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So smoke & tomatoes, they have set light to the scrub, but what is it with Tomatoes ? they come from the South towards Cairo.
Well over 100 trucks per hour, I once got driven through the tomato market in Cairo, huge!
Those huge lorries carrying blocks massive blocks of granite from Aswan ceased years ago it's all tomatoes, these days...
Ps: Great programme at present on R4 'The Food Programme on CBD additives....
Pss: My personal favorite, Chocolate M-J Fudge. 'wickeed and very tasty, 'in a thoughtful way .....
"The Salvation of Mankind lies in making everything the responsibility of All"
Sophocles.
Sounds like a plan I have just inherited 6 bottles of fine Merlot, but the closest I will get is sitting on a bridge over the M6 motorway counting 'Eddie Stobart' lorries.
I have seen these lorries and also the blocks that were just abandoned after they fell off the back. I have always wondered just what they do with them? is it just a case that it is easier to quarry the huge blocks and then transport them for re-cutting elsewhere, or were/are they being used in some large project?
Horus wrote:I have seen these lorries and also the blocks that were just abandoned after they fell off the back. I have always wondered just what they do with them? is it just a case that it is easier to quarry the huge blocks and then transport them for re-cutting elsewhere, or were/are they being used in some large project?
Egypt exports a lot of different types of granite and marble.
Life is your's to do with as you wish- do not let other's try to control it for you. Count Dusak- 1345.
Up in the moquatim hills above Cairo there are hundreds of places where they cut the stone into the most beautiful marble and granite slabs for export. The working conditions are deplorable no masks or eye protection and the dust created is inches thick on the floors.
There is also a process that collects this dust, minus the cig buts , they add fine granite/marble chips, depending on the slab type they are producing, then mix it up with a powerful bonding clear resin. It is then polished producing the cheaper slabs that are commonly used in interior works. I have used these reconstituted slabs on kitchen worktops in the UK, a very good cost effective alternative product to the real thing.
Life is your's to do with as you wish- do not let other's try to control it for you. Count Dusak- 1345.
Dusak I have seen this method used to produce some of the street furniture when the old park by Luxor temple was turned into a featureless wilderness with no shade, stuff was falling apart within months.
And there lies the problem, the resin based compound soon gets destroyed with the suns rays over time. that's why its predominately only used for internal works.
Life is your's to do with as you wish- do not let other's try to control it for you. Count Dusak- 1345.
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I have just inherited 6 bottles of fine Merlot, but the closest I will get is sitting on a bridge over the M6 motorway counting 'Eddie Stobart' lorries. 
