Mick Dempsey

Wet, misty but not cold. Not too much to do today, so that’s exactly what I’ll be doing.

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Yeah, you’re right, you weren’t being that word, lazy posting on my part.

Ahh, that makes sense. Still think the game should have been played mind.

You’re being facetious I know. However this modern fashion for marking and mourning and lamenting every single thing is ridiculous. It started with the death of Lady Di, since then the stiff upper lip has crumbled.

Saw that. I cannot understand why they didn’t play the game tbh. 25 thousand people or so made the effort to get there, plus players and officials. Someone died in the stands, people die all the time. What purpose does abandoning the match serve?

12.30 kick off I see, wondered why the early start.

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Up watching the Aussies flaying the ball around the park. Fire lit, trying to warm the house up a bit. Bloody stiff today, and not in a good way, climbing took it out of me yesterday.

Saw that on FB, would be nice to know more details.

“Bloke down the pub said”

No, you were wrong.

Thanks, watching World Cup draw atm.

Portishead were/are brilliant, soundtrack to an important little change in my life.

Just bought another Ifor Williams plant trailer, absolute quality, pleasure to own. Long may they continue!

Happy birthday Pete btw. Rain disappeared so a couple of ash to come out, priced it months ago so can’t quite remember if it’ll be easy or not! Watching a few minutes of the Ashes before getting the vans ready. England struggling with the ball atm.

I know, to an extent I do as well. But French clients are often in the dark about what grinding involves so a bit of face to face is better, plus I’m trying to build a bit of momentum on the grinding side of things for various reasons, it all added up to a perfect storm of time wasted. Them’s the breaks.

Upgraded to a half page ad for a couple of months in the local mag for a couple of months to generate work. We'll see what it brings.

I know, I’m not without blame, could/should have done that.

Had one today, been pushing stump grinding a bit lately as I have a new machine. I get a call from 45 minutes away, long way for a price but hey ho. As I’m rained off today I arranged to go over after lunch. Nice bloke, row of Leylandii, 20 odd, decent size, nothing massive but a good mornings work with 1.5 hours travelling etc. I quote €780 inclusive. He says too much, he can hire a digger for 200 and pay a bloke 200 to dig them out. Fine says I, shake hands and get in the truck. Then I said to him. ’I have driven 45 minutes to be here, now if you’d have said over the phone, I can get it done by a mate for 400€ I’d have said get your mate to do it, I cannot bring the grinder over here and do it that cheap, and we’d all have saved time and money’ He looked a bit sheepish in fairness. Don’t get me wrong, quotes are free, it’s a service industry and you have to take the rough with the smooth, but it can sting a bit sometimes.

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Update…didn’t go to work. Watching cricket from sunny Australia.

Jesus, not this thread as well!

Pissing down again, forecast to last all morning, took Tuesday off cos of rain, so reluctant to take another day off. I’ll delay the decision for a bit..

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