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nosey-p:
Welcome tikay to the forum, were have you been for the past month?

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tikay:
Crikes, I only arrived 30 seconds ago & I"ve been rumbled already!

Sorry for late arrival, I"m so disorganized - "never do today what you can put off until tomorrow".....

I really feel quite bad about not being on here before, but, well, you know how it is, no excuses really.

Anyway, I"m gonna take a look round, & see what"s what in here. Looks a great Forum.

PS - You don"t REALLY wanna know where I"ve been the last month do you? How does Dublin (2), Sheffield, Birmingham (2), Walsall (2), Newcastle (3), Birmingham (2) Bolton, Luton (5), & London (13 times) sound? I can tell you about each train journey, too, if you really like....;). This retirement lark is a real cinch.

nosey-p:
Sorry I asked   :D

Never mind you are here now. If that's what you call retirement what did you do before retirement?  

Bodddders:
Welcome Tikay, as they say better late than never.

tikay:

--- Quote from: nosey-p on June 20, 2007, 19:07:05 PM ---
Sorry I asked   :D

Never mind you are here now. If that's what you call retirement what did you do before retirement?  

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I was MD of a Shopfitting & Property Maintenance Company, we fitted out (fitted up some might say) Sainsbury"s, Tescos, Aldi Foodstores, Phones4U, that sort of thing. If there is a Sainsbury"s or Aldi near you, chances are I (we) supplied & installed the checkouts, lights, display racking, etc. Quite boring it sounds, but actually very challenging. A Sainsbury can turnover millions of ££"s a week, so when we moved in on a Sunday night, & ripped the ceiling out, or cut a chase in the Sales Area Floor, it kinda got the adrenelin flowing, the thought of what happened if we never finished on time!

Planned Maintenance (so -called "Preventative) was an art-form, to get the costings right. We did several PSI schemes, including the first PSI Police Station - Ilkeston, Derbyshire, coincidentally minutes from my home.

And we did Landscape Maintenance, that was hugely interesting. Aldi GmbH & Co KG wanted bushes that did not grow! (Not growing means not cutting means low-maintenance costs).

We looked after the Chairman"s place, too, he had a Grange near Wirksworth, in Derbyshire, in 700 acres. He was wholly against wild animals, & wanted them all shot. He had bats, too (a protected species), & wanted them done away with, along with squirrels (eating his tree bark - they are in fact extremely destructive), badgers, moles, rabbits, "shoot the lot" he"d say. "Yes Guv" I"d reply, then do nothing. He spent £40,000 having anti-rabbit fence erected (it extends 18" into the ground, as they burrow under regular fences), but left the gates open, so rabbits could wander in.....

We built a half mile long dry-stone wall for him, too, that"s a real Derbyshire art. He rung me one day - "Tony, the cows are leaning over my new wall, get it sorted, they have no right to do that". "OK John", I"d say, thinking to myself I"ll send them a Memo. "Dear Nice Cow, hope this letter finds you well. Now, about John"s wall......"

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