Pedroski

Enjoy yerself. I'll be here watching some crap on TV with a glass of red wine!

Got my army goretex trossers to not worried about that too much. Arse usually gets too hot anyway, what with trying to keep the company owner happy. Have to move too fast! This is the Helly one I was thinking of - it's got a longer back and I know for sure it is a good jacket. Just a bit pricey though, but it would get used all the time for when I go out with the dogs. http://mammothworkwear.com/helly-hansen-workwear/helly-hansen-hi-vis-jackets/helly-hansen-ludvika-high-visibility-jacket-p1465.htm

Thanks Jon. Just found their web site - look to be good value too. I'll have a think.

It's this one I'm thinking about - the unlined waterproof and breathable bomber: Pulsarail PR515 High Vis Jackets £47 incl vat (dunno where I got £42 from). Pic Yellow is also available. Orange appealed though.... bit less bright, and when doing wasp or bee filled hedges in the rain I thought it might have an advantage! Also looking at some of the sailing jackets - some of them are pretty bright, but no proper hi-vis.

I have plenty of the ex-army goretex, BUT I'm often working from the truck at side of road and also in and out of various facilities where I'm required to wear hi-vis so my usual camo gear is no good. I was looking at the Pulsarail jackets as they're supposed to be very hard wearing, and they're only £42 inc vat. Also, orange is a bit less in-yer-face compared with yellow, but I ain't that bovvered.

Does anyone have any experience of the Pulsar and Pulsarail hi-vis waterproof jackets? I'm after a jacket at the moment, and leaning in the direction of a HH one, but just wondering what the Pulsarail gear is like. Also, other alternatives? Must be strong, must be waterproof, must have a large hood, must be breathable, must look good, must NOT have knitted cuffs!

How's Bjorn Borg doing?

Nice post Will Lucky 'stard buggering off to NZ though. That was my dream..... but then I got married, hoped to take wife and kids with me, and in no uncertain terms she said she didn't want to move away while her Mum was still alive.... the dream was shattered Then with the earthquakes that hit Christchurch (which was where I was going to be with rellies) - well, she wants to go even less! Good luck to you

It's not too late to sort it if you want to sell the motor and keep the buyer happy. So often the problem is a lack of communication. I bet if the two of you had spoken to each other then you would have had a happy outcome, or if he was dodgy then you would have got a feel for what was going on. I wouldn't say you were out of line, or bang out of order - obviously just worried about losing out. But I do think it could have been handled a bit differently, perhaps by letting the buyer know of your concerns before rejecting the PayPal payment.

I think you have to show that you are into equal opportunities - i.e. will consider fairly applications from all ethnic groups, disabled people and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transexual people.

I think this is what he means:

Yeah, it all depends what the tender is for. What you could do, without causing too much problem, is to ask the council when the tree work is next up for tender and then, when the tenders are advertised, put an application in then. Doing like that you are doing nothing wrong. The way to come properly unstuck, though, is to approach the council now, while it's not open to tender, offering to do the tree work for less than they are paying the security firm. Check various local authority web sites and see what is out for tender at the moment. Perhaps you could win a tender in a neighbouring authority.

This is the problem.....with the measurements given, there's no way to know what triangles to divide into

You ARE, in fact, biting the hand that feeds. Often the local authority will require an organisation to have a minimum turnover of £x million in order to tender for certain works. For example, the local authority here required a company to have a minimum turnover of £9m in order to have their tender for maintenance of council housing stock to even be considered. This meant that the company who had done the work for years before, and had a turnover of £5m were not invited to tender. Instead it went to Mears Group. NOW, here is the thing, the people who run Mears Group don't do the plastering, they don't do the electrical work, they don't do the plumbing, they don't do the tree work or anything. BUT they do organise everything and they get the work for their contractors who go out pricing it. The fact the council end up paying them £85 to change a lightbulb seems irrelevant. If I was working as a sparky for Mears Group, and getting regular well paid work, I wouldn't give a toss what they were charging the council for the lightbulb. I would also know for a fact that if I went to the council directly to offer my fully insured and skilled lightbulb changing service at a cheaper rate, i.e. £50. then I wouldn't get the contract anyway as I don't have a £9m turnover. It would also probably cost me the work I currently had through Mears Group as they would just get a different lightbulb specialist in. At the end of the day, it's much easier for the council to have one organisation to oversee something like this. It keeps everything together. It may well be that the security firm you refer to is just in a position to supply everything the council wants through it's network of contractors, and you're fortunate to be part of that network.

Area 1 is easy. Because 3 sides are the same and the 4th is only slightly shorter, then it's not far off the area of a square. Rob - beat me to it.

Mike, how about you call the freight forwarder so you know who you're speaking to, and confirm if they are expecting the vehicle? Looks like it's Alymed Freight Alymed - Freight Forwarders in Northampton NN5 5JR - 192.com

I beg to differ. Jimbob has measured all 4 sides, giving top, bottom and each side. He just needs to measure one diagonal then use this calculator Area Calculator And the triangle is easy. Given 3 sides there's only one way the sides can be in relation to each other. You can draw it to scale using a compass and graph paper, then split the one triangle into two right angle triangles and measure area of each. Or use http://www.handymath.com/cgi-bin/irregangle12.cgi I calc the area as 219.48782 square metres. £10.80 please Jimbob Oops, sorry Rob - just seen you mentioned the diagonal of the rhombus!

The PayPal bit that bothers me, is this..... While they won't take money directly from your bank account without your agreement, one of the things that you specifically agree to when setting up a PayPal account is to "reimburse PayPal through other means". See: "Reimbursement for Your Liability. In the event you are liable for any amounts owed to PayPal, PayPal may immediately remove such amounts from your Balance (if available). If there are insufficient funds in your Balance to cover your liability, PayPal reserves the right to collect your debt to PayPal by using any payments received in your Account and otherwise you agree to reimburse PayPal through other means. PayPal may also recover amounts you owe us through legal means, including, without limitation, through the use of a debt collection agency." It strikes me that you are agreeing for PayPal to be reimbursed "through other means" if there are no funds in your PayPal account, and those "other means" could well be through debiting your bank account as per the direct debit agreement. I still don't think your buyer is dodgy, but I think PayPal cover themselves well!

PayPal can easily take money from your bank account. When you set up a PayPal account you are giving them permission to debit your bank account or debit or credit card in order to settle balances on your PayPal account. So, if some pays you £800 via PayPal, then your PayPal account gets credited. You can then withdraw this to your bank account. BUT, if the person then disputes the £800, PayPal can refund it to them, leaving your PayPal account with a balance of £800 debit, which is then settled by debiting your bank account. Simple.

Not quite. Ebay and PayPal stack things very much against the seller if the buyer disputes something.

You shouldn't need to ring PayPal. - you can just log in and reject the payment.

Delivery cost isn't just the 10 miles each way - it's also the cost for the time of the bloke delivering, and the fact it has to be picked up again at end of day. So that's 40 miles altogether. When I was collecting import cars from the docks and delivering them to people I was always charging close to £2/mile just to make it worth the effort of sorting paperwork, hanging around, driving etc.

Doesn't look like odd stuff at all on his feedback list - plenty of military stuff, and Willys Jeep parts.... ties in well with lightweight LR as all seems to be his sort of thing. Might be worth speaking to him on the phone to discuss the payment and you'll get a better idea of what he's like. I've sold loads of stuff for export before and not had a problem. Best was a Nissan Skyline that I bought in Japan, prepared it here and then exported to a bloke in Norway. Bit nervous about it at first, but the guy paid the whole lot through the bank, and I then drove from down here to Teeside, took the car on the ferry as 'freight', sorted out paperwork in Bergen. The buyer put me up in a hotel in Bergen, paid my ferry crossing and return flight to uk, and paid for meals. One of the best trips of my life it turned out to be

I like "TREES lopped and felled, ground clearance, gardens rotavated etc." - this must be ATC1983's inspiration

Mike, click on his feedback number and you'll see whether it is for 50p transactions.