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Your worst bodge.
When I was about 16 I was artexing a ceiling and ran out of mix. I
found a bag of flour in the cupboard and used that for the last little bit! Still looked OK 15 years later! Come on the, whats your worst? |
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Your worst bodge.
"avocado" wrote in message oups.com... When I was about 16 I was artexing a ceiling and ran out of mix. I found a bag of flour in the cupboard and used that for the last little bit! Still looked OK 15 years later! Come on the, whats your worst? Done that with plaster too, when I used all the mix and it was still too watery... |
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Your worst bodge.
"avocado" wrote in message oups.com... When I was about 16 I was artexing a ceiling and ran out of mix. I found a bag of flour in the cupboard and used that for the last little bit! Still looked OK 15 years later! Come on the, whats your worst? I don't think the majority on here are COWBOYS. |
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Your worst bodge.
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avocado says... When I was about 16 I was artexing a ceiling and ran out of mix. I found a bag of flour in the cupboard and used that for the last little bit! Still looked OK 15 years later! Come on the, whats your worst? Not my own, but someone else's I found... Number 1) I removed the cover of an electric shower only to discover the electrician who had installed it had wired live and neutral the wrong way round according to the markings. Being pedantic I swapped them the correct way round and tried the shower. BANG! 30 amp fuse blown. Further investigation revealed that there was a fault within the heater unit of the shower and there was a live to earth short. So the electrician had swapped over the connections so there was a neutral to earth short instead. This of course meant the shower worked and the fuse didn't blow. However, there was a distinct chance of getting electrocuted!!! Number 2) Going back to the days of the changeover in the UK from the old unearthed round two pin plugs to the earthed three pin plugs we have today... Someone had bought a new electric iron with wires for live, neutral and earth and put on an old round two pin plug. However, they had just left the earth wire floating around lose in the plug - and it was really lose. They hadn't even trimmed off the bare end of the earth wire. This meant that if the lose earth wire had touched the live pin, then the iron would have become live. No fuse would have blown. Simply touching any metal on the iron would have resulted in electric shock or death. -- David in Normandy. (The free MicroPlanet Gravity newsreader is great for eliminating rubbish and cross-posts) |
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Your worst bodge.
"George" wrote in message . uk... "avocado" wrote in message oups.com... When I was about 16 I was artexing a ceiling and ran out of mix. I found a bag of flour in the cupboard and used that for the last little bit! Still looked OK 15 years later! Come on the, whats your worst? I don't think the majority on here are COWBOYS. Or bakers. Bob |
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Your worst bodge.
"avocado" wrote in message oups.com... When I was about 16 I was artexing a ceiling and ran out of mix. I found a bag of flour in the cupboard and used that for the last little bit! Still looked OK 15 years later! Come on the, whats your worst? Was it a gingerbread house you were repairing? Bob |
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Your worst bodge.
"Bob Smith" wrote in message ... "George" wrote in message . uk... "avocado" wrote in message oups.com... When I was about 16 I was artexing a ceiling and ran out of mix. I found a bag of flour in the cupboard and used that for the last little bit! Still looked OK 15 years later! Come on the, whats your worst? I don't think the majority on here are COWBOYS. Or bakers. Bob He will never rise to the occasion....wonder if the ceiling did? |
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Your worst bodge.
Done that with plaster too, when I used all the mix and it was still too watery... You used plaster in the place of flour? A very traditional recipe for rock cakes perhaps? |
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On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:02:01 GMT, "George"
wrote: He will never rise to the occasion....wonder if the ceiling did? Should have made it easier for himself and used self raising flour. DG |
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Your worst bodge.
wrote in message oups.com... Done that with plaster too, when I used all the mix and it was still too watery... You used plaster in the place of flour? A very traditional recipe for rock cakes perhaps? Gypsum's great for getting your biscuits extra-crunchy with an ever so distictive taste! |
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Your worst bodge.
"Brett Jackson" wrote in message ... wrote in message oups.com... Done that with plaster too, when I used all the mix and it was still too watery... You used plaster in the place of flour? A very traditional recipe for rock cakes perhaps? Gypsum's great for getting your biscuits extra-crunchy with an ever so distictive taste! Oh, just in case I get sued, please nobody actually put plaster or any other gypsum based product in to your food! It probably isn't very good for you. |
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Your worst bodge.
"Brett Jackson" wrote in message ... "Brett Jackson" wrote in message ... wrote in message oups.com... Done that with plaster too, when I used all the mix and it was still too watery... You used plaster in the place of flour? A very traditional recipe for rock cakes perhaps? Gypsum's great for getting your biscuits extra-crunchy with an ever so distictive taste! Oh, just in case I get sued, please nobody actually put plaster or any other gypsum based product in to your food! It probably isn't very good for you. Your dentist might be very pleased :-) Mary |
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Your worst bodge.
"Bob Smith" wrote in message ... "George" wrote in message . uk... "avocado" wrote in message oups.com... When I was about 16 I was artexing a ceiling and ran out of mix. I found a bag of flour in the cupboard and used that for the last little bit! Still looked OK 15 years later! Come on the, whats your worst? I don't think the majority on here are COWBOYS. Or bakers. I'm always in the minority :-( Mary |
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Your worst bodge.
"avocado" wrote in message oups.com... When I was about 16 I was artexing a ceiling and ran out of mix. I found a bag of flour in the cupboard and used that for the last little bit! Still looked OK 15 years later! Come on the, whats your worst? Missed your big chance thre, avo. If you'de stuck to that recipe (ay up!) and then told your cutomers that when they get tired of the artex they can remove it by brushing it with egg white and then smooth it with a rolling pin, you would have washed up...I mean cleaned up. Arthur |
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