I mentioned a while back that they are changing all the windows on our
court. It is a big job. There are 64 flats. 4/5 windows per flat and
lots in communal spaces.

They've erected scaffolding all around the building up to three floors.
That is a lot of scaffolding.

Now it transpires that the scaffolding, all of it, is too closer to the
windows and it will all have to be moved.

So now there is a dispute/stalemate* twixt the window company and the
scaffolding company, and nowt is happening, at all at all.

*"You should have told us exactly where you wanted the scaffolding!"

"You should have known where to put it. You knew what the job was!"

Interesting.

Meanwhile I'm glad the weather is mild because I can't open my window.

https://flic.kr/p/2oTCCvU

Tone (encaged)

On 04-Aug-23 12:43, Tone wrote:
> I mentioned a while back that they are changing all the windows on our
> court. It is a big job. There are 64 flats. 4/5 windows per flat and
> lots in communal spaces.
>
> They've erected scaffolding all around the building up to three floors.
> That is a lot of scaffolding.
>
> Now it transpires that the scaffolding, all of it, is too closer to the
> windows and it will all have to be moved.
>
> So now there is a dispute/stalemate* twixt the window company and the
> scaffolding company, and nowt is happening, at all at all.
>
> *"You should have told us exactly where you wanted the scaffolding!"
>
> "You should have known where to put it. You knew what the job was!"
>
> Interesting.
>
> Meanwhile I'm glad the weather is mild because I can't open my window.
>
>
> https://flic.kr/p/2oTCCvU

Write to Messrs Flanders and Swann. They may compose a ditty on the topic.

(I can see a sort of cross, between Gerard Hoffnung's 'barrel of bricks
being hoisted' - and F & S's 'It all makes jbex for the jbexing man to do'.)

--
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On 04/08/2023 23:43, Sam Plusnet wrote:
> On 04-Aug-23 12:43, Tone wrote:
>> I mentioned a while back that they are changing all the windows on our
>> court. It is a big job. There are 64 flats. 4/5 windows per flat and
>> lots in communal spaces.
>>
>> They've erected scaffolding all around the building up to three
>> floors. That is a lot of scaffolding.
>>
>> Now it transpires that the scaffolding, all of it, is too closer to
>> the windows and it will all have to be moved.
>>
>> So now there is a dispute/stalemate* twixt the window company and the
>> scaffolding company, and nowt is happening, at all at all.
>>
>> *"You should have told us exactly where you wanted the scaffolding!"
>>
>> "You should have known where to put it. You knew what the job was!"
>>
>> Interesting.
>>
>> Meanwhile I'm glad the weather is mild because I can't open my window.
>>
>>
>> https://flic.kr/p/2oTCCvU
>
> Write to Messrs Flanders and Swann.  They may compose a ditty on the topic.
>
> (I can see a sort of cross, between Gerard Hoffnung's 'barrel of bricks
> being hoisted' - and F & S's 'It all makes jbex for the jbexing man to
> do'.)
>
I'm afraid Michael Flanders shrugged-off his mortal coil a long time
ago, and Donald Swann longered linger.

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In article <zafzM.43414$Fl6e.27458@fx04.ams1>, Sam Plusnet
<not@home.com> on Fri, 4 Aug 2023 at 23:43:43 awoke Nicholas from his
slumbers and wrote
>On 04-Aug-23 12:43, Tone wrote:
>> I mentioned a while back that they are changing all the windows on our
>> court. It is a big job. There are 64 flats. 4/5 windows per flat and
>> lots in communal spaces.
>>
>> They've erected scaffolding all around the building up to three floors.
>> That is a lot of scaffolding.
>>
>> Now it transpires that the scaffolding, all of it, is too closer to the
>> windows and it will all have to be moved.
>>
>> So now there is a dispute/stalemate* twixt the window company and the
>> scaffolding company, and nowt is happening, at all at all.
>>
>> *"You should have told us exactly where you wanted the scaffolding!"
>>
>> "You should have known where to put it. You knew what the job was!"
>>
>> Interesting.
>>
>> Meanwhile I'm glad the weather is mild because I can't open my window.
>>
>>
>> https://flic.kr/p/2oTCCvU
>
>Write to Messrs Flanders and Swann. They may compose a ditty on the topic.
>
>(I can see a sort of cross, between Gerard Hoffnung's 'barrel of bricks
>being hoisted' - and F & S's 'It all makes jbex for the jbexing man to do'.)
>
Not even Stephane Flanders could put you in touch with Flanders or
Swann, sad to say.
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On 04/08/2023 23:43, Sam Plusnet wrote:
> On 04-Aug-23 12:43, Tone wrote:
>> I mentioned a while back that they are changing all the windows on our
>> court. It is a big job. There are 64 flats. 4/5 windows per flat and
>> lots in communal spaces.
>>
>> They've erected scaffolding all around the building up to three
>> floors. That is a lot of scaffolding.
>>
>> Now it transpires that the scaffolding, all of it, is too closer to
>> the windows and it will all have to be moved.
>>
>> So now there is a dispute/stalemate* twixt the window company and the
>> scaffolding company, and nowt is happening, at all at all.
>>
>> *"You should have told us exactly where you wanted the scaffolding!"
>>
>> "You should have known where to put it. You knew what the job was!"
>>
>> Interesting.
>>
>> Meanwhile I'm glad the weather is mild because I can't open my window.
>>
>>
>> https://flic.kr/p/2oTCCvU
>
> Write to Messrs Flanders and Swann.  They may compose a ditty on the topic.
>
> (I can see a sort of cross, between Gerard Hoffnung's 'barrel of bricks
> being hoisted' - and F & S's 'It all makes jbex for the jbexing man to
> do'.)
>

Or maybe Scaffold?

Tone

Tone <tone@email.com> wrote in news:uak3kq$1f6a5$1@dont-email.me:

> On 04/08/2023 23:43, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>> On 04-Aug-23 12:43, Tone wrote:
>>> I mentioned a while back that they are changing all the windows on
>>> our court. It is a big job. There are 64 flats. 4/5 windows per flat
>>> and lots in communal spaces.
>>>
>>> They've erected scaffolding all around the building up to three
>>> floors. That is a lot of scaffolding.
>>>
>>> Now it transpires that the scaffolding, all of it, is too closer to
>>> the windows and it will all have to be moved.
>>>
>>> So now there is a dispute/stalemate* twixt the window company and
>>> the scaffolding company, and nowt is happening, at all at all.
>>>
>>> *"You should have told us exactly where you wanted the scaffolding!"
>>>
>>> "You should have known where to put it. You knew what the job was!"
>>>
>>> Interesting.
>>>
>>> Meanwhile I'm glad the weather is mild because I can't open my
>>> window.
>>>
>>>
>>> https://flic.kr/p/2oTCCvU
>>
>> Write to Messrs Flanders and Swann.  They may compose a ditty on the
>> topic.
>>
>> (I can see a sort of cross, between Gerard Hoffnung's 'barrel of
>> bricks being hoisted' - and F & S's 'It all makes jbex for the
>> jbexing man to do'.)
>>
>
> Or maybe Scaffold?
>
> Tone
>

Are they still going? I saw them live in Liverpuddle a few times.

--
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-----

On 05/08/2023 09:12, Peter wrote:
> Tone <tone@email.com> wrote in news:uak3kq$1f6a5$1@dont-email.me:
>

>> Or maybe Scaffold?
>>
>> Tone
>>
>
> Are they still going? I saw them live in Liverpuddle a few times.
>
Last heard of doing a rework of "Thank You Very Much" to recognise the
work of the NHS during lockdown (No, I didn't hear it played, either).
Vocals courtesy of their phones, using the original backing track.

--
Tciao for Now!

John.

You know when they actually fit them you will find a lot of that expanding
foam is used, because it seems these days most windows fitters seem unable
to make windows the right size and shape and often damage the surround
getting the old ones out. What I cannot figure out is how it can be in the
wrong place? Most windows do not need much wall clearance to be fitted these
days.
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"Tone" <tone@email.com> wrote in message
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>I mentioned a while back that they are changing all the windows on our
>court. It is a big job. There are 64 flats. 4/5 windows per flat and lots
>in communal spaces.
>
> They've erected scaffolding all around the building up to three floors.
> That is a lot of scaffolding.
>
> Now it transpires that the scaffolding, all of it, is too closer to the
> windows and it will all have to be moved.
>
> So now there is a dispute/stalemate* twixt the window company and the
> scaffolding company, and nowt is happening, at all at all.
>
> *"You should have told us exactly where you wanted the scaffolding!"
>
> "You should have known where to put it. You knew what the job was!"
>
> Interesting.
>
> Meanwhile I'm glad the weather is mild because I can't open my window.
>
>
> https://flic.kr/p/2oTCCvU
>
> Tone (encaged)

Yes but surely somebody needs to be in this space again?

There was of course Kit and the Widow, but they were too camp and not enough
controversy.
Brian

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"RustyHinge" <rusty.hinge@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On 04/08/2023 23:43, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>> On 04-Aug-23 12:43, Tone wrote:
>>> I mentioned a while back that they are changing all the windows on our
>>> court. It is a big job. There are 64 flats. 4/5 windows per flat and
>>> lots in communal spaces.
>>>
>>> They've erected scaffolding all around the building up to three floors.
>>> That is a lot of scaffolding.
>>>
>>> Now it transpires that the scaffolding, all of it, is too closer to the
>>> windows and it will all have to be moved.
>>>
>>> So now there is a dispute/stalemate* twixt the window company and the
>>> scaffolding company, and nowt is happening, at all at all.
>>>
>>> *"You should have told us exactly where you wanted the scaffolding!"
>>>
>>> "You should have known where to put it. You knew what the job was!"
>>>
>>> Interesting.
>>>
>>> Meanwhile I'm glad the weather is mild because I can't open my window.
>>>
>>> https://flic.kr/p/2oTCCvU
>>
>> Write to Messrs Flanders and Swann. They may compose a ditty on the
>> topic.
>>
>> (I can see a sort of cross, between Gerard Hoffnung's 'barrel of bricks
>> being hoisted' - and F & S's 'It all makes jbex for the jbexing man to
>> do'.)
>>
> I'm afraid Michael Flanders shrugged-off his mortal coil a long time ago,
> and Donald Swann longered linger.
>
>
> --
> Rusty Hinge
> To err is human. To really foul things up requires a computer and the
> BOFH.

No but AI might be a way to achieve this. Most of their recordings were
multitrack, and I think George martin had the masters, and now probably his
son Giles may well have access to them. Write the songs then get the ai
to do them in the correct voices.
Brian

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"Nicholas D. Richards" <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote in message
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> In article <zafzM.43414$Fl6e.27458@fx04.ams1>, Sam Plusnet
> <not@home.com> on Fri, 4 Aug 2023 at 23:43:43 awoke Nicholas from his
> slumbers and wrote
>>On 04-Aug-23 12:43, Tone wrote:
>>> I mentioned a while back that they are changing all the windows on our
>>> court. It is a big job. There are 64 flats. 4/5 windows per flat and
>>> lots in communal spaces.
>>>
>>> They've erected scaffolding all around the building up to three floors.
>>> That is a lot of scaffolding.
>>>
>>> Now it transpires that the scaffolding, all of it, is too closer to the
>>> windows and it will all have to be moved.
>>>
>>> So now there is a dispute/stalemate* twixt the window company and the
>>> scaffolding company, and nowt is happening, at all at all.
>>>
>>> *"You should have told us exactly where you wanted the scaffolding!"
>>>
>>> "You should have known where to put it. You knew what the job was!"
>>>
>>> Interesting.
>>>
>>> Meanwhile I'm glad the weather is mild because I can't open my window.
>>>
>>>
>>> https://flic.kr/p/2oTCCvU
>>
>>Write to Messrs Flanders and Swann. They may compose a ditty on the
>>topic.
>>
>>(I can see a sort of cross, between Gerard Hoffnung's 'barrel of bricks
>>being hoisted' - and F & S's 'It all makes jbex for the jbexing man to
>>do'.)
>>
> Not even Stephane Flanders could put you in touch with Flanders or
> Swann, sad to say.
> --
> 0sterc@tcher -
>
> "O� sont les neiges d'antan?"

On 05/08/2023 09:12, Peter wrote:
> Are they still going? I saw them live in Liverpuddle a few times.

All three are still alive

Tone

On 05/08/2023 10:27, Brian Gaff wrote:
> What I cannot figure out is how it can be in the
> wrong place? Most windows do not need much wall clearance to be fitted these
> days.

The scaffolding is within an inch of the glass on the bay windows, and
there are a lot of bay windows.

Tone

On Sat, 5 Aug 2023 10:27:58 +0100
"Brian Gaff" <brian1gaff@gmail.com> wrote:

> You know when they actually fit them you will find a lot of that
> expanding foam is used, because it seems these days most windows fitters
> seem unable to make windows the right size and shape and often damage the
> surround getting the old ones out.

The real reason for the expanding foam is to make an airtight seal
around the window, this would be necessary even if the window and opening
were perfectly matched and undamaged. To finish the job properly it is
important to also seal the cavity in the reveal, I used a great deal of
expanding foam doing that in this place - so much that it would have been
purncre to ohl a frothpak.

--
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Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/
Host: Beautiful Theory meet Inconvenient Fact
Obit: Beautiful Theory died today of factual inconsistency

In article <XnsB0575DAE3E688Factura3476@135.181.20.170>, Peter
<myshed@prune.org.uk> on Sat, 5 Aug 2023 at 08:12:32 awoke Nicholas
from his slumbers and wrote
>Tone <tone@email.com> wrote in news:uak3kq$1f6a5$1@dont-email.me:
>
>> On 04/08/2023 23:43, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>>> On 04-Aug-23 12:43, Tone wrote:
>>>> I mentioned a while back that they are changing all the windows on
>>>> our court. It is a big job. There are 64 flats. 4/5 windows per flat
>>>> and lots in communal spaces.
>>>>
>>>> They've erected scaffolding all around the building up to three
>>>> floors. That is a lot of scaffolding.
>>>>
>>>> Now it transpires that the scaffolding, all of it, is too closer to
>>>> the windows and it will all have to be moved.
>>>>
>>>> So now there is a dispute/stalemate* twixt the window company and
>>>> the scaffolding company, and nowt is happening, at all at all.
>>>>
>>>> *"You should have told us exactly where you wanted the scaffolding!"
>>>>
>>>> "You should have known where to put it. You knew what the job was!"
>>>>
>>>> Interesting.
>>>>
>>>> Meanwhile I'm glad the weather is mild because I can't open my
>>>> window.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://flic.kr/p/2oTCCvU
>>>
>>> Write to Messrs Flanders and Swann.  They may compose a ditty on the
>>> topic.
>>>
>>> (I can see a sort of cross, between Gerard Hoffnung's 'barrel of
>>> bricks being hoisted' - and F & S's 'It all makes jbex for the
>>> jbexing man to do'.)
>>>
>>
>> Or maybe Scaffold?
>>
>> Tone
>>
>
>Are they still going? I saw them live in Liverpuddle a few times.
>
They still get together from time to time, although I have not seen them
since 1968 or 1969 when they performed at Keele University.
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On 05-Aug-23 0:21, RustyHinge wrote:
> On 04/08/2023 23:43, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>> On 04-Aug-23 12:43, Tone wrote:
>>> I mentioned a while back that they are changing all the windows on
>>> our court. It is a big job. There are 64 flats. 4/5 windows per flat
>>> and lots in communal spaces.
>>>
>>> They've erected scaffolding all around the building up to three
>>> floors. That is a lot of scaffolding.
>>>
>>> Now it transpires that the scaffolding, all of it, is too closer to
>>> the windows and it will all have to be moved.
>>>
>>> So now there is a dispute/stalemate* twixt the window company and the
>>> scaffolding company, and nowt is happening, at all at all.
>>>
>>> *"You should have told us exactly where you wanted the scaffolding!"
>>>
>>> "You should have known where to put it. You knew what the job was!"
>>>
>>> Interesting.
>>>
>>> Meanwhile I'm glad the weather is mild because I can't open my window.
>>>
>>>
>>> https://flic.kr/p/2oTCCvU
>>
>> Write to Messrs Flanders and Swann.  They may compose a ditty on the
>> topic.
>>
>> (I can see a sort of cross, between Gerard Hoffnung's 'barrel of
>> bricks being hoisted' - and F & S's 'It all makes jbex for the jbexing
>> man to do'.)
>>
> I'm afraid Michael Flanders shrugged-off his mortal coil a long time
> ago, and Donald Swann longered linger.

<waves fingers in a left to right fashion>

"Details my dear boy, details."

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I was shocked when I had a porch and a kitchen window and door fitted, just
how muchfoam they used. So much so that about 5 months later a chunk of
plaster fell of the wall with a big bubble of foam pushing it off.
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"Ahem A Rivet's Shot" <steveo@eircom.net> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 5 Aug 2023 10:27:58 +0100
> "Brian Gaff" <brian1gaff@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> You know when they actually fit them you will find a lot of that
>> expanding foam is used, because it seems these days most windows fitters
>> seem unable to make windows the right size and shape and often damage the
>> surround getting the old ones out.
>
> The real reason for the expanding foam is to make an airtight seal
> around the window, this would be necessary even if the window and opening
> were perfectly matched and undamaged. To finish the job properly it is
> important to also seal the cavity in the reveal, I used a great deal of
> expanding foam doing that in this place - so much that it would have been
> purncre to ohl a frothpak.
>
> --
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> Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/
> Host: Beautiful Theory meet Inconvenient Fact
> Obit: Beautiful Theory died today of factual inconsistency

Well that is just plain stupidity then. Seeing the bays they should have
measuredfrom that to the scaffold to get room to move things about. I'd
suggest the window company take the scaffold company to court. Its not
rocket science.
Brian

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"Tone" <tone@email.com> wrote in message
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> On 05/08/2023 10:27, Brian Gaff wrote:
>> What I cannot figure out is how it can be in the
>> wrong place? Most windows do not need much wall clearance to be fitted
>> these
>> days.
>
> The scaffolding is within an inch of the glass on the bay windows, and
> there are a lot of bay windows.
>
> Tone

On Sun, 6 Aug 2023 13:05:44 +0100
"Brian Gaff" <brian1gaff@gmail.com> wrote:

> I was shocked when I had a porch and a kitchen window and door fitted,
> just how muchfoam they used. So much so that about 5 months later a chunk
> of plaster fell of the wall with a big bubble of foam pushing it off.

Yeah it shouldn't be like that - I'd want something between foam
and plaster myself, but if not they should at least wait for the foam to
stop expanding, it takes quite some time for the one part foam to set.

When this place was done Munster just hung the doors and windows
into bare walls and I got to do the reveals myself. I used spacers and
plasterboard to make a one inch gap and filled that with expanding foam, the
cavities were already plugged with blocks of foam so those edges got sealed
too.

What is this thing you call draft ?

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Obit: Beautiful Theory died today of factual inconsistency

Ahem A Rivet's Shot said:
> On Sun, 6 Aug 2023 13:05:44 +0100
> "Brian Gaff" <brian1gaff@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I was shocked when I had a porch and a kitchen window and door fitted,
>> just how muchfoam they used. So much so that about 5 months later a chunk
>> of plaster fell of the wall with a big bubble of foam pushing it off.
>
> Yeah it shouldn't be like that - I'd want something between foam
> and plaster myself, but if not they should at least wait for the foam to
> stop expanding, it takes quite some time for the one part foam to set.
>
> When this place was done Munster just hung the doors and windows
> into bare walls and I got to do the reveals myself. I used spacers and
> plasterboard to make a one inch gap and filled that with expanding foam, the
> cavities were already plugged with blocks of foam so those edges got sealed
> too.
>
> What is this thing you call draft ?

I think it's what we call draught ?

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On 06-Aug-23 16:41, Richard Robinson wrote:
> Ahem A Rivet's Shot said:
>> On Sun, 6 Aug 2023 13:05:44 +0100
>> "Brian Gaff" <brian1gaff@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I was shocked when I had a porch and a kitchen window and door fitted,
>>> just how muchfoam they used. So much so that about 5 months later a chunk
>>> of plaster fell of the wall with a big bubble of foam pushing it off.
>>
>> Yeah it shouldn't be like that - I'd want something between foam
>> and plaster myself, but if not they should at least wait for the foam to
>> stop expanding, it takes quite some time for the one part foam to set.
>>
>> When this place was done Munster just hung the doors and windows
>> into bare walls and I got to do the reveals myself. I used spacers and
>> plasterboard to make a one inch gap and filled that with expanding foam, the
>> cavities were already plugged with blocks of foam so those edges got sealed
>> too.
>>
>> What is this thing you call draft ?
>
> I think it's what we call draught ?
>

A necessary feature for any household which uses things like
"combustion" and "breathing".

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On 06-Aug-23 13:07, Brian Gaff wrote:
> Well that is just plain stupidity then. Seeing the bays they should have
> measuredfrom that to the scaffold to get room to move things about. I'd
> suggest the window company take the scaffold company to court. Its not
> rocket science.

But what, exactly, did the scaffold company get told when they were
given the wbo?

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On Sun, 6 Aug 2023 21:21:29 +0100
Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:

> A necessary feature for any household which uses things like
> "combustion" and "breathing".

Fans and a heat exchanger.

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Host: Beautiful Theory meet Inconvenient Fact
Obit: Beautiful Theory died today of factual inconsistency

On 05/08/2023 12:22, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
> In article <XnsB0575DAE3E688Factura3476@135.181.20.170>, Peter
> <myshed@prune.org.uk> on Sat, 5 Aug 2023 at 08:12:32 awoke Nicholas
> from his slumbers and wrote
>>>
<Scaffold?>

>> Are they still going? I saw them live in Liverpuddle a few times.
>>
> They still get together from time to time, although I have not seen them
> since 1968 or 1969 when they performed at Keele University.
>
Remember Readers Digest published a much-vaunted 'complete' atlas of
Great Britain? I had a fiend at Keele University at the time so looked
up Keele.

Either Keele didn't exist and John was molishing false claims of
educational competence, or Readers Digest didn't understand the worm
'complete'

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On 06/08/2023 15:07, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Aug 2023 13:05:44 +0100
> "Brian Gaff" <brian1gaff@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I was shocked when I had a porch and a kitchen window and door fitted,
>> just how muchfoam they used. So much so that about 5 months later a chunk
>> of plaster fell of the wall with a big bubble of foam pushing it off.
>
> Yeah it shouldn't be like that - I'd want something between foam
> and plaster myself, but if not they should at least wait for the foam to
> stop expanding, it takes quite some time for the one part foam to set.
>
> When this place was done Munster just hung the doors and windows
> into bare walls and I got to do the reveals myself. I used spacers and
> plasterboard to make a one inch gap and filled that with expanding foam, the
> cavities were already plugged with blocks of foam so those edges got sealed
> too.
>
> What is this thing you call draft ?
What is this thing you call air?

<gasp>

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Rusty Hinge
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In article <uapkql$2mefl$1@dont-email.me>, RustyHinge <rusty.hinge@fooba
r.girolle.co.uk> on Mon, 7 Aug 2023 at 03:27:34 awoke Nicholas from his
slumbers and wrote
>On 05/08/2023 12:22, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
>> In article <XnsB0575DAE3E688Factura3476@135.181.20.170>, Peter
>> <myshed@prune.org.uk> on Sat, 5 Aug 2023 at 08:12:32 awoke Nicholas
>> from his slumbers and wrote
>>>>
><Scaffold?>
>
>>> Are they still going? I saw them live in Liverpuddle a few times.
>>>
>> They still get together from time to time, although I have not seen them
>> since 1968 or 1969 when they performed at Keele University.
>>
>Remember Readers Digest published a much-vaunted 'complete' atlas of
>Great Britain? I had a fiend at Keele University at the time so looked
>up Keele.
>
>Either Keele didn't exist and John was molishing false claims of
>educational competence, or Readers Digest didn't understand the worm
>'complete'
>
>
Somewhere or other I have a copy of the Diders Reegest Atlas, I never
noticed the absence of Keele. Maybe I did not look.

Which is strange given that I was at Keele in the late 60's. There were
a few thousand of us on the campus and also in Keele village. I could
see the service station on the M6 from my room in hall. My father used
to use the motorway service station access as a quick way to get on and
off the motorway rather than driving through the Potteries. Strictly
against the rules and maybe the law. They blocked that access,
eventually, but after my time.

I am doing some de-cluttering AtM and have just come across the photo-
slide that I took while I was there. Not sure what to do with them.

Ah, happy days
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