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General => The Shed => Topic started by: elvis2003 on April 01, 2009, 19:14:07

Title: call at 6.10 am
Post by: elvis2003 on April 01, 2009, 19:14:07
from the people that are bringing our new portaloo to the lottie,call me oldfashioned,but isnt 6.10 am a little early for them to call???? given that i had no prior warning about it at all? AND they were then expecting me to drop everything,work included,to be onsite by 9am. ive been waiting all day for it to turn out to be an april fools,but no.......... when i questioned the earliness of it all,they said,well,we start at 6!
rach
Title: Re: call at 6.10 am
Post by: ACE on April 01, 2009, 19:57:30
Think yourself lucky is wasn't earlier. After all they used to call it 'nightsoil' ;)
Title: Re: call at 6.10 am
Post by: elvis2003 on April 01, 2009, 22:56:22
dont know what you mean ace  ??? :-[ :)
Title: Re: call at 6.10 am
Post by: saddad on April 01, 2009, 23:17:04
Before towns had mains sewers toilets were "cess" pits... the fluids drained in to the soil and the solids built up. If you could afford it you paid "Night-soil Men"
to come and empty it out, they carted it out of town to spread on the fields...
( part of the reason why archaeologists find odd "spot-finds" of roman/saxon/viking/later artefacts apparently in the middle of nowhere)
Title: Re: call at 6.10 am
Post by: elvis2003 on April 02, 2009, 07:46:28
hahahaha thats funny saddad,they mustve been on their way home when they rang!
thanks for the info!