Working as a systems Engineer at Royal Mail at the mo, but the company’s completely imploding, as the nepotism and promotions to useless sycophants is finally coming home to roost.
I have my CV out far and wide, as I’m thoroughly cheesed off with the daily infighting (some of it actually physical).

So that brings them down to only a little bit more expensive than everyone else then!

Well done Taylor, having spent more years than I care to remember training, working and competing BCs he sounds fine and dandy, and just a little bored (a common trait amongst Borders). It might be worth getting in touch with a local agility or flyball club to see if anyone would consider taking him on as a foster home.

Jenbe, if you’re going to consider offering “advice” please try and think before you do..

You could also try these guys:
http://www.bordercollierescue.org/home.html – 0845 6044941

They have a fantastic record of rehoming Border Collies, as I suspect he’d transform if he had a purpose in life.

GIS mapping seems to be on the growth in the Wind Industry.

Mine is 15 miles each way, 5 days a week.

The key is to take your time initially to let you legs catchup with the increase in regular mileage, and to increase your energy intake so that you don’t burn out by Wednesday.

I heard that too. 😐

when you go to see Simon Pegg’s new movie “Paul” and you’re the only one that gets the references to Star Wars and Close Encounters!

esselgruntfuttock – Member
You lot have been watching a different vid to me then, that snowboardy one is simply ‘Roam’ on a Snowboard with a Jellycopter in.

Mines got an F18 in it. ??? WTF?

Whatever.

Fantastic cinematography 8)

My wife has an African Grey Parrot. It is incredibily noisy, very demanding (will yell and yell as soon as you leave the room) and unbelievably messy!

Certainly not on my list of beloved pets.

the_lecht_rocks – Member
Nicolai Helius AC.
How old are you ?
If you’re less than 35 you’re better off without… Loads of fun and opportunity if you’re in your 20’s….
I had a great time right until I was 34 and met my beautiful wife…

Not entirely sure that came out right! Lol

I wanted something similar, and as an Engineer I new that anything “soft” would scratch and tarnish within weeks, so opted for Tungsten Carbide.

It’s been impossible to scratch and it still looks as polished as the day I bought it.

http://www.uktitaniumjewellery.co.uk/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=12

Cheer turin, I’ve just seen a job on BWEA that interests me, so I’ve popped them my CV.
Good luck job hunting.

turin, who have you tried so far?

I’m a lowly IEng at the moment trying to break into the renewables world, and am regularly checking in with these guys.

http://www.vestas.com/
http://www.dawson-energy.co.uk/
http://taylorhopkinson.com/
http://www.vattenfall.co.uk/en/index.htm
http://www.allen-york.com
http://www.ersg.co.uk
http://www.networkersmsb.com
http://www.regwindpower.co.uk
http://www.enercon.de/en-en/
http://www.nwe.siemens.com/windpower/jobs/Pages/jobs.aspx
http://www.e-tricity.co.uk/

Well, my CV is flying left, right and centre right now 🙂

I work for RM, and seeing the pish poor decisions being made by those “in charge” with zero qualifications to DO their job, and how completely inept to55ers are promoted through nepotism and ars3holing, I’m throwing my CV left, right and centre before the whole thing implodes.

So, if there’s anyone in the wind industry looking for a time-served Electrical Engineer, give me a nudge before I quite literally “go postal”!!!

How do you go about transferring your movies etc to a USB stick, as I thought it was only possible to transfer to a CD burner?

Have you thought about the Skoda Octavia?
It’s a fantastic car, and at a bargain price too.

Arcticdan – Member

NikNak – that sounds terrible…. assume yours was a worst case scenario??

It was, thankfully.
They told me that (usually) it’s pretty well knitted together in about 6 weeks, but takes roughly 3 months for the new bone to harden and be up to full strength.

The important thing between now and then is to start on a course of (very) gentle Physiotherapy, so that the shoulder joint doesn’t sieze up, and you don’t lose too much muscle through inactivity.

In my case – 18 months, after being mis-diagnosed as healing when it clearly wasn’t (one of the fractured ends rubbing against my jugular 😯 ), and wait for surgery, then the screws from the plate pulling out of the bone, requiring a 2nd (emergency) round of surgery to remove it!

What are the odds?!

I’m currently in a similar position of having spent 23 years in a Maintenance/ Installation Engineering position, I’m also looking to transfer into renewables as it has a bright future (see what I did there :wink:)

Elfinsafety – Member

Why you not take number and report to police?

I was thinking the same thing, regardless of where it happens that kind of behaviour is not acceptable.

More Hookers here!

I love my Camp 4’s, but it’s probably more about whether you want them for purely riding, or for general messing round.

I think most of the positive points have been covered already, so I’ll just add that our 2 lived with 4 (now down to 1 through old age) cats and an African Grey Parrot, and have shown little interest in anything other than the usual idle curiosity.

Introduce him early on, in a controlled manner and, like all other training, ensure than he has the opportunity to learn what the rules of the house are, and you’ll be fine.

Again, ours are not destructive at all …apart from loving to shred a toy to get at a squeaker!
and ours definitely shed hair EVERYWHERE! Lol

I use my external HDD all the time for movies and tv shows.
They’re all encoded as either Divx or MP4 and play absolutely fine 😉

I had a post all lined up, but you’ve just itterated almost word for word; scooting “sans pedals” is the way to go 🙂

Virgin Media Customer “Service”

…Isn’t that an Oxymoron?!

As for Winter boots:

Shimano MW80’s or Specialized Defrosters?

I use the BBB Hardwear with my Dragons, and have never (yet) had any complaints.

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=45051

Panda 4×4 for lightness, HiLux or Landy 90 for a big boy’s toy.

Don’t.

Feeding a Fox will only encourage it to make even more regular contact with Humans, leading eventually to someone being bitten.
They’re wild, leave them as such and buy a dog if you want to feed something.

Rearrange them into the shape of a c0ck and balls, cementing them in position 😉

I’ve only seen the film (and read a couple of articles on him), but he did seem a complete moron!

Creepy to see the Bus still there though:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Chris+McCandless+died&sll=63.5779,-148.996582&sspn=4.608144,17.270508&safe=on&ie=UTF8&hq=Chris+McCandless+died&hnear=&ll=63.868705,-149.770563&spn=0.000527,0.002108&z=19&lci=com.panoramio.all

But for a fantasy life, either Oregon or Arizona 😀

Canada 😉

My wife’s American, and having spent plenty of time travelling back and forth living with family, I’ve come to the conclusion that to make a decent life over there you’re going to have to be working 2 jobs, with very little holiday …and hope to god you don’t ever need to visit a Doctor or the Hospital.

Contact Royal Mail, sounds like the stamps etc have fallen off. With proof, they should refund the buyers money.

Kickass
Red
Inception
Get him to the Greek
The Hangover

Yeti FRO

The guys are right, this is a joint wedding, and if she won’t compromise over this first joint decision, then you have a choice.

Either Marry her and be happy that she’s either going to make ALL the decisions for the rest of your life and you’re not, or sit her down and decide whether this marriage is a bad idea, until she grows up and learns a successful marriage is about compromise and not acting childish every time she needs to consider someone else’s feelings.

(Spoken from the position of having an Ex that behaved in a similar fashion)