Albedo
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I was single in all my moving around till I brought my cat back from Spain. My next move to NZ will be complicated by this as I can't rent a place with a cat and haven't, as yet found a solution to the problem, but I will. My brothers kids have never known a permanent home as he's moved around the world with them but on a good salary and with the help of his company. Will Morris on this forum went to NZ because he couldn't get a starter job here. Where there's a will there's a way. It's more difficult with a family but by no means impossible. I'd find it easier to take a wife and kid to NZ than my cat...he doesn't help out much with the logistics.
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I also came back from Spain into the end of the boom (about 2006) and then back from NZ into the recession. I lasted four years in Spain after flying to Madrid on Easyjet again with 50 quid in my pocket. Thirty years had passed since I first did that and I'd done it again a few times in between. I'm a glutton for punishment. I taught English, I worked for my keep, worked on building sites living out of the car, did odd jobs including treework. There are probably people typing their opinions in this thread who have yet to leave their home town. They are the ones with the anti foreigner views. To my mind there is no such thing as a foreigner....only workers and shirkers.
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I was aiming for Yoko...Oops:001_smile:
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By the time I was 20 years old (1980) I had flown on Freddie Laker to Los Angeles with £50 in my pocket, no credit card, no email…it was poste restante back then. You waited 2 months for a letter from home if you were lucky. No onward flights no nothing. I had no back up and no support whatsoever. John Lennon got shot while I was there. I arrived in Australia with 1 American dollar in my pocket and left there 18 months later and followed the hippy trail back to the UK overland through Asia. Gap years, round the world tickets, and the term backpacker or backpacker hostels weren’t invented yet. I celebrated my 21st birthday after I had done all that. That was hard. I don’t have much time for small minded regionalism. You either know how to get off your arse or you don’t.
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Sorry Lyn , My post , I reckon is on thread but may have no relevance to your post whatsoever except that you are in Wales:001_smile: Edit: Ive worked in Anglesey and North Wales a lot for Mr Ed who used to be on this forum. My personal experience of North Wales is all good. Very hospitable and friendly folk.
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Have you seen the sign on the A55 between Wales and England. It permanently has 'English Out' or some such thing on it in grafitti.
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Cheers Silky, that explains it all. Wasn't being funny but just get that way when I get something in my head. I got the picture now:001_smile:
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So have you got the scabbard mounted somehow on yourself so that the saw goes back in each time, which does sound rather good/
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I'm getting into this thread too much and did promise to shut up. But....That's normal...the north and south of every country I've ever worked in hate each other more than they hate foreigners..especially France:001_smile:
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I have noticed that good job opportunities go unanswered on here all the time...Big BossBeechwood just got bumped with no apparent reply although I don't know the reason People in this country won't even change town to find work, so people with bottle, gumption and a work ethic are coming from different countries because we won't let go of the apron strings of parents and state.
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Hi Silky...it's been puzzling me for days. Why are you having your saw sent up in its scabbard...is it to protect your rope? And... isn't it a pain having the scabbard stuck down your butt? And.... does it fall off on the way up? And ...will this catch on? And...Is it because its a new saw?
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By the way... I'll shut up in a minute... But the Poles won the Battle of Britain for us with their pilots then we thanked them by giving their country to the Russians. We owe them one.
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You have a point which in my view is not racist it's realist and you are entitled to make it. But imagine for a moment that you were Polish and had a legal right to come to the UK. So you're earning £1.50 an hour and eating polish Heinz beans every day. Wouldn't you 'get on your bike' if you had any bottle?
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I find myself agreeing with you again Treequip, that's the second time:001_smile: I almost made the same type of post as this. I've got 16 years working overseas and wouldn't like to find the same resentment myself. I have also just finalised immigration arrangements again...to a third world country. Being a foreigner in another country, when times are tough, one is always open to the job stealing argument. The response is that these things are a reciprocal arrangement and that you offer a skill or an ability to work where others won't or can't. Perhaps some people should try it...I assure you...it ain't easy.
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If we didn't have immigrants we wouldn't have that great British dish.. Chicken Tika Massala
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I think Orca fancies the neighbours cat
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That's cool Hodge, I must be a bit touchy this morning or half awake or something:thumbup1:
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If you read my first post you will see that I said I didn’t have the answer to his question. The OP now has his answer from yourself and others. I calculated the value as firewood so he can say that one load unsplit and unseasoned for £100 is equal to a split and seasoned value of (£2800/4 loads) £700. I just wondered if my calculation was reasonably accurate. I think that it’s useful information as it helps all parties to have a gauge of whether it’s a good deal or not.
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So what's other peoples take on my calculation of what it would be worth by the loose cube seasoned then. I may have overestimated but nearly 3 grand is muchos beer tokens amigos:001_smile:
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<p>Hi mick.</p>
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<p>Just got a friend request from someone and noticed you're still there but not reciprocated so I ticked a box which has sent a request</p>
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I am almost never right in maths questions. I'm happy to take the benefit of the doubt:thumbup1: I think Hodge might be overloaded though:001_smile:
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My maths is nearly always wrong:001_smile: I was going by a transit being 3 metres long and 2 wide and stacking higher than the sides....Jeepers:sneaky2: Suspension may well creak a bit:001_smile:
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Just for fun and not knowing the ‘roadside’ value of hardwood round here which will be by the tonne by the way. (wrote this before Hodge posted) A good load would be approx. 5 Cube of timber….. times 4 is 20 cube…….double it for split loose cube is 40 cube. So it could have a ‘street value’ of 40 x £70 in this neck of the woods = £2800 Edit: seasoned
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That's the one:001_smile: All you can do is not let them get so cold and avoid the hammers and mummy stage:thumbup1:
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Par for the course mate...so to speak. My hands don't work sub zero anymore without the painful thaw out stage. I've kinda learned to work around it as plus 1 or 2 degrees above zero they're fine.
