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    Serious injury :(

    Aye - well there was the time Ah broke me leg... yerl all remember the time when Teddy Boys were the rage... Well Ah was one... Had the full kit... Lang drape coat and winkle-pickers running to catch the last bus at 11 oclock an got me foot caught in me coat pocket... Yu nivver naw - d'yer... Jedo
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    Anyone Here Old Enough to Remember War-Time Britain?

    I can remember EVERYTHING I did yesterday... Me ma took us ower the ferry to Roker Beach for the day - me an me 2 brothers and three sisters... We went crabbing with some old fish heads we found and got 3 eaters... when I was swimming, the waves caught me and dragged me underpants off - much to...
  3. J

    Anyone Here Old Enough to Remember War-Time Britain?

    Aye - can remember queueing up with me Ma and me brothers in a git lang queue to get our Co-op divi payout... And the Bethesda church used to give us kids an orange if we went in the Easter march... LOL old memories... tears in yer eyes... eh... Jedo
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    Anyone Here Old Enough to Remember War-Time Britain?

    Aye I was born 1946 and we lived in Hendon Sunderland and I remember going shopping with me Ma and using ration stamps to buy groceries. Funny the things you remember - powdered eggs, loose sugar in sacks that was measured out into brown paper bags... bacon sliced fresh on the slicer on the...
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    Newbie question on timber

    Hi Kane My tuppence worth... wouldn't be too confident that PAR means the boards are "reasonably straight" - probably NOT square - and almost certainly not "ready to use" without running them over a jointer/hand-planing. You're correct that rough-sawn is impractical if you dont have machines to...
  6. J

    Cutting Programme?

    thas warra allus reckun hinny... mackem ower ear and tackem ower thur ex geordie Jedo
  7. J

    New to the Forum

    Heh Ah think wor Geordie might be a birrova shy pipper Cheors Jedo (Geordie in Oz)
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    Delivery of a new saw to restricted access workshop

    I'm in Aussie I got a new cast iron biggie TS with a sliding table recently It's HUGE Came in packed cases reasonably sized and self assembly I assume they all come like this Greeting from an ex Makem and Takem Jedo
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