News too exciting for the 'Mundane News' thread...

[Hyslop]

For all those of you who enjoy a Ginger Nut with your drink,and have been deprived of late as a result of the flood damage to Mc Vities in Carlisle,weep no more.Within a few weeks,the shelves will be groaning with them as the cracker packers are.even now,stepping up their efforts to keep you all from starving!Mind you, this comes from our local rag,so it might be complete rubbish.

 

[redvision95]

I've been offered a very nice job.
35 hours per week. Canteen points if I cycle in every day.
Salaried. Decent salary and holidays too...

 

[Maverick Goose]

I'm in shock....the National Trust have actually bothered to make their recruitment website vaguely user friendly!

 

[Katherine]

I'm in shock....the National Trust have actually bothered to make their recruitment website vaguely user friendly!

Are you applying for a job with the National Trust?

 

[summerdays]

Are you applying for a job with the National Trust?

One of my nieces works for them with their tenant farmers I think and seems to enjoy the role.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

One of my nieces works for them with their tenant farmers I think and seems to enjoy the role.

Now I'm retired I've been looking at their volunteer roles, they've got several places near me, but I've not seen anything I want to do yet.

 

[summerdays]

Now I'm retired I've been looking at their volunteer roles, they've got several places near me, but I've not seen anything I want to do yet.

I think I'd like to do that when I had more time!

 

[Katherine]

Now I'm retired I've been looking at their volunteer roles, they've got several places near me, but I've not seen anything I want to do yet.

Tell them what you would like to do / offer and how often /when, then see if they would like to use you. Sometimes they need extra help for special events, especially weekends and school holidays. Do you want to help clearing at piece of ground, maintaining an area that's prone to overgrowth especially rhododendrons, help in the ticket kiosk, learn about the property so you can do guiding, talk to the public.

Maybe you've already tried that. Hope you find something that you will enjoy doing.

 

[mybike]

Now I'm retired I've been looking at their volunteer roles, they've got several places near me, but I've not seen anything I want to do yet.

There's not much I want to do since I retired.

 

[Maverick Goose]

Are you applying for a job with the National Trust?

I may do....the nice people I currently work for decruited me!

 

[Katherine]

I may do....the nice people I currently work for decruited me!

Oh dear. Good luck with your job search.

 

[Maverick Goose]

Oh dear. Good luck with your job search.

Thanks-I've got straight back in touch with my last work. Luckily I left them on good terms! The worst bit will be signing on...performing open heart surgery on yourself with a rusty knife and no anaesthetic is more fun....

 

[mybike]

OK, so I decided that I needed more inducement to move, I was getting too sedentary and the wife was moaning. So when I saw a Fitbit Orb for £15 in Sainsburys I thought I'd get one. Lasted a couple of weeks then popped out of the strap and was lost forever.

So I got a Garmin Vivofit and had great fun. Then I thought, what about loading my rides from my Etrex and worked out how.

Then I discovered that you could create segments on Garmin Connect, and there's one hill I want to conquer, so created a segment.

After some little time waiting for it to populate I now find Garmin have turned segments off, but don't tell you that.

Do Garmin care? (probably a rhetorical question)

Am I doomed? Will I buy a heart rate monitor and an Edge? Will I join Strava

Watch this space for the next exciting episode, or don't.

 

[Katherine]

On a happier note ; my son rang me this evening to announce his engagement!! We won't see them until they get back from their holiday on the Irish West Coast. Apparently they were by a waterfall in the Killkenny national park.

 

[mybike]

On a happier note ; my son rang me this evening to announce his engagement!! We won't see them until they get back from their holiday on the Irish West Coast. Apparently they were by a waterfall in the Killkenny national park.

So that took a bit of planning. My son proposed to his (now) wife in S Africa at sunset.