Mowjo Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 The Mowjo guide to keeping warm, 1.....Instruct the maid to get into your bed. 2.....If the above fails! set fire to the Footman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranworthbreeze Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Hi Frank,On the subject of electricity, I used to work with a couple of older electricians in the late 60's that used to do fiddle work in wartime. As part of the blackout you had to extinguish the lights before opening the door. These two guys used an Heath Robinson arrangement of switching the lights off by opening a circuit above the door. This was infact two copper plates fixed to the door frame that another contact on the door bridged the two bare copper mains contacts.Installations that I came across in my early days were mostly in Terraced housing that ran the wiring in wooden capping, a lot of surface wiring in those daysRegardsAlan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowjo Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Alan! it does make you wonder how we all lived to tell the tale with lethal Electrics and Deadly Gas, I actually had a real Aunt that gassed herself by putting her head in the oven, and how Mum never blew herself up I'll never know? she had a habit of turning the oven on then going to get the flint lighter to light it, we did have a few good bangs, singed eyebrows and hair but apart from the Chicks no fatalities, Frank,,, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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