Toilet Rolls - Now Petrol/diesel!

[Mouldy]

47 minutes ago, gancanny said:

i apologise,   the derv at brundall was only 1 48.9,   my mistake

Only!!! Bargain!!!! 😂

[TheQ]

2 hours ago, RumPunch said:

No - three Tesco home delivery trucks

ah yes they will keep some back for that, They know how much they use per day /week so will keep some in reserve.. probably a bit for police, fire  and ambulances as well , They fill up at Tescos as well.

[CeePee1952]

No problems with any of the garages around Rugby today and Unleaded price was around £1.33p/litre as at yesterday.  Having said that, there's a budget in a couple of weeks so as always the price will rise before then (that's not including the current price hike!).  If the garages follow their normal course post budget, the price will drop a little to convince everyone that they're getting a bargain 

Chris

[MauriceMynah]

Tesco had no queue Sunday when I filled. Forecourt busy but not overflowing. Both diesel and petrol available.

[Meantime]

[TheQ]

Still no fuel at Roy's actually in Wroxham, I guess as an independent they are down the list for refuelling.

[OldBerkshireBoy]

15 minutes ago, TheQ said:

Still no fuel at Roy's actually in Wroxham, I guess as an independent they are down the list for refuelling.

Tankers have been seen there off loading from time to time.

[CeePee1952]

Oh dear, BBC are at it again! Listening to their breakfast news this morning they're now highlighting a "drastic" shortage in the construction industry.  Mainly brickies and carpenters,  They didn't use the word "panic" this time  so I guess there won't be a mad rush to buy wood or bricks  Oh I forgot - there's already a shortage isn't there?? 

Chris

[annv]

Tesco's in Beccles had fuel this morning and no queue. John

[Hylander]

Morrisons in Beccles - no fuel sign, but I dont think the only problem was fuel, the whole of the garage was under water since this morning.   May be it has dried out a bit now.    A lady was telling us in the store that she got there at 7 when it opened and realised how deep the water was when she opened her car door and the water poured in.   She had to drive out as could not get petrol because of the water.

 

[Meantime]

2 hours ago, Hylander said:

Morrisons in Beccles - no fuel sign, but I dont think the only problem was fuel, the whole of the garage was under water since this morning.   May be it has dried out a bit now.    A lady was telling us in the store that she got there at 7 when it opened and realised how deep the water was when she opened her car door and the water poured in.   She had to drive out as could not get petrol because of the water.

 

It amazes me why people drive through water that deep> For one thing a man hole may have been dislodged by rain water, that's apart from the damage that can be done to the engine.

[Meantime]

Morrisons at Pakefield has petrol and diesel. Petrol was £1.34.7p

[Mouldy]

7 hours ago, CeePee1952 said:

 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Listening to their breakfast news this morning they're now highlighting a "drastic" shortage in the construction industry.  Mainly brickies and carpenters . . . . . . . . . . . 

Same old problem.  Little or no encouragement for school leavers to enter an apprenticeship in a trade (even if one were to be available), just a full on drive to further education.  The appeal of three years gaining a large debt must be just too appealing.

If there was a degree available in bricklaying, I wonder if school leavers would accept it as a worthwhile and necessary profession, with good pay, but no prospects.

[dnks34]

With the amount a bricklayer can earn in a day what prospects are needed!

My neighbours a bricklayer and he seems to do very nicely out of it indeed!

[grendel]

well having picked my car up from the garage I now needed fuel, with a 360 mile round trip for lads week, i was going to need a full tank, so at 4.30 I drove round to asda, joined the queue at the self serve pumps (£99 limit as usual) waited for one car at the pump to move and then moved forward and filled up, once again 25 litres filled the tank from half full (I can see I am going to have to get used to this tiny 52 litre tank, still it should get me there and back (hopefully) (with my old V70 I could easily fill it from 1/4 tank and put 50 litres in).

so though asdas garage was fairly busy,there was fuel and the queues were at the pumps not out on the approach road, so back to normal seemingly.

[rightsaidfred]

42 minutes ago, Mouldy said:

Same old problem.  Little or no encouragement for school leavers to enter an apprenticeship in a trade (even if one were to be available), just a full on drive to further education.  The appeal of three years gaining a large debt must be just too appealing.

If there was a degree available in bricklaying, I wonder if school leavers would accept it as a worthwhile and necessary profession, with good pay, but no prospects.

Sorry but University degrees are no substitute for real ability but going to university does provide a certain environment attractive to the young, If you leave school and go to work you don't get the jollys but you do get a take on the real world, I got fed up at work with the Oxbridge set who couldn't replace a 13amp fuse.

Fred

[grendel]

I skipped the whole university thing and went to work on the drawing boards, it never did me any harm and I have achieved the top spot in my profession as a drawing office manager, now very much taken a back seat and coasting to retirement (and still more productive than the university kids we get (though they do know all the theory)

[floydraser]

I think there is immense value in work experience for youngsters approaching school leaving age. They get to sample a proper working atmosphere, hopefully learn the need for a good work ethic and by sampling more than one skill should learn as much about what they don't want to do, as what they do. 

[rightsaidfred]

With the exception of one or two specific professions there is only one university and that is the university of life, my generation and I am sure one or two others got by on basic education learning as we went along and none the worse for it.

Fred   

[grendel]

some of our best employees are the ones that did a university placement with us,went back finished their degree and than came back to work for us, we have 3 that I trained as placement students that work in my office now, and they are better than the ones who have had no experience (and I guess it says something about the company that they want to come back and work for us.

[Mouldy]

1 hour ago, rightsaidfred said:

With the exception of one or two specific professions there is only one university and that is the university of life, my generation and I am sure one or two others got by on basic education learning as we went along and none the worse for it.

Fred   

Especially as only about 30% of graduates are eventually employed in the field that their degree was earned in, but with a considerable level of debt.

[YnysMon]

I didn’t do a ‘useful’ degree, I studied English Lit. Also, I ended up in a job that didn’t require a degree after 6 months of unemployment. In mitigation I should mention that a soon as I had the opportunity I got promotion to a ‘graduate’ job. It took a few years though.

Immediately after graduation I was based in Anglesey, which was officially categorised as the most economically depressed place in the UK in the early 1980s, so I felt lucky to get any sort of job. (It must have been official as Cilla Black on TV organised a street party in Holyhead to cheer everyone up…luckily I’d moved down to MK by then and missed the ’fun’.)

Do I regret going to Uni…not for one moment. It broadened my mind, not least in the variety of people I met within a very short time. Making friends with people from all over the UK and abroad (including special friends from Kenya and Hong Kong) was an eye opener. Just the opportunity to meet up with people and discuss all sorts of topics was an education.

I was lucky, we had student grants, not loans. Would I go to Uni if I was young now? Yes, I think I would grab the chance, despite the changed funding.

[Mouldy]

26 minutes ago, YnysMon said:

I didn’t do a ‘useful’ degree, I studied English Lit. Also, I ended up in a job that didn’t require a degree after 6 months of unemployment. In mitigation I should mention that a soon as I had the opportunity I got promotion to a ‘graduate’ job. It took a few years though.

Immediately after graduation I was based in Anglesey, which was officially categorised as the most economically depressed place in the UK in the early 1980s, so I felt lucky to get any sort of job. (It must have been official as Cilla Black on TV organised a street party in Holyhead to cheer everyone up…luckily I’d moved down to MK by then and missed the ’fun’.)

Do I regret going to Uni…not for one moment. It broadened my mind, not least in the variety of people I met within a very short time. Making friends with people from all over the UK and abroad (including special friends from Kenya and Hong Kong) was an eye opener. Just the opportunity to meet up with people and discuss all sorts of topics was an education.

I was lucky, we had student grants, not loans. Would I go to Uni if I was young now? Yes, I think I would grab the chance, despite the changed funding.

No disrespect intended, Helen. But when we have a skills shortage in so many areas now that the government want to fill with our own workers, I still think that there should be more apprenticeships available and moreover promoted as a viable alternative to a university education.  If we carry on as we are, there are countless essential industries that will suffer a shortage of labour that will ultimately affect us all in one way or another.

I didn’t go to university.  I left school at sixteen with one O level.  I obviously don’t know what I missed in terms of experience, but I don’t think it’s affected my ability to learn valuable life skills.

[ExSurveyor]

Locally we have a University technical college for years 9 to 13. They specialise in Engineering and construction along side the standard curriculum. Medway has finally reconnected with its Dockyard apprenticeship past and is catering for those pupils who want a practical career rather than University.

[Hylander]

14 hours ago, grendel said:

I skipped the whole university thing and went to work on the drawing boards, it never did me any harm and I have achieved the top spot in my profession as a drawing office manager, now very much taken a back seat and coasting to retirement (and still more productive than the university kids we get (though they do know all the theory)

I too did not go to university,  never even had the chance , we are talking early 60s.     I was informed very early on by my parents that if I wanted to remain in their house I had to get a job and pay my keep.  I was 15 years old.   Boy how things have changed.  Never did me any harm though.   I decided very early on to start at the bottom and at every opportunity I got to cover for someone who was on holiday or off sick I covered for them and gained a lot of experience in doing so.    Before long there was a vacancy further up the ladder and I applied and got it.    As Fred says - the experience of the university of life.