hello, its been nearly a whole calender year since i last posted on here. i suppose i guessed that as no one was reading it, no one ever would.
there is a new cast member to my blog. his name is niall graham gibbs hereafter known as niall or simply N.
Its was angies choice of name, i wanted to call him Mungo or Abe, but those names got poo pooed.
i shall have to make this very short installment as we are off to church followed by a visit to Wisley Gardens, they have an apple festival on today, angus went on friday but now wants to go again.
Sunday 18 October 2009
Wednesday 5 November 2008
Barack Obama Part Two
Later the same day...................................
home from work. annoyed. very. very. annoyed .
Not with President Obama, or any other of the cast members of my blog.
No. I am very annoyed with the customer about whom i wrote this very morning. I shall fill you all in on the details.
Arrived at 8am. Did the job. left at 2pm with job complete and 50% of cost of job in my pocket. Remember the installments? well stupidly i said OK, you pay 50% now and 50% later, meaning like the end of next week. The cheeky "person" then informed me that she would pay me the rest at the end of the month when she gets paid. Thats 24 days away from now. OK, a bit dumbfounded and without time to think i agreed.
Get home.
Take A to swings.
Get back,
find out customer from today has been on phone to Angie. Apparently she has been on t'internet and found out what the cost of the boiler and materials are, what my days labour costs are , and then wants to know why i have charged her £90 more than the actual job is worth. Thats £90 i havent even fucking got yet! and its the price she agreed to pay. I think its called making sure you company makes a profit on each job, no matter how small. The piss taking" person" is getting near enough a month to pay and she still wants a reduction. She will kiss my A**e before i drop one solitary penny from her bill.
Ok rant over.
You may have noticed i have added to more members to my list of Blog cast members. Firstly Mr Bruce Springsteen AKA The Boss. 100 % legend. Although I have never met him personally, he features very very heavily on my list of legends. At least a third of my entire i Tunes catalogue is Springsteen
Secondly I have added President Barack Obama AKA BO (very unfortunate initials). I shall follow his progress in the Whitehouse in my blog(hopefully)
home from work. annoyed. very. very. annoyed .
Not with President Obama, or any other of the cast members of my blog.
No. I am very annoyed with the customer about whom i wrote this very morning. I shall fill you all in on the details.
Arrived at 8am. Did the job. left at 2pm with job complete and 50% of cost of job in my pocket. Remember the installments? well stupidly i said OK, you pay 50% now and 50% later, meaning like the end of next week. The cheeky "person" then informed me that she would pay me the rest at the end of the month when she gets paid. Thats 24 days away from now. OK, a bit dumbfounded and without time to think i agreed.
Get home.
Take A to swings.
Get back,
find out customer from today has been on phone to Angie. Apparently she has been on t'internet and found out what the cost of the boiler and materials are, what my days labour costs are , and then wants to know why i have charged her £90 more than the actual job is worth. Thats £90 i havent even fucking got yet! and its the price she agreed to pay. I think its called making sure you company makes a profit on each job, no matter how small. The piss taking" person" is getting near enough a month to pay and she still wants a reduction. She will kiss my A**e before i drop one solitary penny from her bill.
Ok rant over.
You may have noticed i have added to more members to my list of Blog cast members. Firstly Mr Bruce Springsteen AKA The Boss. 100 % legend. Although I have never met him personally, he features very very heavily on my list of legends. At least a third of my entire i Tunes catalogue is Springsteen
Secondly I have added President Barack Obama AKA BO (very unfortunate initials). I shall follow his progress in the Whitehouse in my blog(hopefully)
Tuesday 4 November 2008
Barack Obama
I woke up this morning and after having made a cup of tea(milk and one sugar please love!) i switched on GMTV and saw that Mr Obama had become US pesident number 44. Heaven help us all.
Seriously though, he seems like he has his head screwed on and he graduated from Columbia AND Harvard so that puts my 3 GCSE s from Hinchley Wood Secondary school well and truely in the shade! He would even out do my extremely clever OLDER sister when it comes to GCSEs and degrees etc.
So good luck President Barack Obama, my word you are going to need it.
We had our floor laid finally in our extension this week. It looked great. Until i walked in the door yesterday. And found 2huge areas of it all bubbled up and bloody ruined. Gutted. So i rang Malcolm(the floor screeder) , and he is coming back again to undo all his work and bloody try again. I am really pissed off with the whole floor in the extension. All because shaun the builder didnt listen to what we told him and just did what he thought best. He is a great builder and has made a lovely job of all the other aspects of the build but sadly he has made a monumental fuck up when it comes to getting the floor levels right. and i shall not stop until its right.
nothing has happened in my heating world much since my last blog(curiosly titled "my first blog"!). Just the usual battle between customer wanting huge reductions if they pay in cash and me trying to make enough money to go round. The job i am doing today for example, i gve her a quote 7 months ago, and i have honoured that price(its proper cheap, just cost of materials plus my days wages, no actual profit for the company) , well she rang up the other day and asked to pay in installments!! What am i , the Littlewoods bloody catalogue? Yes love, you pay by weekly installments just as long as my mortgage company accept hat i will pay them 50p a bloody week too!
AND she even had the bloody cheek to ask for a reduction if she paid inn cash. I nearly told her where to shove it.But its all work, so you have to get on and take it.
It does annoy me though. I mean, would anyone go do their weekly shop in tesco and then ask the girl on the till for " a reduction if we pay you in cash"! So why ask me?
and likewise, i think we all know the answer if we went and asked that same tesco checkout girl if we could pay for that weeks shop on the bloody never never!
anyway, that enough from me for now, i shall post again when my floor in my extension is bloody level!
Hi K and R !
Seriously though, he seems like he has his head screwed on and he graduated from Columbia AND Harvard so that puts my 3 GCSE s from Hinchley Wood Secondary school well and truely in the shade! He would even out do my extremely clever OLDER sister when it comes to GCSEs and degrees etc.
So good luck President Barack Obama, my word you are going to need it.
We had our floor laid finally in our extension this week. It looked great. Until i walked in the door yesterday. And found 2huge areas of it all bubbled up and bloody ruined. Gutted. So i rang Malcolm(the floor screeder) , and he is coming back again to undo all his work and bloody try again. I am really pissed off with the whole floor in the extension. All because shaun the builder didnt listen to what we told him and just did what he thought best. He is a great builder and has made a lovely job of all the other aspects of the build but sadly he has made a monumental fuck up when it comes to getting the floor levels right. and i shall not stop until its right.
nothing has happened in my heating world much since my last blog(curiosly titled "my first blog"!). Just the usual battle between customer wanting huge reductions if they pay in cash and me trying to make enough money to go round. The job i am doing today for example, i gve her a quote 7 months ago, and i have honoured that price(its proper cheap, just cost of materials plus my days wages, no actual profit for the company) , well she rang up the other day and asked to pay in installments!! What am i , the Littlewoods bloody catalogue? Yes love, you pay by weekly installments just as long as my mortgage company accept hat i will pay them 50p a bloody week too!
AND she even had the bloody cheek to ask for a reduction if she paid inn cash. I nearly told her where to shove it.But its all work, so you have to get on and take it.
It does annoy me though. I mean, would anyone go do their weekly shop in tesco and then ask the girl on the till for " a reduction if we pay you in cash"! So why ask me?
and likewise, i think we all know the answer if we went and asked that same tesco checkout girl if we could pay for that weeks shop on the bloody never never!
anyway, that enough from me for now, i shall post again when my floor in my extension is bloody level!
Hi K and R !
Thursday 23 October 2008
This is my first blog
Highly unoriginal way to kick things off i suppose. Calling your first blog "my first blog" but its not even 7am and i am hardly awake having been woken by Angus (hereafter refered to merely as A) at 4:30am wanting to watch CbloodyBeebies! He made do with Countdown instead until the Tikkabilla music started.
Anyway, inspired by my sister Kays(hereafter refered to merely as K) blog with its hilarious anecdotes about Bitterne town centre i have decided to begin a blog as I think I can be even wittier and more hilarious than my older, far cleverer(she has 10 GCSE and 3 A level and a couple of degrees, whereas i merely have 3 GCSE and a City and Guilds In Gas Installation!) Sister.
Anyway, it is I think the crazy old world of Gas Fitting that I get up to that will offer most opportunities to recall funny and not sometimes so funny moments. As a mobile gas installer, i come to your house, suck air through my teeth(yes they do teach you that at Gas College) and generally drink all of your tea whilst going about fixing your heating/hot water problems. And whilst doing so, i see your house, inside and out, i go into all your rooms, and your loft, there is no hiding place, for anything. At all.
Today is friday, the legendary POETS day in the building world. Its the day we all aspire to be! And as its friday i dont have a great deal to do, just go sign off the job i have been on all week, then go look at a radiator that according to the customer" sounds like it has got metal in it". I didnt like to say "of course its got metal in it, its made of bloody metal" as that would have seen her put the phone down and me lose out on a sixty five quid call out.
Then hopefully I shall go fishing.
Anyway, inspired by my sister Kays(hereafter refered to merely as K) blog with its hilarious anecdotes about Bitterne town centre i have decided to begin a blog as I think I can be even wittier and more hilarious than my older, far cleverer(she has 10 GCSE and 3 A level and a couple of degrees, whereas i merely have 3 GCSE and a City and Guilds In Gas Installation!) Sister.
Anyway, it is I think the crazy old world of Gas Fitting that I get up to that will offer most opportunities to recall funny and not sometimes so funny moments. As a mobile gas installer, i come to your house, suck air through my teeth(yes they do teach you that at Gas College) and generally drink all of your tea whilst going about fixing your heating/hot water problems. And whilst doing so, i see your house, inside and out, i go into all your rooms, and your loft, there is no hiding place, for anything. At all.
Today is friday, the legendary POETS day in the building world. Its the day we all aspire to be! And as its friday i dont have a great deal to do, just go sign off the job i have been on all week, then go look at a radiator that according to the customer" sounds like it has got metal in it". I didnt like to say "of course its got metal in it, its made of bloody metal" as that would have seen her put the phone down and me lose out on a sixty five quid call out.
Then hopefully I shall go fishing.
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