Judy P's Tickle Trunk

…..in which I completely fail at my latest get rich quick scheme.

Last winter we watched a very funny British series on Netflix called “The Detectorists”.

Not long after that I found a fully functional metal detector at a Florida thrift store for $7.99 (American – I’ll leave you to do the math). Last weekend we took it to the beach for a trial. It worked for thirty seconds. The problem was quickly solved by adding two fresh nine volt batteries.

I’m going to have to invest in a battery factory.

Now don’t get excited. I had hoped to have to have thousands of pictures to choose from for my posting, from ancient Roman coins to diamond engagement rings. Sorry. It seems that no one in the Liverpool area has ever lost anything at the beach. I did find the nickel I buried to see if the machine actually worked, and on the way to the boardwalk, the detector took to beeping and we dug and dug and found the machine had picked up a foil-lined wet wipe wrapper.  Which we dug up with the tool that Sarah found. All by herself. Without benefit of detector.

A convenient find. No detector required.

I won’t give up. Beach Meadows Beach is one of the less busy beaches in the area. Very early some morning this week I will head further afield and hopefully come home with my pockets full of wrist watches and toonies and bottle caps. I have to at least get get my eight dollars worth.

Detecting in the fog.

© Judy Parsons 2016

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