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[The Medway Handyman]

For Xmas he gave me 5 vouchers each promising his labour for a day. Emulsioning the HSL used up 1 and helping fit the bathroom used up another :-)

Don't you mean 'lamp'? :-)

[Chris J Dixon]

Ah! I was at Salford from 67-71, and for a short time lived on Albert Park Road. Salford Van Hire was just starting up on an adjacent street, and their cinema advert was a slide showing some (or maybe all) of their vans parked diagonally on the cobbles of Albert Park Road, with the greenery of the park behind them. How times have changed.

I do recall spending time at Adelphi building doing things mechanical.

I now see what you mean about the loop in the river. We had most of our lectures in what I believe became Maxwell building, looking over that area. There were attempts to get paper aeroplanes safely across onto the grass, some of which were successful.

If you are saying that you walked over the bridge and north up Gt Clowes St to reach the emporium, then I think we are very much in the same area.

Chris

[Derek G.]

The word occult comes from the Latin word occultus (clandestine, hidden, secret).

NOooo. Right or wrong I used it in the sense of it being not the common or garden route to GCW, a short cut for those in the know.

I've seen hidden staircases in buildings such as a concealed fire escape or the little staircase at the back of a back to back terraced house described as occult staircases, and bleeding per rectum described as occult bleeding.

Derek G

[Andy Champ]

I'm familiar with the word, I just couldn't see how you could hide a bridge - so I assumed it was some specialised term.

"Occult bleeding" gets 73000 hits on google. "Occult Bridge" gets 222, mostly mystic - and this thread is on the first page!

Andy

[Jason]

Now money "Mr Brown" meaning "no money for you tax payers driving past", with two fingers stuck up at at everyone. Oh, have we laugh at landlord greed.

[Huge]

Jesus, are there still people stupid enough to believe this? You wouldn't get any of the money.

[John Williamson]

How about "I don't intend being screwed just for owning this empty building, which is empty due to no fault of mine". It may have stopped the owner going bankrupt due to the taxman taking all his dough.