Tell Us Something Really Trivial About Your Life Volume 36
Discussion
White Stiletto said:
Morning all.
The plumber arrived yesterday afternoon and pronounced the leaking tap dead. Handily he had a replacement in his van and fixed it in no time at all. He could probably have fixed that sub, given an hour or two.
I have some gardening planned for today, weather permitting.
That's all for now.
Good to hear that Budgie the Plumber was able to sort you out, White Pointy High-Heeled Shoe Guy. The plumber arrived yesterday afternoon and pronounced the leaking tap dead. Handily he had a replacement in his van and fixed it in no time at all. He could probably have fixed that sub, given an hour or two.
I have some gardening planned for today, weather permitting.
That's all for now.
Can you afford to buy some more teabags after paying the bill?
"Hmm, it would be nice if we could bring on a sub just after half time.
Might just be enough to turn the game around."
/ Heimi Henderson, Manager, Trivlton Arthritic FC.
Morning all 
What about a fortnight in Avonmouth docks near Bristol? You could maybe look up Scrump whilst you're in the area.
Bobberoo99 said:
This year we're off to Scotland in September glenrobbo, next year is the one that's proving difficult as it's her 50th and i've told her she can choose where ever she wants to go, she can't make her mind up between the Peak District and Cornwall!!! 
Best go for some sort of compromise I'd have thought old boy, somewhere halfway between the two. What about a fortnight in Avonmouth docks near Bristol? You could maybe look up Scrump whilst you're in the area.
Bomma R1 said:
Morning all
What about a fortnight in Avonmouth docks near Bristol? You could maybe look up Scrump whilst you're in the area.
Decent little truck stop there as well. Bobberoo99 said:
This year we're off to Scotland in September glenrobbo, next year is the one that's proving difficult as it's her 50th and i've told her she can choose where ever she wants to go, she can't make her mind up between the Peak District and Cornwall!!!
Best go for some sort of compromise I'd have thought old boy, somewhere halfway between the two. What about a fortnight in Avonmouth docks near Bristol? You could maybe look up Scrump whilst you're in the area.
glenrobbo said:
Chesty Morgan everyone! 
My codebook is also out of date:
It's about time Q sorted out the new revised edition for us here in the field and Pushfit in the ditch.
Comms are difficult enough as it is, without being able to have a clue about whatever it is we are supposed to be on about.
Are we all on the same page?
I doubt it very lots.
Furthermore, where does Mrs. Bobbers want to go for her holiday this year?
Surely not Chernobyl?
Wylfa is much nicer, and has lower radiation levels if you know where to shelter.
Wylfa was the first U.K. nuclear power station that was as powerful as its fossil fuelled cousins, it was the final and ultimate Magnox one.My codebook is also out of date:
It's about time Q sorted out the new revised edition for us here in the field and Pushfit in the ditch.
Comms are difficult enough as it is, without being able to have a clue about whatever it is we are supposed to be on about.
Are we all on the same page?
I doubt it very lots.
Furthermore, where does Mrs. Bobbers want to go for her holiday this year?
Surely not Chernobyl?Wylfa is much nicer, and has lower radiation levels if you know where to shelter.
After that they moved onto AGR.
AGR were equivalent in steam conditions to Coal plants, ie each unit was the then industry standers of 660 megawatts.
On wiki it will say they used the same plant, this is not so
On AGR’s the low pressure turbines had to me modified to accept wet steam.
They also ran at half speed at 1500 rpm as opposed to 3000 rpm. The had to have four poles instead of two in the generators to give out 50hz.
Here Ends the lesson.
GARBLESNATCHERAll fun and games here...
Baby g3org3y awake this morning 3:45am with a fever of 39.4. Controlled down to 39.7 with combo of paracetamol and ibuprofen. Obviously he can't go to nursery today. COVID-19 test booked for lunchtime.
They've just collected the 6 Series. Called the garage to let them know it's en route. Suggested that whatever they replace on the problem side, to also do on the good side (replace springs etc in pairs etc). Might as well do the job properly.
Ironically it's bin day...
Baby g3org3y awake this morning 3:45am with a fever of 39.4. Controlled down to 39.7 with combo of paracetamol and ibuprofen. Obviously he can't go to nursery today. COVID-19 test booked for lunchtime.
They've just collected the 6 Series. Called the garage to let them know it's en route. Suggested that whatever they replace on the problem side, to also do on the good side (replace springs etc in pairs etc). Might as well do the job properly.
Ironically it's bin day...
Bobberoo99 said:
This year we're off to Scotland in September glenrobbo, next year is the one that's proving difficult as it's her 50th and i've told her she can choose where ever she wants to go, she can't make her mind up between the Peak District and Cornwall!!!
Both have good points,Cornwall has some beautiful areas but the Peak District is equally beautiful. If it was me, i'd go to the Peak District but then that's because i've done Cornwall to deathg3org3y said:
All fun and games here...
Baby g3org3y awake this morning 3:45am with a fever of 39.4. Controlled down to 39.7 with combo of paracetamol and ibuprofen. Obviously he can't go to nursery today. COVID-19 test booked for lunchtime.
They've just collected the 6 Series. Called the garage to let them know it's en route. Suggested that whatever they replace on the problem side, to also do on the good side (replace springs etc in pairs etc). Might as well do the job properly.
Ironically it's bin day...
Not the start to the day you were hoping for i'm sure!! Baby g3org3y awake this morning 3:45am with a fever of 39.4. Controlled down to 39.7 with combo of paracetamol and ibuprofen. Obviously he can't go to nursery today. COVID-19 test booked for lunchtime.
They've just collected the 6 Series. Called the garage to let them know it's en route. Suggested that whatever they replace on the problem side, to also do on the good side (replace springs etc in pairs etc). Might as well do the job properly.
Ironically it's bin day...
A simple question for the more learned(elderly) amongst us, and one i'm sure StuntHi-vizofficeHoMike will be asking himself before the end of the day, why are people incapable of actually doing their job??? It's not f
king difficult, especially when there's both an SOP and information on the route card telling you what to do!!! 
Dropping off cars in Portishead and picking up cars in Avonmouth or Royal Portbury was one of the main reasons I decided trade plate driving wasn't for me. The problem is the single carriageway road linking the town with the ports. The road is the Portbury Hundred so named because that's how fast everyone drives along there. There's no footpath and the hedgerow is right to the edge of the road. Some - most? - lorry drivers would try and cut you a bit of slack. Most car and van drivers would glower at you and give as little room as their vehicle placement abilities would allow. Take a bus, Dicky? That would be nice. Very infrequent. Hitch hike? Tried it. Unreliable. Taxi? Spend all your fee for that job getting to the next job? Nah. So you walk and contemplate less squalid ways to die.
While I'm on the subject, a great many garage employees treat trade plate drivers like st. Really, really, badly. The few who treat drivers well stick in your mind as a rare breed. At a place in Bristol I had to deal with a young car salesman who had been delegated to receive and dispatch me. He made it clear he was going to make my life, and presumably those of other drivers, as difficult as possible. You could have bottled the disinterest that flowed from him. He always had something better to do. Meanwhile, the job of the coordinators at the logistics firms is to arrange jobs so you drop off a car and pick up another close by soon afterwards. Ideally, that is. It's not an exact science. (My worst one was dropping off in Newcastle and picking up in Carlisle.) Having received the car from me I said I believed they had one for me to take back. He said he'd look and walked away. I stood by his desk for some time and eventually the sales manager looked up and asked if everything was all right. I nodded towards the human dynamo of a junior sales exec standing motionless by the window gazing out into the distance. He didn't yell at the bloke but got up and beckoned me to follow him. Outside he said they thought there would be a car ready for me to deliver but there wasn't. He didn't say the lad knew this or that he was going to rip him up for bog paper for being an arse but he did give me the keys to a wreck of a trade-in saying to take and use it, scrap it, he didn't care, and he'd sort the paper work. It had a few days' tax and MoT and a few ounces of petrol fumes. He did me a big favour. The junior sales guy may still be standing by the window of the car showroom, I don't know. Or he's Billy No Stars in McDonalds which is where he should have been all along.
While I'm on the subject, a great many garage employees treat trade plate drivers like s
t. Really, really, badly. The few who treat drivers well stick in your mind as a rare breed. At a place in Bristol I had to deal with a young car salesman who had been delegated to receive and dispatch me. He made it clear he was going to make my life, and presumably those of other drivers, as difficult as possible. You could have bottled the disinterest that flowed from him. He always had something better to do. Meanwhile, the job of the coordinators at the logistics firms is to arrange jobs so you drop off a car and pick up another close by soon afterwards. Ideally, that is. It's not an exact science. (My worst one was dropping off in Newcastle and picking up in Carlisle.) Having received the car from me I said I believed they had one for me to take back. He said he'd look and walked away. I stood by his desk for some time and eventually the sales manager looked up and asked if everything was all right. I nodded towards the human dynamo of a junior sales exec standing motionless by the window gazing out into the distance. He didn't yell at the bloke but got up and beckoned me to follow him. Outside he said they thought there would be a car ready for me to deliver but there wasn't. He didn't say the lad knew this or that he was going to rip him up for bog paper for being an arse but he did give me the keys to a wreck of a trade-in saying to take and use it, scrap it, he didn't care, and he'd sort the paper work. It had a few days' tax and MoT and a few ounces of petrol fumes. He did me a big favour. The junior sales guy may still be standing by the window of the car showroom, I don't know. Or he's Billy No Stars in McDonalds which is where he should have been all along.g3org3y said:
All fun and games here...
Baby g3org3y awake this morning 3:45am with a fever of 39.4. Controlled down to 39.7 with combo of paracetamol and ibuprofen. Obviously he can't go to nursery today. COVID-19 test booked for lunchtime.
They've just collected the 6 Series. Called the garage to let them know it's en route. Suggested that whatever they replace on the problem side, to also do on the good side (replace springs etc in pairs etc). Might as well do the job properly.
Ironically it's bin day...
And yet fetching and carrying cars with me truck I enjoyed.Baby g3org3y awake this morning 3:45am with a fever of 39.4. Controlled down to 39.7 with combo of paracetamol and ibuprofen. Obviously he can't go to nursery today. COVID-19 test booked for lunchtime.
They've just collected the 6 Series. Called the garage to let them know it's en route. Suggested that whatever they replace on the problem side, to also do on the good side (replace springs etc in pairs etc). Might as well do the job properly.
Ironically it's bin day...
That wasn't me, was it?
No, you've sold the truck, Dicky.
Oh, yeah.
DickyC said:
g3org3y said:
All fun and games here...
Baby g3org3y awake this morning 3:45am with a fever of 39.4. Controlled down to 39.7 with combo of paracetamol and ibuprofen. Obviously he can't go to nursery today. COVID-19 test booked for lunchtime.
They've just collected the 6 Series. Called the garage to let them know it's en route. Suggested that whatever they replace on the problem side, to also do on the good side (replace springs etc in pairs etc). Might as well do the job properly.
Ironically it's bin day...
And yet fetching and carrying cars with me truck I enjoyed.Baby g3org3y awake this morning 3:45am with a fever of 39.4. Controlled down to 39.7 with combo of paracetamol and ibuprofen. Obviously he can't go to nursery today. COVID-19 test booked for lunchtime.
They've just collected the 6 Series. Called the garage to let them know it's en route. Suggested that whatever they replace on the problem side, to also do on the good side (replace springs etc in pairs etc). Might as well do the job properly.
Ironically it's bin day...
That wasn't me, was it?
No, you've sold the truck, Dicky.
Oh, yeah.
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