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The mention of a fag packet in Varley's post #38, (the use of # being common on the Western Shores of the North Atlantic to signify a numerical value as in "number 38"), reminded me of a neighbour when I was a mere lad. He was an enthusiastic motor mechanic, having taken a course in car mechanics at evening classes. If he couldn't find his set of feeler gauges, he would use the flap of a cardboard cigarette packet instead to set the gap on the spark plugs. I seem to remember him saying that Senior Service packets gave an accurate setting, in preference to Weights or Woodbines,
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"You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time towards the open sea. It goes. That's all." Bernard Moitessier.
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