When will I learn that a 20 minute nap over lunch is:
- Never only 20 minutes thanks to judicious use of the snooze button.
- A bad idea as you feel more tired after it than before.
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Aaargh, and I sold a load of scrap copper last year!!
Car shopping. Some of those sales folk are complete 
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Also see: Estate/Letting Agents
And people buying houses who drop out last minute
Teething. 
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I feel your pain.
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Unfortunately British manufacturing firms became uncompetitive from the late 60s, as they didnāt see countries developing their industries with much lower costs; the darlings of the union movement just creating havoc by striking every jackās turn from the late 60s to mid 80s as they also failed to understand what was going in the world and then joining the common market which stopped the govt subsidising firms (well unless you are in France or Germany).
It didnāt help during the 70s when Westminster was almost musical chairs and a very militant union movement.
So, itās almost as if the common market didnāt stop governments subsidising firmsā¦?
Sunday school giving the kids one of these to eat. And then another to bring home. Have a sugared out 4&6 year old now throwing a tantrum because I wonāt let them eat a second one.
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Light weight
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Have to agree .Wife has a car on PCP which is due to expire in October. So went shopping to see what was about. Got the equity figure so moved onto the cost. Way too much for a nearly new Ibiza so walked away. Sales bod called me the next day stating he could do a new one with āsubstantial savings on the nearly new price per monthā .So I asked him what these savings were. Lets just say his idea of substantial and mine were not the same by a long chalk.
At the moment with a buoyant secondhand market, the car salesmen have probably cottoned on to, if one wonāt pay someone else will. Unlike when I was in the market 2Ā½ years ago, a few strides towards the door and they were almost chasing after me. I got a very nice deal.
I donāt get PCP and similar, as feels like hiring a car with none of the benefits of hiring a car. OK for company fleets perhaps.
Insect bites. So so itchy and so many more than Iāve ever had before. 
Some months ago we were told that the unit is being refurbished. Cool.
Everything not in the downstairs stores by X date, is going in the skip they said. Cool.
So we did exactly that. It was actually easier to take what we wanted out, than throw away what we didnāt and so we filled the downstairs stores with what we wanted to keep. And we were taking no chances, we took our massive privately owned whiteboards off walls, took the clothing stores racking apart piece by piece and got it all in there.
Then, yesterday, the builders decided they want to now refurb the downstairs stores, so the WgExo came down to supervise them taking everything out of stores and into a container theyāve hired. (Why we couldnāt have had a container from the outset is a question, but probably due to cost.)
Anywho, he told them to throw stuff away! All the racking, the Hooverās, ironing boards, the housing for the computer server and even the whiteboards! Then we turn up tonight, thereās all of it in a new skip. Itās so stupidly wasteful.
Theyāve also levelled the floor upstairs, which sounded good in theory, but strangely they did so by raising it to the level of the highest bits, so now Iām brushing the ceiling in half the rooms. Weāve also lost half the office to a kitchenette, and it was cramped in the staff office as it was. (Thatās less a problem and more if a challenge.)
Anywho, after parade tonight the Adj and I did steal the whiteboards back and hide them.
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Get the CivCom to invoice the WExO for Al the stuff thrown away.
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Hopefully the property book is up to date.
What kind of special individual thinks they have the right or authority to bin someone elseās property?
Iād be sending them the invoice, copying in Wing and region chair, and putting in some line about legal action over the destruction of property/theft from a charity if itās not paid within x.
Youāre the lawyer @Baldrick, Iām sure you could find the right triggers!
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They probably chucked that as well
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Weāve been promised a lot of thingsā¦
It will be interesting to see what arrives, weāve already lost a load of things from the original plans.
Judging by what the ACF got however, we were right to steal back the whiteboards. The ones they were given were tiny, I like a big whiteboard for lessons, as well as a projector screen.
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At a hotel billed as a āpeaceful romantic escapeā for our 10 year wedding anniversary. The people in the room next door have brought their extremely noisy dog who has been barking non-stop since 3am. We were looking forward to an unbroken night having left the kids at the in-laws.