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Old 1st January 2019, 11:36
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Originally Posted by Varley View Post
Elphie's granny, in a dimly lit Jurby Junk, saw it in the closing down sale and thought it might be worth a punt (Elphie, she insists is the correct. i.e. Irish spelling). It wasn't, quite obviously so I dare say (as she will never read this). Therefore it is being punished by watching over her No.1 son and I while we do our Elphing.

It is a garage but car works in reception rooms are, so I am told, in keeping with the family tradition. One approaching my own when it comes to eccentricity. His father commandeered their library in London to dismantle a sports car of some description. We are only using Mother's garage as neither of us has a library.

Ear muffs? You have no idea how cold ancient piles can get in winter.
Delightful detail of eccentric use of domestic spaces. You reminded me of a father and son I knew in Torquay. The father was a school teacher with an ambition to sail across the Atlantic. So with his son's help he built a large sailing yacht. In his back garden. They had to hire a crane and lowloader to get it out of the garden, over the roof of the house, onto the lorry, and then with a police escort down to the harbour where they fitted her out. They named her "Imagine" ( after the John Lennon hit recording,) and duly sailed to the West Indies. They are probably still there.

All the best for the New Year V.

Roy.
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