I would just like to say

Stanleysteamer said:

Wonder if the kits are cheaper over here. Like swimming pools are half the price.
you can get one like this for €319
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Others are a bit more money, and as with most things, the sky is the limit.

Anyone. more or less, can build their own out of special bricks or maybe even ornery ones, plus a bit o concrete I suppose, Thinking that W's ex even managed it and he needed a map to find his own "back door".

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Brown said:

You only really need firebricks where they're in contact with the fire (and even then ordinary bricks can last fairly well). The rest of it can be made out of whatever building materials you like - brick, stone, blocks, cast it out of cement and so on. I made one in a friend's garden a few years ago out of old bricks which the previous inhabitant of the house had left lying about. I made it to fit a standard sized metal grill and fire tray which she had. Many a happy sausage was incinerated there on balmy summer evenings until she eventually moved away.

One of the factors that encouraged her to move was that she became aware that there was a rather gruesome story attached to the house. The bricks had come from an outbuilding that had been demolished, and many years previously a former owner had murdered his wife there. In an attempt to cover his tracks, he'd tried to force tablets down her throat after she was dead, to make it look like she'd taken an overdose. All this went on in the outbuilding, apparently. My friend didn't much like the idea of having a haunted barbecue.

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DanClarke said:

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I am a bit "concerned".
I am being emotionally blackmailed by "her indoors" to go and attend to her mothers garden with a hedge-trimmer.
The thing is... she has a son that goes there every sodding Sunday to dip his hand into his Mum's purse and eat a good meal and take meat home for himself to cook. So...why the FCUK isn't he doing it?

Oh, I forget, he's disabled (aka terminally lazy).

So, I need a skip on her drive and willing helpers because I aint as young as I was either. But.............

The grand-kids all espouse the mantra "we must take care of gran" but are never there to be seen when $hit gets serious.
It really boils my pi$$.

I don't like being manipulated while some scrounging fecker sits on the side-lines. /rant.

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Stanleysteamer said:

It is just the quantity we drink in our drinks. It is perfectly possible to get alcohol poisoning through drinking too much of the stuff you can buy in a pub or supermarket, but mostly peeps can't handle that amount and/or throw up which helps reduce total intake.
When I was a lad, still at school, a mate of mine nicked a bottle of gin off his dad and we split it between us in 15 minutes.
Crazy things you do.
Threw up like mad obvs.

Amazingly I still like gin, but I didn't ...for a bit!

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Stanleysteamer said:

Wonder if the kits are cheaper over here. Like swimming pools are half the price.
you can get one like this for €319
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Others are a bit more money, and as with most things, the sky is the limit.

Anyone. more or less, can build their own out of special bricks or maybe even ornery ones, plus a bit o concrete I suppose, Thinking that W's ex even managed it and he needed a map to find his own "back door".

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Stone56 said:

Lidl out here last year 8€ bargain when finished with can use to patch up the defender

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Stone56 said:

You are being a normal person don't get in a rant about it stick to your guns it seems the in thing know emotional manipulation

On the same line thay say if you eat 5lb of potatoes it could kill you that is in one go

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Stone56 said:

Well the sausages weren't to bad .but with only 2 of us it just seems a bit of a waste of time 32 at the moment so going to put a film on and have a powser siesta or kipp whatever comes first

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Stone56 said:

You are being a normal person don't get in a rant about it stick to your guns it seems the in thing know emotional manipulation

On the same line thay say if you eat 5lb of potatoes it could kill you that is in one go

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kevstar said:

What a wally Should have dissolved them in water & used a hose n funnel

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WhiskyLassie said:

Managed to do what I needed to do early and had a cheeky afternoon off. Did housework and can chill

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Turktowner said:

Wish I had the option, is just dead here today

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WhiskyLassie said:

I did all the tasks I can do working from home so now it's Xbox and chill

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Turktowner said:

Do you work from home often, I think I would have trouble focusing..

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Brown said:

I think you might need to eat them raw for that to happen. One of my favourite meals at the moment consists of 2.5 Kg of potatoes (boiled and mashed) 1 Kg of onions (fried) and about a kilo of cheese. I mash a load of cheese and butter into the potatoes, add the fried onions and then put it into an oven dish and grate the rest of the cheese on top, and put it in they oven to melt the cheese. I'm not trying to boast or anything, but I can eat most of that at a sitting. So if 5 lbs of potatoes were lethal I'd have been dead years ago. Simple fare, but I can carry on eating it until I'm quite uncomfortable. In fact I think I'll make another one this evening.

Potatoes are in the solanaceae family along with the nightshades, so have the capacity to make a number of highly toxic alkaloids in their little solar powered chemical factories.

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Turktowner said:

Could always throw on something else for tomorrow? I usually does chicken..

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Turktowner said:

Do you work from home often, I think I would have trouble focusing..

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Def90man said:

Me as well. I would be very easily distracted I fink

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