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Old 20th September 2016, 10:20 PM
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HS2 will however be in a tunnel here. It was going to be about 50 metres away (and 30 metres down) but the route was revised a while back.

I suspect it will revert back though as the revised route gets very near the surface where our local chalk-stream river feeds the village duck pond. Lots of flak about the likely disturbance to ancient water courses etc.

And by the time it's actually built I'll be pretty old and deaf!
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Old 21st September 2016, 03:21 PM
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And by the time it's actually built I'll be pretty old and deaf!
You missed a comma, from between 'pretty' and 'old'
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Old 21st September 2016, 03:29 PM
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The front one was easy - lever off with a trim tool from the back. Helps if the door strip is already off. Two pins in to rubber grommets.

The rear one less so - tried the same trick and broke the stupid single-use plastic clip which TPS think is NLA I'm probably going to have to glue the damn thing back on.

I swear the two ends of these cars were designed by completely different teams of sadists who never conferred on anything
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You missed a comma, from between 'pretty' and 'old'
No, he didn't. In this case, 'pretty' is being used to describe or quantify 'old' and doesn't require a comma. If he had used one, he'd be describing himself as pretty as well as old and deaf - clearly not the intention!
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No, he didn't. In this case, 'pretty' is being used to describe or quantify 'old' and doesn't require a comma. If he had used one, he'd be describing himself as pretty as well as old and deaf - clearly not the intention!
My bad. I just assumed that Andrew had missed the comma. Understandable error
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