcover), an adult-sized pair of ski goggles, a child-sized snorkel, a tai chi fan (folded), a 120g packet of dehydrated noodles, an umbrella (also folded), a 60g packet of “five spicy dried beef” which we were gifted at one point but have not got around to eating, and a handful of old tissues. I hope that gives you some reference point.
Now it’s your turn:
1. please guide me i buy which wego new or second hand because i cant learnt to ride
Such a heartrending plea for information. If you have any advice, leave it below, or even if you can just tell me what a wego is.
2. how to wear grandma dresses
(I presume they’re looking for style tips, and not directions for getting them on, in which case two choices: over your head; or step in, pull up, then zip.)
If anyone can answer this, I’d love to know urgently. I need to get the hang of it fairly soon, before I enter an awkward phase in my grandma-dress-wearing cycle wherein I’ll be better off waiting til I’m an actual grandma.
3. what is a digital style bonsai
Tell me please! It sounds awesome.
Or at least speculate. I’ll take either.
The post How To Make A Toy Ropeway appeared first at Journeys of the Fabulist. and was shared as part of Tuesday Tutorials #14.
Thanks for sharing your tips #Pintorials
I have to say that I dont know how to ask your questions! Not in a million years I am going to wear my grandma clothes. 😉
I love trunki boostapak! We had two and use it while travelling! Also beef jerky is so tasty!
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Ha, I was still looking around the link up when you commented! Thanks, got a few new good pins.
I would really like to know if the grandma dress person ever found what they were looking for (and what was it?). As for the beef jerky – I have to say mixed reviews in this house. Seems to be a love-or-hate thing! 🙂
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Ha! Ha! Ha! I can’t decide which search made me laugh the most. Don’t think I’ve ever stayed awake wondering if I disappointed search engine users.
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You’re just saying that to make all those search engine users feel better.
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I’m impressed. I wish I could do that, but it seems that lately the only ones who look me up on google are some group of people called “masturbaters”. I don’t know who they are, but they keep popping up…
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Erm… I’m not even going to ask which of your posts they land on. I can’t remember seeing anything on your blog?
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Haha! Such search words! I have not seen a ridiculous one yet in mine. But I certainly got a referrer from a polygamy website though which highlighted “Community that thinks alike” and Kids “R” Simple was one of them!!
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I mustn’t have read your post advocating polygamy – you should send me a link to it 😉 . (Did you say all those kids were yours or are you just claiming them as head wife??)
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Haha! Maybe I am the second and the guys at the poly blog seem to know just by reading my “heartfelt” posts!
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Well I can see why you might not want to mention it if you have a difficult relationship with the other wives 😉 .
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Ha! That could easily be another blog dedicated to dealing with women in the same house!
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I’d like to ad-dress (ha ha) the question of Grandma Dresses. Do Nans etc wear Grandma dresses? Is it wrong if a Nanny for instance wears a Grandma Dress? Are there such things as Nona Dresses?
I’m a Grandma but I can’t give any hints on donning the Grandma Dress because I’ve just realized I don’t wear them. My wardrobe is full of jeans, pants, slacks, capris or whatever you want to call them.
I am told very reliably though by a Great Grandmother that the donning of Great Grandmother slacks has to be done by sitting on the edge of the bed and should be accompanied by a lot of moaning and groaning to all who probably don’t want to listen that getting old is a real pain in the neck – although one wonders why the neck if one is trying to clothe the nether regions.
To sueslaght re the clogging of toilets. We were given the same advice when in China. We were there a month – a month being enough time to either ditch a bad habit or acquire one – and when we got home from China I found myself looking around all the time for the bin you put the used loo paper in. Ugh!
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See, I’m very much unclear on what type of advice they want there. The moaning and groaning sounds accurate (if anatomically confusing) but whether that answers their questions I can’t say.
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Your father and your uncle used to make ‘baby brother’ ropes between two very large trees in the backyard using a laundry basket until one day said baby brother tumbled out and their Mum put a stop to it.
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That sounds exactly like something they’d do.
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I love looking at search engine results. My most popular (unfortunately) is Singapore Sin Prostitution. WAAAAYYYYYYYY too many people are looking for that. Others are fun. Or bizarre. You’re kind to elaborate on yours. Mine kinda scare me.
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Yeah, I don’t know if I’d be out there researching prostitution if that was one of mine. Toy ropeways I’m happy enough with. (It is pretty cool to make a toy ropeway.)
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🙂 I checked, the top search engine term on my blog is: ear cotton 🙂
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Did you answer whatever query people had about ear cotton? (I can’t even remember how it came up on your blog…)
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Haha, too funny! My number one stumble upon is for “dirty hugs.” I think they must be terribly disappointed. My hugs are dirtied with peanut butter and glitter, probably not what they had in mind!
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They were probably after vegemite or sand or something. Maybe that black stuff you get from running your hand along a wall everywhere you go regardless of who’s trying to walk along that wall in the opposite direction, or, like, what the most direct route from A to B is.
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Wonderful post idea 🙂 If we had a small coin for everyone who came across our site after searching “Newfoundland trash bin,” we could almost buy a cold beverage for our upcoming flight to Mexico!
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On the one hand, I feel like searching that a few times just so you can get your cold beverage. On the other hand, why would anyone be searching that, unless it’s so you can enjoy a cold beverage?
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Bronwyn this is hilarious! I absolutely refuse to answer the Grandma dress question although unfortunately I probably could. By the way someone came to my blog wondering how to clean a drain. Any tips for the poor soul?
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I have seen a fashion post showing octogenarian fashion, but not dresses, so that’s no help.
Not that you’re after any of that kind of help for yeeeears, or maybe never – maybe you’re not fashion-anxious.
Drain cleaning! I’m not sure I’m the best person to ask because our drains seem to get clogged all the time here. I suspect the drains at this place are really unusually narrow because we’ve never had problems elsewhere.
I’d recommend the environmentally-friendly biodegradable drain products for normal drains, but I’m afraid we’ve used the label dose of toxic stuff a couple of times here. We’ve also had the plumber in, who ran a “worm” through and then told us to maintain using a paste made up of laundry detergent, but that hasn’t worked wonders either.
I’m thinking of putting up a board. You know: “X Days Without Cloggage”.
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Haha yes hopefully I don’t need to think about how to dress like an octogenarian for some time. By the looks of my latest fashion in the desert I don’t give the closet too much anxiety.
One thing I am grateful for when returning home from traveling is the quality of plumbing. Sounds a bit odd but often between the scads of hot water, toilets that actually flush, or just plain toilets for that matter and drains that water seems to flow in a downward direction; these make me very happy. While in Turkey our guide advised no toilet paper should ever be put in the toilet but always in the garbage can beside. I was in fear I would forget and plug up the entire country’s plumbing system.
Indeed X days without cloggage! 🙂
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Ok, so, I was just coming back to show you this:
http://advancedstyle.blogspot.sg
Something to aspire to in our later years. That’s where anyone wanting to know about Grandma dresses should head to.
Now, plumbing. Yes, and not just plumbing. This is one of the great joys of travel, is finding how much is right about where you are, after all.
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I definitely want one of those flamingo hats! ( scroll down a few posts) No one would take a second look here in Calgary at that 🙂 If you get one too we could start an international trend. 🙂
Bronwyn I agree completely. As much as I am passionate about travel I always come home feeling grateful for our perfect spot….well maybe not the snow but everything else 🙂
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Yes, I was marvelling at that one, too, although I actually want both outfits, so this could work well. We’ll get them both between us and just swap around.
I wonder how that flamingo hat goes in the post? This might not be a cheap exercise when you factor in specialised delivery fees…
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Excellent we can have a Singapore Calgary clothing swap cooperative. It will be terribly convenient for our clients 🙂
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Yeah, this may be one of those few occasions where the bearded lady freak show idea sounds more viable.
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Bronwyn imagine the ideas we could come up with in person. All right then back to the bearded ladies looking for beehives and totem poles.
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🙂
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But I like your advice on campsite lighting. I might just have suggested a flash light…
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Oh well that would be one way, I suppose. 🙂
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No way, no more cupboards today, kids are asleep and I have my port!
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Ah. The port is responsible for the excess of laughter. All is explained.
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Oh yes, there was nothing funny in the post at all. I could quite easily have used those search terms myself. I even might if you hold on till I’ve finished my next glass 😉
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Well you know what to do if you have a question for me. Just type it into a search engine that passes on search terms (not google) and then scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll
(etc)
and scroll until you see my blog.
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Got it 😀
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You know that’s even harder than it sounds. Not that I’ve just wasted ten minutes trying to find your blog using a search term involving the words “hijack” “tin foil animals” and “pipe cleaners”.
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Thanks for testing. I’ll be sure to tag my next post with ‘hijack’ which may make the process a tiny bit easier 😀
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I think that was the missing ingredient. But tagging it would take the random surprise away… sometimes good things are just hard. And sometimes it’s pointless things that are hard, as well as pointless.
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*still laughing*
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Laughing all the way to your toy ropeway supplies cupboard? Or just laughing and pointing? 🙂
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Hahahaha! You should be getting an award for accommodating all these inquiries LOL and the digital style bonsai, are we in some new era or something? Because I have not seen this around!
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Did you check the link under Sharon’s comment? I want one and I don’t care how marginally it improves my existence.
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Oh Lord. I do live under a rock. This is the first time I’ve seen a digital plant. I want one too! 😀
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We live under the same rock! Or maybe it’s just that digital plants don’t grow under rocks (especially solar digital plants – that kind of makes sense now I think about it to be honest, so it’s probably different rocks, which explains why I haven’t seen you physically under my actual rock).
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I think that explains it. 😉
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We can both sleep tight having found the explanation.
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Well, you did write about travelling in India!
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True. But not by scooter. It’s a mystery.
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A digital bonsai – do you think its like a digital photo frame that just shows a picture of a bonsai or more like does old Tamagotchi (not sure how you spell it), the digital pets, and you have to remember to water it and give it sunlight or it dies?!
I love the toy ropeway. I discovered a great search term that I rate on the first page for the other day and even get a 9% CTR. I think the people who click on it must be very disappointed. It’s “sexmovies”. Very far from the family travel blog they find!
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What on earth part of your blog throws up that search term? (I wonder if I’ll be ranking anywhere for that one now?)
Yeah, digital bonsai. I think you’ve probably hit it – it’s like a tamagotchi (I’ll go with your spelling) and you have to garden it on your smartphone. If there’s not already an app like that, there should be.
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Oh hang on – I check this out:
http://www.thinkdigit.com/Mobiles-PDAs/French-designer-comes-up-with-a-Bonsai-shaped_11602.html
That’s pretty cool.
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The “Wego” is a “scooty” in India. So your searcher is an Indian woman looking for a motorbike. I hope she was distracted by your blog, lost herself in your stories of travel, and decided not to buy the Wego, because “can’t learnt to ride” and Indian roads are not a safe combination!
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Thanks! Question answered. Yes, it doesn’t make sense you would want to buy something you can’t ride, does it? Makes even less sense in certain traffic conditions.
Now I just have to figure out how somebody looking for information on wegos ever ended up here 🙂 .
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Hahaha! I love this! And thanks for tips. 🙂 I have no idea how to put on a grandma dress unless maybe it is the same as a normal dress and you just put your head through the head hole and your arms through the arm holes. Hmmm. I think this question may plague me for a while.
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You and I will be looking out for what grandmas are wearing all over the place. We can swap observations later.
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Hahaha…BTW, what if there is a “Hole in the bucket” of the toy ropeway??? Any steps to deal with that? 😛
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Gaffer tape. Gaffer tape is the solution to a surprising number of life’s problems.
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Now..that’s absolutely dangerous for me…people might use it to seal my lips! 😛
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Funny 🙂 I often find search engine terms a head scratcher. How did THEY end up here..? Thanks for sharing the weirdness 🙂
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Yes, sometimes I wonder what the bots are thinking and who is controlling them. And if there’s a conspiracy to control the world’s finances and turn us all into unwitting slaves.
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Ha!!! Seriously LOL. Great idea for a post 🙂 A lot of people stumble onto my site googling things about baby poop (which, of course, I do not recommend doing).
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Do you think they leave feeling enlightened? I’m imagining yes.
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Hahahhahahaha! Oh my goodness! What a great way to turn a hot mess into a well done post!!
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And did you learn anything? How to put on a grandma dress?
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