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Shades of the old Jethro joke - trouble with the car - $#it in the carburretor. Oh, how often I got to do that?

Asterisks for the opposite place to heaven - how petty is the censorship.

The last one I tried to cut you wouldn't have had a snowballs chance in hell of cutting like that.

Have you ever tried cutting one?

If it's something you'll use a lot go for Wealden and have done with it.

1/4" bits are under 2" quite simply because they would be very likely to break off if longer.

The word you're looking for is is "soldiered" or "clocked".

I can't read that without joining and for some reason it won't let me join. A bit worrying so far, my account has been moved from Octopus, but I have had no communication from Tomato other than to tell me a D.D. has been set up. I don't know the account number, I don't know the unit prices and...

20p a foot? how many decades ago was this?

I always enjoyed Keith Waterhouse and his A.A.A.A.

Been reading too much Private Eye?

If you don't use a few cutters, so what at that price? I have the Trend 1/4" and 1/2" sets (35 years for the 1/2", and I have an untouched replacement set - it's cheaper than getting them sharpened) - I can't fault them for value. All my heavily used stuff is Wealden bought as needed, but the...

Quite possibly.

I went to work one day about 30 years ago and someone shouted he's here! I said what's the problem? How many fluid ounces are there in a litre? No one in the kitchen knew, and I was a cellarman. Shortly before they'd had an argument as to whether there two or three feet in a yard. I found...

I can work in metric quite happily but I can't estimate in it.

Bridges' height apparently can be signposted in both or imperial but not metric alone.

I've always thought the problem with the decimal system in this Country was that we should have done as Oz and NZ did and changed everything at the same time instead of piecemeal.