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Your last words are so true bob, my old man’s answer to everything was his fists. I decided (not sure when) that I’d be the compleat opposite.
Only my eldest lad once I can say I had to lift a proper hand to once. He is 24 now, and said since he deserved it.
Now their have been many times over the years, when I’ve had to go for a pint before I’ve exploded. With the kids and the wife lol.
I just never wanted the kids to do what I said out of fear, more respect. Saying all that my youngest thst has just turned 10 (there’s a gap) , is probably more like a gran child, given she is spoilt by all their siblings and knows how to push buttons. She still hasn’t decided if she is ‘grown up’ or ‘a teen’ , all I know is she can’t half stretch my temper. I’ve mellowed as ive aged, and she gets away with far more than the others ever did.
I think as im getting older, I just want a quiet life. Things thst once would of annoyed me, I just don’t care about anymore.
I also learn very early on, that every battle isn’t worth fighting. As if you set out your stall like that, life will just turn out to be one long war. Pick your battles (both with kids and wife’s), as then they know when dads head fall off something is wrong. So my advice to anyone, is pick your battles, don’t get bogged down in tedium.
If you use a man n van, the council will charge them as commercial and it won’t be cheap to dump. You be better off asking the council to pick it up form your home.
My council charge £15 for domestic pick ups. Youll have to ask if they do asbestos
I’d leave the roof, just either paint the inside to seal it. Or bit a false ceiling in.
Or if it’s for your own home, (not commercial) take it down carefully. (maybe coat it in a upvc/water mix to seal it.) then burry it 4 foot under your garden.
I know a lot of people that have buried their old garage roofs.
If you have the head room, I’d just hang a false ceiling. Cheap scant and plasterboard and a hand full of wall hangers. Then paint it white. Also use the cavities to put flush ceiling spot lights in, right across your workshop.
If you just LED bulls 3watt jobbie, you’d be able to cram as many as you wish in. 20 of them only draw the equivalent of a single 60w bulb. And would be bright enough to redirect any aircraft.
Well having a some of 24, 22 and a girl of 19, I’m sure relatively soon there is going to be a grand child popping up. So it will all start again. Hopefully not too soon!
Back to books, I’m almost though with Arnhem by Anthony Beevor, and I’d love to see a remake of a bridge to far using this books info as a template. It’s very good.
I don’t know what it is, but when I’m away in hot places, I just love walking anywhere, shearing being burnt and listening to war stories. I like then at home, but when I’m away, they seem to come to life more. But this one has been good. It was a slow starter, but now with just an hour to go, I’m getting that sad feeling I get when a good book is wrapping up.
The thing I like about true war books, Churchills secret warroirs is a great example of this, is you’ll spend a good few hours building an emotional attachment to the men, for them to be snuffed out. You get a bit sad, but soon your invested in the next person only for them to die and so on.
No other type of book spends time building up connections, just to fro them a tenth of the way through. By love i mean find it sad, but so real. Even fiction war books, based on fact don’t do this, they always have a lead role that navigates the story from start to finish.
It just shows how bad that war was. Well any -war- battle tbh. Alot is just based on luck.
One way or another the tax payer will pay.
Very similar tale to my son, the school promised all the help, but never delivered, when we put them on the spot they just wanted to send him to the local college.
They was that much in a hurry to get rid of him they put him through his maths gcses a year early. (it’s the only thing he excelled in at school) .
Now he has just finished his final school year in college. He spent two days a week working on day release at a pet store and a body shop, which he liked, (as they both bunged him a few quid each week) , and he had small classes with other dyslexic and mildly autism kids, so he got some decent 1 on 1, he defiantly matured as a person, being out of the school. I didn’t mind him not sticking around just to fail the rest of school exams, as that is no good mentally for him. So at least he got somthing out of his last year of school.
He has decided he wants to do catering after the summer. But his grandad wants him in the family business, property. I told the FiL let him do the catering, as the business isn’t going anywhere.
Grandad is under orders to not even mention the business to him. My lad knows it’s there, but I don’t want grandad to add pressure. Plus it’s a decent thing to learn, and he isn’t just being given a job for the sake of it.
Though I have no issues with him ending up working for the biz. I’d rather he got some external experiances first.
He is our 4th to finish school, all the rest did well, and all at 18 have been offered open ended round the world tickets, non have taken us up on them. I’d like him to be the first. I have a feeling he will as he talk about Canada and Aus a lot. Unlike me, he’d happily go and stay at some relatives house he has never met. I think today kids think if you say hi on FB your friends.
Though at may age, I don’t want to be sleeping on couches or back packing. 20-25 years ago i suppose I would of.
Lol Bob, Reminds me of my kids last junior school head. She was good at her job but had zero people skills.
I wad in one day raising an issue re my girl, and the head mistress had to leave the room to sort out an issue. She came back in fuming saying she was banning all parents from the grounds as they only ever bring issues to the school and no praise.
I answered her with two points 1. Don’t continue doing stuff that will annoy the parents, and 2, you get praise evey month, via a check for about 6k.
She looked at me like she never seen the paypacket was the reward for a good job done.
She was a tough old bird, and was there about 25 years, turning it from a joke of a school to a to prayed one. I’m sure she had a bit of a breakdown in trh end and was pensioned off. She went very erratic the last two years.
Different line or work, but basically the same story I feel. A RSM is hardly not being rewarded for his time served. He is basically being paid highly for not leaving tbh.
Still the same crap we dab on the young kids today though it’s now white. And was in the 80w when I had CP.
The irony of the magic crystal almost burning her house down.sjouldnt laugh but… Lol…
Mines real, but I only open it about once a week, to scan through it. But you have my main addy if you need me.
I don’t understand the question and why anyone is trying to log in to mm. I thought it went dead new years day 2016 or 17.
Trearddur bay is one of my favourite places ever, ir rather a bit up the coast away from the tourists, in the coves. Water is crystal clear, sand is good. In a hot day is just the best.
I’m allergic to horse fly bites, I’ve only been bitten twice by them once on the calf and once on the for arm, both over 20 years ago, and I still have a 5pence size scare where both was. My arm arm swelled to the size of my thigh. In both cases I needed antibiotics. The pain was brutal.
I knew a few SB lads that’s said alot of it is exaggerated. They didn’t say exaggerated but I’ll give Andy the benifit of writers embellishment.
If you like brazo two zero, (never read it) but watched the film (I was serving then when it aired), and working close to a few SB guys put me off the book. But I’m sure you will like DLs telling of zero six bravo, in how close the Misson code name was to the original mess, and the close correlations with its outcome two.
I won’t spoilt, but after you read it, you can find leaked usaf footage form the air support and hear the lads on the gourd coming over the comms. It really set to book off for me, and gave me chills to put at least one voice to the words.
Though if you like WW2 commando stuff, anything about Anders larson is a must. A real hero of mine. And I server in the commando group named after him. Something I only found out about 18 years after leaving it.
He isn’t a hero cos I found that out, he is a hero cos of his life story, actions and because both the SAS and SBS still both claim him as their founder. Which is both true considering he was one of the original commandos that brought about the RMC, SAS and SB. Amazing life. Well amazing in the wrong term, living to an old age with grand children in peace is Amazon, his would be action packed and unselfish.
He shone bright for a short time. The regular army hated him, and treat him like shit, which is something else I love about him.
Bob is thst book about Victor Boot? As I have read DL operation relentless, the search for the works most dangerous man.
The titles sound so alike.
I do love a damian Lewis book bob, belos is a screen shot from my own Audible library. Churchill secret warriors is my favourite of his. Zero bravo six is a goodn too.
I listened to Cobra Gold on the way here. It wasn’t his best, but still made the drive fly.
Currently listening to Arnhem by Anthony Beevor, which is good. In between I fitted in The singularity trap by Denis Tylor (not the snooker legend lol) . A decent syfy book
. I like to altonate between syfy and factual war books.
I’m in favour of a tramlines system. Having a very dyslexic lad, who ended up doing his last year in Thr local college, I think he would of been served way better in a less rigid system.
Tbh I thought the about our schools since before we had kids. I get trhle idea of of pigeon who king kids is bad, so I’d like some form of sideways movement. So they can if needed swap. But on The whole I think you need to tap into what type of education suits the child best. It may not even be what they are best at, but more where their interest lie.
I’ve found them. There in Spain. For the first time ever I’ve hade to by some proper repellent with deat in it. It’s nasty stuff, but the cheaper ‘greener’ stuff just wasn’t working.
Cost me €7.50 from the chemist. And it’s money well spent. Though you need to put it on in a well ventilated space. It chokes you good.
The huge secret middle aged, middle class alkis of the nation, will be rejoicing once your post gets out ed.
The nation if full of people that are doing half a bottle of malt in, while their wife is demolishing 2 bottles of red.
Nothing against it, I just always laugh they they add some type of anti drinking tax on, all it Does is effect the poor, and not the majority.
It’s not a bill, it’s a contribution.and a fair one at that. Also I see no issue in being ‘told what to do’ by the EU. I current get told by Westminster, and they are no better, So I don’t see the issue. I have nothing against the Germans or the french. it would be nice if we just dropped the nation names and just became the US of E. Wouldn’t make a slight bit of difference to me. And would mean my kids and their children will probably have more options available to them in the future.
I don’t see what is so good about the uk, and why we need to keep it separate from the rest of our European brothers. Same with Americans, asians Africans and austrilasians.we are all humans, and we all want the best for our futures. So we should be coming together more, not moving apart, and becoming more right leaning. It’s not healthy.
As a relatively wealthy nation we should be paying more into the system to help the less fortunate nations. Rising tide and all that….
More integration is what is needed, not less.
I’d like an overhaul of the EU structure. Simply it, that only The PM of each nation state, represented there nation in the EU house. And each nation had equal say and power. But that isn’t likely to happen, but doesn’t mean I’d want to leave because of that.
Id scrap all the EMPs and just have heads of each state making up the European Parliament. Our own parliament would basically be a gathering point for our local mps to voice matters to Thr PM who would take them to the main Euro parliment. Drop the house of loads, and thin out Westminster completely. We don’t beef so many mps, and council reps. All feeding of The gravy train.
Also whole I’m at it, scrap career politicians completely. Make it a 10 year job, from say 55 to 65. Real people with real world experiences. Get rid of the Eaton lot that study politics Then walk into Westminster. All they are is benefit grabbers. Worse, most are benefit cheats. Then they have the gaul to to slash benefits for those that need them. You couldn’t make it up. So yea, scrap them all, and leat just follow the EU.
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