[Tech1] Pete Ware and Urban Myths

[Bernard Newnham]

I was just reading a book about mudlarking. Apparently at the Globe and
other such places when the interval came they'd pass buckets around. The
tanneries were nearby in Southwark.

B

On Sun, 19 Jan 2020, 17:06 Geoff Fletcher via Tech1, <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk>
wrote:

> They used to use peein the tanning industry. Poor folks used to save
> thefamoly peeup and sell it to the tanners. Hence the term "Piss poor."
> Geoff F
>
> On Sun, 19 Jan 2020 at 15:34, Dave Plowman via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> In article
>> <
>> VI1P192MB02715D06B059B26BE212A134A7330 at VI1P192MB0271.EURP192.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
>> >,
>>    Nick Ware via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
>> > Apparently, pee is 95% water and is sterile, so you could say it‘s a
>> > reasonable, if rather lazy, way of watering them.
>>
>> Bob Flowerdew on Gardener's Question Time is often on about pee and the
>> garden. Reckons it's good for the compost heap. Dunno why I listen to it
>> as I was born with brown fingers.
>>
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