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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...

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

Cleaning the MILs gutters for the umpteenth time, the other son in law never goes near

When I worked nights in the 80s one geezer used to bring a full roast dinner in several flasks

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

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

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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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