Amateur Poker Association & Tour
Poker Forum => General Discussion => Topic started by: nosey-p on June 20, 2007, 18:24:36 PM
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Welcome tikay to the forum, were have you been for the past month?
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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.
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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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Welcome Tikay, as they say better late than never.
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Sorry I asked :D
Never mind you are here now. If that's what you call retirement what did you do before retirement?
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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LOL....
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Sorry for late arrival, I"m so disorganized - "never do today what you can put off until tomorrow".....
Ahhh, my old friend procrastination - the thief of time! ::)
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Welcome to the forum my friend !
So, any interesting hobbies ?
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Welcome Tikay! Really enjoyed the "pre-retirement" post!
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Welcome to the forum my friend !
So, any interesting hobbies ?
Don"t go there! I"m trying to behave on this Forum.
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Welcome to the forum my friend !
So, any interesting hobbies ?
Don"t go there! I"m trying to behave on this Forum.
Huuuuummm.....can"t see that lasting!
Welcome to another mad house Tikay!
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Welcome to the forum my friend !
So, any interesting hobbies ?
Don"t go there! I"m trying to behave on this Forum.
Huuuuummm.....can"t see that lasting!
Welcome to another mad house Tikay!
Thanks Digger.
Seriously, I gotta behave in here, don"t want Des on our case, do we?
La le la le la, da de da de da, dum de dum de dum.
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It"s OK - he"s at the bar getting the drinks in... :o
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Sorry I asked :D
Never mind you are here now. If that?s what you call retirement what did you do before retirement?
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......"
Not related to Steve Davis are we?
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Sorry I asked :D
Never mind you are here now. If that's what you call retirement what did you do before retirement?
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......"
Not related to Steve Davis are we?
Twins seperated at birth. He"s the interesting one. In case you wondered.