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MikeG

Guru
Location
Suffolk
They made a bolt for the door when they saw @MikeG approaching.

They make bolts for the door all the time, which is why I was there in the first place. Oh, and "H" hinges. They make those too.
 
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Katherine

Katherine

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Moderator
Location
Manchester
Talking of uninvited houseguests, there is something living in the front room that leaves very fine silky trails on the carpet.
All the trails originate from the fireplace. None near the door or windows. I've hoovered every nook and cranny and looked inside and underneath everything.
 

slowmotion

Quite dreadful
Location
lost somewhere
Talking of uninvited houseguests, there is something living in the front room that leaves very fine silky trails on the carpet.
All the trails originate from the fireplace. None near the door or windows. I've hoovered every nook and cranny and looked inside and underneath everything.
It might be a spider. My guy has just started gnawing at stuff up there. Actually, he could just be itching and scratching.
 
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Katherine

Katherine

Guru
Moderator
Location
Manchester
He's a permanent resident. We are just guests who will check out of here in thirty six hours. It would be rude to disturb him and his little routines.
Very wise.
 

Accy cyclist

Legendary Member
I've just seen the first yellowing leaf fall off the tree outside my flat. Sad that autumn's on its way,but good that the bloody things are starting to fall, as since around April i've had to put my kitchen light on to see things as the huge tree and thick leaves must block out about 60% of daylight.
 

Gravity Aided

Legendary Member
Location
Land of Lincoln
Morning it is nice and sunny here at the moment.

I was just listening to the news and a subject made me think. I wonder what the number of alcohol related deaths there were in America during the Prohibition period ?
From alcohol itself, or alcohol poisoning, or violence related to gangs and the alcohol trade? Womens' suffrage and alcohol prohibition were two closely tied issues, and when womens' suffrage was passed, so was prohibition, without much thought as to the long range consequences. Especially crime, and the loss of the small-batch local brewing industry, which was a large part of the culture, and only now being rebuilt. Let alone the fact that such a prohibition was unenforceable with the resources the federal government was willing to put into it.
Oh, and then there's this...
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2010/02/the_chemists_war.html

If you mean by tainted booze, I could estimate from sources that the death toll was about 1,000 people per year on average.
 
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Talking of uninvited houseguests, there is something living in the front room that leaves very fine silky trails on the carpet.
All the trails originate from the fireplace. None near the door or windows. I've hoovered every nook and cranny and looked inside and underneath everything.

Do you have a suspended floor, is it hollow under the floor? You might have a slug living under the floor and coming up through a gap near the fireplace.
 
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