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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 8:13 pm
by Dave_L
Thing is we get these price increase advisory letters month on month but when we get quotes, it doesn't seem to jump up the stated rise amount. Weird.......I ain't complaining though.
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 11:10 am
by Carberry
London Stone Paving wrote:
Think your looking at it throught rose coloured spectacles Stu, it wouldnt be the same in scotland
You're right, it would probably get stolen :laugh: Or a bunch of weegies on buckfast would try and stab it.
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 8:00 pm
by rab1
I personally think that was a little uncalled for. :p Just because you drink tennents super. :p
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 8:33 pm
by Dave_L
This week has gone chicken-oriental! Taken on two last minute tarmac jobs, one small footpath reinstatement 30 miles away and 16ton of binder to make a loading yard very local to us a little safer until we can replace the surface in Feb/March.
I thought we were supposed to be winding down to Christmas????
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 10:13 pm
by DNgroundworks
Im not going to get my jobs finished, remedial works for bradstone still not finished due to weather, 100mtrs of 220mm twinwall and 100mtrs of 160mm perf land drain, silt trap and soakaway system for septic tank, still not finished due weather, was supposed to start a block paved path today - not a chance im risking 3 half finished jobs in this crap.
Hopefully get the bradstone job finished tommorow, chucked it down all day here! 
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 10:43 pm
by lutonlagerlout
This week has gone chicken-oriental
would that be somerset rhyming slang dave? :laugh:
heard a bloke the other week call a trowel a "grumble and growl"
in 27 years that was a first for me
worked all day in the rain demolishing the chimney and cleaning the bricks in the rain
got to do some helical rod repairs ,rebuild ,rake out and repoint with easipoint historical mortar ,all by friday ???
busiest week of the year
LLL 
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 9:37 am
by London Stone Paving
I heard Paul Merson on sky sports the other day saying that the crowd were going "radio". Never heard that one before, thought maybe he had just made it up.
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 6:27 pm
by lutonlagerlout
faux mockeny
radio = radio rental =mental
most London people don't use rhyming slang now
they would more likely say "its kicked off in the crowd" or " the crowd has lost the plot"
the main thing with cockney speak is that they very often say very little but its all in the inference
i.e. "do you want some?" can be taken in a number of ways
same with most cockney talk ,mixture of Jamaican patois and estuary English
LLL
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 7:13 pm
by flowjoe
How do you lay a Jamaican patio then Tone ???
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 9:07 pm
by bobbi o
We're scratching around trying to get the essential stuff finished for Friday. what a difference from last year weather and work wise!
The paver driver managed to drop his mobile phone into the diesel tank this morning.we couldnt retrieve it.
my cousin weighed in his years scrap collection-17 tonnes @ £195.00 per tonne. nice lift for the festive period!
i've got an old dead weight roller plus a pile of old ironwork,waiting to load onto the barn door skip tmrw. hoping to acheive a similair weight.
merry xmas to all.hope the economy doesnt collapse in 2012.
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 9:19 pm
by lutonlagerlout
velly funny davey
try saying "beer can" without sounding like a jamaican saying "bacon"
LLL :laugh:
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 9:20 pm
by lutonlagerlout
what was he weighing in bobbi?
think steel is around £120 down here now
LLL
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 9:27 pm
by ilovesettsonmondays
chees and rice the four by two next door to me has got a new desmond hackett .welcome to essex and west ham territory :;):
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 9:31 pm
by ilovesettsonmondays
^^ my mrs eastend tongue twister for you all.first one to get it wins pie mash and liquer
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 9:45 pm
by London Stone Paving
whats the difference between liquor and gravy?