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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Mick Dempsey
    I know these letters are in all probability fake, but the advice handed out annoyed me.
  2. Mick Dempsey
    Was upstairs just now, performing my ablutions, found an old YOU magazine with this letter, I felt that I could have given some better advice. Your letter just reeks of me, me, me. Your mug of a husband is flogging his guts out to provide for you and the kids, gets home and he fancies a couple of beers and some telly, so what? Last thing he needs is to go back out and spend time with your friends and other peoples kids, if he’s happy for you to do it that’s great isn’t it? So now you’re planning to stripe the poor bastard of half of everything so you can fulfill your dreams of being a ‘free spirit’ (at his expense) just cos you’re not getting enough attention? Grow up, count your blessings and maybe get a vibrator. Grass isn’t always greener.
  3. Mick Dempsey
    35hp Rayco grinder, Briggs and Stratton engine. I have already spent a grand getting a subby grinder in. Only 1 job on the books that needs grinding, so maybe I will send it back. Terrible head cold atm so wasn’t going to do it today anyway.
  4. Mick Dempsey
    It’s dead.
  5. Mick Dempsey
    I suppose it depends if we’re here all day or not. Approx 1 barrow a day on average whatever that is.
  6. Mick Dempsey
    Ok, maybe I will.
  7. Mick Dempsey
    Upgrade kit worked well on the first 201t. Developed by Brad Snelling as I understand it. Pretty soon Stihl adopted it and after that they were fine.
  8. Mick Dempsey
    You wait a month for the part and then this!
  9. Mick Dempsey
    Sharpen the chain.
  10. Mick Dempsey
    Have you posted a picture of the outside flue/chimney? I can’t remember.
  11. Mick Dempsey
    …..
  12. Mick Dempsey
    4 is 5 here. plus we’re a bit close to the equator so..
  13. Mick Dempsey
    Maybe it’s just that you have no control of your legacy once you’re gone, be it from an old house or this mortal plane. Same goes for unauthorized planting trees, one day a guy will cut it down without a seconds thought. Like Stub’s three oaks.
  14. Mick Dempsey
    I had a older Dutch client near me who had around an acre around the house, planted it up with all sorts of small stuff, making the beginnings of a little woodland. Every time we worked there we had to negotiate dragging the branches above and around dozens of little trees that he had planted and cherished thinking of the future and the legacy he was leaving. He got ill, so he and his wife sold up and moved back to Holland. Went round there last year to look at some work for the new owners, they’d cleared the lot and put horses on it. I don’t know the moral of this story.
  15. Mick Dempsey
    I don’t mind dicking around on a Sunday in the workshop, but I never talk to clients or do visits on Sunday.
  16. Mick Dempsey
    @KateH One good thing about this job, compared to say the building trade, is our old friend ‘job and knock’ which means that for many (most?) firms you get a job to do and if you finish the job early, you finish work early, down the pub or on the sofa or whatever you like. This rewards guys who hit it hard for the first few hours, then cruise to the finish line. I can’t remember the last late finish we’ve had.
  17. Mick Dempsey
    ‘I find it insulting that you or others keep mentioning my wages’
  18. Mick Dempsey
    You won’t get one. You’ll get prevarication, obfuscation and if all else fails they’ll wheel out Covid.
  19. Mick Dempsey
    Take it out. Thoughtless planting.
  20. Mick Dempsey
    What was the upshot of that grinding work you posted in 2016?
  21. Mick Dempsey
    So now you know what ‘proffer’ means.
  22. Mick Dempsey
    I think as they say, he asked first. Go on Andy, proffer up something!
  23. Mick Dempsey
    Ha ha! ’our achievements so far’ Taken back control of our borders.
  24. Mick Dempsey
    But a real word that changed the meaning of your post, not a clear typo. I asked you the meaning (politely) you get all defensive, don’t even check it to see the mistake and make an even bigger arse of yourself.
  25. Mick Dempsey
    You used the word ‘proffering’

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