LancsMike

Cracking idea that Gerbutt, thanks mate. Think 1st port of call tomorrow will be to grab one in town, might get a few funny looks from young mums though

Sorry to hear that Tom, hope nothing ill comes of it for your friend. I'm just infuriated someone had the nerve to go snooping, feels like they've been in the house to be honest.

Evenin' all, Has anyone else in the Huddersfield area had people snooping around lately ? Other night a few people have been in my garden snooping around looking for my kit, few days back I had the saw out to start it up and check it over since it's been awhile since I've been on a job. As a result I've dragged all my kit back into the house and my saw [ It was in the shed ] Either way, just curious if anyone else has had thieves snooping on them too or if this is just an isolated case. They've done a fair bit of damage in the garden, bashed my mums Leylandii up along with a lot of her plants, pyracantha and box trees along with ragging down a load of her trellis from when they did a bunk over the wall. Edit : Forgot to say, they didn't make off with anything, but I think thats more to do with I'm up most of the night with keeping long hours and I'm guessing they did a runner when they heard the back door being opened up or saw lights being turned on in the house. Hope its warning to folks to be more vigilant with the run upto Xmas, thieving sods are rampant this time of the year sadly.

I mess about on BlackOps, its a good laugh but its just an arcade shooter at heart, much better on the PC to be honest than consoles.

Nice to hear you're back home Dave, hope you have a speedy recovery

That's just disgusting by them to do that, its a Rememberance day it's got bugger all to do with whether the current Wars are right or wrong, something seriously wrong in their heads to behave in such a distasteful manner on an important day. I always have the utmost respect for Servicemen and women all over the globe to do a job that many can't do. My cousin has just joined up to go into the Combat Engineers - I just hope he doesn't join the ranks of the fallen anytime soon. - Lest we forget

Ello one and all, After a load more blood tests turns out I don't have Glandular fever and to quote the Quack '' It's just a viral infection '' that knocked me on my behind.. lol Either way I'm over the thick of it now and ready to go back to work, if anyones got work going in the Huddersfield area feel free to give me a shout on here and I'll send you my mobile in a PM Cheers, - Mike

Don't know you either Dave but hope you have a speedy and good recovery, all the best.

I might be interested when im feeling a bit better, What rates are you offering per hour ? I have experience, also got my 30/31 and own PPE/Saw.

Looks painful to say the least, hope he heals up soon.

General Heads up - I'm out of action for the moment due to illness, after a 1st lot of blood tests and X-Rays to check for Lymphoma, it looks like I have a nasty dose of EBV [Glandular fever] I'll be back n forth a bit with Hospital and more blood tests/ultrasound and the like. Hopefully I'll be fighting fit again soon and hope you lucky buggers who got to go to the APF had a cracking time, take care of yourselves. - Mike

Congrats Lorry

Was sent this by a friend, hope it helps you out mate, certainly an option worth considering rather than having Chemo or the barrage of drugs they tank you up with. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjhT9282-Tw]YouTube - RUN FROM THE CURE - The Rick Simpson Story (Part 1 of 7)[/ame]

Thats disgusting behaviour on their part, but it seems to be the case with these sorry lot. As said when I first signed up I wasn't told there'd be any trouble with transferring from Santander to an external bank, but when I want to the '' system is down and they dont know when itll be back up '' With this though I just had a quick gander on the FSA Website, interesting snippet here I'm going to use tomorrow when I get the rest of my cash out [ If they cut up funny and try to stonewall me ] So on that basis Mark, you're well within your rights to lodge a complaint and maybe even get reimbursed for what Santander did with your money along with deliberately misleading you. Hope that helps mate.

Same here Dean, you've given me some invaluable advice starting off in this Trade, happily lend you a hand getting the yard sorted

Hope for the best mate, wish you a speedy recovery from it all.

Halifax was the original Bank I was with, thought moving over to Santander was a good idea and found out otherwise.

Fairly True To be honest, I try to judge people by how they act/behave towards me and others. I've come accross folks with tiny houses but extremely generous and warm spirited, whereas a job a couple of weeks back working for a fairly well to do Lady was the most miserable, miserly type I've encountered yet. Peeing it down with rain like a monsoon, high winds freezing my goolies off and she stood smiling at us with a warm cup of tea in her nice warm lounge with bay windows... seething with anger would be an understatement But on that same note, have worked for some extremely wealthy people who are the most down to earth and friendly types you could wish to work for and chat to.. so it's a mixed bag in my own experience.

Well you are a Yorkshireman Darren...

Thought I'd share an experience I've had with these sorry lot. When I first went to Santander I was thinking of swapping accounts from the Halifax due to some extortionate overdraft charges. When I went in, went in with my Suit on, nice watch and got treated like Royalty and told I'd get the 100 GBP bonus for swapping accounts with them... Over a Month later, went in today to transfer some money over to my mums accounts at Halifax. At the front desk I got snubbed and a muttered '' Go to the main cashiers to do that '' - despite when I first went in with a suit I got ushered to a nice quiet room to do everything.. maybe its to do with the fact I had my berghaus jacket, jeans and a baseball cap on. Get to the Cashier counter, '' Sorry Sir all our external transfer facilities are down and have been for some time, we don't know when it'll be back up '' - They failed to mention this when I first signed up with them. Then I get told if I want to move the money all over to the Halifax, I'll be charged for a Telegraph transfer. One very angry thinking session over with in the street decided b*llocks to it. Went in demanded my money be done by a Cheque, to which they tried to snub me off saying I had to write my own cheque but finally got the Manager involved and got the money payable out to myself. Went back to the Halifax and they fell over themselves to set me up with new savings accounts and the like. What really angers me in all of this is how some people in the Finance sector, not all obviously but some behave like total utter snobby jumped up guttersnipes. Go in with a suit '' you must be somebody '' but go in from doing jobs in the Garden and the house and they treat you like a bloody leper and the irony of it all is that if they were clued up they'd have clocked the expensive Tag Heuer I was wearing but instead they persisted in talking down to me like I was a lowlife scumbag and trying to fob me off with a load of Bull. Anyone else had similar fun and games with other Banks or Santander they'd like to share ? Because I'm damn sure I'm not the first one to be looked down upon for what clothes you're wearing.

Might be a bit of a detour for you but South Somerset/Devon Border near Wellington there's a firm called '' Willis & Grabham '' decent enough prices and staff are friendly & knowledgable. Hope that helps

'fraid I can't make it, will be in Manchester with family this weekend - hope you guys have a good time.

Priceless