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He says it also served as a roadman's cottage with its occupant keeping the nearby road safe for travellers.

"I'd see my grandma in a traditional hijab and abaya and my cousin sat next to her in a roadman tracksuit," she says.

As this roadman, or leader of the service, sprinkles sage on the coals, my eyelids close.

It all began when an anonymous Twitter user who calls herself Ellie posted a blown-up version of Nick Clegg's profile with the comment: "Clegg you absolute roadman".

They could be distracted from watching a fight with mean razors by the glorious smell of hot tar being poured by roadmen two hundred yards away.