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It takes remarkably little in the way of ingredients to make half a dozen fairy cakes.

The window cleaner isn't allowed to do the top floor using normal ladders - Health & Safety legislation. So he has a partner with a wizzo telescopic mop who shoots round doing just the tops.

You'll always have to mop up a spilt cup of milk just after you've put the washing on

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no one is allowed up ladders anymore. Makes finding a decent roofer almost impossible. Scaffolding companies may be among the only people doing really well at the mo

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http://www.hse.gov.uk/myth/april.htm

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I don't know whether to be pleased that exists, as it means we can say "look, myth!" to idiots, or sad that it exists because, really, should it need to?

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The whole of www.hse.gov.uk/myth/ is kind of cool-but-sad in that way. :-(

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You beat me to it!

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I'll check next time I see him, but I /think/ it was the fact he couldn't get insurance, the InsCo basing their decisions on the HSE guidelines, rather than the guidelines themselves.

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Geezer that painted my barge boards recently was happy to climb 3-4
storeys height on a single lader to do it. Nutter, if you ask me, but
far cheaper than getting a scaffold tower in to do it from.

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Four fairy cakes in M&S costs £1.69
You fairy cakes means lots for not a lot of money!

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My window cleaner does the first floor with a ladder.

Congratulations on becoming a house-husband. Is that your first batch of fairy cakes?

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Not at all. About my 4th batch. 1st since I became a househusband though, possibly. There's nothing quite like raw cakemix, is there? Nomnomnom as the youngsters say.

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I have a friend who adored raw chocolate cake mix and any Sunday when said friend went home for lunch, her Ma would produce a batch of raw cake mixture for her to eat while she waited for lunch to be cooked.

Since this friend is much married with two children now, I rather doubt that this still happens.

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Ah well our first floor is the living room, on account of living on a hill. He does that from a ladder.

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How do fairy cakes differ from buns? And half a dozen of them would mean splitting an egg. Unless you have bigger bun cases.

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Where I come from, a bun is a bread product, not a cake product. Though we recognise the usage of it to mean some kinds of cake in some circumstances.

My fairy cake recipe uses 1 egg for half a dozen (3 for 18 in the printed-on-the-flour-packet version). Maybe it needs a bit more coz of the GF flour.

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