Dave Barter wrote: ↑Fri Dec 18, 2020 6:19 pm I got to stroke my beard looking at rocks wearing hi viz in the rain like a proper civil engineer

I hope you remembered the sharp intake of breath at the same time whist pulling a pained expression

Dave Barter wrote: ↑Fri Dec 18, 2020 6:19 pm I volunteer at the seawater swimming pool in Brixham and have taken responsibility for operations and infrastructure. It’s mostly bureaucratic pain but today I was on site with big boy tools drilling cores into a concrete deck and finding voids. It was the best treasure hunt ever as we found three and I got to stroke my beard looking at rocks wearing hi viz in the rain like a proper civil engineer

You're welcome to my career Dave (more of an environmentalist than a civil engineer, really) but I've done my fair share of drilling and digging investigations in all sorts of p1ssing weathers and sh1tty places.

Thankless, underappreciated bollocks

Think the worst was hand digging SRD tests in claypit discard

I appreciated it! If we’d not have done this more money would have been wasted patching a deck that has been compromised from below. I felt guilty that I left the donuts at home.

Dave Barter wrote: ↑Fri Dec 18, 2020 7:23 pm I felt guilty that I left the donuts at home.

Covid risk

Spent yesterday helping to plasterboard a space in town that's to become a permanent cafe for an anti-food waste charity I volunteer for. Even for someone fairly fit, doing moderately physical work is surprisingly tiring for a desk jockey. I don't know how people do it every day for a living, especially those that are overweight, smoke, etc. Anyway, good to get away from the screen and feel a bit more useful.

Oh, and I've finished for Christmas now

I don't know how people do it every day for a living

I genuinely think you just get used to it and adapt Dave. I remember a friend of Dee's giving me a massage many years ago (all above board and in a professional manner you understand) and she commented that my shoulders and top of my back was 'unusually developed' - she put it down to engine building and standing at a bench mauling 12 hours a day. I'd happily lift a big old air cooled motor off the bench and fit it into a frame on my own and not really think about it. I tried the same thing when I built Dee's bike a couple of years ago and nearly crippled myself

Dave I’m overweight, and smoke like a old Diesel engine but as Stu says you get used to it , I tend to spend 14hrs a day outside mauling with trucks and trailers , I’m just getting to the age though if I’m knelt down or try to get up off the old crawler board I need assistance from my hands and arms , 35+ years of lying in puddles and muck fixing plant and hgv’s has slightly aged the old joints by about 10 years

I’m just getting to the age though if I’m knelt down or try to get up off the old crawler board I need assistance from my hands and arms , 35+ years of lying in puddles and muck fixing plant and hgv’s has slightly aged the old joints by about 10 years

Oh so true. Both my knees are shot. Mainly from kneeling but a crash did break one of my kneecaps many years ago. Once it starts to become colder, my hands won't work properly for the first couple of hours each morning, to the point of 'can't tie my boots'

Not much "cheery Friday" news in the last few comments

Not much "cheery Friday" news in the last few comments

Sorry fella

Oh, I dunno. If MaM has been working with trucks for 35+ years, but his knees have only aged 10, that strikes me as 25+ years of win.

Rigga boots Stu , Rigga boots .that’s all I can say

I have spent the last 6 weeks working loads trying to get all the work I had promised for Christmas done which I completed at 3pm on Friday so I am now not working until next year
I went riding today which was quite marvellous even in the mud with a headwind and I have riding planned for the next 3 days with various people so very cheery all round, sorry its not Friday I was too tired yesterday.

Who even knows or cares what day it is anymore, eh?

Cheery video. Chap takes out his (rather powerful looking) telescope, lets people look at the moon.
https://twitter.com/star_stufff/status/ ... 5907902464

Reminded me of the adage that people don't value what they haven't experienced. I wonder if engendering similar feelings of wonder in people about the countryside could help influence them to look after it a bit more...

I feel we best start early this week.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-55548820

thenorthwind wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 10:35 pm I feel we best start early this week.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-55548820

I like it! Maybe we could all give up our day jobs and offer our services??

Yay it's cheery Friday!! And lunchtime at that!! And snow forecast!!!

Day off today so a ride in the snow

Verena wrote: ↑Fri Jan 08, 2021 1:29 pm

thenorthwind wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 10:35 pm I feel we best start early this week.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-55548820

I like it! Maybe we could all give up our day jobs and offer our services??

Yay it's cheery Friday!! And lunchtime at that!! And snow forecast!!!

Been snowing here for a couple of hours

In the process of being furloughed again, so more time to spend on bikes (and decorating )

Well, a cheery friday for me for a change! Had an internal interview this morning and was just told that I've been promoted. I realise that this is the opposite direction from a lot of people at this time, and I really sympathise with all the guys and girls who have been affected by redundancy, no work, furlough etc.

I've just finished stitching up my saddle. I know that may not sound like much but trying to do it with an oversize puppy dangling from it, feels like quite an achievement.

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Fri Jan 08, 2021 2:44 pm I've just finished stitching up my saddle. I know that may not sound like much but trying to do it with an oversize puppy dangling from it, feels like quite an achievement.

I can't believe you've stitched a puppy to a saddle! (Sorry couldn't resist Stu)

She doesn't know how close she came Phil

I've got through a whole week of work. With very little alcohol.

Mission accomplished!! Off now to celebrate with a microwave meal and tin of Guinness