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Good Morning Have a splendid day. Keep hydrated. At least till later

No such luck. Couldn't even drive my little VW to work in the end on nights. Despite being £30 tax it was a frugal (70-85mpg) little diesel and fell foul of Sultan Khan's ULEZ rules. Final nail for me. Onwards and upwards. Now drive the company diesel on their time into town. All works out in the end. :-)

If you mean me. No, when on the rail (the company I worked for was a contractor) I paid my own travel to and from work. Bit Sh1t but I signed up knowing it.

I put 7 because that is what I'm doing currently. Long may it last. With the Telecoms thing, when I worked in London on a 4 on 4 off. They were 12 hour shifts but my day also included 1.5 hours each way travel. For months it really was sleep work sleep work...then rest. Repeat. Even 5on 2 off with 8 hr shifts you added another 3hrs travel. Glad I'm out of it. Just got to keep going till I can retire. then it'll be 3 hour days of hardcore pottering. :-)

Good Morning Looks fab, almost at the finishing line. Have fun.

Good Morning Hump day again. Dag-nabbit, I'm not a euro-millionaire. Off to work I go. Have a good 'un

Good Morning Bit grey, cool. Missed the weekly farmers weather forecast so it's all a bit of a lottery this week. Have a pleasant Tuesday

Ours usually live in the same small house in an outside run/pet cage. The cage has a lower level that has small cube weldmesh cable tied to it as the little beggars could walk through the bars and become crow food. Only do it once. Drinkers are 2 shallow dishes. One with crumb and the other water. Water quickly gets filled with crumb and cack and is changed almost twice daily. Advantage is the rest of the gang, chickens ,dogs and cats get used to seeing them and they them. Come liberation day when mum wants no more to do with them, they then become their own little gang and either follow the rest of go their own way. Good luck.

Good Morning Sorry to hear Stubby. Always a sad day to lose one of the smaller family members. Grey and off to Wandsworth for the week. Be good..

Good morning. Day after the expected apocalyptic storm. Bit of a non event. Bit of (well needed) rain all but gone now, except in the old barrow. Enjoy the new truck Doug. I'll maybe shovel out the cack from my shed today if I feel over energetic. Have a relaxing day.

Good Morning New job in Wandsworth today. Visit the fossil in Pompey tomorrow and then relax. Have a good one.

Good Morning Ditto - Stubby Nearly the weekend though.

Not many still use them I think. From the ones I've moved that might have had faults that I have rectified as part of the move, I feel sure they'd have noticed. TBH I think they are relied on for broadband only and a wi-fi calling on a mobile if needed.

Sadly, it is progress. Of sorts. I could get gooey about the exchanges I worked where there would be 40 + engineers from 17 through to 60 plus. A "family" of sorts. Some wrong'uns in there for a balanced mix. All with their "sections" of electro-mechanical eqpt to patrol. And NOW those voids where it all was have a couple of 19" wide cabs and few routers and switches passing millions of emails, web searches, videos, whatever. Progress.

Good Morning Don't feel like a millionaire. re: @AHPP after a Telecoms apprenticeship in the 80's and 20+ years working on the exchange equipment, fibre optics, switches and later software I left. Did a telecom role on London Underground. Inside, Outside, Deep Under and trackside. Promoted upwards and eventually got weary of the pressure and deadlines. After a spell working at Gatwick for ea$yJet I returned to BT (by chance). On a project migrating peoples line connections with a view to rationalising them onto the last equipment remaining, whilst the rest is switched off. Power and cost savings and a government mandate. Eventually there will be no exchange fed power to phones, barring a select few special cases and everyone will be fibre/ IP. Chainsaws because I live rurally. My jobs are inside and at some points rarely saw daylight and so the joy of being outside stopped any melancholy. I (chainsaw)mill when the opportunity arises, and act as groundy when asked. Keep active , fit and occupied. My nearly 60 years in a nutshell. Have a great one.

And If I win the Lottery.....there will be a few clues. £200 mill..... I'll be Frickin nuisance. See me on the What xxxxxx to buy? Threads. Live in hope.

Sadly I'm Telecom first and Firewood/Chainsaw milling as a sideline. I am hands up not 100% arb My heart is..... but bills are Telecoms Must go where the work is, sadly it is Landan. p.s Till I retire, win lottery, premium bonds....etc Then Bets are Off :-)

Morning Cockerel and hunting cat both very busy this morning. Up early. More joy in S Landon. Have a safe one.

Good Morning Tulse Hill beckons. Have an easy one.

Cheers for the update. Glad he's on the up.

Good Morning Back to normal after a few days working away. Have a good one.

Good Morning Short week. off Friday to finally start to do something with Mum's ashes. Meantime I have 3 days in Oxford (Cowley) to deal with. Should be straightforward Have a good one.

Good Morning Damage report - Nil Bright and breezy. More cut/split/stack and re-hydrate. Have a smashing day.

You aren't on your own Doug. I get that people feel the need to be constantly entertained but some of these events have far outstretched their original purpose,goal,idea, whatever and as you say are now a money making opportunity for someone. Not a gathering, or celebration as originally intended. It won't change sadly, so I avoid.

Good Morning Overnight rain and a bit overcast and cooler. Local Beer Festival started yesterday. Used to be a real village thing where you'd have a catch up with all your mates. Now attracts scally-wags and riff-raff causing traffic chaos where people abandon cars on the narrow unlit road. I'll get over it. Loads of H/Chestnut to cut/split/stack and a Good Mates partners 50th in the cricket pavilion. This side of the Beer Fest luckily. Tomorrow could be a challenge and I'll be even later on parade. Have a great weekend.