‘Where we stayed for part of this summer, there was a book in praise of Yquem, about the most expensive wine money can buy’ Lord Byron, engraving 1873. | Wikicommons. Some rights reserved. Travaux par aspiration was the slogan on the lorry. Doing building work with a vacuum cleaner. The noise was colossal and the trench long as this vast machine sucked up rocks, slabs of concrete the size of a diner plate, along with all the sand and gravel under the pavement. It left a clean trench, a metre deep for some 30 metres under our kitchen window, […]
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