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If it's a cold winter you can charge your batteries with them and go boating.

Let's hope that there were more of the bleeding heart brigade around back then rather than heartless judgemental tories who make negative assumptions about people they've never met and have no idea about their lives, needs and hardships. No doubt there were ignorant folk about even then who said that they should get themselves a job and pay their way rather than just be worthless freeloaders.

My immediate thought was a hulk like the many dotted around the Thames Estuary but, looking at the size in relation to the buildings and waterway and what looks like a structure on the vessel...Some sort of fish farm perhaps?

"Ponty Still Lit" Is this the definitive pronunciation then? I've always pronounced it "Pontywotsit" ..

I can be persuaded but I am no longer reliable enough to do it professionally as I can be fit and healthy one day and bed ridden the next so deadlines and commissioned work are a thing of the past. The last rug I made was for someone who didn't care how long it took. I'm hoping to build a loom with a continuous warp system because putting a warp on the loom is by far the most work intensive part of the process but it is difficult to get the required tension for rugs without a fixed length warp.

Well it pays the mortgage and maintains my boat habit so it definitely works. That said I rarely make rugs these days because they are hard work and my health isn't great.

Well I keep making more of them (proper rugs, not rag) because folk keep buying them. I don't make rag rugs unless someone is prepared to pay me a lot of money for them. I do have one in the bathroom that I made about 20 years ago. I still have the frame loom I made it on too.

Yes they dissolved in November 2017 according to Companies House (the company, not the props).