thursday and the cardinality of the continuum
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Afternoon folks,
WFM today to keep her company. Spoke to the builder/developer doing next door about buying this place. He is keen and also prepared to be flexible time wise. Says he will pay market price but have to find out what the market price is. We is also prepared to take it with whatever carp we leave behind so wouldn't have to worry about emptying the place.
Got brought coffee and panettone just now, thought you chaps would like a picture.
Hope the arms/dog/wife get better people.
Well done MFs
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Great news re: your mums place, having just moved the MIL, that flexibility/luxury of having two houses at the same time is worth it’s weight in goldveronese68 said:Afternoon folks,
WFM today to keep her company. Spoke to the builder/developer doing next door about buying this place. He is keen and also prepared to be flexible time wise. Says he will pay market price but have to find out what the market price is. We is also prepared to take it with whatever carp we leave behind so wouldn't have to worry about emptying the place.
Got brought coffee and panettone just now, thought you chaps would like a picture.
Hope the arms/dog/wife get better people.
Well done MFs0 -
Not a bad position to be for the time being in V. I had to get shot of the folks house in the North East in the end as it wasn't really worth having a holiday home on Costa Del Teesside that needed some upkeep.veronese68 said:Afternoon folks,
WFM today to keep her company. Spoke to the builder/developer doing next door about buying this place. He is keen and also prepared to be flexible time wise. Says he will pay market price but have to find out what the market price is. We is also prepared to take it with whatever carp we leave behind so wouldn't have to worry about emptying the place.
Got brought coffee and panettone just now, thought you chaps would like a picture.
Hope the arms/dog/wife get better people.
Well done MFs
Busy day as a day in the office went downhill after my laptop decided to throw a wobbly so have got naff all done and its busy at present. So now playing catch up before a peal home to meet a bottle of cider or two."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
panettone - the cake of the gods.veronese68 said:Afternoon folks,
WFM today to keep her company. Spoke to the builder/developer doing next door about buying this place. He is keen and also prepared to be flexible time wise. Says he will pay market price but have to find out what the market price is. We is also prepared to take it with whatever carp we leave behind so wouldn't have to worry about emptying the place.
Got brought coffee and panettone just now, thought you chaps would like a picture.
Hope the arms/dog/wife get better people.
Well done MFs
and grazie!.The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
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You have to be a hurdler to join the navy now?!oxoman said:Afternoon All, actually managed a nice ride for a change with no near misses. Thrashed youngest into submission over his how schooling and eldest is pushing me to motivate him fitness wise as he's applied to the royal navy for engineering. Got through the first hurdle a few more to go. They're quite keen on him joining as soon as he's completed his apprenticeship and passed the other hurdles.
Coincidentally, I am thinking about seeing if the boy is interested in learning a trade in one of the services. Discipline/cameraderie/maybe a bit of travel etc.0 -
Sun is setting quite prettily on another day. Quick natter with an advisor on some planned shenanigans with aluminium in Hungary and Germany, then call it a day. Probably no bubbly. Maybe a couple of beers though.
Was trying to post a pic, but it kept on being sideways. No idea why
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Spring is showing its petticoats enticingly. Blue sky, some sunshine and not bleeping cold wind. Summer bike been fettled, not rolled since October, looking to do a what feels like old school road tarmac ride on 28s tomorrow, been a long time.
Virtual beer tasting tonight. No that's not right. I have the beers here. The virtual bit is the brewer will be educating us via Zoom.
All in all an ok day. Please sir I want some more.0 -
RAF or Navy. Avoid my mob unless he likes shyyyt food and being cold.hopkinb said:
You have to be a hurdler to join the navy now?!oxoman said:Afternoon All, actually managed a nice ride for a change with no near misses. Thrashed youngest into submission over his how schooling and eldest is pushing me to motivate him fitness wise as he's applied to the royal navy for engineering. Got through the first hurdle a few more to go. They're quite keen on him joining as soon as he's completed his apprenticeship and passed the other hurdles.
Coincidentally, I am thinking about seeing if the boy is interested in learning a trade in one of the services. Discipline/cameraderie/maybe a bit of travel etc..The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
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this but you can go off anywhere with it.oxoman said:Hoppy, try to steer yours towards a trade that is transferable in to civvy industries. Mines already qualified electrically and some mechanical. I've worked with an ex raf avionics guy he was useless, ex navy submarine mechanical engineers, 1 good and 1 useless, best ex service guys I've worked with have been a couple of navy surface fleet engineers who actually cross trained at some stage as elec / mech. They were pretty dam good.
Army you can go REME (Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers)and the mechanics route, Royal Signals is all computers and cyber communication, dental corps, vet corps, med, Royal Engineers is 72 different trades from carpenter to electrician to air conditioning engineer, plant operator.... Literally everything.
all civvie transferable plus you can apply for a billion courses on the side.
Army is as good/better as the rest for general trades, but obvs if you want to be a naval engineer then RN.
Army also has Army Air Corps if he wants helicopters......
pay is comparable, travel comparable, sponsorship, bursaries, etc.
Its just that the Navy and Air Force live nicer.
.The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
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One of my oldest friends piloted chinooks that inserted and extracted special forces in various conflicts in late 90's and 00's. He never said anything about living nicer than the army, though I suppose he got to fcuk off after his bit of the job was done. Skills transferable? He does business development for a hedge fund now, and loves the quiet life with kids and one of those Vizla dogs.MattFalle said:
Its just that the Navy and Air Force live nicer.0 -
We live in ditches
the raf live in 5* hotels
i know what i would do next time around..The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
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if you end up going sf then you're infanteer essentially with a few RE and specialist trades (medics, signallers) thrown in, so unless ypu get on the circuit or massively retrain when you leave there aren't a lot of options really.....
The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
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Maybe you just didn't get the memo?MattFalle said:We live in ditches
I remember working on some UK base overseas and a Scottish guy was telling us how he'd been dropped in the jungle and he had to hide and survive in a hole (literally, not metaphorically) for 3 days until someone came and picked him up.
It must have been bad because he was complaining about the midges.
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I spent Christmas in a ditch full of ice in minus 10 a few years ago. That was an interesting few days.
The jungle is fine for me tbh, I can't do the cold.
.The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
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Glamorous!0
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Forget the ditches and the beards. Excellent online beer tasting sesh with Siren Craft brewery in Berkshire, 2.5h of interesting and informative chat about fantastic tasting beers. Well recommend. And they are doing online shop national delivery. (And if you ask nicely, and are not a gammon, I can give you a discount code 😉)
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Ooh! Do I have to pm you or is this a subtle enough hint that I'd like the code 😉🍺orraloon said:Forget the ditches and the beards. Excellent online beer tasting sesh with Siren Craft brewery in Berkshire, 2.5h of interesting and informative chat about fantastic tasting beers. Well recommend. And they are doing online shop national delivery. (And if you ask nicely, and are not a gammon, I can give you a discount code 😉)
I may sleep well tonight...0 -
On the telecoms project i worked on (installing a new fibre and copper network across the whole of the UK rail network) all the telecoms designers/engineers were ex-signals and, i believe, earned a mint.0
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Anyway, yesterday turned out slightly unexpectedly.
Little baby Elbowa was born yesterday afternoon, wasn't due till Monday.
Wife and baby are still in hospital for observation, but should be coming home this afternoon.0 -
Hurrah for baby Elbowa!elbowloh said:Anyway, yesterday turned out slightly unexpectedly.
Little baby Elbowa was born yesterday afternoon, wasn't due till Monday.
Wife and baby are still in hospital for observation, but should be coming home this afternoon.
I'll raise a glass in your general direction later!0 -
Congrats Elbow.
I will have a virtual cigar to celebrate0 -
yup, sounds familiar.oxoman said:Sadly only lad I now who was ex army, aka reme is useless. He's a good operator, but useless at anything remotely technical without full instructions and pictures.
tbh, ge could have been a fitter, so not a mechanic.
or justshit.
one of the two and most probably a mixture of both.
like every organisation you get "really good" and "errrr, wtaf?".The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
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Blimmin' fantastic news! Many congrats!elbowloh said:Anyway, yesterday turned out slightly unexpectedly.
Little baby Elbowa was born yesterday afternoon, wasn't due till Monday.
Wife and baby are still in hospital for observation, but should be coming home this afternoon..The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
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scaley backs. yup, its all crypto fibre optics stuidlt high tech now.elbowloh said:On the telecoms project i worked on (installing a new fibre and copper network across the whole of the UK rail network) all the telecoms designers/engineers were ex-signals and, i believe, earned a mint.
.The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
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