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Post by Rob on Sept 30, 2016 13:16:14 GMT
We went to Lincoln for the first time last summer. It was very nice there - we will go back at some point. We stopped at a hotel on the outskirts that did happened to do some really good food (Branston Hall Hotel).
Parking in Lincoln was a pain... followed signs for parking near the castle and then the signs stopped without taking you to a car park.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2016 13:38:47 GMT
Used to do day trips in my MG Metro (white, scarlet seatbelts) from Nottingham to Lincoln in the hope of impressing various girls from University. Seldom worked. OK, never worked. Hang on, no, did work once now I think of it. Blimey it's a long time ago.
Jolly scenic though, Lincoln. Under-rated.
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Post by Humph on Sept 30, 2016 14:03:38 GMT
I parked right by the castle. Castle Hill car park it was called. 😉
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Post by Rob on Sept 30, 2016 16:07:55 GMT
So did I park in one near the castle but the signs we followed just stopped. We did have to wait for a space to come available too. It was August so maybe busier.
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Post by Hofmeister on Sept 30, 2016 18:31:47 GMT
Todays drive was a trip from home in the Surrey burbs, to Hayling Island, a place i have universally dissed for a number of years as a place unworthy of my consideration. An easy journey down the A3, superb weather on arrival, (tho we did pass through some downpours) and pleasantly surprised by a nice walk along a near deserted and unspoiled shingle beach, much dog dipping, and an excellent fish and chip luncheon in a restaurant with superb sea views and by an amusingly brusque, dismissive but very efficient eastern european (Russian I think) waitress.
Journey home was by way of a stop for afternoon coffee in the market square in Petersfield.
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Post by Humph on Sept 30, 2016 18:43:03 GMT
Hacking back westbound this evening along the A50 / A500, I was moved to reflect, for the thousandth time it seems, on why so many people start and finish work at more or less at the same time. Crawling along congested roads, full of tired, frustrated drivers, some of whom had predictably enough, and indeed inevitably enough, managed to drive into one another, causing even more congestion, I idly wondered why it is that we still conform to this tradition of "9-5" in the workplace when it feels like would be quite easy to not do that. I suppose there must be a reason. Mustn't there? 😕
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Post by Hofmeister on Sept 30, 2016 18:57:19 GMT
Hacking back westbound this evening along the A50 / A500, I was moved to reflect, for the thousandth time it seems, on why so many people start and finish work at more or less at the same time. Crawling along congested roads, full of tired, frustrated drivers, some of whom had predictably enough, and indeed inevitably enough, managed to drive into one another, causing even more congestion, I idly wondered why it is that we still conform to this tradition of "9-5" in the workplace when it feels like would be quite easy to not do that. I suppose there must be a reason. Mustn't there? 😕 i bet you visit most of your clients between 9 and 5 |
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Post by WDB on Sept 30, 2016 19:05:06 GMT
Queue on to the M4. Queue along the M4. Queue into town to get home. 25 miles in 90 minutes. I bought a car capable of 152mph why, exactly?
Z is, sadly, right. Jobs that require people to talk to other people require them to be at work at the same time. Mrs B is away tonight or I might have had more choice in when I started for home.
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Post by Humph on Sept 30, 2016 19:06:47 GMT
Most yes, but increasingly people are quite happy to take 07.30 meetings, especially if it's going to be a long one. Easier driving, people fresher first thing, whole day not taken up etc. More common in the cities of course where people are both used to early starts and indeed welcome them due to ease of commuting earlier in the day. I'm quite often in London before 08.00 and leaving again by early to mid afternoon.
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Post by Hofmeister on Sept 30, 2016 19:18:01 GMT
Queue on to the M4. Queue along the M4. Queue into town to get home. 25 miles in 90 minutes. I bought a car capable of 152mph why, exactly? Z is, sadly, right. Jobs that require people to talk to other people require them to be at work at the same time. One of the most constantly and consistently hyped and promoted business tools over the past 15 years has been Video Conferencing. Despite that its also been one of the least taken up, useful or successful tools. Its changed nothing. |
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Post by Humph on Sept 30, 2016 19:23:10 GMT
It is true to say that the more traditional sales reps who work for us who actually go to visit their customers in person are consistently more successful than those who try to get their orders by remote means.
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Post by Rob on Sept 30, 2016 19:33:43 GMT
In the past few years I've worked on projects involving teams from west coast America to Australia. Try planning meetings then. When I can I do flexible hours - do what needs doing each day and sometimes it means early starts, late finishes, etc. And often I make sure it suits me  |
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Post by Humph on Sept 30, 2016 21:12:50 GMT
My work calendar is very odd, for about 3.5 months twice a year ( August to mid November and mid January to the end of April ) it's just manic. Totally crazy. The rest of the year it's more like normal, whatever that is. Always been the same. During the busy period you just can't plan anything socially, lots of very early starts, lots of late finishes, lots of weekend work, travelling in the UK and further afield all the time, lunch or coffee breaks a rare luxury. Then suddenly, it just stops. Not everyone can take it or adapt their lives to it. Others thrive on it. I'm not sure how I feel about it, I've never known any different. The one thing I do know is that I could never now fit into a routine schedule where I worked at the same place every day between the same hours, at the same desk, taking my lunch at the same time, driving the same route to and from it at the same time. I would actually go mad in no time if I had to live like that. But I know many do.
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Post by sooty on Oct 1, 2016 7:03:56 GMT
My work calendar is very odd, for about 3.5 months twice a year ( August to mid November and mid January to the end of April ) it's just manic. Totally crazy. The rest of the year it's more like normal, whatever that is. Always been the same. During the busy period you just can't plan anything socially, lots of very early starts, lots of late finishes, lots of weekend work, travelling in the UK and further afield all the time, lunch or coffee breaks a rare luxury. Then suddenly, it just stops. what's so different about those two blocks in the year that make them so busy? |
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Post by WDB on Oct 1, 2016 11:51:41 GMT
Arrival of 'autumn-winter' and 'spring-summer' fashion seasons, I imagine.
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