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  1. Billhook
    No, I am not willing to have an arrangement with anyone's socks!
  2. Billhook
    Damn! I thought we might have come to a convenient arrangement!
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    So I am totally left handed. I admit my lifetime weakness of putting things down and then spending half a day looking for them. I am beyond redemption in that respect. So I end up buying things like gloves and little screwdrivers and hammers in tens from Amazon You would think that there would be just one left hand glove kicking around Somewhere there must be a mountain of gloves, screwdrivers, hammers, Stanley knives.............
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    I also did not think it appropriate to Chuck the guitar into the audience, apart from the fact it might have hurt someone badly who might not be paying attention it was a rather negative symbolic act it would have been a proper tribute if he had gone up to Dhani afterwards and given him the guitar.
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    I thought Marc Mann played a beautiful tribute to George Harrison's song and whilst Prince indeed played a virtuoso solo it was not the time and place for an individual guitar wank, it was supposed to be about George and not about Prince.
  6. Billhook
    Looks wonderful Khriss, but again look at the postage which is only inside the United States in this case, so unless you have a friend going over there or have a word with Jones to see if they can put it in with a shipment of their other stuff, then the postage will probably be more than the item
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    Well they are on ebay, but shipping costs mean that they would need to be part of a container load Woodchuck Tools Dual & Jack Combo for Rolling, Positioning & Cutting Logs WWW.EBAY.CO.UK Woodchuck's Dual & Jack Combo provides a peavey, cant hook and jack foot all in a single tool! The peavey point and cant...
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    Me too! Surprised to hear they are unavailable now
  9. Billhook
    Lincolnshire language should be compulsory at schools!
  10. Billhook
    Good one for Lockdown! Q
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    Another surprising thing going back to Gt Grandfather who was born in 1852 was a letter written to him by the old shepherd before he went off the South Africa in 1875. You might think that a shepherd at that time, who basically spent much of his life living in shepherd's hut would be illiterate but the letter was in the most beautiful handwriting and heartfelt and very moving. I think that those Victorian village schools with the strict Victorian school maam were excellent at educating all the children of the village. Of course backed up by the discipline of the Church at that time. My handwriting along with most of my post war generation is appalling, most pre-war handwriting is beautiful.
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    I suspect that my GT Grandfather, who sadly died in 1940 long before I was born, would have said something along the lines of the Monty Python 4 Yorkshiremen skit, "You think you had it tough, well let me tell you when I were a lad....." My father certainly had a brute teaching him when he was about eight. The headmaster was called Barber and when Mrs Barber had been giving him a hard time he used to come into the classroom with a face like thunder. Father always recalled the time when he came in like that and his eyes went around the room until they alighted on a boy called West. "Ah West, you haven't had a beating for a week, out here boy!" Father met West several times over their lives at Weddings and funerals and they always talked about the brute Barber. When Mrs Barber died the whole school was made to file past her open coffin. Apparently all the parents thought he was great.
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    Covid-19

    Billhook replied to Baldbloke's topic in General chat

    I was wondering if it was just a bit of clever anti communist propaganda put together by the US military as there were a couple of hardcore military types interviewed. But it seems as though the virus was active in November and the source was not the Wuhan seafood market which does not sell bats. So many different theories out there it is hard to form a firm opinion on what is the truth.
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    Covid-19

    Billhook replied to Baldbloke's topic in General chat

    You are all probably Covid video fatigued by now, but this one is worth a watch.
  15. Billhook
    Health and happiness is better than wealth with crappyness
  16. Billhook
    Actually I am not giving you full marks as you have not completed the question. How much is it worth at two shillings and sixpence a cubic foot. As a punishment you can convert it into today's value. As another punishment you can give me an example of a noun in the nominative case being absolute!
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    You are a swot and risk being bullied by your classmates!
  18. Billhook
    Baulk is what most people do when faced with these exam papers. Balk is what most people on this website deal with on a daily basis!
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    I always thought that I was well educated, in arithmetic, history and English Grammar until I found my Great Grandfather’s exam paper from 1865 when he was twelve years old Questions I liked were in Grammar. “When is a noun in the nominative case absolute?” in arithmetic ”Find the value of a balk of timber 39 foot six inches long and three foot seven inches thick each way at two shillings and sixpence a cubic foot” Geography “ you are going from London to Newcastle by sea, name all the counties, major towns, rivers, and estuaries that you would pass.” There is also an article about the 1893 paper This is your Lockdown exam folks!
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    Jokes???

    Billhook replied to brownie1964's topic in The Lounge

    You’ve started, so now you have to finish!
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    Jokes???

    Billhook replied to brownie1964's topic in The Lounge

    I keep trying to convince myself that it is a windup, but have concluded that nobody is that good an actress!
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    Jokes???

    Billhook replied to brownie1964's topic in The Lounge

    She has made the problem so much clearer to me!
  23. Billhook
    Coming on nicely! 68DBFE8D-143D-42FF-B2A0-AA348ED27EAA.mp4
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    We had a flock of Bee Eaters around that time, again not seen one since. Rape was in flower so plenty of bees about. I happened to have my video camera on me at the time. The bird''s flight first caught my attention, slightly woodpeckery without the loops. A few wing beats then a short glide all in level flight accompanied by a sound like water dripping "Blip blop" Blip blop"
  25. Billhook
    The Softer female version!

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