During lunch I sat for quite a while listening with interest as Nick (big bricklayer type buildery person) and AD (big, tattooed, skater, surfer type labourer person) discussed at some length their various desires regarding the purchase of eggcups. I love my staff. I want to hug them all (metaphorical hugs). I didn’t surf today. [...]
Category Archives: building
Penfold’s building tip’s – lesson 2
June 19, 2007 – 6:14 pm
Lesson 2 – not getting sacked on day one. Beautifully draped in your newly aquired building attire the first hurdle is to categorise yourself in a particular trade. Options include:- Chippy. This is not a purveyor of the great British edible delicacy known as chips. This is a person that cuts long bits of wood [...]
Disaster count : zero.
June 13, 2007 – 6:22 pm
Paula (Queen of all things piratey and surf mom extraordinaire) put me onto wavetoon. Very nice Herge-esque illustrations and a chance for you all to brush up on your Brazilian Portuguese. They are looking for someone (with greater linguistical skills and more spare time than I) to help with some English translations of their captions, [...]
Who stole all the shops?
June 4, 2007 – 9:37 pm
I just want to buy a few jigsaw blades and a belt sander. Not much to ask really – but I’d like to actually hold the bloody thing in my hand before purchasing it. If one more person says ‘you could get that online…’ I swear I’ll jigsaw them into to tiny interesting shapes and [...]
Penfold’s building tip’s – lesson 1
May 28, 2007 – 6:14 pm
Lesson 1 – getting a job. First things first – you need to go shopping. Your first stop is of course the local garage to stock up on Ginstsers pasties, some Tetley tea bags, milk, sugar and a copy of the Sun to tuck under your arm. You will also need to stop into your [...]
I quit.
May 25, 2007 – 2:44 pm
I quit. Sorry abut the grindstone – it was a nice job – super clients, friendly staff, great hours, top perks, dental and medical. But I still quit. I have a new career path to follow (or an old path that has been neglected). It is one with no prospects and no future – it [...]
Dear Mum…
May 18, 2007 – 6:53 pm
Dear Mum, – today I did something really bad. I couldn’t find my work boots so I used your wellies to do some concreting. To save you the time and energy I am just about to go and lock myself in my room. I’ve also taken the liberty of borrowing one of your slippers to [...]
Nature – it gets everywhere…
May 15, 2007 – 7:12 pm
The Grindstone is supposed to be a building site. Unfortunately somebody forgot to put up an eviction notice in ‘birdy-beasty talk’. It was like a nature reserve at work today – swifts flying into the house and doing their swoopy, swifty flitting nonsense. Giant bumble bees droning their clumsy flight paths into anything that doesn’t [...]