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I know that stretch of road very well and can only think of bad luck coming from it. This poor guy had a terrible experience and I sincerely hope for his rapid recovery. There are traffic cameras there and it is a 40mph limit that everyone knows about yet loads of people I know get caught there including my aunt getting caught twice! Even she can't explain that one. There used to be a petrol station next to the pub that is now a Premier Inn. My childhood sweetheart ran off with a lad that worked there and completely broke my heart when I was 18. I guess it was meant to be, as far as I know I think she is still married to him. Even worse, less than a mile along the road a woman was clubbed to death while out walking her dog. They never did find the killer. About 100 yards away from this incident is a sandstone tower, looks like a miniature castle and always seems an odd thing for it's location. Some years back a woman somehow crashed her car into it and wrecked it. It's in the 40 limit and a split dual carriageway so it took a bit of doing. The council decided it was too expensive to repair (I think it was the council) and completely demolished it. The locals went mental and made them completely rebuild it, so the miniature (20-30' tall) sandstone castle that is there today is actually about 10 years old. Amazes me how such a small, very rural area can have so many bad events. I don't want to detract from the gravity of what took place and very much hope for a speedy recovery. I also hope those that witnessed it weren't too badly affected, not the sort of thing you want to see.

My post wasn't related to your chimney @openspaceman, your post reminded me of that question my Dad used to ask me when I was a kid. The answer is an umbrella.

What will go up a chimney down but won't go down a chimney up?

On an unlined chimney it will be fine. Those type of brushes act as wispy things that knock the soot off, they shouldn't be in chimneys so tight as the middle bit makes any difference. The brushes for lined chimneys are much stiffer and are more aimed at scrubbing the soot off rather than just dislodging it and as such are a much tighter fit. For lined chimneys you should have the appropriate size brush, a 6" brush isn't suitable for a 5" liner for example. The bristly thing you speak of will pretty much do any size of unlined chimney. (All references to lined in this post refer to flexible metal liners rather than premade ceramic section liners.)

It's got a face like a smacked arse, hardly cheery.

What makes you think the first one is cheery? Doesn't look it to me.

He must have known because those particular employees were the ones you'd expect to be gifted with extras to start with.

I have had employees that can override it

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Professional finger choppers have an option of a special glove which turns the chopper off as soon as the blade comes in contact with it. I have professional finger choppers but don't have the special glove. Haven't chopped my finger and have used them for many years now, didn't chop my finger in the olden days of manual finger choppers either.

No, I would be just as predudiced against rap by an oap

Never had any big enough to qualify as firewood tbh but I would be happier putting it on the bonfire than getting prickled to feck sorting the good bits out. Hawthorn is good firewood but you are at high risk of septic splinters getting that far with it. Same as all wood, if it is dry, free and you haven't anything better it's fine.

Maybe, but I really enjoy the likes of Howlin Wolf and Etta James amongst many more so it's not that simple.

"good firewood" and "best on the bonfire" are not quite the same thing.

Exactly. Precisely what do those pillocks contribute to the musical skills of the orchestra?

I consider rap to be an often reasonable tune ruined by someone making up rubbish rhymes and talking over it. Banned from anywhere that I can hear it. I don't really object to any reasonable music but that shite is not music.

To Dan or his wife?

Not much local economy left in England, most small shops and a great many pubs have long gone.

Wasn’t particularly old either. RIP

Pretty feckin nice tbh. I think it peaked at 32C today. Rainbow at Rainbow Beach Qld. At Harvey Bay now.

Walnut

Looks six of one and half a dozen of the other to me. A green wheelie bin in the road is not traffic management and the cyclists were completely unaware of their surroundings. No doubt the tow truck copped for all of it though. What gets me is that he wasn't the one lying under a broken bike in the road crying, everybody has to take some responsibility for their own self preservation don't they? (as well as being responsible for the safety of others of course)

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15 years is possibly the oldest thread revival I have seen. Always surprises me anyone even finds a thread that old.

I wish I had run on red all those years too because I have never been dipped.