If you see a job that needs doing..
I done electrical up to phase 5 (i had done college first) . I was good at it as my mind ticks thst way but the recession came and i couldnt handle not having work etc so went to england. Worked out for me in current career (original quaification) but always regret not finishing the trade.
@Packrat yes he could drop in the blocks fairly handy alright but if the stack of blocks wasn't in the right spot you would be reminded that he was being paid to build them & not carry them. If the mortar wasnt right, to soft the block would sink in it or to dry then the blocks wouldn't sit in it right you would get a telling off.. you knew to have it right the next time. But I look back in fondness on any job I done with him.
Plastering is the hardest trade, a single action. A rotation of the shoulder. In every other trade there is a bit of give. Block laying is the next hardest. Around the edges now the foreign nationals are filling in. Had Brazilians doing cavity wall insulation, Polish lads doing fibreglass on a flat roof and another crew of them doing air tightness. Fairly similar with the liquid floor insulation and screed
But Paddy is doing the blocklaying, plastering, carpentry and a few more trades. Have a great Polish tiler
Completed the Limerick marathon yesterday.
I had hoped for 4:30ish but I had that norovirus last week and I didn’t think I’d be even able do the 10km
did it in 5 hours but last half was a pure slog.
50km ultra in June and that’s the end of very long distances.
4 halves in 4 days in August and then I’ll slip back to 10kms.
It takes too long training.
I’d prefer an hour in local CrossFit than 3 hours running.
Well done.
@kollegeknight fair play to you. Thats some going.. I see lads at it here and the amount of training and weeks of preparation / planning it takes is mad..
Great memories to have there. There is always satisfaction to see works you have done. People working at a computer screen day in day out don't get the same satisfaction.
Ah, I don’t know if that’s true for everyone… Different people appreciate different things…
I’m one that never really worked on building sites, apart from a bit of readymix pouring on our own house or in the yard. It never dawned on me that plastering was such hard work. The lad that did our house was a heavy drinker and thin as a rake, he’s dead now. I remember saying to him one day that he was a bit like Jesus, washing away the sins of all the other tradesmen! The block layer at our house got a heart attack when we were building too, not actually on site, but his son did the chimney and the draw was never really right on it, luckily we were putting in a stove so it worked out ok.
Looking back on it tradesmen earn every penny, and the ones that make it to 70 are the exception.
https://www.interest.co.nz/rural-news/138322/comparing-our-free-trade-deal-eu-newly-announced-australia-eu-fta-we-have-least
What did Europe get, out of this deal. They definitely are looking for ways to reduce European farmers. If you consider mercosur and this AUS/NZ deal
I don't understand why Brussels wants less farmers and less European food production?!
It's the opposite of the original food security goal of the EEC.
There seems to be a bizarre school of thought that we can get everything we need to survive, on a ship from China…
A guaranteed recipe for food and fuel shortages in the not too distant future.
Can someone make this make sense?!
A business owner once told me “when the accountants get too much power the organisation is fcuked because they have no vision, just the drive to save money at all costs”.
Far as I can see that’s what’s happened in the EU, things have to be cheaper on paper and nothing else matters. They can see options to import everything at knock down prices while lowering production rates within the EU to meet environment targets, a win-win in their eyes. Gone are the people who remember hard times, gone is the collective memory of why the EEC was such a success.
Food security is no longer a pillar of EU policy. If there's a war or blockade where food imports are reduced they will come to regret this path.
You’d think seeing current global events food, energy and fertiliser would again become priorities 🤷🏻
Snooker final going right down to the wire...thought Murphy had it wrapped up
Chinese will be talking over the gaa next
they’d probably do as good as Clare did anyway yesterday
Uncalled for 😭
They'd do better than the Ref anyway ……….
there’s a few people that can be blamed for that sh*t show from Clare on Sunday, the ref ain’t one
Carlow did well in this
He didn't change the result but he was disgracefully bad.
You’d have to question who benefits from making such unmatched teams play each other.
I wonder what the story was, you'd think they'd have gotten a free of some sort
I see Donald has packed in getting all the ships trapped at Hormuz out. He got 2 ships out of over 1000 out- so no doubt it'll be claimed as a success!
Someone may go over to Iran fairly lively n butter them up. I think a recession is already a certainty but if that strait doesn't open in the near future it's going to be a whopper.
Id say that recession was coming one way or another
99% certain at this stage. the question now is how deep a recession will be. costs are gone mad. Talking to a friend yesterday who was too busy to wash down his 2 story house and footpaths so his wife got local lad in. €1150 for 6 hours with pressure washer. Cash.
Fools and their money are soon parted. And your friend is a fool if he paid that or else he is a rocket scientist. What work is he doing that he values his time at more than 200 per hour?
My mother texted me before 6am asking ne to queue at doctor's to get an appointment for her today. If you ring at 9 you're put in a queue and all appointments will be gone by the time you get through. Was there at 8.45 , 1 person already there. 8 people there by 9 am. They hadn't even started answering the phone by the time I got her one.
There has to be some crowd that that doctor can be reported to. They obviously aren't catering properly for the numbers on their books. I see my GP twice a year and I'd always make sure to have a 24 hr BP monitor and blood tests done in the weeks before. For an urgent appointment then I'd get a doctor within a few hours.
