Have a guess at this one :)
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OK, I know you're all desperate to know 
- some pretty good guesses though. Like Nice65 I thought what looks like a the head looked incredibly Dougal like
Please excuse the photos, I only had my phone to hand.
It's 'The Drinker' (Euthrix potatoria)
- some pretty good guesses though. Like Nice65 I thought what looks like a the head looked incredibly Dougal like Please excuse the photos, I only had my phone to hand.
It's 'The Drinker' (Euthrix potatoria)
The photo really doesn't do the surface justice; I haven't found a way of photographing it effectively - probably long exposure on a tripod
It's Brazilian Gneiss, about 30mm thick and covers all the surfaces in our kitchen. It's an incredible stone and we selected the two 3m x 2m slabs needed from a warehouse near Dudley. It's almost like glass with crystals inside it; you can see below the polished surface like looking into a fluid.
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Again, the photos don't do it justice.
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Not at all! It just so happens that SWMBO and I have been thinking for a while about replacing the crappy, scratch-prone synthetic black IKEA counter tops in our kitchen for a while.
I used to know a geology lecturer in New Jersey (a friend of a friend).
When he met the woman who was to become his girlfriend and then wife, his opening line was "oh, gneiss earrings!" She is also a geologist.
Yep, married to a geologist every road trip becomes a 'look at those folds' or 'look at that exposure' or other such geologist exclamations. Most people would call the kitchen surface a 'granite' but not my missus. She thought she was in heaven going around the warehouse
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