Tea? (Part 2)

[TVC]

Especially if one of the wagons bought round a G and T or a cuppa every lap.

Chocolate fingers too please.

 

[Lullabelle]

<snigger>

It's a puppy, according to Stephen Fry on Twitter....

 

[Night Train]

Standing up sharply underneath a DVD shelf that is below shoulder height really hurts! Especially when the shelf is a structural part of the loft bed.

I'm giving up on the furniture moving for the night to have a parasetamo paracepteamo parashetomal chocolate and

 

[Arch]

Ouch! Be careful!


Right, after my usual mammoth phone call with Mum, I'm taking to my bed, once I've made a

 

[Night Train]

My head really hurts. Feeling a bit nauseous now.

 

[Arch]

My head really hurts. Feeling a bit nauseous now.

Oh no. Was it your head you banged? I thought maybe you'd just caught your shoulder on it.



Take it easy and rest up.

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Desk, filing cabinets, printer, laptop speakers, swivel chair, all in the guest room design office.

Trying to figure out what to do with the space it has freed up now. The floor space is a little untidy with piles of stuff removed from the top of the desk though.
Maybe move the sewing machine table there.

Get another tractor

 

[Night Train]

Oh no. Was it your head you banged? I thought maybe you'd just caught your shoulder on it.



Take it easy and rest up.

Yes, I stood up smartly and stepped forward at the same time and smacked the top of my head right on the more rigid back edge of the suspended shelf.
Still throbbing and feeling drowsy.

 

[Arch]

Yes, I stood up smartly and stepped forward at the same time and smacked the top of my head right on the more rigid back edge of the suspended shelf.
Still throbbing and feeling drowsy.

 

[Night Train]

Tea's up!

 

[Archie_tect]

Feeling down this week... been reading "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist" and the hopelessness of that time is getting to me as I watch the way the UK is going now, the construction industry is falling apart which is having a knock-on effect through everything. 5000 build companies and suppliers gone in the last 2 years alone... loads of good friends are losing long established jobs and practices all over the country, it's not good.

Can anyone see the funny side to cheer me up a bit: Mrs A_T is getting concerned, I can tell.

 

[Night Train]

The top of my head still hurts.

Feeling down this week... been reading "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist" and the hopelessness of that time is getting to me as I watch the way the UK is going now, the construction industry is falling apart which is having a knock-on effect through everything. 5000 build companies and suppliers gone in the last 2 years alone... loads of good friends are losing long established jobs and practices all over the country, it's not good.

Can anyone see the funny side to cheer me up a bit: Mrs A_T is getting concerned, I can tell.

Sorry to hear that Archie.

<thinks hard>
Does it mean more time to ride? It is here.

 

[Archie_tect]

That's the irony NT... I'm doing loads of feasibility designs for companies and self-build people, but when it comes to buying the building or the site they back off because they're too scared to commit to borrowing the money. If the banks would only lighten up and people got confidence that they won't be sent under the moment they hit a hurdle then we could get things moving again. Costs are getting chopped back, tenders are dropping to unsustainable levels as builders and architects put silly prices in to get work to keep turnover [no profit to re-invest] so companies are living on borrowed time as they chase work. No time to ride my bike. I'm running to keep still!

 

[phil_hg_uk]

That's the irony NT... I'm doing loads of feasibility designs for companies and self-build people, but when it comes to buying the building or the site they back off because they're too scared to commit to borrowing the money. If the banks would only lighten up and people got confidence that they won't be sent under the moment they hit a hurdle then we could get things moving again. Costs are getting chopped back, tenders are dropping to unsustainable levels as builders and architects put silly prices in to get work to keep turnover [no profit to re-invest] so companies are living on borrowed time as they chase work. No time to ride my bike. I'm running to keep still!

Preach on brother. I know in my business I am making just enough money to live on but nothing left over for reinvestment and I cant raise my prices, in fact I havent been able to raise my prices in 8 years .

 

[Night Train]

I am really glad that I converted the main living room, and basement, in my house into my workshops instead of renting workshop space. It has meant that there are no overhead costs when I am not working but the tooling and machinery are always available to use no matter how small the job.

Hopefully when I am well enough to be in gainful employment again I can walk straight back into making things, if there are sufficient paying clients to work for.

I'm with you on the 'no money for reinvestment' thing though. I will need to get mig welding gas and an oxy/acetylene set at some point but that is very spendy for not a lot of paying work.