In message , Andy Champ
writes
BRG wrote:
Not intended as "smart arse or rude" simply factual - if a question
like that has to be asked in a public group for a task that is so
simple that it was being done by ten year olds in my day,

There you have it. I was doing it when I was 10. My kids weren't,
because we've never had an open fire and we live in a smokeless zone
where garden bonfires are forbidden. It's just a skill that most
people never need any more; the OP has presumably moved somewhere
where it is.

And a problem which could be solved quite easily by rubbing two neurons
together


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geoff