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Random Irritations

Drove somewhere to get a quote on a wheel refurb. Pot hole after pot hole. Car in comfort mode. Hmm. Really. Flipping uncomfortable ride, unless going lunatic fast.

Sport plus engaged.

Also, the wheels can't be put back to new, as one of them has been done before, so a waste of time in many ways. One still needs paint, so all 4 need stripping and painting, even though 3 of them I will get back exactly as they went in. Which is 200 wasted.
 
What's wrong with Skype and video conferencing? The company get 6 hours of you at your desk AND you attend the meeting for 2 hours.... technology, it'll never take off

I'm with you on this. A couple of years ago I had to visit a client for a project induction before I went offshore for a client. They flew me to Schiphol where they'd hired a conference room within the airport complex. Two managers had travelled to meet me there and handed me a print out of the presentation. One of them then proceeded to read from a powerpoint presentation for 45 minutes (the exact presentation I'd been given a copy of) and at the end asked "any questions?", when I said no they shook my hand and left. With flights and my day rate it cost them over £1k for me to attend and that's without their expenses.
 
Moving house,. As much as I'm excited for our move away, packing, arranging utility cancellations and new ones being set up is a complete ball ache and add in had to go food shopping today to:cautious:
 
More fireworks. What on earth for now. Now don't get me wrong, we live very adjacent to a lovely old mansion house (where we happened to get married ourselves, long before this housing estate was dreamed up) and are use to fireworks to celebrate new nuptials but there have been three or four sets going off, seemingly from different areas
 
More fireworks. What on earth for now. Now don't get me wrong, we live very adjacent to a lovely old mansion house (where we happened to get married ourselves, long before this housing estate was dreamed up) and are use to fireworks to celebrate new nuptials but there have been three or four sets going off, seemingly from different areas
Diwali - lasts 5 days from 7th November this year..
 
Yep, more flipping fireworks. Very scared cat hiding in the bathroom. 5th night on the spin. Just give it a rest. 15 minutes a night, would be annoying, but we are talking 2 hours a night. Just no. No.
 
Trying to buy a flatblade screwdriver first thing this morning, only to be told at the till by the young lad "I need to get authority to sell this, as a superviser needs to confirm you're over 18"
What laod of ballocks. So now anything slim, pointy, chemical or remotely close to injury has to be confirmed by a supervisor?
 
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