Nigel Brennan
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But when it's a pinhole, I can actually see quite well.
So she said, pretty much I'll sit there at the door looking through that pinhole.
And if anyone comes near the front door, I'll just bang on the door, which will give you time to basically race back from the toilet into your room and close the door.
So we had a little pair of nail clippers with the little nail file at the back that you clean under your nails.
That was my tool, Shawshank Redemption style.
So I'd gone in there and literally taken out the three bars and then started to chip away at this mortar.
So it took me about two and a half days to finally get this row of bricks free and
And the Somalians use those little wooden toothbrushes that they clean their teeth with, like they do in Africa.
Like they don't actually use a toothbrush.
And they had a number of these used sticks on the window ledge.
So I basically got those and split them into wedges.
So I took out the bricks and put them down on the ledge.
So I got each brick out.
And then as I put them in, I put little wedges of timber in to hold them in place.
So it was like this jigsaw.
It's the devious side of your brain that just sort of kicks in.
So after two and a half days, I said to Amanda, right, we're good to go.