On 2007-07-10 16:55:36 +0100, ":Jerry:" said:


"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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On 2007-07-10 14:49:11 +0100, Broadback said:

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2) there was a programme about a couple renovating a very old
fortified farm in Northumberland. They did it all without power
tools, and had to bring all materials about 1 mile up a track in
and old utility truck. The "tiles" they put on the roof were
heavier and bigger than most patio slabs. They had my admiration!

Yes but it was the north east. They do that kind of heavy manual
labour there - coal mining and such like.


You mean, up north they're not shy of hard graft...

Different form of hard graft.

As my great grandmother used to say of people who didn't do manual
jobs.... "He works with his head".