It was £80K 3 hours agoi still got 70k in my bank account get pip uc and careers allowance beat that
Maybe you should lay off buying those plastic toys.
Prices of the electricity we use to charge
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Maybe you should lay off buying those plastic toys.
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there 100 pound coins legal tender uk so if my aunt gives me 8 of them at a cost of £20,520 dwp sees it as 100 pound coins so 800 quid.
i can only have 6k in savings on uc
I have no idea what this means. Are you posting while drunk? Looks likely. Not a great idea.
i put the right to buy my council house November last year when they changed the law so all applications had to be done buy nov 19th or will loose all the discount.
i can be on uc and own my own home outright why i still get my uc payments and use those funds to buy my house.
all paperwork has been completed solicitors paid so just waiting for council to complete as not sent contract to my solicitor.
i can be on uc and own my own home outright why i still get my uc payments and use those funds to buy my house.
all paperwork has been completed solicitors paid so just waiting for council to complete as not sent contract to my solicitor.
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Each to their own I suppose
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I think you are a carpenter, or cabinet maker. Maybe I have that wrong. I have always admired people with those kinds of skills. I worked in a different arena and came up against a lot of people who had a stupid snobby attitude towards craftsmen as if they were somehow less than managers and academics. I remember arguing with a boss who objected to my proposal to offer a good salary to attract the right level of technician to manage IT networks. He actually said, 'I am not going to pay money like that to a man with a screwdriver. I was taken aback by that. He had no idea how much we depend on the people who build and maintain our infrastructure and can turn raw materials into the things we need.Each to their own I suppose
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I think this kind of snobbery and undervaluing of hand skills by some is a product of the very divisive education system we used to have. The grammar school kids never had any contact with woodworking and metalworking skills at school, so they have no experience of those forms of knowledge, or what is involved in the trades. They were also taught by people who generally thought they were a cut above those kinds of workers, so the attitudes passed on, generation to generation.
My parents were far from wealthy so money was short ,and during my long university holidays, I worked on the building of a hospital, and on an elevated motorway, as a labourer. I cut and bent the steel rebar for three months for a steel fixing company. That was tough and quite dangerous work, humping forty foot, two inch thick, solid steel bars , cutting and bending them to specified shapes. The steel came in forty foot lengths and carrying it and working it was a two man job. it was crushingly heavy work even at the age of twenty. The machines we used to guillotine the bars were diesel powered and entirely unguarded. They chopped about once every five seconds and if you'd fallen into them, you'd be very messed up. They were at a perfect height for a person to fall into them.
I know how much effort and skill goes into making things, and can understand the value of it. How bad would life be without those workers efforts?
I worked on this inter-change shown below. My steel is inside these columns and bridges. Sad to say, some of the work by the fixers and inspectors was less than stellar and remedial work has had to be done to some of the columns where the steel was too near the surface of the concrete and over the fifty two years since it was built, water has penetrated to the steel and caused rusting and expansion and in parts, the concrete surface has broken away in places. A mile or so further down the motorway, an overpass has been condemned and will have to be demolished. I didn't work on that job though.
The steel fixer company were all Irish. It took three attempts to get them to take on this once scrawny student. I turned up and asked for a job three times; was twice refused. In the end I persuaded the boss by saying, if I can't do the work, don't pay me. It was the toughest work I ever did, but the pay was three times what I was getting in a factory that I had just started at. I worked in the construction industry every summer for three months during my four year, university course.
Once upon a time I had a hobby of trying to build stuff out of wood. It was pretty crude work - if you are a cabinet maker you'd be appalled by the rough quality of them. I designed and made a garden seat, a large wall mounted plate rack, and a rocking cradle for my first son who is now 46. That cradle was entirely fastened with glued dowels. Hard to imagine him in it now. He is about a hundred kilos! Apart from having a crude level of skill, I had problems in getting the right scale in the design. They often turned out much larger than they should have been. The rocking cradle was far too big as was an old fashioned settle come chest that I made. It was a chest with a seat back on it so it was dual purpose. The lower section of that is now a junk box in a shed. I'd seen something like it in a museum, but that was made of oak and mine was pine. I used dowels where I could to fasten things together - more authentic I thought....
Two of my sons about forty years ago on a rather weathered garden seat I hacked together.
A neighbour of mine who used to be a building site chippy and later a site manager and who ended up running training at the CITB before he retired, built these gates for my partner. I helped him saw up the timber from a big log and we hung them on the posts. Given my own experience of getting the sizes wrong, I was a bit worried about how they would fit, but he had a lot of experience in this sort of thing so it worked out fine.
I helped him cut the wood out of a huge chunk of timber he had. It was some sort of redwood. He had it stored under a tarpaulin in a big heavy squared off log about twelve feet long and about a foot square at the end. I helped him feed it through a band saw that he had in his workshop. It took a long while to slice it up and a lot of working out so we got the finished sizes we needed for the job. These gates will be around long after we are both dead.
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LOL - no - it rotted away years ago and was burned. Cheap pine doesn't do that well outside - long term unless you look after it. That was one of my first projects. When my first grand child was born I dug out the rocking cradle but decided my daughters in law wouldn't put their little treasures in it and that was scrapped too. It was a big clumsy thing .
I made three of those seats, one for my parents and one for the parents in law. They were simple, strong and easy to fabricate.
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