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I’m not sure that’s a marketing line Mark ?

Is Ardbeg on your fav's list? I found it overwhelming with the intensity of its peaty smokiness. Never featured as a 'repeat' purchase - maybe that's the shandy drinking Southerner in me... ?

Cuadrilla recommences fracking and seismic tremors quickly follow. Who'd have thunk it? How can this be anything short of utter madness? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/24/business/britain-fracking-cuadrilla-tremors.html

Yes, poor choice of words on my part. Force majeure would have been a better choice of words but subject to terms etc.

Is there anything in the contract schedule about subcontracting? Maybe subcontract the works at less than 38k with whatever the difference is retained to cover the cost of contract supervision / monitoring. Or just default / terminate the contract and let the customer start ITT afresh.

What was the job then? You cant just say all that and not tell! Can’t “do” specifics right now. I was kind of trying to avoid the details, just wanted to see how common (or uncommon hopefully) the feeling might be amongst the AT massive.

For the first time, in a VERY long time, I found myself genuinely NOT wanting to go to work today. Been putting this one one off for months, even turned around half way there and headed home. Done it now, but had no ‘love’ for it. Thankfully, these are few and far between experiences.

Query “expenses” Felix I did small claims track against the twat that hit my van and took off. I had a detailed spread sheet for all admin hours, phone calls, letters sent and received with a notional cost attached to each which arrived at a grand total. Thats is what I was claiming recompense for after the twat had been taken to task by the Rozzers (they didn’t want to but I pressed it.) The other party then got hit for driving wo due care and had to do driver improvement cse + her insurance paid for repairs. I went after her for the admin hassle associated with sorting it out. Judge found in my favour and awarded the £2.50 cost I had incurred by seeking her details from DVLA. Apparently, that was a dispersement (which is allowed) but associated admin costs of bring the case are not allowed. In my case it was my time / costs I was seeking but I very much got the impression that wether mine or solicitor fees, neither was allowable at SCC track. As an learning experience and a day in Court it was worth it but left me wondering why the Clerk allocated to that track when it was obvious what I was claiming and I am left wondering why they allocated it to a track which didn’t allow for expenses to be paid even if it was successful! For OP: worth having a read of Practice Direction - PreAction Conduct & Protocols. It’s not too bad a read and should come up on Google etc. https://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/procedure-rules/civil/rules/pd_pre-action_conduct

I thought I probably was!

Lax business ethos and lack of innovation? https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-01-08/the-50-greatest-british-inventions/

Price the job not the means of achieving it. Chummy could pay a clown 200 to make a hash of it or pay the appropriate rate for the confidence that a professional will do the job properly. From the description given, it sounds like it should have commanded more than 4 ½. How are we ever going to get to a state where the training, tools, experience and cost of the job provide a decent return unless we price appropriately. Difficult if you are constantly competing against the 100/day brigade granted.

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Competitive - not really (even with regional variations) Couple of hours on site visit, couple of hours report writing - would you be happy paying north of £200/hr? 25% discount for a feedback commitment? That kind of answers the question above, if you can throw a 25% discount out there you're probably (at least) 25% overpriced. Discount for feedback - maybe 5% on a second or subsequent job.

and.... have a look at your pricing, yeah, I know, everyone has their own ideas, but £450 sounds like you're already taking one in the ass!

I may be reading your post in a manner which it wasn't intended (or I might just be too far into the relatively cheap, easily accessible, good quality, non trade barrier advantage of wine from continental Europe - can't imagine how we ever survived before the EU (not at all connected to this post but I'm still mentally chuntering from my last but 1 post ?)) Are we on mixed time lines in your post or am I not reading as intended? The spoils of Empire in relation to post WWII industrial development?

Today is Trafalgar Day, one of the most important days in the calendar of Royal Navy and HMS Victory, the oldest commissioned warship in the world. This battle defined the Age of Sail and sealed British dominion of the seas for a hundred years. Britain’s wealth, prosperity and status as a nation on the world stage still owe much to the courage and skill of the crews of the British ships and their great leader, Admiral Lord Nelson, that momentous day off Cape Trafalgar. You can learn more about Trafalgar Day on our website: https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/features/trafalgar-day

Great for kindling!

That’s an entertaining, but wholly unrealistic scenario.... The dog, at some point in that discourse, would have licked its ass or balls as a natural distraction from the nagging.... And they call it a dogs life!

On the basis of the above statement, I wish to retract my previous picture and replace with this:

Can’t access the link but the point I’d pick up is - just don’t believe the hype (from LAs) about LA budget cuts being the cause of service demise. It’s the golden gift that keeps giving (and keeps being repeated and blamed for poor service.) Yes, of course there are, and absolutely SHOULD be budget cuts. Larger LAs and unitary authorities still have 6 figure salaried executives though and the rationale for that is because they need innovative, experienced, capable leaders. They need to to start earning their money instead of reverting back to the easy strap line - it’s the government’s fault for cutting our budget. No, your organisation is inherently and systematically inefficient, bloated, wasteful and idle. From the very very top to the very bottom. Over the past 4 days I’ve watched +/- 15m of timber post and rail fence being replaced nearby. Always a minimum of 2 blokes + 1 van, sometimes 5 blokes & 2 vans. Thats 1 days work for 1 bloke in any sensible reckoning - how the hell they managed to stretch it to 4 days and so many workers is truly staggering! And that’s the 100% LA owned “arms length” company billing it back to the public purse. Budget cuts my ass. LA’s need to get a grip and start delivering.

Pitcairn - incest, child molestation, near medieval social construct - sounds like an IS holiday destination of choice!

You think the weapons sales will fade or the scandal will fade? I’m a couple of beers in and read it both ways ? You think they’ll stop buying or we’ll stop selling? Im not sure either will actually happen, it may become a bit more obscure and guarded, but I’m not sure anyone (in influence) wants it (the weapons sales) to go away. What at an opportunity for Corbyn to seize the moral high ground - the test will be, does he put morals above money and jobs.

Wasn’t familiar with it but just Wiki’d it. Sounds about right! Talk on the wireless (LBC) was that Saudi owns the 40th something floor of Trump Tower. Their money is intertwined through most most global economies which gives them some impressive (destructive) political clout. Governments cant do much, maybe people power can. We all need to move away from oil dependency - many little steps.

It’ll fade away since there’s very little anyone we might expect to react adversely can actually do about it. The social concience in the West has whored itself to the oil, Saudi cash bought US debt and dumping on Saudi strengthens Iran. Bit of a rock & a hard place really....