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    Hosepipe ban - bluebadge exempt

    Test them on humans instead?
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    Notable Obituaries.

    Joey Jones https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c77vpp8x6m5o
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    Hosepipe ban - bluebadge exempt

    How would you test life saving drugs?
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    The Greek way

    When I lived in Sydney there were many "ladies" who worked the streets," $100 sweetie, $150 for the Greek way"
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    Hosepipe ban - bluebadge exempt

    Mrs CB worked for the County Council, they were warned not to wear their lanyards in public, slightly different note, my niece worked for a major pharma company shortly after graduating, she was in the lab that uses animals for testing the staff were often briefed by MI5 about what to look out...
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    Post the best photo you took today

    I was sat in Tesco car park eating a sandwich, middle aged lady pulled into a space opposite, wheels slightly over the line , she shuffled back and forth for a few minutes and managed to get a wheel in 4 spaces, takes some doing
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    What have you been doing today?

    Cleaning the MILs gutters for the umpteenth time, the other son in law never goes near
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    What are you having for lunch?

    When I worked nights in the 80s one geezer used to bring a full roast dinner in several flasks
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    Am I on ring or radial sockets (test results included)

    During Covid I installed a radial via a 13 amp fuse for a printer & laptop in a temporary office to separate staff, about two days later I was called out for a power failure, four gang extension with a kettle and toaster were plugged in
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    Notable Obituaries.

    Dave Cousins https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/dave-cousins-strawbs-singer-and-guitarist-dead-at-age-80/
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    Notable Obituaries.

    Ian Blair former Met Commissioner https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/11/former-met-police-commissioner-ian-blair-dies
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    Am I on ring or radial sockets (test results included)

    Join the club
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    Anyone used one of these?

    Stayed in a budget hotel in Singapore in the 80s, not ensuite, we had to walk through the proprietors bedroom to reach them, they were the same type, the male owner spent quite a long time in there reading the newspapers, spotlessly clean by the way
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    Anyone used one of these?

    Many times, sometimes on a moving train
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    They are getting a bonus for it now

    We were sat in Amsterdam waiting for our connecting flight, a young lady sat across from us with a huge cabin suitcase, she opened it and it contained pair of shoes, which she changed for the flip flops she was wearing
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    Bending plastic conduit

    Back in the day one of the jokers in the workshop would pick up any length of conduit and do the elephant call, a couple of other jokers dipped the end of a length in the common urinal and left it in a prominent position..........
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    Systematic procedure for tracing repeated fuse blowing in domestic 5 amp lighting.

    I have used a volt stick taped to the end of length of plastic conduit a few times to check high floodlights
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    RTS turn off

    Just listening to Jarvis Cocker saying he used to listen to the shipping forecast on LW when living in France
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    Systematic procedure for tracing repeated fuse blowing in domestic 5 amp lighting.

    Reminds me of a couple of faults I attended years ago, cooker circuit blowing fuses intermittently, householders daughter reported banging under bedroom floor, found a molten mass of cables in a hole in the joist with a wood screw through them, must have been there for years and gradually wore...
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    Notable Obituaries.

    Jimmy Swaggart https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/03/jimmy-swaggart-obittuary
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