Seems car boot season is well and truly under way.
Usual tools, though I did get a nice dial test indicator (0.0005 inches) for the princely sum of £5. Also I never use those connector terminal things, and indeed they will probably be in my tool box until I kick the bucket but it is one of those things that has to be there just because.
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Many books
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I thought my oldest was going to be the 1886 book on dynamics but instead it ended up being a 1783 French-English dictionary, it now taking the place as the oldest book I own.
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It took me a few minutes (I hope this does not mean I am maturing) before I thought to look up swear words in it. Sadly they are much too polite and have failed to include many.
From the French side
Merde, ſ. f. a turd, a ſir reverence
I am now curious as to whether the long s (the ſ thing some will inevitably mistake for an f, print wise it went out of style about 1800) was a thing in French or just that it is an English book.
And as I had never heard of a sir-reverence before
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sir-reverence
and actually something game related
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I asked. Lady was all "I don't know what they go for these days.... £1"
My reply
"I'll pay a pound"