"Thats amazing all that original pine cladding" I said to John the Ex-Fireman looking round the kitchen and the apartment above.
"That's all coming out tomorrow"
"What! you're joking?"
"No, it's all getting stripped out and burnt, tomorrow"
"Why?"
"Gareth doesn't like it, thinks it's tacky"
"That's sacrilege"
"Well he's calling the shots. You should see the stuff we've burnt already"
"You must have seen some major fires in your time though?"
"oh aye, warehouse fires, full of Jute"
"yeah?"
"You couldn't put too much water on or the Jute bails would all swell up and push the walls out and the building wouild collapse"
"Really?"
"And Nightclubs. If the place wasn't doing very well they'd just torch it for the insurance, then it would be all done up, revamped and reopened a few months later"
""It's all changed now though. Health & Safety gone mad. You've got to make a risk assessment before entering a burning building, how can you do that when folk are screaming at the windows to get out ?"
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Are John and Gareth a couple? I didn't think Firemen were like that.
john and gareth are married, but not to each other. gareths alright for a bob or two,as they say
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