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Points: 7053 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 02 2009 at 12:24
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Tell me about it.
 
I'm semi-retired and I've just done two months in a charity call centre, basically playing a benefit for Anglian Water. Without even going into the job itself, sh*te isn't the word. Whenever i get my book underway (soon I think) there'll be a couple of paragraphs about that place. Lovely people, cr*p job was never more true.
 
No internet!!! We weren't even allowed pens or paper at our desks in case we wrote down all those juicy bank details on the screens.
 
More people there had degrees than didn't. Three ex-journos, Insurance redundancies, resting thespians, hospitality people, you name it. One lady used to work for the Indian High Commissioner for Chrissakes. To say it's hard to get a decent job is an understatement when you're 51.
 
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It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough.
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Points: 7066 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 02 2009 at 12:13
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Just returned from 2 weeks hols to find that my wonderous employers are removing our external email and internet access (expect for a few approved suppliers) so I won't be able to get my daily PA fix for much longer.
This place gets more sh*te every day. Cry
Bummer - I can see similar things happening all over the place in the near future. It won't save any money, but it will help to lower morale and make employees feel slightly less valued than the office furniture (which in some cases they actually are).
'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'

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Points: 20047 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 02 2009 at 09:26
Just returned from 2 weeks hols to find that my wonderous employers are removing our external email and internet access (expect for a few approved suppliers) so I won't be able to get my daily PA fix for much longer.
This place gets more sh*te every day. Cry
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Points: 1497 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 01 2009 at 01:53
Very nice pics.  You know what they say:  Once a King, always a King, but once a Knight is enough. LOL

Edited by Neil - September 01 2009 at 01:54
When people get lost in thought it's often because it's unfamiliar territory.
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Had a splendid time, it was like going back in a time machine!  took a short film ...
 
 
 here are a few snaps from the event...
 
1. Anne Boleyn.
 
 
2. King Henry in Armour.
 
 
3. Enter the mystery Knight.
 
 
4. Guards and Magyar guests.
 
 
 
5. Magyars fighting - the hammer the one on the right is wearing was very effective against a sword!
 
 
6. Royal group watching the action.
 
 
7. Henry receives his prize from Queen Anne!
 
 
 


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LOL
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Doh,b*gg*r!

Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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Originally posted by Man Erg Man Erg wrote:

Typical,bl**dy typical.

I've just finished putting woodfiller onto some hairline cracks in my fence in preparation for painting/staining/preserving tomorrow when all of a sudden we had some torrential rain and 'hurricane' strength winds.
So, how many years have you lived in England then Lee? WinkLOL
 
Apparently the damage caused by the tail-end of 'urricane Bill...
... could run into double figures, may be even £20...
...never seen it this bad. Shocked
 
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Typical,bl**dy typical.

I've just finished putting woodfiller onto some hairline cracks in my fence in preparation for painting/staining/preserving tomorrow when all of a sudden we had some torrential rain and 'hurricane' strength winds.

Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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Taking our cheap 'n' nasty rigid inflatable boat out on the Bure. Bank Holiday traffic and I tend to avoid each other whenever possible - it's bad enough locally without even attempting to get out of Norfolk, trust me
It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough.
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Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:

The Gazebo nearly fell off page 1 - I'm just posting this to bump it back up.
 
Anybody doing anything for the bank holiday? We're off to my sister's place in Yorkshire. 
I'm off up norf tomorrow.  Staying at the George and Dragon in Dent where they brew a nice pint.  A couple of steam trips are running over the Settle and Carlisle line and I'm also going Tractor Pulling near Lancaster.  http://www.tractorpulling.co.uk/nwtpc/startaug09.htm


Edited by Neil - August 27 2009 at 13:39
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And what's wrong with a bit of verbal jousting?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Embarrassed I'll get me breastplate
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Don't spur each other on...

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...i'll get me jerkin..
 
Embarrassed
 
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I can't afford a doublet - I can only afford a singlet...




I'll get me vest.

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Originally posted by mystic fred mystic fred wrote:

I'm going to Hampton Court on Sunday to see this..
 
 
 

It's 1535.  Come and join Queen Anne Boleyn as she watches her husband, King Henry VIII, joust with her brother, George.

GADZOOKS! Big smile
 
 
 
 
Hampton Court? It brought tears to my eyes!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Embarrassed I'll get me doublet and hose.
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

We'll be popping along to the Amazing Thailand Festival near Godalming...

 



Ooh! Not too far from us...S^d the painting,

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Points: 31169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 27 2009 at 10:06
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:



Why does my life revolve around beer?


ooo....very existential, Jim, well done.

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy" - Ben Franklin
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Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:

The Gazebo nearly fell off page 1 - I'm just posting this to bump it back up.
 

Anybody doing anything for the bank holiday? We're off to my sister's place in Yorkshire. 
Have a good time,Chris.

I'm painting/staining/wood preserving etc. my new shed/beer store and fence. No beer until the jobs done...some hope.


I was waiting for my train this morning at about 05.45 and all of a sudden,about half a dozen Pete Doherty look-a-likes with camping gear arrived at the station.Hmmm. I wonder what they are upto I thought...and then though nothing of it.I boarded my train and as we pulled into Twickenham,there were about another 10 Pete Doherty look-a-likes on the platform.Curiouser and curiouser.It wasn't until I picked up a newspaper and was reminded that the Reading (and Leeds) Festival takes place this weekend. Memories came flooding back of when I attended Reading in 1980 and Thin Lizzy's no show. They were replaced by the MSG so,happy daze.


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We'll be popping along to the Amazing Thailand Festival near Godalming...
 
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