I worked on the bar at Cropredy in the early noughties, great little festival. Used to swap 4 pint jugs of 6X for steak baguettes and the like, so free food all weekend. Back to locks, I could always do the mechanical ones by easing out the window strips and using a flat strip of steel with a notch in or a coat hanger, plus early central locking systems that could be triggered by causing a vacuum using a tennis ball with a hole in. Only learnt how to do that because I was always misplacing my keys, or locking them in the car.
That is indeed a terrible run of luck, hope your friend comes through it OK. Will be counting my blessings too.
The guy is really a fanatic of all things to do with Ancient Rome and one of his heroes is Pompey!! If he gets a second cat he will no doubt call it Brutus!!
Mods! We are going to have to open a Rugby World Cup Thread to get people's minds off the football, I did the World Athletic Championships - there must be a person on here who is as nuts about rugby as I am about Athletics, to create the thread.
No problem. Once the cricket season's over we can unstick that thread and sticky the Rugby one for the duration of the WC. Any takers for Ides' idea?
Amazon have set the budget for the new Clarkson show. The budget will £4.5m per episode which is crazy. On the BBC Top Gear's budget per episode was under a mil.