Spent the afternoon shopping in Guildford with my girlfriend and then after, a meal at the Harvester. It was my girlfriends birthday today so we had a nice day out. Watched the Hangover 2 on dvd this evening. Sadly will be back to reality aka back to work tomorrow
My work in Canadia is done, scored 10/10 on the recent UK citizenship quiz, so back to Blighty this week for Mrs Bimble and I. Shippers Mon/Tue, house handback and utilities today, depart Thurs, arrive UK Friday. Moving, especially Internationally, what an absolute PITFA.
Hard to know if it's better to come back in mid-winter, when you know the weather will be poor, or arrive mid-summer, hoping the weather will be good and finding it is still poor. I once went to work in Aus for 8 months. Arrived just in time for my second winter on the trot. Still, if you are leaving a Canadian winter, you'll probably be wandering around in shirtsleeves at soon as you hit Heathrow.
Did 70 lengths of the pool at a decent speed, until i was chucked out by the lovely ladies of Weston s mare, arriving for their 7.30 aquarobics class... View attachment 12072
Just got back from Bournemouth, and it's looking like an early night for me, I'm cream crackered. I thought Bournemouth was an old fogey town like Eastbourne, but I was very wrong, and now have a full body hangover to show for it. 2 nights of drunken debauchery are too much for this old cadaver; on tuesday I ended up in a student bar til 2am dancing with some girls young enough to be my daughters and knocking back £1.50 bottles of Smirnoff Ice. That was enough for me to be honest, but my boss turned up yesterday morning and wanted in on the action, so we ended up staggering back to the hotel blind drunk at something like 3am this morning. Mighty surprised I was to find out beer's only £2 a pint in Spearmint Rhino...
It would be ungentlemanly to mention the ugly business of money on a family forum El Tel. Suffice to say I may need a second job to bring me back to solvency:frown:
I did rather well in avoiding a huge punch-up, though. Not so long ago I'd have been in the thick of it, but I spotted the trouble brewing and dragged my boss away from the scene to avoid either of us getting involved. Considering how drunk I was I was rather pleased with myself. Only took me til middle age to grow up...
I've been on sober-man duty for work/social drinking sessions. Looking after the boss, etc. It's like herding fecking cats, it is :smile:
Rather interesting callout today, just down the road from my house. One of our regular contractors installed a new air conditioning system and had lots of problems; we sorted the problems out, but the system kept throwing up random faults for no obvious reason. Today I went there and found a wire had been cut to a temperature sensor - Sabotage! For some reason the on-site engineer has always been a pain in the arse to us, and we still don't know why, but he had opened up the system after my brother had been there to repair it and cut the wire. Being the diplomat I am, I went straight to him and asked what the hell he was up to. He denied it obviously, so we spoke to site security, and lo and behold, there's the video footage of him opening up the unit and working on it! Looks like I'll be going to a tribunal soon, and maybe then we'll find out why he's got a problem with us. This'll cost him his job for sure.
Surely the on-site engineer would know where the CCTV cameras are, wouldn't he? If he did his destructive act knowing it would be recorded, what does that tell us?
