Originally Posted by RiflemanTom

I'm thinking of drilling some holes in a wall. Any ideas what type of hole would be best, diameter, depth etc, of said holes?

Sounds like a job for the wife. After all, if you cocked it up, she'd be there in an instant telling you where you'd gone wrong.

Originally Posted by BarkingSpider

Originally Posted by OldSnowy

There was, I seem to remember, a large number reported (around 4,000)to be around Blackburn, Lancashire, a good few years ago. I would presume that thre are still plenty there, and, although possibly a little cobwebby by now, they'd undoubtedly do the trick. Nothing like a pukka Northern hole for longevity.

I have a hole in my pocket. You can have that if you like.

Just the thing for you:

Pocket Hole Tools

There's a hole in my bucket, dear Liza.

Then fix it, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,
Then fix it, dear Henry, dear Henry, fix it.

Then how would I get anything in?

Make a hole?

Due to all the bad weather lately, all the roads round here have developed holes. I know the council don't want them, cos everyone is complaining about them - they even made the evening news earlier in the week.

If you give Greenwich council a ring, I'm sure they will let you collect a few. You can then do the decent thing and recycle these holes instead of drilling your own.

Elbow once sang a song with the lyric ......'' there's a hole in my neighbourhood, down which of late, I cannot help but fall.......''

That is sheer hole poetry, that is.

My name is Major Colonel Daniel Umbungwe Of the 5th Inniskillen Welsh Dragoon Rifles (OBE, ITIL and bar) and I used to work for the Nigerian Interior Office of hole trading and cavity development. Recently due to changes in the law governing tax on holes and wells, I find myself with a surplus that I can no longer trade in Africa.

You have been specially selected as a reliable and trustworthy citizen of United Britain to receive benefit from this surplus.

Please send me immediately all your bank account details so that I can generously donate all these holes to you, for free of course, as a gesture of our international socialist fraternal goodwill.

Yours expectantly

Daniel

I think you've all missed the point and are putting the horse before the cart. True artisans don't drill holes they build them. You start with the hole and build a wall round them. You can have several holes and connect them together, whilst still maintaining their spatial integrity, in this way.
Mind you, Legs had her very own hole made. She had it made abroad so I'm pretty sure it's in mils rather than Whitworth but you'd have to ask her about that.
Men! Just remember, if you decide to enlarge your own hole that glass objects should not, under any circumstances, be used, neither should small furry creatures. I believe that most men who wish to enlarge their hole use a special tool, normally supplied by a 'friend'. Apparently this is very good and healthy (a padre told me so).

Hope this helps

My dear old Grandad, a plain speaking Yorkshire Miner, of Irish birth, would serenade the family with his lovely folk and rebel songs while we sat near the roaring coal fire in the front room.

I don't recall many of them, there was one about some blooke called Kevin Barry, another about how many different shades of green there are. However, the one that sticks in my cognitive folder is..........

''I've got a hole in my pocket, a hole in my shoe, a hole in me arse where the shit pokes through.''

The mad old bastard, God rest his soul.