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trigger_andy

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  1. To me it’s more hassle than it’s worth as I’ve a backlog of more valuable timber to slab up. I’m currently cutting up better logs than that for firewood as I’ll need a good supply these coming winters and what I don’t use I’ll readily sell.
  2. Thankfully they mostly congregate in Englandshire. You’re welcome to them, I doubt they could make it anymore of a shitehole if they tried.
  3. Are you literally this naïve?
  4. If you still believe it’s your company your rules you’re gonna find yourself getting a rude awakening one day.
  5. Because of the MasterBates connotation? Can you legally exclude smokers? By all means exclude them at the interview stage though. 🤣
  6. I’ve built a fair bit with green larch. No issues at all.
  7. If they maintain it yes. They may well pleach it along the fence. I’d not really worry about it. If they maintain it then great. If the don’t then spray what comes over your boundary with Roundup. Oops. 🤣
  8. I’m certainly no expert by the Geans/Wild Cherry in my Garden are a fair size. Some are/where a good 16-18” DBH and dwarf the house. As they’ve put netting over the tree I’ll assume they plan on eating the Cherry’s and therefore might try and keep it to a manageable size.
  9. We used to have a room to room fan for moving warm air from the room we had the stove in. I wonder if you could do something similar? A fan set high in the room with the stove connected to ducting and ran within the stud wall and exiting low in the room you wish to heat?
  10. Sounds like you need a Clearview. 🤣 I’d make them my next choose to support their stance .
  11. I’ve tried the on-shore life, it really does not agree with me at all. I found I had very little time to do the things I wanted to do and my family life suffered. Off-shore works for me. With Zoom, FaceTime etc it hardly feels like you’re away. But being at home with the wee ones for 4-6 weeks at a time uninterrupted for the majority of the year is really nice. I think I’ll do another 10 years and call it a day. Working 90 days of the year is semi-retired anyway.
  12. I work 90-100 days a year. Thats over 260 days a year Im free to do as I please. There is not many jobs that allow you that level of freedom and time to spend with your friends and family and still make a good bit over £100k a year without breaking a sweat. My point being that Locums in my opinion have well and truly earned that day-rate and I'll assume they will not be getting a private pension and all the other perks folk get when PAYE. I have zero interest in working as a consultant the loss of the pension I get from my company is enough to give me the shivers, I dont have to pay a penny into it either.
  13. To be fair £800 a day is not that much in the grand scheme of things. They have earned the right to earn that kinda money through the 7-10 years of intense training and low pay. The Semi-submersible Im currently working on is contracted to Neptune Energy. The Consultants here are on £1000-3000 a day. But then there is no salary, no sick pay and no pension.
  14. Oh yes. A 10 second search found me an article from the Telegraph no less. Since I asked you to play Devils advocate and post your findings I assume you struggled? Perhaps your search criteria was inadequate? Post up your search terms and perhaps that will shine some light on why you can’t find the answers you seek.
  15. Apologies for putting you through that. [emoji16]
  16. Same here. Even with being off for 3 month last year after neck surgery I had my best year yet.
  17. I know it’s common. Still makes me angry to see actual pictures of it. Id be in there having a right good rake!
  18. Flattening the curve. The amount of folk thats fallen for this massive shift in wealth is astronomical. A good portion of those folk are on here right enough.
  19. Mark J then? He’s a super secretive squirrel. 😁
  20. Seriously? 🤣🤣🤣 My moneys on 42 or that Welsh Cleaning guy. Saying that 42 flaps whichever way the breeze is blowing, Vesp was more forthright. Could be a bum steer of course.
  21. Well he did specify locums in London. That is Cherry Picking as it allows his to use the shock figure of £800 a day. Which you then used for all locums the UK over who are not on nearly that figure. [emoji849]

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