Last weekend I was in the garden, hanging up the laundry, two pairs of my work jeans, washed twice and still not clean really, (we hang laundry out to dry over here - tumble-dryers are for days when you can't hang the washing out. They're too expensive to run as a matter of habit.) The sun was beating down. It was hot (by UK standards) and felt more like August than autumn. Within a couple of days that's all changed. It's cold, wet, grey and frosty. There are gale-force winds - bitter, northerly winds at that. Not our usual not-too-bad south-westerlies.
I went to work today in a t-shirt, shirt (long-sleeved), hooded sweatshirt, body-warmer, denim jacket, and I was still freezing!! I'm getting soft in my old age. Or maybe it's just the shock of going from 19c to 2c overnight.
Still, look on the bright side. At least I've still got work to go to. An awful lot of folk haven't. I may be out a considerable chunk of change if ROK don't pay their sub-contractors, but I'm better off than (so far) 742 of their 3800 employed staff who've just been given their marching orders. And the rest are likely to join them if the administrators can't find a buyer or buyers for the business.
It's crazy. Four big construction firms gone to the wall and yet there're masses of construction contracts available here. The companies aren't going bust because of lack of work. They're going bust because the banks are still refusing to lend or re-finance loans to business, in spite of being bailed out with several billions of taxpayers' money. They've hauled up the drawbridge and are watching the rest of the world collapse. The (previous) government pumped funds into them and the Bank of England keeps the interest rate low in order to get and keep the money flowing but the banks won't co-operate. They're not exactly popular at the moment. In fact I think you could probably admit to being a mass-murder who kicks puppies for fun and be more welcome at parties than admitting to working for a bank right now.
What a daft world we live in.
Hope those of you who want work have it. And keep it. Good luck all. Goodnight and may your God/s go with you.
Ze
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