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My pockets must be grubbier than yours. I find that if I don't clean mine it gets harder to open. This is more noticeable with the smaller and less used blades. After cleaning under the tap with washing up liquid and an old toothbrush it's better. Sometimes I lubricate with cooking oil...

What do you lubricate your SAK with?

Birthday cake for Madame's 86th. Discovered I don't know how to do icing!

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Pavement

If I'm at home I drink freshly ground filter coffee . When travelling one cup sachets suffice. It's no big deal they last forever and I can put up with an inferior coffee from time to time. I pick up a pack or two when in France where there is a wide choice. I drank one yesterday with a best...

Coprolite?

That's chutzpah isn't it? The best example I knew up till now is the defendant on trial for murdering his parents throwing himself on the mercy of the court because he was an orphan.

Felicity Kendall has changed a bit.

I've been wrestling with this problem all my life and haven't solved it yet. I'm 84.

Neighbours on both sides have planted new trees. Neither are as old as us but none of us will get to see those trees mature. Across from us is the Millennium Wood where we enjoy young trees planted not long before we moved here. Gives a nice sense of continuity.