Guest Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 Surprised how many people are getting a load of time off, 2 weeks?! Bonkers. A lot of people at my work like to take a lot of annual leave around Christmas and I'm not sure what the appeal is to be honest - it's cold, miserable and loads of places are shut. However, whilst there's that, something that seems to pass them by is that as this job revolves around places being open, the job is utterly dead at that time - the usual situation of probably 7-8 calls an hour drops down to about 1-2 a day. As a result, working around Christmas is incredibly relaxing. So, I only take the days off I need to due to the office being shut. We're always shut on weekends, so this year I'll be getting Thu/Fri off for Christmas Day/Boxing Day, working Mon/Tue/Wed 29/30/31 then I'm off again the next Thu/Fri for new years day and the day afterwards. Sadly, as of last year, the day after new years we are forced to take the day off (out of our annual leave!) to save money as they can keep the office shut.Still a bit sour about that one, it's my leave and I want to spend it driving cool old cars around on pleasant summer days. Admittedly on that day I'll probably still be driving around, but on a horrible winter day, just so I'm out of the house if any unpleasant relatives turn up unannounced. I think I'll make the best of it, drive to somewhere nice like the hills around Todmorden, park up, have a few coffees (via in-car kettle), read some old car mags, listen to some tapes and enjoy the view. Lovely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 I'm looking forward to christmas, not cos I'm getting a fuggin power rangers outfit or a hand gun or something, i'm past all that lot. Its cos i am going to France and when i get there i'm gonna sit in a chair and chill, no people (well a few token family members), no work, no car problems, just a bit of rubbish telly, some nice food, stroke that cat, go for a walk... bliss man. Read 'Gazoline' and 'Rétroviseur' for a bit of novelty, fuggin class in a glass. Thats what i'm talkin' about.Tell you what though, I am kicking myself, should have gone there in the Volvo and quietly lobbed the A frame in the boot so I could bring back a Chrysler 160 which has appeared on leboncoin not far from where i'm staying, HOW TYPICAL! But I have booked the trip in Ms_Bo11ox's astra, which means NO SHITE DRAGGING ACTIVITIES. ANyway the credit crunch is strangling my car spends somewhat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VWPowered Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 where in france dude, im in between angouleme and limoges Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reallyloud Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 Christmas is clearly not geared up for the likes of us, inane TV talent shows, shopping and the overspending and drunken office experiences sum up this period up rather more than the festive aspects. Saying that, its really for the children - my christmases as a kid were pretty good. I do like the occasional decent TV, a quiet beer with a couple of trusted mates, the occasional decent xmas present and volumes of food help me balance all the unpleasant experiences of the past year - then like some others here I'll be looking for work in the new year. I'm making the most of it - the TV will mostly be off, radio on, I'm keeping the needless social duties down to a minimum, surround myself in model cars and magazines & books and sleep as much as I can. I can't complain too much. These were my favourite presents as a kid: Needless to say very little if nothing of these exist today. I wanted so much more but even as a kid I understood what 'budget' meant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seth Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 It all just passes me by fortunately..... Would like to see Dick Bo110x in a Power Rangers outfit though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogweasel Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 Doesn't Hanukkah overlap christmas this year Mr Seth? I am actually quite looking forward to it this year, for once. Mainly because I was organised and bought all the stuf for Er Indoors & the Poglets months ago, and the poglets are exactly the right ages to find christmas really fun. Plus, without having to drag my ass out of bed every morning to go to work, something I find exceptionally hard in the winter, I can happily imbibe quantities of Old Speckled Hen (and fiercer drinks) without spending mornings feeling like shit. Hurrah. PS. I also want to see Ken_Bo11ox in the Power ranger costume. I'm just off for some net rummaging & a photoshop sesh. L8RZ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross_K Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 I've not been looking forward to the whole thing, what with no work and all. Been told yesterday I've got a job from the beginning of January, so that's a cloud gone from over my head. Even though I won't have any money til the end of Jan. The sheer consumer-fest which is the "holiday season" still sucks balls though. So whether you're peddling Christmas, Xmas, Kwanzaa, or Hanukkah, you can fuck right off. Ho ho ho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 One Christmas many years ago, I had that exact Streak Racing set (indeed, I still have it though now unboxed). Be interested to see the link for that DC. Strikes me there’s a bit missing, or at least unphotographed – the piece that sits at the top of the track and releases the cars with a lever and two prongs.Mr_B in a Power Rangers suit – what an image… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogweasel Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 Rats. The comedic face pic of Mr_Bo1 I had hoped to use is no longer existing on the internets. LUCKY ESCAPE, PUNK!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 Rats. The comedic face pic of Mr_Bo1 I had hoped to use is no longer existing on the internets. LUCKY ESCAPE, PUNK!!!LuZL! A good result I think, for all parties. I have used a special Microsoft Apple window update program application patch for Ipods, called Virtua_Bo11ox_Facefind V2.0 (written in Visual Basic) to erase any images of my face from the internets, for just this sort of event. In fact it does not so much erase them as simply perform a digital face translation to an unknown electronic dungeon, the design of which is modelled on one I can faintly remember seeing in welcome-outstaying cult 90's TV horseshit programme 'Twin Peaks'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 Can't dispute that Christmas is great as a kid. I had that same train set as DC but with the grey 90s livery, it was particularly ace because it had little light up headlights on the driving car, think I've still got it along with my other train grot in the attic somewhere.Talking of toys, I rather shamefully just bought a load of Hot Wheels cars from a post-apocalyptic Woolworths like some sort of foolish child, I couldn't resist as there was a Lincoln Continental and a Buick Grand National. Going to wheel them around my desk later and go brrrrm like a cretin.I know where there is at least one picture of Bollox but I think I'm in the same pic somewhere, so no dice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j-j Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 Understood Dunc - was just on 'prejudice alert' that's all. Mr Bollox - that last LEGO photo was one of the ones I had - for a kid at the time it was a massive model with a flat 4 engine and a fan belt driving the little yellow lego fan! it has (semi) working gears and reclining seats! Rear engined flat four ? mustve been a Tatra or a Beetle based thing! I made bodywork for it out of tin foil and card board then set about 'testing' it with walls, ramps etc - it did not do well.I also had the later one with the red roll cage and the V4 and Pop-up lights! It was a dream come true to a car crazed 10 year old! Agreed Xmas was ace for an 80s kid but shit for a broke, 20 something with too many relatives living in a city full of happy shoppers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Ted Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 Surprised how many people are getting a load of time off, 2 weeks?! Bonkers.Yup, same here.Working til 5 or 6 xmas eve, Back in at 9am for clinic on the 29th then off again on New years day, back in on the 2nd. Yet again there will be the usual tribe of people who forgot to go to the chemist on xmas eve who then need retitration of meth on the 29th. Still, at least these days I gets Xmas off to spend with the kids.For me Boxing day will be an early morning trip up Beacon Fell followed by a trip to my god-daughters for her birthday. My god daughter belongs to a pair of new age parents and all three of them need a bloody good slap in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 I suspect a lot of folk are being forced to have a NICE LONG HOLIDAY, loads of people at my place and Ms_Bo11oxs high-end vehicle manufacturing emporium are being 'encouraged' to do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk2_craig Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 I also had the later one with the red roll cage and the V4 and Pop-up lights!I had that one and fell into the false sense of security afforded by the four-wheel independent suspension, recreating various Dukes of Hazzard stunts and then getting all upset when I bust the axles sending it Fed-Ex off a high chest of drawers. Once fixed I then pimped it using some of the geekier kit that Lego knocked out including 12v lighting (I think I actually managed to get indicators working using a flasher unit originally supplied with a railway level crossing set) and a pair of electric motors that powered the seats fore and aft. I never did acquire all the components required to convert it to air suspension though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
155V6 Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 Until MFI went down the pan,I would of been finishing work this Saturday,& going back on the 8th of January.Now though,I'll be taking whatever work I can get over the holiday,hopefully earning enough to pay the mortgage & have a couple of cheap nights out .Luckily,I live on my own so there won't be loads of presents to buy,just a few for my Niece & Nephew.As for the toys posted by Datsuncherry,the Matchbox Powertrack set is cool .I collected some of these a while back,along with some mint boxed single cars.I sold them all a couple of years ago,most of the cars went for 25-30 quid,but the Mk 2 Escort went for 50 quid .Scene tax on models too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 LuZL! A good result I think, for all parties. I have used a special Microsoft Apple window update program application patch for Ipods, called Virtua_Bo11ox_Facefind V2.0 (written in Visual Basic) to erase any images of my face from the internets...........Ha! You must have been a bit too sideways onto the camera for it to have worked here, something you’ll have to address for V2.1 eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seth Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 That's no good SL, he's already got his Tombliboo outfit on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r.welfare Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 Ah, In The Night Garden - seems to be permanently showing on our TV set* * Although tonight I have the house to myself, so I can watch Road Wars and Crimewatch - marvellous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j-j Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 I never did acquire all the components required to convert it to air suspension though Smile!! but I did!! 8 little pistons and a 9v compressor from another lego model and it had air ride! it even sat on its chassis rails when parked!! still have all the bits.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitevanman Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 i understand where your coming from chap, but not a convo for this thread...i think most on this forum somewhere would be affected by the war..so back to christmas are we depressed enough yet... votes 20 to 5yup I agree with you there...............BAH HUMBUG !!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitevanman Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 Understood Dunc - was just on 'prejudice alert' that's all. quote]Kinda thought you might be.....and very wise to boot, but as I am to old a weird to change my ways..............I just try to tone it down most of the time, but it was a particularly bad day as My lad has just decided to go back out to Afganistan for a second tour and the daft sod requested it then he goes back for a third time later next year.............. guess its in them there bones......................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew e Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 I allways wanted that technic lego set Mind you christmas 83 was a good year for tips on the bins and I got a Tamiya Grasshopper RS380 motor Thinking about I think I sprayed it BL Tara green Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r.welfare Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 W00f! I had a Grasshopper 2 for Xmas '88. Think I fitted an RS540 after a while. GR8 4 SPENDIN ALL CHRISTMAS AFTERNOON LOSING DIFF BITS OUT OF THE POLYBAGS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitevanman Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 last time I received a Christmas prezzie was 1986..........didn't want it then or for the previous 10 years, but mothers being mothers it took a while to sink in.........I havealmost always worked Xmas and new year so others can have the time off......but the last 6 years I have had to have the time off so I spent it building cars......as I now have no garage I am really not looking forward to this year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j-j Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 My lad has just decided to go back out to Afganistan for a second tour and the daft sod requested it Laughing Laughing then he goes back for a third time later next year.............. guess its in them there bones......................... Rolling Eyes - they're doing brave work - if he's requesting it then he's doing something he loves and that's for the best - different story if he was drafted (as could any of us under the age)Grasshopper? was that the one with the really soft tyres and mega travel suspension? looked like a machine and a half - I seem to recall it was quite pricey ? I used to gaze at it in the huge thick calelogue my mum used to get (Universal or something?) the toys section was pretty big. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew e Posted December 17, 2008 Share Posted December 17, 2008 Compared to Nikko it was the bollox, but as Tamiya's go it was the Ka of the range Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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