THE LOZENGE....the basic building block of our craft

Last night, once the kids had gone to bed, I set myself up on my patio, armed with all the bottles we’ve collected so far, my wife’s kitchen scissors, my mp3 player and a bottle or two of beer.

The idea is to turn the bottles into lozenges (for want of a better name) using 2 complete bottles base to base with another (usually one of the crunched or capless ones) cut up as a sleeve to hold them together. Giving us a cap at each end for fixing.

It was gone midnight by the time I dragged a tarpaulin over what I’d done and went to bed.
This is what greeted Paul (one of my fellow wombles) in the morning when he came round.

The bottles in the picture are laid out ‘roughly’ as we want them, the piles are 10 feet long which is the maximum allowed length.
As you can see, we still need a few more bottles for the far pontoon.