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Fountain pen ? I've several Biros. some don't write..

Ummmmm.....................back to the writing - good luck, and go for it! Sharron! :-D

No, but he had an axe.

Did he have a wooden leg?

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When I started school,one of the boys was off sick because he had put an axe into his leg.

.....just shows how careful my dad was with is children's safety - I was playing with the thing at about 8!

I am pleased to have learned something.

Ah! That would explain it. :-D
Ours never had a 'step'!

Because I am nothing if not pedantic, I have looked it up and a rip/reap hook comes straight from the handle and a fag hook has a step to protect the hands and is used for trimming, which is all I have ever done with it.

That's the problem, Sharron.
You'd be amazed at how many different names there are for 'tag'
Also, I can't say 'folk' without keeping in the 'l' - a 'leftover' from living in Scotland, and having a broad Scottish accent (for survival) at the age of 5 - it sounds okay in a Scottish accent, but in English is just weird.
If I'm going to say the word, I have to imagine the word 'faux'. and put a 'k' on it
Neither my sister nor I can say the word 'tarpaulin' properly, either. :-(

I take a scythe to be the long handled, two handed implement Father Time and the Reaper use.

I think they are sometimes called reap hooks but who am I to argue with your family? It probably depends where you come from.

'Fag hook' sounds interesting - then I looked it up.
We (as a family) called them scythe hooks.

May be stick to the fountain pen Sharron

That fag hook looks lethal :-0 :-0 :-0 ;-)

Because I might be alright at medieval but my technical abilities leave much to be desired.

Scan it and upload it, Doubt I could even if I knew what it meant. I can use a fag hook though!

That book looks interesting, I could read that.

It is very difficult to find out about the life of eels and it might not even be true about the Sargasso Sea.

Not sure why you have to type it out again. Surely you can scan it and upload it to the computer ;-)

Just read an interesting book "Pie and Mash down the Roman road "
Lots of information on eels

Sorry Sharron to go off topic :-0 ;-)

Their seams would be intact though!

Think of the damage you could do with a fountain pen!
I mean, just physically you could 'have someone's eye out'. :-D :-D

i think it might take a bit of time to inflict much damage with a seam ripper but best not to risk it I suppose.

:-D :-D :-D :-D

I found a fountain pen yesterday - shame I was looking for a seam ripper!

I eventually found 2 seam rippers, and exchanged one for cat food :-D

I forgot to buy cat food and a neighbour, (I met at the bus stop) when trying to buy a seam ripper, was informed they were an 'offensive weapon', and the shop no longer sold them.
She's recently lost a cat and her remaining one is very fussy, so she had a couple of boxes of sachets I could have, for free.
Well, fair exchange is no robbery! :-D :-D