Mundane News

[Gravity Aided]

-3 at last reading, overcast and dark yet. It may get warm over the weekend, only to turn colder for a couple of weeks and then Spring, sort of...

 

[fossyant]

Taking the MIL out for lunch as she was 80 yesterday. I can't physically help, so I hope we (my wife) can get her inside the pub in the wheelchair (not a small lady with limited movement).

 

[Illaveago]

I may recreate a scene from "Das Boot" later. I'm going to do a spot of plumbing!

 

[Gravity Aided]

Full speed ahead, @Illaveago

 

[Illaveago]

Less of the diesels perhaps!

 

[Gravity Aided]

More of the diesels, you have to have speed to bail that water out!

 

[Illaveago]

If this weather persists I might try growing rice this year!

 

[TVC]

If there's the whole planet to explore, why does Bill spend his time in a freezing flooded quarry in Leicester? Silly Bill.

Because he knows Potsy will never get to him in there

 

[apb]

i think i might get a Brompton and grow a beard.

 

[mybike]

Since employing a consultant to organise a program of redundancies at my school, the school has faced a series of appeals some of which have been upheld and some are still ongoing. The cost of the redundancies has gone up by 20% caused by incorrect redundancy payment calculations being performs and the wrong dates being used for lengths of service. The school is pleading poverty. The redundancy program is removing at one fell swoop, all science, maths and English support teaching. Despite this it is recruiting: an additional assistant deputy headteacher, promoting several staff and demoting more than a handful of support staff by increasing their hours, decreasing their responsibilities and decreasing their rate of pay. The mainstream teachers are expected to take on the increased workload of dealing with disaffected and underperforming pupils that the support staff normally take on and improve the exam performances of all of the pupils in their classes.

Meanwhile the management beatings will continue until staff morale improves.

I am so looking forward to retirement in twenty nine working days' time.

There were a number of things that made me glad to retire. Among them was the decision to farm H&S out to a contractor who would do a walk round once a month, instead of my on-site presence, available to address all questions. Not, of course that I got anything for that side of my responsibilities.

 

[TVC]

My latest sample achieved a partial discharge value of below 4picoCoulombs at 10.5kV. That makes me happy.

 

[Large]

Fell over. Grazed knee, bruised hand and arm, sprained ankle, swollen joints.

 

[Maverick Goose]

Fell over. Grazed knee, bruised hand and arm, sprained ankle, swollen joints.

Ouch!...sorry to hear that and GWS.

 

[Large]

Ouch!...sorry to hear that and GWS.

Ta. Had my wallet nicked too. Serves me right for walking alone through a not very salubrious part of Toulouse after midnight. Not much cash lost, but of course there is the inconvenience of not having cash or cards for a few days.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Fell over. Grazed knee, bruised hand and arm, sprained ankle, swollen joints.

GWS, unfortunately you're not the only one to take a tumble today, my Good Lady has been on the floor this afternoon, broken uneven paving, one moment she was walking next to me the next moment She's in a heap on the floor, She's now got a grazed knee and bumps and bruises.