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Post by ChrisB on Mar 11, 2016 8:05:06 GMT
We have two sheds here, or more accurately, it's one outbuilding with two rooms - built beautifully with massive stone blocks and in keeping with the house. One is full of crap, the other is empty.
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 11, 2016 8:06:39 GMT
A man with an empty shed !
Gasp !
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Post by ChrisB on Mar 11, 2016 8:17:39 GMT
I've only been in it once!
In my defence, we have a garage and shed in our house in Lincs that are both impossible to enter as they are stuffed to the rafters with crap.
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 11, 2016 14:46:16 GMT
I hate throwing things away so I have loads of stuff that I 'might need' I will have to get into selling, donating or binning Ebay, Freecycle and Streetlife The alternative is to build another couple of sheds !  |
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Post by brian2957 on Mar 11, 2016 15:30:03 GMT
I have a garage full of crap that I '' might '' need in the future. I'm going to be ruthless this year and throw the lot out . Honest  |
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Post by MartinT on Mar 11, 2016 17:59:19 GMT
Get a skip, it's wonderfully liberating (as indeed they are on your wallet these days).
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 11, 2016 18:15:44 GMT
Get a skip, it's wonderfully liberating (as indeed they are on your wallet these days). Not for me. Has bad memories both on the refurb we had at home with our non logical builders and the purge at work where £1000s went to the dump. Appalling waste for both |
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Post by brian2957 on Mar 11, 2016 22:07:14 GMT
We get three free council uplifts a year . The last time I got them I stated that I wanted 10 large pieces of wood uplifted. Without thinking I put out 13 instead . They came and picked up 10 and left 3 at the side of my house  |
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Post by stanleyb on Mar 11, 2016 22:34:20 GMT
We have two sheds here, or more accurately, it's one outbuilding with two rooms - built beautifully with massive stone blocks and in keeping with the house. One is full of crap, the other is empty. An empty shed can fetch a lot of rent in London. You'll be surprised how many people can be crammed in one for the night. A couple of my neighbours appear to have such tenants... |
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 12, 2016 8:07:29 GMT
We get three free council uplifts a year . The last time I got them I stated that I wanted 10 large pieces of wood uplifted. Without thinking I put out 13 instead . They came and picked up 10 and left 3 at the side of my house More than my job's worth to take more than 10 mate ! |
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Post by brian2957 on Mar 12, 2016 8:58:49 GMT
Why Mike ? I remember years ago when I worked as a diesel mechanic . It took 3 people to change a starter . A panel beater to remove the panels surrounding the engine , an electrician to disconnect the starter , and then I removed the starter . I thought those days were over  |
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 12, 2016 12:31:05 GMT
It's the people Brian
There's good and there's bad.
Those days it was unions. Today we just need jobsworths
I am pleasantly surprised when good people help you out and I tell them I appreciate their help so the circle continues
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Post by brian2957 on Mar 12, 2016 15:14:23 GMT
Yep , understood Mike . I work for the NHS and there's always someone poking their nose in . I do like to go the extra mile , but not at the expense of my job  I will complain when I feel that the service which I expect is poor , however I also let people know when the service meets , or exceeds , my expectations . |
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 12, 2016 17:08:58 GMT
Ah the NHS. A fabulous organisation run by saints and arseholes. Don't think I'd be here without the NHS, certainly not without the drugs invented just before I popped up There was a series of 6 programmes called Sids Heroes, one in a big NHS hospital. Everyone there was doing the job for love not money This is all there is on YouTube My thing is W.Edwards Deming / Lean / Sid Joynson Very few people get it or give a shit - yet some people are part way there without knowing it Doesn't help when you are surrounded by non helpful people |
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Post by brian2957 on Mar 12, 2016 18:03:51 GMT
Yup , there does seem to be '' personality '' extremes present here . However . I've met many many good people while working in the NHS . There are a few who I tend to distance myself from though .
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Post by MartinT on Mar 12, 2016 18:11:13 GMT
I would not be alive but for the NHS, and especially Basingstoke Hospital. I owe them quite a debt of gratitude.
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Post by brian2957 on Mar 12, 2016 18:26:32 GMT
I think quite a lot of people are in the same boat Martin . I seem to rely more heavily on the NHS for my good health as I get older . I must admit that I've had no complaints regarding my ( or my familys ) treatment over the years .
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 12, 2016 19:26:41 GMT
I've had some poor thing happen. I can see it is the system at fault - or in the case of taking out my varicose veins a surgeon focussed on what he does not me.
Waste of time BTW
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Post by brian2957 on Mar 12, 2016 19:35:07 GMT
Sounds painful Mike |
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 12, 2016 19:41:51 GMT
The op was ok.
I got myself as fit as I could, the pain killers did their work fine.
I walked every day, easy enough with a load of dogs.
Then bad veins and dry skin patches came back about 6 months later
Waste of everyone's time and say what, about £1000 of cost to the NHS ?
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