RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted May 30 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 30 We had some spare time in Aulnay this morning in between two physio appointments. It would have been rude not to buy some pastriesvto go with our coffee. Pain chocolate for the boss and a pain raisin for me. Jamie 13 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted May 30 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 30 3 hours ago, Happy Hippo said: After Dave left, I went in and found that apart from a few crumbs it had vanished. A good thing PB didn't visit too, otherwise there wouldn't be crumbs left either... 2 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted May 30 Share Posted May 30 19 hours ago, polybear said: When the Real Great Empire at Hatfield was closed in the late 80's the staff in the Canteen had the choice of taking a rather nice redundancy deal (up to 52 weeks money, depending on age and years of service) or going to the (laughable) Mk. 2 Great Empire but working for a different company on the same T's & C's - which a fair few did. And what happens? After a year (IIRC) the different company got rid of many (all?) of them on legal minimum redundancy. What total and utter 'sterds. Difficult to feel too much sympathy for anyone who didn't see THAT one coming. Management are not charities. 2 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted May 30 Share Posted May 30 17 hours ago, Northmoor said: ISTR my Dad left the water industry at 50 on the legacy (pre-privatisation) redundancy terms. Within about 18 months, all his former colleagues still working were offered relocation to the Swansea office 50 miles away (so too far for most to commute daily) or redundancy - on new terms nothing like the former public service ones. Never mind, thank goodness the directors of the water companies didn't have to worry about this sort of thing as after privatisation, their remuneration, pensions etc. improved stratospherically. It was transparently obvious at the time, from the nature and history of the companies being allowed to bid, that privatisation was an asset-stripping exercise on a scale never seen before, and that the government fully intended this to happen. Destruction of employment rights and security was also government policy. This was, remember, the same government which had allowed the looting of the accumulated assets of the Mutual Building Societies by their interpretation of a legal issue which had served as a check on this for many years. This is why our forthcoming election is so fraught. These issues still plague us; none of these policies have produced solutions. The railways are in chaos; Road maintenance has passed out of any semblance of order. Energy prices are soaring and our rivers flow with filth. It's particularly ironic that so much was said at one point, about "Victorian values". The Victorian era was a time when the corruption and nepotism of the 18th century was purged from public life, when huge public works were constructed for the public good. 1 11 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted May 30 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 30 The visit to the Muddy Hollow was very pleasant this morning with much gum bashing, liberal amounts of coffee and doorstop portions of an excellent Bara Brith that had just about managed to cool down to room temperature. Among the many topics discussed we did manage to touch on model railways with a fair few trips down nostalgia lane and descriptions of the many layouts that never got built. And in my defence, I did try to resist a second slice of Bara Brith (possibly somewhat half heartedly I do confess) but it was virtually forced on me; well, he asked twice which really amounts to the same thing doesn't it? I also collected the wood strips HH had made for my layout's sheerlegs so I've now run out of excuses to get on with it. Dave 13 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted May 30 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 30 30 minutes ago, rockershovel said: ...... Destruction of employment rights and security was also government policy........the same government which had allowed the looting of the accumulated assets of the Mutual Building Societies by their interpretation of a legal issue which had served as a check on this for many years.........these issues still plague us; none of these policies have produced solutions. The railways are in chaos; Road maintenance has passed out of any semblance of order. Energy prices are soaring and our rivers flow with filth. It really is time for the revolution and putting a whole raft of people up against the wall. Oops! I did say earlier that we should avoid politics didn't I? Sorry about that, I'll be good in future. Dave 1 6 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted May 30 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 30 The chap who is restoring our driveway started a few hours ago. I did realise that it was very dirty and weed encrusted but the bucket loads of detritus he is removing have to be seen to be believed. I dread to think what our water bill will be like. It's a good job we're not in drought conditions. Dave 7 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted May 30 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 30 19 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said: It really is time for the revolution and putting a whole raft of people up against the wall. Oops! I did say earlier that we should avoid politics didn't I? Sorry about that, I'll be good in future. Dave Whaaaat, and spoil the habit of a lifetime? Carry on being naughty, it's much more fun.... 1 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted May 30 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 30 Well M'lud Moderator, it was this Bear that encouraged me so it's all his fault you see. I'm really a quiet and unassuming sort of bloke who hates upsetting people, even GWR modellers, but he leads me astray...... Dave 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Happy Hippo Posted May 30 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted May 30 27 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said: Well M'lud Moderator, it was this Bear that encouraged me so it's all his fault you see. I'm really a quiet and unassuming sort of bloke who hates upsetting people, even GWR modellers, but he leads me astray...... Dave A certain Ex Sqn Ldr is far more au fait with GWR locos and their various tender combinations than he would dare to admit in polite circles. 4 2 1 1 3 7 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted May 30 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 30 7 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said: A certain Ex Sqn Ldr is far more au fait with GWR locos and their various tender combinations than he would dare to admit in polite circles. Amazing what one learns by listening politely while being bored to death.... 1 3 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium SM42 Posted May 30 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 30 (edited) We've been to church, we have processed around the local area in the face of an oncoming storm and only got moist rather than drenched. Now it's time for buffet food washed down with vodka Andy Edited May 30 by SM42 16 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Happy Hippo Posted May 30 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted May 30 My daughter and her children have left to return to Reading. I think my grandson who is heavily into dinosaurs was a bit disappointed that Dave was not covered in scales. 1 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted May 30 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 30 3 hours ago, Dave Hunt said: It really is time for the revolution and putting a whole raft of people up against the wall. Oops! I did say earlier that we should avoid politics didn't I? Sorry about that, I'll be good in future. Dave And after banging on at ME for merely mentioning a couple of on-the-hoof manifesto commitments by Windy Rishi... Words fail me!!! 🤪🤪🤪 1 11 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium SM42 Posted May 30 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 30 The in laws have left, in the middle of a storm for some reason Just got to tidy up now. Andy 13 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted May 30 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 30 3 minutes ago, SM42 said: The in laws have left, in the middle of a storm for some reason Just got to tidy up now. Andy I hope they "stormed" out! 🙃 1 1 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium SM42 Posted May 30 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 30 2 minutes ago, Hroth said: I hope they "stormed" out! 🙃 Maybe it was because we ran out of vodka. Andy 5 3 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post New Haven Neil Posted May 30 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 30 Not wishing to get involved in Polly Ticks, here's a reset. Neither GWR nor maroon. Neutral territory! It's coming together now. 22 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbishop Posted May 30 Share Posted May 30 4 hours ago, Dave Hunt said: It really is time for the revolution and putting a whole raft of people up against the wall. Oops! I did say earlier that we should avoid politics didn't I? Sorry about that, I'll be good in future. Dave I was trying to behave myself, Dave, and now you might be about to set me off again. 7 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted May 30 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 30 13 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said: Not wishing to get involved in Polly Ticks, here's a reset. Neither GWR nor maroon. Neutral territory! It's coming together now. I think King Arthur might disagree... 🤔 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Northmoor Posted May 30 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 30 2 hours ago, Oldddudders said: Amazing what one learns by listening politely while being bored to death.... You've just reminded me of an experience on my train home this evening. There is a young woman who always gets on the same carriage as me, with one or two other young-ish men she obviously works with. They always talk about work, meetings they've been in that day, incidents with their teams and how they manage them etc. What's fascinating me is that they talk about every aspect of their work in a sort of Junior Management Trainee-speak; it's never, "She said she disagreed with me", but, "I got instant negative feedback". Or they'll talk about a meeting and describe how their manager, not "He judged that wrong", it's "He didn't read the room before giving their message or they'd have expected the probing questions". What's amusing is that despite eavesdropping* on their conversations - they clearly aren't worried about anyone overhearing - on perhaps half a dozen occasions, I still haven't the feintest idea what they or their employer actually does..... *Eavesdropping on commuter trains is great fun. If I get made redundant ever again I may go into the corporate espionage business; what some people are prepared to unwittingly divulge about their employers, bids they are preparing and their daily rates, is quite staggering. 16 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willie Whizz Posted May 30 Share Posted May 30 The bank I used to work for had its London Training Centre in Kings Cross, not far from the station. Across the road was a rather disreputable-looking pub, which course members used to patronise at lunchtime simply because it was nearest (and - ahem - sometimes had barmaids clothed only from the waist downwards, but it was the 1970s…) Eventually staff were barred from going in, because it was discovered that the ‘criminal fraternity’ had bugged the seating booths and were listening-in and learning as colleagues used to talk ‘shop’ and compare notes of working practices, giving away useful background for fraudsters. 1 1 11 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted May 30 Share Posted May 30 Yippee! 2 6 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium SM42 Posted May 30 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 30 About 45 minutes ago another storm approached from the south. Looking at an online lightning detector site, it seemed to be heading directly for the airport and then mysteriously turned left. It is rather uncanny. Andy 1 8 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted May 30 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 30 1 minute ago, SM42 said: About 45 minutes ago another storm approached from the south. Looking at an online lightning detector site, it seemed to be heading directly for the airport and then mysteriously turned left. It is rather uncanny. Andy The Russians are driving it. 4 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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