There is a building developer down my way who has recruited a team of ex Ghurkas to provide security to their sites.
They arranged discounted bus tickets with appropriate bus company as most of them did not drive and/or have a car.
The bus service was less than reliable in reality so what did the team do? Not turn up? Turn up late? Blame it on the bus company?
NO, arranged a central meeting point and jogged to the site arriving early enough to have time to make them selves presentable for duty. After the shift they jogged back.
15 miles each way!!
AYO GURKHALI!!!
I think there is one security company now making using ex gurkhas as a specific selling point. .there were certainly a few extremely polite and tough looking chaps who could have been Ex-Gurkha at the Track World Cup in Feb at Olympic Velodrome place
Dunno if it's the same lot, but there's a portacabin in Farnborough football club car park occupied by a Gurkha security firm.
Pete - We used to employ Gurkha security at the quarry. (I sold one of them a bike for £20 to get to work on, Mrs PPs old Diamond Back) and one of them could regularly be seen sitting outside at night on the sand stockpile, with a little meths stove cooking his dinner! 🙂
I regret to say that the very balanced views shown in the above posts are sadly lacking in some of the people I work with, many of whom live in the town. There was a threat of a march last year to protest about the number of Nepalis in Aldershot
This really saddens me. Hopefully they are in the minority. Certainly nobody I know had any objection to them that I know of, including a few Army/ex-Army types.
I don't know any Gurkhas but I've enjoyed plenty of hospitality in ****stan and I would add ****stanis as decent and hospitable people when you meet them in the right context. I'm not talking about the scallies who race around town in black Audis with rorty exhausts here; I'm talking about their families.
Had to bring this back to the top after picking up a new cookbook at the weekend that has just been launched (nowt to do with me, I saw it in the Gurkha museum in Winchester, only came out a few of weeks ago)
Written by a Gurkha master chef with 23 years service
All I can say, is that it should have any of you Nepalese food fans drooling, and that the chicken and pineapple in honey sauce is simply to die for!
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http://www.theultimatenepalesecookbook.com/
PS - there's a donation to the Gurkha welfare trust from every purchase too!
Nice thread.
Having said all this, the ultimately saddest thing is Joanna Lumley has probably brought an end to the Gurkha regiment as it will no longer be cost effective to keep them.
