northern mark

All the best and I hope to read from you again soon.

I too am rabies

Excellent Newt. Beat me to it Alan

Did Alice play the drums? You look a bit different blue, had a hair cut or summat?

Which member of KISS was he The pretty one that looked like a cat

Cheers Jim Hope all goes well for you.

Thanks everyone. I've got my date for the MRI scan now so will wait until I have seen the specialist and know how bad my knee is.

I have also got a claim for loss of earnings on the go at the moment. The Insurance company representing my employers are trying to get out of paying out, as they would, by amongst other reasons my return to work for a couple of weeks after my initial injury. I was in a union before but was not happy with the representation I was given, they were always more concerned with trying to keep the managment happy to keep our jobs secure than to fight for what we wanted them to. But as Huge says don't tar them all with the same brush. Thanks for the advice

Thanks

I had an injury at work last year and have been on the sick since. I visited the works doctor and he accepted that I was unfit to do my job but has informed my employers that I would be fit to return in a different department doing basically the same job I was doing without any climbing in and out of jigs. I have a sick note from my own doctor but work have requested I return. I am waiting for an MRI scan to find the extent of the damge to my knee and to assess if an operation is required. I have made an oppointment to see my own doctor later this week to have a chat about returning to work and whether I would be wise too. I was wondering if anyone had been in the same predicament and what did they do. I could do with returning to work for the money but where would I stand (or fall :0) if my knee gave out again or I got reinjured. Thanks

If he is the only one that can set up the machines that should give him a bit of leverage with trying to sort out a contract. When we were pushed into a contract that we didn't want we were advised by the Union to put in a written statement saying we did not accept the new terms and conditions but were willing to give them a trial period. This apparently gives you a get out if you don't like the new working arrangments. We were also led to believe that if we didn't accept the new t & c we would be entitled to redundancy as our old contracts were being terminated. I don't know how true this is as the management changed their minds once the entire workforce had done this. I think by law you have to have a written contract stating working hours, wage, holidays etc and your employer has to give you one within a certain length of time. If he can get hold of a copy of the working time directive (I think) it should all be in there. ACAS don't really help an awful lot in these situations, they are more of a mediator in my experience.

My member is also active

1. What time is it: 9.08am 2. (nothing in #2 when I got this via email so leaving it blank. If anybody has a bright idea, put in a question and answer). 3. Nicknames: cowboy 4. Piercing: both ears, no longer use them though. Piercings not ears 6. Place of birth: Northallerton North Yorkshire 7. Favorite food: Roast beef and yorkshire pudding 8. Ever been to: Europe? Yes Spain 9. Ever been toilet papering (someone's house or yard)? No 10. Love someone so much it made you cry? Yes 11. Been in a car accident? Yes 12. Croutons or bacon bits: bacon bits 13. Favorite day of the week: All about the same 14. Favorite restaurant: 15. Favorite flower:Rose 16. Favorite sport to watch: 17. Favorite drink: Coke 18. Favorite ice cream: Toffee 19. Disney or Warner Bros.: Disney. 20. Favorite fast food restaurant: 21. What color is your bedroom carpet? Pink / purple 22. How many times did you fail your driver's test? 0 23. From whom did you get your last e-mail? Anglers Net 24. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card? 25. What you do most often when you are bored? Read 26. Bed time: ??? 27. Who will respond to this post the quickest? Don't know 28. Who is the forum regular that is least likely to respond? Don't know 29. Favorite TV shows:CSI Scrapyard challenge 30. Last person you went out to dinner with: My family 31. Ford or Chevy? Ford 32. What are you listening to right now? Kids telly with my little one 33. What is your favorite color? Blue 34. Lake, river, ocean or sound?Ocean 35. How many tattoos do you have? 2 36. Time you finished this reply post? 9.32am 37. Have you ever run out of gas? Yes.

Ken Yes Kazaa and the like, although Kazaa is notorious for mislabelled files Car boot sales are very good for music and the cd, or even better album, is usually only a couple of quid We also have a couple of record dealers at local markets that are reasonably priced and they sometimes have picture discs [ 09. January 2005, 05:24 PM: Message edited by: northern mark ]

Ah yes, back when music was music Try one of the peer to peer networks for some of the hard to find stuff. I had a very good record collection stolen many years ago, I have managed to find a lot on cd, even some on vinyl , but the harder to find comes from peer to peer

Sorry to hear of your loss.

The river Tees [ 09. January 2005, 11:04 AM: Message edited by: northern mark ]

Nice pics Nice idea I'll put a couple up later Mark

Gales up here in the north east

Rudd They are called sticks

Nice

I've caught on a lake full of swimmers and dogs, one of the carp even swam under a dog while it was hooked. I read of a lake where a herd of cows used to drink from it, the fish weren't bothered but as soon as an angler approached the fish scattered.