Comments by "Link Knight" (@OffGridInvestor) on "BBC Archive" channel.

  1. The chances are that it WAS the turn of the century in a rural area, as if your mother born in the 1880s or 1870s didn't know how to read, maybe you weren't taught either! I mean she's not exactly in the suburbs there
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  2. I think she said "raw tea". Like smoke tea if she ran out of tobacco. I know people who have done that when they're flat broke.
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  3. Pity you never learnt the language and they were all so silent
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  4. My grandfather turned 21 while on the way to war. Conscript pulled out of art school. Seen a plane shot down above him at night, had a coconut crab come in his tent to grab his helmet, saw bodies rolling off cliffs, big pythons falling out of trees, had proper PTSD until he died age 94.
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  5. I wonder if they weren't actually there, then got wiped out for the mid 90s stuff.
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  6. Shifting soils like clays make a mess of some brick walls. These are something built and installed VERY fast. Better than a trailer park but not by heaps
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  7. You ever see the top gear one? Guy built a car in the kitchen, started it inside for Clarkson and then proceeded to have a guy on an excavator rip the KITCHEN WALL out on camera to get it out.
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  8.  @vidheadrum  open your eyes. It's all around you.
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  9. Built the house AROUND them. Or left one wall til last.
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  10. Looking like the zodiac killer.
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  11. There was a brutal housing shortage
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