Mundane News

[Gravity Aided]

I'm wondering if 'Bullseye' needs its own thread ... a series 6 prize, a 'magnificent touring bike!'
Any ideas what is is? Brookes saddle so must be half decent?
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Soma?

 

[Gravity Aided]

Today is my half birthday. I've reached 62½, ⅝ of the way to a century, or if you prefer half way between 50 and 75. Pretty significant, don't you think?

Yes, mainly because I am close o that myself.

 

[Gravity Aided]

I always told up and coming managers to learn all aspects of the business because one day they will need to train others. The people coming into film photography were not raised in it, as many in my generation were. Large skill loss when we all went digital. Good to see film making a bit of a comeback among the retro crowd.

 

[Reynard]

The people coming into film photography were not raised in it, as many in my generation were. Large skill loss when we all went digital. Good to see film making a bit of a comeback among the retro crowd.

Tell me about it... Towards the end of my time as a pro snappy, digital became much more affordable, and then it became a losing battle because drivers preferred to have crappy free pics from a mate than to pay me a fair fee for my skills behind the camera.

Which is the reason why, after my run-in with Swine Flu in the winter of 2009/10, I never went back to photography other than puttering about for myself.

Edited to add that for much of the last fifteen or so years, I'd volunteered my services as a photographer to the local branch of Cats Protection. But the branch has recently gone through a change of committee, and it seems my services are no longer required. I now do the occasional bit for a Siamese and Oriental rescue.

 

[Reynard]

One last for the day, methinks...

 

[Andy in Germany]

Good morning.

I've got to drive today, assuming the client who normally drives the van has remembered to leave the key in its usual place and hasn't taken it home again.

 

[biggs682]

Morning

 

[PeteXXX]

I'm up.

 

[PeteXXX]

It's ♻ Bin day today.

 

[biggs682]

Back at home
A45 busy for 6am
Just got time to have a lay down before my work commute around the house

 

[biggs682]

And first cuppa going down well in a clean mug
Some people need to learn that dishwashers do not always get things clean

 

[Illaveago]

Mum's real bugbear was the students she had to take round on a regular basis. She always complained that they weren't interested in learning how a job was done, and when she asked them why, their standard reply was "oh, we want to do a degree and go into management."

So yeah...

But then as an engineer who was subjected to various management courses, my point is this: how can management "manage" if they've no idea about the work people on the front line actually do. How it's done, the time it takes to do it properly, and what you need for the task in hand.

It's my opinion that they have all employed supermarket managers !

 

[Illaveago]

Morning.
It is dark outside but I expect it is raining as normal.
I may have to construct another Hedgehog hotel. I'm not sure where I put my drawings .

 

[Tenkaykev]

Morning.
It is dark outside but I expect it is raining as normal.
I may have to construct another Hedgehog hotel. I'm not sure where I put my drawings .

I did see a few blueprints online, and one person used a large plastic storage box such as you find in Wilko.

 

[Illaveago]

I did see a few blueprints online, and one person used a large plastic storage box such as you find in Wilko.

That might be a good idea as an outer shell to keep it waterproof . On its own it might become hot in the summer . Back in 1976 , the hot summer we discovered a Hedgehog nest under a sheet of corrugated steel covered in grass . The poor babies cooked in the heat .