RM suspend deliveries due to severe weather !!!

[seanocelt]

deliveries suspend portadown office but u must stay in the office until your shift is over

same in Lisburn,or take it out,or attempt to take it out & return to finish your time,or go home & get hours clawed back.

It must've been a Northern Ireland thing because we are in the same boat .

i printed off the posts about "hours clawback" being illegal and not agreed, from this forum, showed guys at an N.I. offfice, take no crap, its not on, you get paid if deliveries suspended and you owe zero.

[dvbuk55]

I've got a friend in Blaenau Ffestiniog who reckons it's about 2-3 foot deep in places there

I remember that place well. There used to be slate mines/quarries and a mini railway line and when I was a young boy soldier I was based at Tonfanau, which is just south of Barmouth.........one of the tasks was to recover one of the "carriages" from the bottom of a steep and deep ravine..........it wasn't easy. I believe the railway line has now been restored.

I'm not sure that it wasn't on TV at the time though it may have been another "task", which involved hauling rolls of wire up extremely steep hillsides with posts. I met my first girlfriend there...........she was pretty monosyllabic, just kept saying baa.

[TeeferTiger]

I've got a friend in Blaenau Ffestiniog who reckons it's about 2-3 foot deep in places there

I remember that place well. There used to be slate mines/quarries and a mini railway line and when I was a young boy soldier I was based at Tonfanau, which is just south of Barmouth.........one of the tasks was to recover one of the "carriages" from the bottom of a steep and deep ravine..........it wasn't easy. I believe the railway line has now been restored.

I'm not sure that it wasn't on TV at the time though it may have been another "task", which involved hauling rolls of wire up extremely steep hillsides with posts. I met my first girlfriend there...........she was pretty monosyllabic, just kept saying baa.

It hasn't changed then lol

[krussel]

I've got a friend in Blaenau Ffestiniog who reckons it's about 2-3 foot deep in places there

I remember that place well. There used to be slate mines/quarries and a mini railway line and when I was a young boy soldier I was based at Tonfanau, which is just south of Barmouth.........one of the tasks was to recover one of the "carriages" from the bottom of a steep and deep ravine..........it wasn't easy. I believe the railway line has now been restored.

I'm not sure that it wasn't on TV at the time though it may have been another "task", which involved hauling rolls of wire up extremely steep hillsides with posts. I met my first girlfriend there...........she was pretty monosyllabic, just kept saying baa.

That was a really interesting post and i was sitting here imagining you struggling to recover a carriage down a ravine and stumbling with a roll of wire. But then the last bit after you dragged me in, well too much information and things i did'nt want to visualise

Off to the naughty room for you my boy

[DGP1]

I hear we're getting these to help in the bad weather

[dvbuk55]

That was a really interesting post and i was sitting here imagining you struggling to recover a carriage down a ravine and stumbling with a roll of wire. But then the last bit after you dragged me in, well too much information and things i did'nt want to visualise

Off to the naughty room for you my boy

Actually Kruss it was all true, except for the sheep bit........including the TV, it was 1963/4 as I recall. 63 was a really cold winter and the whole of the pipes on the camp froze solid. We marched down to the sea in t shirts and shorts and "daps" which were like pumps to wash, and even the edges of the sea were frozen.

I do recall a girlfriend there though who had striking green eyes and auburn hair................the name escapes me.

[krussel]

I had an uncle who lived near a closed tin mine in Cornwall and as a kid i used to go play there on the wagons riding them along some of the track, think they called them "gurneys" or something. How we never lost a foot or a hand i will never know.

[dvbuk55]

I had an uncle who lived near a closed tin mine in Cornwall and as a kid i used to go play there on the wagons riding them along some of the track, think they called them "gurneys" or something. How we never lost a foot or a hand i will never know.

Because as youngsters you know no fear and show no fear, for some that continues in later life for others common sense takes over

[luddite]

when I was a young boy soldier I was based at Tonfanau, which is just south of Barmouth.........


Ah, Tonfanau! The perimeter road of the old army camp is now used as a motorcycle race track, very very bumpy and with as much grip as a welsh village pavement at the moment!

[wardroom]

That was a really interesting post and i was sitting here imagining you struggling to recover a carriage down a ravine and stumbling with a roll of wire. But then the last bit after you dragged me in, well too much information and things i did'nt want to visualise

Off to the naughty room for you my boy

Actually Kruss it was all true, except for the sheep bit........including the TV, it was 1963/4 as I recall. 63 was a really cold winter and the whole of the pipes on the camp froze solid. We marched down to the sea in t shirts and shorts and "daps" which were like pumps to wash, and even the edges of the sea were frozen.

I do recall a girlfriend there though who had striking green eyes and auburn hair................the name escapes me.

Senior moment eh

[dvbuk55]

That was a really interesting post and i was sitting here imagining you struggling to recover a carriage down a ravine and stumbling with a roll of wire. But then the last bit after you dragged me in, well too much information and things i did'nt want to visualise

Off to the naughty room for you my boy

Actually Kruss it was all true, except for the sheep bit........including the TV, it was 1963/4 as I recall. 63 was a really cold winter and the whole of the pipes on the camp froze solid. We marched down to the sea in t shirts and shorts and "daps" which were like pumps to wash, and even the edges of the sea were frozen.

I do recall a girlfriend there though who had striking green eyes and auburn hair................the name escapes me.

Senior moment eh

Very! It's almost 50 years ago. I know I can hardly believe it myself, it doesn't seem a half century ago.