Hi Dave Plowman
In you wrote:
What *is* the purpose of skirting boards? Do they just fill the gap
twixt wall and floor neatly?

Must be a man who never wields a Hoover...

Too much furniture to get the Electrolux near the skirting boards ;-))

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Dangling participle!