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1, It was a Fifth Year. 2, They would have known exactly who it was (I could tell you his name now). 3, He was the only person I ever saw arrested in a class - twice.

I went to a lot of schools, for logistical reasons - they were all madhouses, but in different ways. One was in Brigg, just south of the Humber Bridge. We had a two-hour art class every week, in a derelict shed across the road from the main school buildings. In the middle of the floor was a stove, which we normally huddled round in an attempt to avoid hypothermia. This was 1972, before the days when giant fireworks were widely available, but one of the lads had managed to procure a banger a bit bigger than a milk bottle. The banger was shoved into the stove as the art master, a decent bloke, came across the road. He must have known something was going on, as we were all scattered around the far edges of the shed, as though we were waiting for the girls at a dance. Two hours we sat there, waiting for the explosion, but nothing happened. Nothing. It must have just burned away slowly...

Sometimes, stolen goods really are too hot to handle.

I wonder if you should try hand sanitiser on it...?

. Ah, the old 110 system - not perfect, but useful at the time. You could get really minimalist arrangements. And Minolta even did a somewhat larger version with a zoom lens... ...and an SLR...

This..?

Just listen. Don't be tempted to sing the chorus.

Exactly. there are no "rip-off prices", there are offers that people either accept or don't. I've had people offer me a fair price for things I don't want to sell, then get annoyed because I won't. I'm just worried that my small stash of such things is making me look like a money-launderer. I'll be sticking to a Seiko watch and a Hyundai, in an attempt at a low-profile existence.

Almost exactly £350 - I bet you would be paid in old Northern Bank notes and told to keep the 4p...

Always bound to be a bit of a keg supply issue, with the pubs suddenly reopening a bit...

I will, just for the crack...

I've had interest in my orange bubbles from two chaps in a black Lexus who say they have the ideal white powder to weather them to absolute perfection.

It's only a matter of time before these things start getting listed after the Rolex watches when CAB have conducted a successful raid.

Steady on with the negative vibes! It's still June - it might all be over by Christmas...

Customisable - http://alexandermc.com/product-detail/Pocket-Partner™-Reversible-Screwdriver/180 ...

And pictures of wagons with black chassis, the right way up.

Of course. As soon as I can remember it.

Ordered on Monday evening at 18:30 - arrived here today, Friday, at 12:30. I now have 400,000 pints of Guinness to keep me going.

Did he take an actual plaster-cast of the sea?

One gone now... I may actually be winning from all this lockdown stuff. Although I currently have zero income, I also spend virtually nothing. I haven't been in any shop (other than a weekly Lidl run) since early March. I've fixed loads of stuff 'for free' that I might have been tempted to replace, otherwise. I'm driving 28 miles per week and haven't put any fuel in since then, either. I still have half a tank. I would probably have only had two packs in 'normal' times, now I feel justified in going for a bundle.

Yeah, but it's got black horns.

It's dodgy fitting magnets on a HGV - some people might think you were trying to frig the tachograph...

We had an incident in a nearby town on the Big Island some years ago, before the practice was stopped. 'Waste matter', basically, guts, other bits and 'liquid', would be transported carefully in open wagons to a disposal facility. The smell was a constant cause of discomfort and there were regular complaints. There were also leakage issues and the odd 'splash' from the open tanks. One day, a driver was proceeding, with his usual care, through the main street of the town, when a woman in a hurry quite legitimately attempted to use a zebra crossing whilst pushing a pram. The driver had no option but to brake heavily, causing a tsunami to surge forwards, over the cab and about thirty yards down the road. People were literally covered in it, the driver was trapped in his cab and the state of their front steps seemed of little interest to people with the 'material' in their shops...

I had his old 2CV off him (after we'd used it to pull-start the CX). It developed a weird alternator fault - it would not charge for the first few minutes, after that, it would be OK all day. The number of the 'few' minutes was getting greater all the time and there came a point where I felt it necessary to intervene. Eventually, I came to the realisation that the brushes were only just touching the rings, but there was plenty of carbon left. They were being held off by a plastic post on the moulding - presumably a shipping thing, to stop the springs falling off in transit. After a bit of thought, I snapped it off - and everything was OK for a few more years. Once things had warmed up, the brushes had been just touching the rings again, but still wearing slightly, thus the 'warming up time' was constantly getting greater and there would have come a point at which the battery emptied before the alternator managed to charge it. I wonder how many extra spare brushes were sold because of that post? Something like this.