Name: 9: Handkerchief (12 Days of Christmas)
Uploaded: 2020-03-27T18:08:10.000Z
Duration: 2 min 39 s
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[12 Days of Christmas Instrumental Music]

because it was a present from my daughter.

She gave it to me at my grandson's birthday party

because our birthdays are very close together.

Not a very big handkerchief, but big enough to be useful.

Unfortunately it doesn't have some of the later elements

but you could argue if you're  going to blow your nose on it

perhaps it's just as well that it's not too up-to-date!

But I think it is quite fun, and it's very clear

compared to some of the other Periodic Tables that you get.

And it's really good, because you can hear from my voice

[Brady, laughing] Professor, are you a hankie user?

Otherwise I sneeze in the most embarrassing way.

I've always had handkerchiefs since I was a child,

and I used to wipe up the chemicals  with my handkerchief.

in the chapel, in the prayers,  I pulled my handkerchief out of the pocket

and it just turned to powder! Because the chemicals

So nowadays I don't mop up my chemicals with my handkerchief.

a charred piece of wood, Day 7: a fan from a fan,

4 drinking receptacles, 2 periodic table bedcovers,

and one piece of tartaric acid from a Swiss wine barrel.

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9: Handkerchief (12 Days of Christmas)

present

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carbon