You could build some Art.

I think that would take more than five.

Unless, of course, it was really bad art.

You could join the soap-dodgers in Scotland doing the Geldof thing and, well, you know, heave them at a pig or two.

Then you can tell your grandchildren you made poverty history. Or permanent. Or something like that, anyway.

It would have to be a small piece of art - a sort of sculptural haiku. You could arrange a circle of standing bricks: sort of like a miniature Ballynoe. Or just hide the bricks behind the shed. They're bound to come in handy sometime.

You could try and work out where they should have been put and what might fall down without them.

Kate,

Thanks for trying to deprive me of sleep, but you overestimate my planning skills. I didn't buy as many bricks as I needed. I built as many bricks as I could carry whenever I happened to be in Homebase. Furthermore, I bought them because I thought they looked nice. It was only after buying them that I began to think about what I could use them for.


Stephen,

I could leave them lying around in Edinburgh for protestors to trip over and stub their toes on. I could even superglue them to the pavement, come to think of it. If I could be bothered going to Edinburgh. Which I can't.


Rob,

My shed has no behind, so I'd have to keep them in the shed. Which is a perfectly good idea, yes, but, you know, that's what I'm going to end up doing if no-one has a better idea. That's what I'm asking for suggestions in order to avoid here.

While "sculptural haiku" is a wonderful phrase, I'm not sure...

Oo, oo, hang on! Just while I was typing that, right there, I realised what I'll use them for. It's really dull, though, so I shan't bore youse.

Thank you all.

The 12th fortnight isn't that far off. Bricks will be at a premium. You could double your money.

or was i too late?

Good plan, that man. Except that that would involve going out on the 12th and asking rioters for money.

Take an idea from MASH (the novels, not the TV show).
Take one reply paid coupon from some marketer you don’t like, attatch to brick and make him pay the Post Office for the transport of one brick.