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Keep up to dateWe can only assume that the chap carrying out this tricky bit of pointing has lost the will to live
Note how his mate isn't even holding on to the end of the ladder; instead a bucket of mortar has been balanced there in what cannot be a serious attempt to weigh it down. Thanks to Kevin Harrison for this image taken in Stratford upon Avon.
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