If you don’t like heights, look away now …
Remember that old George Formby song? “The chambermaids’ sweet names I call/ It’s a wonder I don’t fall/ My mind’s not on my work at all/ When I’m cleaning windows.” Thanks to Chris Billington for the photo
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