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Cato
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With a bucket of manky grey water that stank of Swarfega next to it keeping it warm for hand 'washing'.
With a bucket of manky grey water that stank of Swarfega next to it keeping it warm for hand 'washing'.
We only had the bottom of a 40 gallon drum filled with Jizer, and most of that was the sludge lying in the bottom.
It certainly never cleaned our hands, just spread all the oil and dirt around a bit.
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We only had the bottom of a 40 gallon drum filled with Jizer, and most of that was the sludge lying in the bottom.
It certainly never cleaned our hands, just spread all the oil and dirt around a bit.
We used the trike tank to clean our hands
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A friend has his own pump and tank on his property and just got 1800ltrs of diesel direct of the supplier at £1.98 ltr.
I said, cheaper at the forecourt, he said, filled all me motors up at the local garage yesterday£1.98 is going to be cheap soon…
I said, cheaper at the forecourt, he said, filled all me motors up at the local garage yesterday£1.98 is going to be cheap soon…
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I am afraid he is right :-(
Cato
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He's going to have to factor in the barbed wire fence, armed guards and watch towers though.
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It's about to hit £2.00/l here, I notice how fast it's gone up but it will take ages to come down even when barrel prices drop, I seem to remember talk of rules to stop profiteering at the start of all this, I think its time to tax and mot the PD vw passat I have in storage it will run on anything.
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Im half hoping they do. There's very few people under the age of 50 who have never experienced a power cut, let alone candles for light, winter with no heating. It might focus a few minds in all walks of life, and hopefully the talking heads in power might start feeling the heat from public anger......and when that 6x3 sheet of glass glued to their thumbs suddenly goes dark and cant be recharged...hopefully all hell will break loose.....its long overdue
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Pigeon_Droppings2
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Luckily I'm in London...reckon our lights would be the last to go out.
Of course when they do candles aren't going to save me
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Luckily I'm in London...reckon our lights would be the last to go out.
Of course when they do candles aren't going to save me from the zombie apocalypse
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ive just been out to the shed.......ive got 4Luckily I'm in London...reckon our lights would be the last to go out.
Of course when they do candles aren't going to save me
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The company I worked for at the time of the 3 day week got a huge gaslight thing on a tripod & a Calor bottle, so we could keep the trade counter open. Never ever used it at work, but it did light my garage up a treatLuckily, I have several million candles my mum was holding in reserve from the three day week era. I'll be able to see the work laptop, even if I can't use it
I had left the company several years when someone must of said “what happened to those gas lights” & I had to return it.
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I live in rural fenland, fed by long runs of overhead cables draped from poles more crooked than a politician.
Power cuts aren't exactly everyday, but certainly fairly regular. You'd have to go in to one of the towns for it to be a rare occurrence.
Most people around here are farmers and will have at least one generator.
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One of my all time favourites comedy sketches...absolutely fantastic
The company I worked for at the time of the 3 day week got a huge gaslight thing on a tripod & a Calor bottle, so we could keep the trade counter open. Never ever used it at work, but it did light my garage up a treat
before my time... but back with the 3 day week was a thing, at my dads work one half of the street was on a different part of the grid to the other half... so my dad and a place a few doors away had long extension leads for each other so they'd still have power on the off days
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Just remembered I have 4 large bottles of gas in my unit and one of these.The company I worked for at the time of the 3 day week got a huge gaslight thing on a tripod & a Calor bottle, so we could keep the trade counter open. Never ever used it at work, but it did light my garage up a treat
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My dad had a couple of Tilley lamps so during the power cuts there would be one in the kitchen and the other at the top of the stairs, he just had to pump them up regularly.The company I worked for at the time of the 3 day week got a huge gaslight thing on a tripod & a Calor bottle, so we could keep the trade counter open. Never ever used it at work, but it did light my garage up a treat
