As you face the Sub-Zero Temperatures to return to work today..

[Tony.London Suburbs]

Remember !!

If you work for someone, in heaven's name work for them!If he/she pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him/her-speak well of them, think well of them, stand by them and stand by the institution they represent.I think if I worked for someone I would work for them. I would not work for them a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against them. I would give an undivided service or none.If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness...

So negotiate those icy roads,ignore the cold winter winds and kindly go and kick-start the engine of Industry this year and be thankful for the opportunity that your Employer has given you and ENJOY(!)

Your Country needs YOU!

[KalamityKel]

Washing powder is good innit man!

[Tony.London Suburbs]

KalamityKel Wrote:

Washing powder is good innit man!

Happy New Year Young Lady!>:D<

Being a thoughtful and considerate person I have already got the washing powder ready in the machine for my cleaner when she arrives at 9.00AM and have even gone to the time trouble of putting the weeks empty dishes and cutlery and pans in hot water ready for her to wash-up!

(Can't do everything though! She can carry the Hoover upstairs herself.

There ARE limits to what a Man can do!

[PeckhamRose]

Great being self employed, long as you have work.

Woke at 9.30am and saw it snowed outside.

And I honestly did think of you all who had to get up early and get on overdrowded overpriced trains and busses to get to work. Honest I did.

Just work up again now. What time is it.

[Tony.London Suburbs]

PeckhamRose Wrote:

Great being self employed.... Honest I did. Just work up again now. What time is it.

Now have some compassion for yer fellow 'uman beings PR!

I would have been only too happy to have joined them in the trenches but I suddenly realised there was an old Minder episode that I hadn't watched(you know the one where Patrick Mower has 5 wives) so whats a Man to do?

[PeckhamRose]

work work work - I do have compassion honest. It's why I just spent half an hour doing the motorcycle in bus lanes advice thread for the bikers amongst us! Has it stopped snowing? I really ought to get up and - make some coffee.

[Ladygooner]

8.05 train delayed by 10 mins, travel card now gone up to ?99.00 - not a good start to my New Year.....

[PeckhamRose]

8.05 Is that an actual TIME? ;) ;)

Sorry to hear this, LadyGooner.

[Ladygooner]

Yes it is unfortunately! And I got there after just missing the 7.50 so spent 20 mins on the platform.

Going for the 7.03 tomorrow morning - bet that will be delayed due to the weather too.

PeckhamRose Wrote:

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> 8.05 Is that an actual TIME? ;) ;)

> Sorry to hear this, LadyGooner.

[bigbadwolf]

I was at work at 7:50 a.m and it was bloody freezing!!! Although I'm glad to have a job Tony I also work on a very large building site (no demolition this year folks) and we don't have air conditioning or central heating so spare a thought for those carrying hardhats next time you see them. T.L.S and PeckhamRose I'm going to cut off your central heating when I find out where you wake up at leisure:X

[indiepanda]

It was still damn cold when I headed into work for 9, and by the time I got home my flat was icy cold and that was after an unusually short day - i.e. one where I worked less than an our over unpaid overtime than the 3 - 13 hours of daily unpaid overtime I've been notching up most days in the last few months.

God knows I am glad to have a job, but when you've been in the office for 18 hours at a stretch, you feel entitled to at least think some pretty rude thoughts about your employer!

[KalamityKel]

This morning's commute is going to be HELL I tell ya - the kids are back at school!!!! nooooooo!

Last week travelling up town was so delightful not having to share the bus with snotty kids and smelly city workers and getting to work half an hour early and now???... oh dear! :-(

[KalamityKel]

Oh and HNY tony me love (no it means happy new year nothing norty!) ;-)

[SeanMacGabhann]

15 minutes on a quietish bus, 25 mins walk from E&C to Blackfriars - weekly cost ?14 odd quid... easy peasy. Plus I get free excercise. Whatcha all complaining about?? ;-)

Mind you my ears might just snap off at any second...

[Tony.London Suburbs]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

15 minutes on a quietish bus, 25 mins walk from E&C to Blackfriars - weekly cost ?14 odd quid...easy peasy. Plus I get free excercise. Whatcha all complaining about?? ;-)....

How ironic!

The year was 1982.The journey to work near Fleet Street(opposite The Sun) was East Lane Market thru' E&C. to Blackfriars.

One day I got the BR Train home from Blackfriars to E&C and was horrified to see the train hurtle past E&C.

I asked someone where the first sto was and was horrified to hear "Bromley South",,,bleedin' Country!...to my amazement in around 22 mins I was there and that set the seeds in my mind to "emigrate"? from where Generations of my family had lived as The Suburbs,I realised,were within easy reach.Saw a place right next to Danson Park(amongst others) put down ?250 deposit(!) and moved in May,1983 and only yesterday as I walked the 7,000 year old Oxcleas Woods I thought "this is ruddy fabulous"..housing still cheap and within half-a-mile of a London Postal District and all because of getting on the wrong train from Blackfriars to the area where my heart will ALWAYS be "The E&C"...

[Tony.London Suburbs]

bigbadwolf Wrote:

T.L.S and PeckhamRose I'm going to cut off your central heating when I find out where you wake up at leisure:X

You'll never take me and Rosy alive!

No Surrender!(tu)

[????]

Sean, you may be shocked by this,you may even faint, but I am a bus fan too. I work at Blackfriars get a daily pass and just sit it out with an Ipod and paper (sometimes walk from E&C)...significantly chreaper, normally get a seat, hate trains etc..

Good on you TLS...I even wore my Hammers beany to keep the cold out

[SeanMacGabhann]

You mean we might actually be doing the same walk side by side? Both wearing iPods??

next thing I'll be having lunch in Chi with you!

[annaj]

*Gasp!*

Perhaps Sean and Quids are actually the same (deeply conflicted and confused) person.

I mean has anyone actually seen them in a room together?

[mockney piers]

E's a li'l bi' aaaarsenaw, a li'l bit west 'aaaaam.

Hmm, could be on to something there.

[annaj]

It would certainly explain why Quids teases us every month, but never actually makes it to the forum drinks....

[SeanMacGabhann]

100

[????]

:))

[Huguenot]

Hmmmm 31 degrees C here at the moment, might go for a quick dip in the pool.

Apparently you can still exchange our currency for goods and services too...

[????]

Or you can sit on EDF secretly wishing you were back in blighty