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By James Walton
What’s my pitch? Well … um … yes. Steep. Like an Edwardian iron roof and as you slip down, the extruding nails rip at your jeans, twist you sideways send you over the gutter sprawling into the frothy hydrangeas below, where the dead wood pokey bits have another go.
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