Originally Posted by stranding

Don't they have these horrible machines elsewhere? They are vile.

As a contrast, we used to live next door to a farmer who cut ALL his field hedges by hand with grass shears... Took him all year. He also had the night soil lorry come every Monday, no electricity, water from a well. When his sister died one night, he came over to us & said I had to go and lay her out...because the woman whose job that was in the village had just moved away. I had no idea how to do anything like that, still don't... The pair were living in the century before the century before that!

I'm due out to ride ( in training for 2012:-) ) so can't monitor. I have an easy one ready but it can wait.
So this challenge is open to anyone to jump in.

Years ago, Channel 4 ran a series on old construction trades and a lost way of living. The series was called "Built in Britain", if I remember correctly. The first programme was devoted to a farm, exactly as you describe your memories. The farm was occupied by 2 spinster sisters, I think. It was a fascinating time capsule.

Frustratingly, I have the entire series on Video 2000 tapes, but nothing to play them back so I can transfer the programmes to DVD. Channel 4 doesn't seem to have the series for sale. It's a shame, because the series was superb on it's day.

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Originally Posted by Richard Brown

You remind me of my CCF ( combined cadet force) days at school. There was a piece of wisdom about not showing a light for too long at night. The saying was worked in with the sequence. Ready ... Take aim ... Fire. I think it had something to do with a 3 second rule?

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Then we have something else in common. The "3" second rule is correct. In the infantry it was the "three on a match rule." By the time the third person in a group lit his smoke on a shared match, your position was exposed and sighted.

I spent 6 years in army cadets - the last two as CSM. Our corp was attached to the 1st and 3rd battalions of the Royal Canadian Regiment. This exposed us to funding and training opportunities that school based cadet corps did not enjoy.

It was an exciting and life changing experience for me.

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Originally Posted by AdmiralAdama

Then we have something else in common. The "3" second rule is correct. In the infantry it was the "three on a match rule." By the time the third person in a group lit his smoke on a shared match, your position was exposed and sighted.

I spent 6 years in army cadets - the last two as CSM. Our corp was attached to the 1st and 3rd battalions of the Royal Canadian Regiment. This exposed us to funding and training opportunities that school based cadet corps did not enjoy.

It was an exciting and life changing experience for me.

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Yes, that's it. Thanks Admiral. My CCF experiences were at school, on Wednesday afternoons. Each Easter, we could volunteer to attend a week long camp during the holidays. I really enjoyed the camps as you could get into the full ethos of soldiering.

I only attained the rank of lance corporal.

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BTW, is there a challenge out there. The thread is open to the first comer to post, I think.

I do have a challenge, but need to frame the question and cannot monitor, so am stepping back.

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stranding won your challenge,Richard.This was an hour and a quarter ago. If stranding doesn't post in the next 45 minutes,the challenge will be open.

Originally Posted by scifan57

stranding won your challenge,Richard.This was an hour and a quarter ago. If stranding doesn't post in the next 45 minutes,the challenge will be open.

However, she said....

Originally Posted by stranding

Don't they have these horrible machines elsewhere? They are vile.

As a contrast, we SNIP.....

I'm due out to ride ( in training for 2012:-) ) so can't monitor. I have an easy one ready but it can wait.
So this challenge is open to anyone to jump in.

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What is it?

Hmmm. It looks a bit like the surface of LV 427, just short of Zeta II Reticuli. But it also looks like a block of marbled cheddar cheese. Which I prefer.

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I thought it looks like whisked egg yolks, with some milk poured in, just before mixing.... :S

To me it looks like a koi fish