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You can still see one of the Mulberry Bridges when the tide is low at the west end of Hayling Island where you get the Southsea ferry. It sunk when they were towing a load of them across the channel.
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Terrible shame - I'd read recently thatnhe'd been repsonding well to treatment and had started appearing in public again.
He was the golden boy of English football when I was growing up and I even had a Weetabix iron on patch of him on the sleeve of my Arsenal shirt....
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Great on a grid system like LA I'm sure but when you come face to face with a farmer in a combine harvester on a windy, single track country lane with no passing places - I'd be interested to see the results!
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Andrew Saunders at FF always used to sort me out. Couldn't recommend more....
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The poor woman also suffered the trauma of looking like Piers Morgan, according to various popular internet memes....
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I was contracting through Sanderson as recently as 2024 - have they been taken over/folded?
I had more roles through them than any other agency as I had a very good contact there who would always have my name on his list as and when things arose....
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Except for when there is an absolute deadline that has to be observed.
For example, I did a 3 monther for Honda where they wanted an Excel like page for a team in accounts. It had to be delivered for the start of the new ki, otherwise hari-kiri.
Did a few all nighters on that...
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I believe they also reintrodced red kites in the Chilterns and I remember being struck by how many of them were circling in the sky around Stokenchurch where I had a contract back in 2006.
Then, over the years, I would spot them in progressively more westerly locations and now they can...
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Since, in the current market, my cv is highly tweaked for each role I've applied for, I simply create a folder in My Documents and name it after the jobserve(or whatever) reference and dump my tweaked cv in there.
That's it.
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