Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

SingleSue

I had yet another bad night...but nothing to do with the weather as we were quite lucky overnight and it never really reached the heights it had in December (although it was enough to set off a car alarm at 2.30 this morning)

Don't know why I couldn't sleep, I just couldn't.

michaels

Can't say I personally like his politics but I have to say that Bob Crowe/the union seem to acheive a lot for their workers, treading that fine line between maximising pay and conditions and peeing the country off so much the law is changed. Obviously when Ken was in charge the rules of the game were configured to give the unions maximum leverage.

lostinrates

Oh dear.

Something has been picked up and bashed in to RP's pristine car into the wind, oddly, in the more protected side the wing mirror is off. .

RP is not going to believe I haven't driven it and had a crunch .

purch

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I wholly agree that the right to withdraw labour is an important one, and that unions have, in general, achieved a great deal from Tolpuddle days onwards. In this particular instance, though, I think it's more about power struggles than the good of anyone else.

The right to strike, or take industrial action is important, but the problem most people probably have with this is the total disregard often shown to other "workers" over the inevitable results of these actions.

Using other working people as pawns to help your workers achieve their goals is misguided, and an area where many union leaders start to sound hypocritical

silvercar

silvercar wrote: »

The background is that they have been on the path, but hidden from the road by cars etc for a while. Since Sunday afternoon they have been very visible. Since Monday they have been on the edge of the drive just ready to be picked up.

It is bin day tomorrow, which raises the possibility of them going either because the bin men may tip off mates that they are there or because scrap searches may tour bin routes in the hope of pickings.

There is a time limit on this, if they don't shift then plumber is obliged to take them away.

vivatifosi wrote: »

Would we be allowed to have a no money, no payout, just for fun sweepstake on when they go? If so, I'm going for overnight Friday to Saturday.

Very polite lads just knocked on the door and asked if they could take the old radiators

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

Very polite lads just knocked on the door and asked if they could take the old radiators

What nice young men.


It makes me happy they asked. :j. What a super corner of the world you live in silvercar. :beer:

tomterm8

Mildly amazed that the power is still on, and as far as I can see no damage done.

It's still very windy here, but blue sky and wondering if I should do some more washing I'm almost caught up with that...

michaels

lostinrates wrote: »

What nice young men.


It makes me happy they asked. :j. What a super corner of the world you live in silvercar. :beer:

Inner Herts - need I say more. For example the weather this morning was presently fresh with an invigourating breeze, floods, gales, power cuts, travel disruption are for other parts of the country.

And sadly it seems Bob Crowes powers are over-rated as there was nothing stopping me getting to work this morning

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

Mildly amazed that the power is still on, and as far as I can see no damage done.

It's still very windy here, but blue sky and wondering if I should do some more washing I'm almost caught up with that...

I'm shocked ours is still on too. No washing for me, the man is here to look at our pumps (phew)

More shocked sse are here to work. (Or rather , two from one van are working , two in the other van have been sititing in it drinking from a thermos for two hours. i'd like to say slackers, but actually, right now i think they are frankly, rather sensible.

weather is much worse than yesterday. Odd that they turned up at all I think. Never mind, I'm not going to complain! Its really shocking though, nasty, nasty hail like bullets.

Also amazed the plum tree we never get round to taken down before it falls is still up. We really must get to that.

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

Inner Herts - need I say more. For example the weather this morning was presently fresh with an invigourating breeze, floods, gales, power cuts, travel disruption are for other parts of the country.

And sadly it seems Bob Crowes powers are over-rated as there was nothing stopping me getting to work this morning

Oh dear, never mind.

One of the rail routes to sw is down, one of the motorways closed. Lots of the minor routes struggling. Although winds aren't as high, ontop of the winters worth of flooding this seems some how worse.

Meanwhile neighbours are away, so its their relief milder has to work round the electric people. One of two millers he can be a bit surly. But this morning when I went to chat to him he couldn't have been lovelier. Its taken a couple of years, but last summer he stopped to chat roses with me (loves roses and loves that i've planted some he drives by, said it cheers him up a lot ...goodness knows he needed it!...and was delighted when I offered him cuttings of any of mine he was interested in) and this morning he pulled up a chair for me to chat while he milked. I needed the chair , I almost fell over. I'm glad though, other relief miller is lovely, and my neighbours are lovely. Its always been a bit of a shame when he's been less lovely....

Just taken him a while to warm up I guess. Anyway, he couldn't have been nicer about the inconvenience. And thought it was hilarious when I said 'hello girls' as I always do going in, on previous occasions he's just looked unsettled by me addressing the cows.