Something of interest,,

[spuddog0507]

As per title,, 9 pm Ch 5 Sunday night, 1978 the winter of discontent,, this will be of interest to some and not to others, some of us on here where there in 78 and remember it well, we had the miners on strike so that lead to no coal for power stations so no electricity, power going off every night at either 8pm or 9,30pm after the news on BBC1, British Leyland, The binmen on strike rubbish piled up every where in the streets which lead to some towns and citys having a massive Rat infestation, Interest rates on a raped rise, 

I dont think its going to be as bad this time round but its heading that way, some signs are all ready there, Interest rates on the way up, cost of living seems to be going up weekly at present, some sawmills we deal with have not been taking saw logs for near on 2 month now, and 2 of the biggest saw mills in the UK are full of saw logs and there warehouses are full of sawn timber, i was talking to a driver from a local builders merchants this week and he said they are very very quiet and have been for a couple of months now, Thing are not looking good,,  

[eggsarascal]

7 hours ago, spuddog0507 said:

As per title,, 9 pm Ch 5 Sunday night, 1978 the winter of discontent,, this will be of interest to some and not to others, some of us on here where there in 78 and remember it well, we had the miners on strike so that lead to no coal for power stations so no electricity, power going off every night at either 8pm or 9,30pm after the news on BBC1, British Leyland, The binmen on strike rubbish piled up every where in the streets which lead to some towns and citys having a massive Rat infestation, Interest rates on a raped rise, 

I dont think its going to be as bad this time round but its heading that way, some signs are all ready there, Interest rates on the way up, cost of living seems to be going up weekly at present, some sawmills we deal with have not been taking saw logs for near on 2 month now, and 2 of the biggest saw mills in the UK are full of saw logs and there warehouses are full of sawn timber, i was talking to a driver from a local builders merchants this week and he said they are very very quiet and have been for a couple of months now, Thing are not looking good,,  

The only thing I don't recognise out of that is the merchants, I was at Travis yesterday and there were vans all over the place. Also on the few trade pages I follow everyone is looking for staff.

[spuddog0507]

5 hours ago, eggsarascal said:

The only thing I don't recognise out of that is the merchants, I was at Travis yesterday and there were vans all over the place. Also on the few trade pages I follow everyone is looking for staff.

That's just our local builders merchants but they are not the cheapest and as some one has told me this morning, they got 3 pks of blocks 2 pk face brick a couple of bulk bags of sand and cement plus a few bits n bats from another merchant 20mile away and it was £215 cheaper delivered to site than it was from the other merchant on his door step,,