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Von

Von Report 5 Mar 2020 13:26

May be stick to the fountain pen Sharron

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

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 5 Mar 2020 13:40

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

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Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

Sharron

Sharron Report 5 Mar 2020 13:45

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.

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 5 Mar 2020 14:32

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. :-(

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Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

Sharron

Sharron Report 5 Mar 2020 16:54

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.

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 5 Mar 2020 17:24

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

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Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

Sharron

Sharron Report 5 Mar 2020 17:31

I am pleased to have learned something.

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 5 Mar 2020 17:36

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

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Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

Sharron

Sharron Report 5 Mar 2020 18:07

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

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 5 Mar 2020 23:56

:-0 :-0 :-0

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Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

Allan

Allan Report 6 Mar 2020 01:11

Did he have a wooden leg?

Sharron

Sharron Report 6 Mar 2020 01:38

No, but he had an axe.

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 7 Mar 2020 00:35

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

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Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

David

David Report 7 Mar 2020 05:06


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

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