AS in the Community - moving on up - SATURDAY 22ND FEBRUARY

[chaseracer]

@Inspector Morose has landed a brilliant job - in Scotland.  Which is a long way from Birmingham.  Suggestion: celebrate his success in the traditional Autoshite manner, with bacon and buses.

Aldridge Bus Museum is having a running day from 1400 on Saturday March 8th  https://www.amrtm.org  
Gather at the Truckers Rest on the A5 near Cannock  http://www.truckersrest.co.uk  and take it from there?

All shiters welcome!

 

NOW SATURDAY 22ND FEB!!

[Pieman]

Ah poo, I'll be on Ice Speedway duty on the same day

[Heidel_Kakao]

Count me in 🙂

[Six-cylinder]

Sorry I am signed up for a driving tour in Wales that weekend.

[busmansholiday]

Congrats to @Inspector Morose (tell us all, if you can), unfortunately I'm planning on watching us play Plymouth (away) that day.

[Minimad5]

I'm rota'd in for a 12hr night shift on the above mentioned date, but pencil me in, in the slim chance i can book it off.
Well done boss @Inspector Morose for landing a new job 😎👍

[Inspector Morose]

As I start on the 11th, Can I suggest an earlier date if possible?

Well, where do I start? After a complete clusterfuck of a 2024, I decided that if I was to go it alone, I might as well do it where I wanted to be instead of really where I didn’t (nor where I was wanted, it seemed). After a very long chat with @Saabnut of this very parish at his salubrious Scottish retreat, he dropped that he was going to retrain as an MoT tester. It niggled.

Now, as some know, my background is more bus engineering than car engineering; a car tester is one thing, maybe I should become a bus/LGV tester? 

I applied.

I interviewed.

I filled in many, many background checks.

I got offered the position of Vehicle Examiner, starting on the 11th March. Based in Portlethen, just outside Aberdeen, my job will entail going to authorised testing facilities to carry out annual road worthy examinations on large vehicles. The training is long (16 weeks) but looks interesting. As a civil servant, there are some other perks along the way but it does seem a good working environment. We shall see.

I’ll literally be heading north with little more than the shirt on my back (apart from acres of useless shit  I’ve hoarded) I’ve got to find a place to live and somehow get some furniture in place, but first I’ve got to earn some money to put it into action! Thanks again to Saabnut who’s kind offer of some temporary digs for the short term will see me started, the rest will come along as and when. Talk about sailing close to the wind!

so there you have it. I’ll become a man from the ministry and a civil servant in one fell swoop. From mild annoyance and bus know it all to the Autoshite devil incarnate in one easy move!

[Lord Sterling]

Congratulations @Inspector Morose. Shame you'll be going so far, it was nice to do some bimble missions treading around the West Mids with you, but I know you and I know that needs must. 

Personally I'm still on for a Belgium move but it won't be fast as I'm actually alright right now where I am right now. It's OK, I like it and given my luck I'm reluctant to take much risk that Okay-ness.

As for a get together, yes an earlier date would be great as I'm pencilled in for the last day of my 4-night shift. Would anywhere between the 1st and 4th March be OK? I'm fully off between then.

[Supernaut]

Wahey, another potential member for the NE Scotoshite meet ups!

I sort of tried to do a meet on the first Sunday of each month last spring / summer at the Fennel in Inverurie (they do a thing called V8 Breakfast every Sunday where lots of interesting metal turns up). It sort of worked then fizzled out. This gives me more impetus to try again. Will be good seeing more of you up round this way @Inspector Morose!

[Supernaut]

Oh, also. Seeing as you'll be in the area now...

When are we getting a work party together to start on the smol green car?

[cms206]

11 hours ago, Inspector Morose said:

As I start on the 11th, Can I suggest an earlier date if possible?

 

No; this is an official handover to the Scottish delegation, and means you will require to be Woollarded at a petrol station of your choice before we post a collection thread safely delivering you to the frozen north.

[grogee]

13 hours ago, busmansholiday said:

watching us play Plymouth (away) that day.

Fill your boots. We are a total basket case at the moment. 

@Inspector Morose - congratulations on the new job and good luck

[chaseracer]

20 hours ago, Inspector Morose said:

As I start on the 11th, Can I suggest an earlier date if possible?

How's Saturday 22nd or Sunday 23rd Feb for everyone?

[2flags]

Congrats on the new job. Remember to take your thermals when you go north. I've heard it gets cold up there and they even get proper snow, the white stuff, not the grey wet stuff we get down here. 

[Noel Tidybeard]

10 hours ago, cms206 said:

 

No; this is an official handover to the Scottish delegation, and means you will require to be Woollarded at a petrol station of your choice before we post a collection thread safely delivering you to the frozen north.

shouldn't sqr sosidge be involved?

[kirton]

Looks a possible subject to domestic negotiation etc etc.  Especially if I can combine with a visit to an old colleague.

Can we go and gaze at the Auction gates after the standard healthy* repast? Happy times.

[Lord Sterling]

2 hours ago, chaseracer said:

How's Saturday 22nd or Sunday 23rd Feb for everyone?

Brilliant for me, it's right in the middle of my 4 days off. Either one can do.

[kirton]

@Inspector Morose you sound like me 35 years ago;  in my case my clothes and a 5 year old diesel Visa and having to move out of home.  I was still in the same job but your change to a job made by the gods for you sounds good to me. 

Best wishes for the future and keep posting

 

 

[Matty]

On 23/01/2025 at 22:52, Inspector Morose said:

As I start on the 11th, Can I suggest an earlier date if possible?

Well, where do I start? After a complete clusterfuck of a 2024, I decided that if I was to go it alone, I might as well do it where I wanted to be instead of really where I didn’t (nor where I was wanted, it seemed). After a very long chat with @Saabnut of this very parish at his salubrious Scottish retreat, he dropped that he was going to retrain as an MoT tester. It niggled.

Now, as some know, my background is more bus engineering than car engineering; a car tester is one thing, maybe I should become a bus/LGV tester? 

I applied.

I interviewed.

I filled in many, many background checks.

I got offered the position of Vehicle Examiner, starting on the 11th March. Based in Portlethen, just outside Aberdeen, my job will entail going to authorised testing facilities to carry out annual road worthy examinations on large vehicles. The training is long (16 weeks) but looks interesting. As a civil servant, there are some other perks along the way but it does seem a good working environment. We shall see.

I’ll literally be heading north with little more than the shirt on my back (apart from acres of useless shit  I’ve hoarded) I’ve got to find a place to live and somehow get some furniture in place, but first I’ve got to earn some money to put it into action! Thanks again to Saabnut who’s kind offer of some temporary digs for the short term will see me started, the rest will come along as and when. Talk about sailing close to the wind!

so there you have it. I’ll become a man from the ministry and a civil servant in one fell swoop. From mild annoyance and bus know it all to the Autoshite devil incarnate in one easy move!

Brilliant news. All the best for what is a clean sheet start  👍

[beko1987]

Have you bought the compulsory volvo yet? 😬

[alcyonecorporation]

cannot like this enough 

[beko1987]

On 24/01/2025 at 21:28, Noel Tidybeard said:

shouldn't sqr sosidge be involved?

If the svm cable tie it to their exhaust manifolds as they leave it should be nicely cooked as they arrive 🤔👌

I'm keeping an eye on whatever dates are confirmed... Might be free

[chaseracer]

On 24/01/2025 at 19:14, chaseracer said:

How's Saturday 22nd or Sunday 23rd Feb for everyone?

I'll ask @Inspector Morose which is better for him and we'll go with that.

[cms206]

May* be a go for this.

[Inspector Morose]

19 hours ago, chaseracer said:

I'll ask @Inspector Morose which is better for him and we'll go with that.

Whichever is better for the majority, both dates are just as easy for me.

[Sunny Jim]

I hope to come. What sort of time will you be meeting up - it's 2.5 - 3hrs from me.

[Saabnut]

Who do I pay to keep him down there?  

[chaseracer]

5 hours ago, Inspector Morose said:

Whichever is better for the majority, both dates are just as easy for me.

Saturday 22nd then.  I'll alert the Truckers Rest to lay in extra bacon supplies.

[davidfowler2000]

I'm putting a lieu day request in for this. Here's hoping.

[brownnova]

Shall check the calendar and seek domestic management approval.   
approval achieved.