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Post by The Doctor on Mar 2, 2009 10:47:48 GMT
Rain! Poooooooooo!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 2, 2009 11:04:43 GMT
Bright, bright sunshiney day here in Swindon
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Mar 2, 2009 12:24:59 GMT
The Sun always shines in Edinburgh Ralph!
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Post by Hero on Mar 2, 2009 12:47:48 GMT
Bright and Sunny ere in Brissal.
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Post by Mark_Stevenson on Mar 2, 2009 14:19:27 GMT
It's quite nice in the Midlands. I washed the car at the weekend.
I'm now coming to the close of my second month of unemployment. I've applied for around 40 positions and heard NOTHING from any of them. It sucks.
Mx
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 2, 2009 15:14:04 GMT
Sorry to hear that Mark.
Hang in there and something will come up.
Blood pressure check up today, apparently it's okay - though I will continue to be medicated. Blood test to see if the medication is affecting either my kidney or liver functions. Need to wait a week or so to find out.
Andy
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Post by Hero on Mar 2, 2009 15:18:34 GMT
Hope things look up for you guys.
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 2, 2009 20:00:52 GMT
The Sun always shines in Edinburgh Ralph! Shouldn't that be: 'The sun always shines on TV?' Hope sumat comes up soon, Mark. Hope blood test ok, And. Uni tmw and wednesday. Did some work today on my 'Ethics' assignment (the one I was freakin' refered on *?@*!$@!!!). My mind is awash with Human Rights Acts, Mental Capacity Acts, Guidelines, Recognition of Life Extinct, and strangely the theme from Wonder Woman. Piglet had a big drink this aft, turned to me and said "I'll need a big wee soon after that, Daddy.", then turned back to watching Mr. Men. It's like an alcoholics 'moment of clarity', your toddler, who earlier that day had been running round the house shouting "Yiny Yiny Yiny!!!", turns to you, with a neutral expression, and says something any adult might (kinda) say! Freaky. |
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Post by legios on Mar 2, 2009 21:11:54 GMT
So to hear that Mark - hang in there, things will inevitably take a turn for the better. I hope the blood tests come back negative Andy, I shall keep my fingers crossed for you.
I'm not sure that the sun always shines in Edinburgh though. It seemed rather overcast where I was today. But on the bright side the rain that we had yesterday appears to have been our lot for the while. Mind you, considering how much their was yesterday I'm not surprised that the clouds are temporarily a little bit dry.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 2, 2009 23:18:52 GMT
It's quite nice in the Midlands. I washed the car at the weekend. I'm now coming to the close of my second month of unemployment. I've applied for around 40 positions and heard NOTHING from any of them. It sucks. Mx It's fair to say I can easily empathise with your position, considering my recent period of life. It's not nice at all. Hopefully something will come through for you sooner rather than later. It might be worth your while making enquires as to whether any job support agencies are in your area that could provide support. I found it helpful for me and got a positive result out of it. -Ralph |
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Post by andrewbcalculating on Mar 3, 2009 11:18:59 GMT
According to Location Location Location last year, Edinburgh was the best place in the UK to live so it wouldn't surprise me if the sun did always shine on Edinburgh.
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Post by blueshift on Mar 3, 2009 11:54:59 GMT
Yay Midlands
I am supposed to get a blood test too but I chickened out of my last one :v
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 3, 2009 12:01:24 GMT
Tsk, tsk tsk.
You really shouldn't.
Guess it helps that I'm not all that bothered by needles and injections at all.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 3, 2009 12:34:14 GMT
The Sun always shines in Edinburgh Ralph! Shouldn't that be: 'The sun always shines on TV?' I'm told the video for that was filmed in a disused church over the road from Teddington Studios. Great song. |
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Post by karla on Mar 3, 2009 14:50:05 GMT
andrew secretly lives in Balamory.
i've started my course, yay!!
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 3, 2009 17:04:09 GMT
Talking of needles, time to give blood again I think. Must pop in when in town on Thursday.
Written confirmation of job offer turned up at last today, just when I was beginning to sweat. Meeting on Friday to sign contract and do disclosure paperwork* then it's just waiting a few weeks for it to be processed before I can be given a start date. Probably mid-late April (checks can take 2-3 weeks and there is a backlog currently). Bit frustrating to have a long wait but better than no job at all so I can't complain. In the meantime I must continue to sign on**. I informed the benefit office of recent events this morning. Nothing was noted, wasn't asked what the job was or anything. I look forward to being shot of them. The chap I saw was pleasant enough. It's the system that's broken.
Hilariously, I was turned down for an interview for the DWP job I applied for last week so any possible dilemma as to which job to go for has vanished. It seems I am destined to be Edinburger bound.
-Ralph
*It's common in Scotland when being hired to work with people in a supportive capacity to have a check on you done through Discloure Scotland to see if you've been naughty and been in bother with the law
**Job Seeker's Allowance can be claimed until the day before you start work in case anyine thinks I'm cheating the system!
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 3, 2009 17:04:46 GMT
andrew secretly lives in Balamory. i've started my course, yay!! Hurray! -Ralph |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2009 18:59:27 GMT
It's been raining today in the midlands and I also read in the paper that this country is to get some more snow. Hope it doesn't drop in my area!
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Post by Dark Stranger on Mar 3, 2009 20:50:07 GMT
Athens is gorgeous. Lovely weather and Trisha and I are in a killer hotel, very friendly staff.
Tomorrow will see an entire day spent trawling the second hand record shops for bargain metal LPs.
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Post by legios on Mar 3, 2009 20:54:38 GMT
I'll take that snow if you don't want it Zudobug. All we have here is a grey and persistent rain unfortunately.
Karl
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Post by kayevcee on Mar 3, 2009 21:27:51 GMT
Driving lesson today after two weeks off the road. Forgot to put my seat belt on. Not a good start. A few hair-raising moments and a horrendous double-stall at some traffic lights but by the end I was driving passably. A taxi nearly reversed into me and a jeep insisted on darting up the wrong side of the road past me and anything else wearing L plates like it was on the run from the law, but I somehow made it all the way back home in one piece. Huzzah!
Stall count: 14.
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Post by legios on Mar 3, 2009 22:49:24 GMT
Driving lesson today ...but I somehow made it all the way back home in one piece. Huzzah! Stall count: 14. -Nick Good to hear that things are going well on that front Nick. Getting back in one piece has to count as a win I guess. Karl |
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Post by karla on Mar 4, 2009 8:13:12 GMT
well done nick!! My instructor used to tell me to think of myself as the queen of the road when ever I had to follow a crappy speed limit and had loads of cars behind me. But i'm not sure if this philosophy would work for you Queen NIck?
I used to hate 4x4's, but now I want one.
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Post by grahamthomson on Mar 4, 2009 9:01:20 GMT
Sun's out this morning!
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 4, 2009 9:46:43 GMT
Same here, although we had snow last night!
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 4, 2009 11:12:11 GMT
Sleet there though the sun has just come out.
-Ralph
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2009 19:26:56 GMT
The sun shows its head around here. Lets just hope it stays out.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 4, 2009 20:18:08 GMT
Got up at crack of dawn yesterday to get train to London for a six-hour meeting, then train from there up to Sheffield. Nice hotel meal, lie-in and cooked breakfast, then a meeting in Sheffield, and train back to Cardiff.
When I left, my old garden fence was disintegrating. I return to find it totally dismantled and lying in the middle of my lawn, and a nice new fence erected in its place. But there is no gate on it yet, and the old fence is still there, so hope blokey returns and finishes the job tomorrow.
Martin
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Post by legios on Mar 4, 2009 20:45:23 GMT
When I left, my old garden fence was disintegrating. Martin I hope that this was with the aid of a person or persons - and not just fantastically accelerate entropy or anything.... I seem to have had quite a hectic few days all told. Mostly due to people being off and leaving us somewhat shorthanded in honesty. I was pleased to wake up this morning and discover that we had in fact received some snow. Thanks to Zudobug if that was your snow reallocated. I had a very strange experience this evening though. I looked up from my book on the train home and couldn't work out where I was for a second. I seemed to be speeding along against what appeared to be either a slightly greying sky with flecks of black, or a stretch of sea. It took me a moment for my brain to decipher that it was the side of the cutting that we were speeding through, still covered with snow. It was a bit disconcerting for a moment, but also fascinating to realise how dependent we are on our brain to actual process what we see into something we can understand. Karl |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 4, 2009 20:54:29 GMT
When I left, my old garden fence was disintegrating. Martin I hope that this was with the aid of a person or persons - and not just fantastically accelerate entropy or anything.... No, it was disintegrating in the sense of slowly falling to bits. It has been disintegrating for the last year or two, and putting more and more nails into it was merely delaying the inevitable. Then this happened, soon after which I noticed one of the main posts was splitting at the bottom, and a tree that I had once tied to the fence to be supported by it was now supporting the fence. I would have liked to have a nice garden wall built to match the house, but the one quote I got was four times what I was prepared to pay, so another fence it is. The last one was as old as the house. Hopefully the new one will also have a good 15 years in it. On Saturday fence blokey will hopefully help me plant a hedge outside the fence so that when the new one disintegrates many years from now it won't need to be replaced. Martin |
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