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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

Many times, sometimes on a moving train

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

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..........

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

Just listening to Jarvis Cocker saying he used to listen to the shipping forecast on LW when living in France

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...

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

Backpacking in Bali in the 80s, staying in Losmen ( budget huts basically), every morning a very elegant lady would carry a big bucket of well water on her head and pour it through a chute in the bathroom wall into a concrete tank. That's for washing and toilet flushing, Mrs CB could not bring...

Four NHS letters arrived today, both Mrs CB and I got the all clear from our two yearly bowel screening, I am not affected by diabetic retinopathy, last weeks scan, both my hip replacements are holding up (10 years) next check up in five years,. God bless the NHS

A Wastemaster, after lugging the usual bucket of grey water up hill for a couple of days, I finally took the plunge, got it a bit cheaper from Amazon...

David (Syd) Lawrence https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/c07d973k0zzo

When mother died, she was in ICU hooked up to ventilators, drips etc, doc told me she was near the end, I said she did not want prolonging, we went home and returned later, all tubes & drips were removed, pretty sure she had a shot of morphine, died peacefully

Internal leak maybe, pipework joint failed, I recently re plumbed my central heating, found a dry joint that had held for 40 odd years, could have been a different story

Just to add to the fun, I have found the following causing trips RCD & MCB & fuses, Slug in JB & TV amp Suspected melted cable run behind fire place Water in inaccessible JB, water stain on ceiling below Water in outdoor kit Nicked cable in back box Rodent damage T&E run outside through a tree...

We were on a tour of India in 2023, rail and coach, after every visit to a tourist attraction ( the heat and humidity were fierce) our coach attendant produced ice cold Cobras, a nice little earner for him Edit We took some rechargeable hand held fans which were a god send at some sites, even...

Any outdoor sockets, lights or other equipment, first place I look, also a couple of instances of similar faults were caused by water ingress in junction boxes from drips from leaking pipes

Maybe has no evidence for his claim

Still so quiet