holidays are over.
After my lovely holiday with
jonboy1, I went back to work today. With a bang. Phonecall at 6am "Are you up? Can you start work in 10 minutes?"
Yeah, course I can. Why the hell not? Is the guy who should normally go on site sick? No. He's booked a day off. COuld they not have told me this last week, when he booked it off? No, they 'didn't want to spoil my holiday'...because telling me yesterday would have been SO much worse than telling me at 6am this morning.
So I was on a building site today, clinging on to about a foot and a half of ledge, hauling steels up, no safety harness, no room to turn around. This is a building site where you're not allowed to work if you don't wear gloves. But hanging off the side of a building a storey and a half up with no harness and concrete about 16 foot below is fine.
However, yesterday when I was out with
jaceybatts,
kirsteena, Wibble, Fran and Jo I began to write some Nash/Vinny on the train ::stares very hard at
billytaylor:: and today, surrounded by a crazy building site in the pissing rain with loads of blokes trotting about in their high-viz and muddy dirty ripped up clothes the plotbunnies were quite rampant XD
And it made me laugh that top of the list of "Site Rules and Health & Safety" was 'Do not speak to any children'. (It's next door to a school) And number two was "shorts are not permitted on this site" (because a sleety november day is shorts weather. Christ, I almost put my long-johns on this morning!! Priorities, we got 'em.
jonboy1, I went back to work today. With a bang. Phonecall at 6am "Are you up? Can you start work in 10 minutes?"
Yeah, course I can. Why the hell not? Is the guy who should normally go on site sick? No. He's booked a day off. COuld they not have told me this last week, when he booked it off? No, they 'didn't want to spoil my holiday'...because telling me yesterday would have been SO much worse than telling me at 6am this morning.
So I was on a building site today, clinging on to about a foot and a half of ledge, hauling steels up, no safety harness, no room to turn around. This is a building site where you're not allowed to work if you don't wear gloves. But hanging off the side of a building a storey and a half up with no harness and concrete about 16 foot below is fine.
However, yesterday when I was out with
jaceybatts,
kirsteena, Wibble, Fran and Jo I began to write some Nash/Vinny on the train ::stares very hard at
billytaylor:: and today, surrounded by a crazy building site in the pissing rain with loads of blokes trotting about in their high-viz and muddy dirty ripped up clothes the plotbunnies were quite rampant XD
And it made me laugh that top of the list of "Site Rules and Health & Safety" was 'Do not speak to any children'. (It's next door to a school) And number two was "shorts are not permitted on this site" (because a sleety november day is shorts weather. Christ, I almost put my long-johns on this morning!! Priorities, we got 'em.