the 'todays job' thread

[Jwoodgardenmaintenance]

Not today Fridays job little bit of Indian sandstone 🤦‍♂️

 

Jack

[AHPP]

 

A very pleasant elevenses chatting with a pair of Syrians renovating a house that I was killing trees in the garden of. They had funny foreign teabags and I happened to have milk in the van. We were brothers in arms. 
 

I’m now sat in a motorway services off the M62, where I pulled in to avoid falling asleep on a piss wet, dark motorway. Someone had shit spectacularly up the toilet cubicle wall in Welcome Break. They don’t have an M&S, who do the sweets I like and I don’t fancy my chances of surviving the next two hours without a snooze in the cab, ideally once stationary. 
 

The front left brake is dragging but it goes away when you’re up to speed and the back left bearing drowns it out. That’s not as loud as usual though because I have the cab floor battery compartment lid off in case I need to jump my old and tired Bosch lead acid. I can listen to the turbo instead. 

 

Gypsies btw. Didn’t get the second climbing line out. Eight-year-old bit of three strand for rigging (only when I wasn’t using my climbing line though). £400, and a Big Mac for lunch. 
 

Oh, freelancing. 

Edited November 21, 2022 by AHPP

[pleasant]

My job was outside putting the xmas lights up.......a job i detest at the best of times...but November!!!

 

A point i tried to make to my wife who insisted I do it, but I got as far as saying ''really, its a bit ear....'

Edited November 21, 2022 by pleasant

[5thelement]

1 hour ago, AHPP said:

 

A very pleasant elevenses chatting with a pair of Syrians renovating a house that I was killing trees in the garden of. They had funny foreign teabags and I happened to have milk in the van. We were brothers in arms. 
 

I’m now sat in a motorway services off the M62, where I pulled in to avoid falling asleep on a piss wet, dark motorway. Someone had shit spectacularly up the toilet cubicle wall in Welcome Break. They don’t have an M&S, who do the sweets I like and I don’t fancy my chances of surviving the next two hours without a snooze in the cab, ideally once stationary. 
 

The front left brake is dragging but it goes away when you’re up to speed and the back left bearing drowns it out. That’s not as loud as usual though because I have the cab floor battery compartment lid off in case I need to jump my old and tired Bosch lead acid. I can listen to the turbo instead. 

 

Gypsies btw. Didn’t get the second climbing line out. Eight-year-old bit of three strand for rigging (only when I wasn’t using my climbing line though). £400, and a Big Mac for lunch. 
 

Oh, freelancing. 

In twenty years you will look back all nostalgic at these simpler times.

[Sutton]

 

13 minutes ago, 5thelement said:

In twenty years you will look back all nostalgic at these simpler times.

 

 

 

 

plus ça change, mais non?

[AHPP]

I need kids to bore really. I instead regale my younger university friends with these tales and anecdotes. They all got office jobs straight away so my fairly tame adventures are like Gulliver’s Travels to them. 

Edited November 21, 2022 by AHPP

[Stephen Blair]

[dan blocker]

You do live in a really nice part of the world Mr Blair. Spectacular.

[Stephen Blair]

Today

[slack ma girdle]

Biggus diggus looking tiny, nice sunset.