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Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 8:06 pm
by seanandruby
Left at 4.00am, got 4 miles from Heathrow and car packed up. Peugeot 307 they are all the same, think it's the engine management system. Transported back 8 hours later. Got 5.00 0clock train tomorrow get me at work 3 hours later. O well look on the bright side at least i'm working. Gonna be a long week 
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 8:20 pm
by ken
And I was thinking my 90mins on the m6 to drive 35 miles was a bad start to the week!
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 8:44 pm
by lutonlagerlout
dunno about the extra hour, i felt shattered today
laid 26m of 600 by 600 on edge as upstands
50 bar faced tomorrow
LLL
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 5:35 am
by seanandruby
......i'll be done in by tonight, 3 hours train and tube, days work, 20 minute bus ride from work tonight at 6.00, half hour walk, cook tea in digs, shwr, bed by about 9.30. Bring on the w'kend :laugh: at least can chillax on the train and read paper.
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 7:06 am
by lutonlagerlout
good luck sean
I did all that traveling when i was young and it bollixed me then
chilax==> like that word 
LLL
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 8:53 am
by henpecked
lutonlagerlout wrote:chilax==> like that word
LLL
I found ex-lax to be better :laugh: :laugh:
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 10:22 am
by seanandruby
lutonlagerlout wrote:good luck sean
I did all that traveling when i was young and it bollixed me then
chilax==> like that word
LLL
i'm used to it LLL, been doing early runs for years. Took me 4 hours this morning, so be long day today and Thursday going home. Worst one was used to leave 4.30 am and get back 10.00 pm, did that for 9 months and lost 2 1/2 stone in weight, it was mostly 6/7 days a week. I was fooked then.
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 7:58 pm
by digerjones
hell fire it sounds like you do some serious hrs, i am lucky most days either working in my village or no more than 15 mins away by car. i had the ecu go on our peugeot 306 got one off ebay £75 then had it fitted and recoded £125, so not bad. you need the numbers off it.
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 8:26 pm
by DNgroundworks
Fairplay sean, i dont think i could do that tbh, nor would i want to, serious graft and commitment, My dad does 72 hours a week, comes home, eats tea, falls asleep, only day off on sun, sleeps all day
Can you not get digs closer to the job?
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 9:33 pm
by seanandruby
when you've done it as long as me, you begin to accept train travel etc; as part of your leisure time. Not being a drinker, or mixer it can get lonely in the digs. DN i am close, as regards buses etc but like to unwind with a walk. I get a lift sometimes, usually got the car in the staff car park but not this week. Your auld fella is like me.....old school, fair play to him :;):
Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2011 5:38 pm
by lutonlagerlout
I like to work to live,not live to work
seen to many hard grafters do their bollox for 50 years then die 9 months into retirement
i do feel with the building game that it slowly wrecks you physically
and when you are wrecked ,you get tossed aside
LLL
Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2011 8:28 pm
by local patios and driveway
lutonlagerlout wrote:I like to work to live,not live to work
seen to many hard grafters do their bollox for 50 years then die 9 months into retirement
i do feel with the building game that it slowly wrecks you physically
and when you are wrecked ,you get tossed aside
LLL
Very true, my old man was old skool. Got the bad back, swallowed 100 bricks in dust alone, cant hear a thing and now he has retired at 75 is now an old dribble nose, completely ruined. Sad to see the old boy in such a mess because at 70 he could run a wheel barrow all day and i mean running. Would embarass anyone on here.