It's the morning of the second Monday of April 2013

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Originally Posted by Cleo

I see that the Iron Lady has died.

I am "house sitting" for a friend at the moment. He 'phoned me earlier to tell me this. He has a flagpole on the roof with the British flag flying from it. The main reason he had 'phoned was to ask me to go out on the roof and lower the flag to half mast as a mark of respect for Mrs Thatcher.

First time I have ever had to lower a flag, fortunately the same system is used on theatrical backdrops so I had some experience with the process.