Gracie Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 May I please ask that if anyone is in or very near Potter would you please swing round and pick the lifebelt up and put it back on the ruddy boat I would expect there will be a drink or two in it for you as Monica would be so grateful that she will be able to sleep at night once again Monica my lovely, I am just teasing You would think it would have been put back on the boat or someone with the morals of pond life would have pinched it by now Grace 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonRascal Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 What we have here is a great example a ‘social experiment’ if I can call it that (though it is not actually an experiment). I say the above because there are many things in life where someone will do something and another 100 people will not notice or care but the 101st will care a great deal. Usually, I am that 101st person. I’m the person who will notice that the manhole cover has been up since the yellow line was painted and put back the wrong way so the line is not longer in the correct origination the person who finds great unhappiness when a light fitting with two bulbs has one bulb blown and nobody thinks to replace the blown one – and when the second will go you can bet your boots only one of the two will be replaced. Or there are four screws in a panel, someone has removed all four and the said panel then only replaced two screws diagonally from each other to save some time! There are many other such instances you can be sure I will be there noticing and making a point. So, I understand Monica’s view that what began as ‘oh look the life belt has leapt’ light hearted comment, has turned into the fact clearly the 101st person is not in the employ of Herbert Woods. I would not be surprised if people there just have not noticed the fact it is on the floor, and even if you said ‘did you notice that life belt on the ground?’ would look at you, look at it and be perplexed as to what the big deal was. This alas is Boat Yards for you, many a time I have spent a night in a boatyard and see hatches open, windows down, doors swinging in the wind as an engineer after the umpteen cover to lift, bilge to get to, oil to check is finally off for the day and the last thing on his mind is shutting up the hatches or closing a window. It happens. So those of us who notice, we are not moaners or without life or interests we just have that extra capacity in our brain to notice and care where others walk on by. Being the 101st is no bad thing. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffbroadslover Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 Just been in touch with HW office and the gent says he will get someone to sort it Jeff 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking23 Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 37 minutes ago, jeffbroadslover said: Just been in touch with HW office and the gent says he will get someone to sort it Jeff Now which sad person is going to watch the HW webcam, and capture the guy actually putting it back lol... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking23 Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 23 minutes ago, Viking23 said: Now which sad person is going to watch the HW webcam, and capture the guy actually putting it back lol... Well the life belt has just this minute gone, but who took the 3 boats lol...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wussername Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 28 minutes ago, Viking23 said: Well the life belt has just this minute gone, but who took the 3 boats lol...? 101 ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffbroadslover Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 Don't blame me, I only asked if they could move the lifebelt !! Jeff 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kadensa Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 4 hours ago, LondonRascal said: So those of us who notice, we are not moaners or without life or interests we just have that extra capacity in our brain to notice and care where others walk on by. Being the 101st is no bad thing. Sorry, but your arrogance is beyond belief! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendel Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 45 minutes ago, jeffbroadslover said: Don't blame me, I only asked if they could move the lifebelt !! Jeff they probably got there and remembered they should have moved the boats when they had finished the first job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MauriceMynah Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 23 hours ago, LondonRascal said: Being the 101st is no bad thing. I vote for being the 102nd, getting there when it's all been sorted out by 101. If a job's worth doing, let someone else do it. That's what I say! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 If I were the manager of Herbert Woods and I had had a call from Humberside, to ask me if I would kindly hang one lifebelt back onto its hook as its presence on the quay was causing upset and concern to members of an internet forum, who had been "rubbernecking" on my own webcam, I reckon myself and all my friends would be "dining out" on that story for the rest of the Christmas holidays. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hylander Posted December 10, 2016 Author Share Posted December 10, 2016 37 minutes ago, Vaughan said: If I were the manager of Herbert Woods and I had had a call from Humberside, to ask me if I would kindly hang one lifebelt back onto its hook as its presence on the quay was causing upset and concern to members of an internet forum, who had been "rubbernecking" on my own webcam, I reckon myself and all my friends would be "dining out" on that story for the rest of the Christmas holidays. This reply is no more than I would have expected from you. What happened to the season of goodwill. I will say no more. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gracie Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 Crikey, is there really any need for these comments, I respect everyone has an opinion but please keep it friendly. Monica, I gently teased you myself in an earlier post but I like to think that we have known each other as on line friends long enough to know that I mean absolutely no harm This is the friendly forum, let's keep it that way Grace 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 29 minutes ago, Hylander said: What happened to the season of goodwill. I am mindful that the inland waterways boat hire business is strictly seasonal and so I wonder how many staff HW actually have on their yard right now? Staff are very much discouraged from taking their holidays in Summer - in my father's day it was forbidden by contract - so, having winterised all the boats, they take a long holiday over Christmas, ready for the intense activity of boat maintenance that goes on from then up to Easter. Any self-respecting boatyard engineer will be sitting with his missus enjoying a sangria right now, in a beach front bar in the Playa de Las Americas. I imagine the last thing on his mind will be whether he left a life-belt on the quay before taking a well deserved holiday. Hylander, I have no intention whatever to be rude (I don't think I have been) but I have to remind you that you started this and that there have been remarks made which reflect on the quality of work by the staff on what has, traditionally, been known as the finest boatyard on the Broads, and this based entirely on pictures off a webcam. As someone who has spent most of his life (not just his career) working on boatyards, usually as the manager, surely it is only democratic that I should be allowed to put the boatyards' side of this story? 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffbroadslover Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 Hi Vaughan, Just to bring you up to date a bit, the area which the government created and called Humberside disappeared 20 years ago even though some organisations like the police and fire brigade still use the word "Humberside" in their title. Personally I was born in Yorkshire (God's County) but now have crossed the river and live in North Lincolnshire ( NOT South Humberside) as some people like the Post Office seem to think. We have broad shoulders up here so no offence taken. lol Jeff 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MauriceMynah Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 Monica, I think that given you made no phone call and that you don't live in Barton on Humber, it is possible that the post was not directly aimed at you. Vaughan. I think that given the phone was answered, it is reasonable to conclude that someone was there to answer it, with or without a glass of sangria in hand. It is equally conceivable that knowing the cam to be monitored by people prepared to keep him/her informed as to anything going on might be quite welcome. Jeff. your post was sent whilst I was typing mine, allowing me to edit your home town's name. Thanks. Finally... "Season of goodwill"? ... Where did I leave my humbugs? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hylander Posted December 10, 2016 Author Share Posted December 10, 2016 Grace I have only just read your previous post and of course I realise you were jesting. As far as Vaughan is concerned I think he was just carrying on his upping the anti on this post as before. What the hell the Humber Life Boat people have got to do with this beats me. So Vaughan worked in the boating business, so what I worked in a solicitors , but I dont go around defending solicitors. Crumbs thinking about that last statement the law is an **** at the best of times and me defending that useless lot will never happen. If you look at the photo, not only has one of the life belts not been put back but one of the other life belts has been slung over the top of the boat. It is called standards. Putting it all back as it should be (may be my family's military background coming out) is just something that I would expect. Do people really choose to drink Sangria, I thought that is what 18 - 30s drank on holiday to get plastered. Dont worry Vaughan I am well acquainted with the Herby Woods staff , I have known many of them for many years. Monica Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hylander Posted December 10, 2016 Author Share Posted December 10, 2016 PROBLEM SOLVED - SPOT THE DIFFERENCE. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffbroadslover Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 Must be there ready for "dressing" in readiness for its Santa Cruises Jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 2 hours ago, jeffbroadslover said: Just to bring you up to date a bit, Quite right Jeff, that is what it was called a while ago, when I was working on British Gas platforms out of Easington, so excuse the terminology! My mention of winter holidays in the Canaries was just an analogy, but they are Spanish islands and so that is where they drink sangria. In fact only the Spanish know how to make it properly. They are a very good place to find lovely weather in winter, without having to fly halfway across the world to find it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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