APC

Snow days = taking 4x4 home and picking up any staff on my way who can't get in. Then scraping snow and ice from tracks and gritting, so we can open as soon as possible. There was one day that i physically couldn't get to work early this year, and that was because wasn't expecting the volume of snow to make every single road for 4 miles impassable with a normal car. Got in the next day though.

I'm gonna ring Bicton tomorrow, cheers!!

Thank Christ for that!!!

Just had a grim thought. The course is "live" until end of December this year. Expected time to do the course is around 12-18months. Will ABC still do exam papers for it in a years time? Think i may have made a duff choice.

Can't seem to find anyone who will allow me to sit the exams as an external candidate. It's getting close to the deadline for the end of the course so kind of need to get it sorted! Preferably down south by the way.

You have all the luck.

Sounds like an ideal job to be undercut on.

Cold enough to make a pan of Pimm's No.3. No snow though, but by Christ I'll drink enough to make my eyes believe it is.

Sounds horrific.

Good choice. I'm sat wearing mine right now. It's too cold in here to take them off so I'm just going to deal with walking mud all around the house once it warms up again.

Don't ever work in bomb disposal

If it's frozen, it's gods way of telling me to go back to bed. /local authority

Lenovo IdeaPad Z560 Laptop - Laptops | Ebuyer.com Just ordered that, seeing as it's almost me birthday. It's hardcore enough to be able to use Traktor (a digital mixing programme) and it's apparently reasonably priced. Been recommended it by a geek so should be goodn. With Sony and Apple, you pay a premium for the name. With PC World, you might aswell put dog crap through a chipper and fire it into a bread crate and keep it on your back seat.

Jesus, wonder if this was a learning experience for them, or have they done this before?

Is that right? If so, and an LA owned a piece of woodland which was within a conservation area, aside from the 5m cubed per calender quarter, what would stop the LA from knocking over what they liked without consent? That would essentially mean one rule for man on the street and another for LA's. It would make my job a hell of a lot easier if you were right!

Someone mentioned about tractor driving and being on the receieving end of chumps looking daggers at them. I regularly do a 30mile drive in a tractor with a max speed of about 25mph, out of a housing estate and then along winding backroads. I've never had a driver give me the finger or look angry at me. It's weird, it's as though I'm missing out. /me sticking up for other road users stops now.

put it back PUT IT BACK!!!!

Christ, books are hardcore price in this game.

Hilfield?

I'd love to work on Cranborne Chase. Ideal job. Fooking well proper nice part of the country. Feels so much less touristy than the rest of the countryside in Dorset, except maybe the backlanes around Kimmeridge in the winter.

Dogging.

Price includes delivery, dumping on drive or garden. Sometimes drop in the Southsea which is a nightmare as no driveways, narrow roads, parked cars, busy 2 way traffic. I always ask the customer before I go what the drop will be like and what I will do. I always give the price and if they say "is that stacked" or something similar, then I just say "that's more, we just drop and go as a rule". The fact it's more generally stops them. I have carried a metre cubed over a pavement and stacked at their front door once before. Charged a tenner for that which I thought was fair as it took me a while. One time someone wanted a full trailer, 2.2cube or thereabouts. They told me there was loads of room outside. Got to their place, cars all over. No way was I getting the trailer in the tiny Mini-sized gap outside theirs. Had to drop it about 3 car lengths away down the road. They asked me again whether I'd drag it for them. Seeing as there was nowhere to even park (I was blocking the road), I had to give that a miss and told told them to use their wheelie bin. If push came to shove, would have got it to their house for £20 maybe £25.

lol at spending the day ruining yer body dragging timber around and dangling from trees, then fighting in the evenings. I often have week long episodes where my arms and legs are as stiff as a board, and my hands are so weak that they couldn't scrunch up a paper bag.

It could be an elephant from behind in silouette.

Is that log you are cutting in your avatar the template they use to make teddy bear ham?