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I don’t find many things more exciting than new computer kit. It doesn’t matter whose computer kit and it doesn’t have to be that new as it still excites me. I’m like a wee kid in a candy store on that sugar rush Christmas fix. It also makes me a bit of a sad geek. [...]

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One of the nicer things that’s been happening of late is that I can now count certain people at Butler Sheetmetal Ltd as regular Tinbasher readers. (If we’re being honest, they’re probably the only regular readers. But such is life.) Only the other day, both Deborah and John were having a gander and showed a [...]

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NeedIT – You Got IT!

Posted on 31, Oct

I’ve well and truly learnt my lesson about spouting my mouth off, counting chickens and all that palava after the many disasters that have befallen mostly me to be fair. Things like: The Canary Wharf Garden Show. (Rubbish, sold bugger all and half-wrecked the hire van.) Free photo shoot in Gardeners’ World. (They took the [...]

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There seems to be a glaring difference between the lot of a British sheet metal worker and that of his or her American counterpart. Most notably, there’s no mention of you falling off scaffoldings and welding your hands together from this job description from learndirect. “As his mind drifted towards his Liberace tribute act, he [...]

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Finally the explanation as to what’s going on with the phones is starting to do the rounds. Apparently, somebody torched the exchange at the top of the road by dousing it in petrol and setting it alight. They’ve had to get underneath the thing via the road and dig back so they can find unmelted [...]

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When it rains, it pours.

Posted on 17, Oct

If anybody has come here wondering why they can’t get through to us on the phone, there’s an awfully simple reason – the phone lines are down. They aren’t just down for us but probably for the whole of Primet Hill. I know that next door either side are both sans telephone. However, BT received [...]

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Well I think it’s only right and proper to end the week as we started it – with a new-lad Craig tale. The poor little bugger has hardly said a word to me all week so it’s maybe time I bought him a pint or maybe a woo-woo. Perhaps an Erasure CD – who knows? [...]

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