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What are you doing for the Easter weekend?

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    #31
    Originally posted by d000hg View Post
    Maybe, I'd never heard of it until this week. Sounds a bit weird to me.

    Can't beat a lovely bit of cheese on toast...
    Raclette from a permie dinner out in Geneva years ago:

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      #32
      I'll be working. The web designers took 2 weeks longer than was planned and the site needs to be up by end of the month.
      McCoy: "Medical men are trained in logic."
      Spock: "Trained? Judging from you, I would have guessed it was trial and error."

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        #33
        Well we were thinking of getting the train up to Hamburg for the weekend until my bloody in-laws phoned and 'invited' the whole family to dinner in their favourite restaurant, which is crap, on Sunday, which basically blows up any hopes we had of a trip away. We shall try and make the best of the rest of the weekend, cycling, eating, drinking and lazing about.



        Actually, they're very nice but boring as hell; most of them. Sister in-law number 2 has a large chip on her shoulder about the Tester family's relative wealth. Silly bint; I helped her set up her business doing flower arrangements for restaurants, hotels and weddings, plus courses, helped her into a contract with a michelin 2 star restaurant to provide all flowers for them and just as she was starting to make some real money out of it she stopped due to pregnancy, left her customers in the lurch instead of arranging an alternative supplier or getting an employee to serve them, therefore lost the contracts and won't get them back, and now she whines all the time that Lady Tester wears expensive dresses and we go on exotic holidays. No point in saying 'well you could have done that yourself if you'd used my start-up capital and my contacts properly' because she'll only fly off the handle and accuse us of being elitist rich bastards who don't care. And TBH we don't any more.

        Great bloody fun.
        And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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          #34
          Originally posted by Ticktock View Post
          Raclette from a permie dinner out in Geneva years ago:


          Yeah, a must have in Borough market.
          Vote Corbyn ! Save this country !

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            #35
            Thanks for asking.

            I'm going to Paris for the weekend. Fingers crossed for sunshine!
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              #36
              Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
              Well we were thinking of getting the train up to Hamburg for the weekend until my bloody in-laws phoned and 'invited' the whole family to dinner in their favourite restaurant, which is crap, on Sunday, which basically blows up any hopes we had of a trip away. We shall try and make the best of the rest of the weekend, cycling, eating, drinking and lazing about.



              Actually, they're very nice but boring as hell; most of them. Sister in-law number 2 has a large chip on her shoulder about the Tester family's relative wealth. Silly bint; I helped her set up her business doing flower arrangements for restaurants, hotels and weddings, plus courses, helped her into a contract with a michelin 2 star restaurant to provide all flowers for them and just as she was starting to make some real money out of it she stopped due to pregnancy, left her customers in the lurch instead of arranging an alternative supplier or getting an employee to serve them, therefore lost the contracts and won't get them back, and now she whines all the time that Lady Tester wears expensive dresses and we go on exotic holidays. No point in saying 'well you could have done that yourself if you'd used my start-up capital and my contacts properly' because she'll only fly off the handle and accuse us of being elitist rich bastards who don't care. And TBH we don't any more.

              Great bloody fun.
              Apparently the correct form in dealing with poor in-laws is to ask if she has a tattoo across her lower back.

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                #37
                Originally posted by mudskipper View Post
                Apparently the correct form in dealing with poor in-laws is to ask if she has a tattoo across her lower back.



                The risk is that she'll show it off and we really don't need to see her flesh.
                And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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                  #38
                  Originally posted by mudskipper View Post
                  Apparently the correct form in dealing with poor in-laws is to ask if she has a tattoo across her lower back.

                  Is that what the young people call a slag tag?

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                    #39
                    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
                    Is that what the young people call a slag tag?
                    Or a suity-booty, if that doesn't make you want to retch too much.

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                      #40
                      Thanks for asking

                      Out for beers and food with a couple of mates tonight.
                      Fri: Hangover, dog walking & tidying the garden. Plus getting some estimates from our builder.
                      Sat: Booking hotel accommodation for next month's holibobs & then out for dinner with Mrs P running club
                      Sun: Rumours of a family lunch have started to filter through but nothing fixed yet.
                      Mon: Back to the mainland.

                      You?

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