Sound business reasons for keeping both. Pagers are not affected by the tech used to stop X-rays leaking to areas of hospitals where they are not needed, and so are more reliable in some situations than mobiles. Mobiles are, in any case, prohibited in large areas of hospitals. As for the fax, I can't recall the exact details but they have a higher status legally than e-mails.
Turned up at Chipstead FC yesterday in rain, mud, cold etc to see them play FC Romania in FA Trophy. Interested to see this sign, so returned my knuckle dusters, bog rolls, broken bottle and zombie knives to the boot of the car. Chipstead FC by Mike Longhurst, on Flickr
We have similar signs at the rugby club. I coached mini & junior rugby for many years and have enough stories about the antics of spectators and coaches to write a book. The worst has to be when I was refereeing a primary school tag rugby tournament. I ended up evicting the headteacher of one school from the side lines.
They have disabled mooring posts on the Thames in Staines. And judging by the corrosion, have had for some time. It's upside down because the murky grey at the top is the Thames and a) I can't swim b) it looks wrong if you rotate the pic.
Don't see all that many coracles in Staines. Mind you, their seem to be a lot of outrigger canoes about these days. Wonder why that is.
And today... A Collapsible Skip! by SteveH, on Flickr OK, so it's really just a big rubbish bag, but it can take 1.5 tonnes and it does say "Use it like a skip" on the side.
Presumably the company that provides it has a truck with a small crane on it - like those that deliver pallets of breeze-blocks and so on? Ah yes, according to the Hippobags page... They cost about £250 including collection and you have six months to fill them. They also collect when you are out, "unless you want to take the day off to watch!"
£250 !!!!! I got a medium sized skip in 2016. No where near as expensive as that and they managed to collect it when I was out too. Who needs six months anyway?
Nah, they just need one dark night... ETA: Oh, and on the subject of machinery, something for any agricultural posters who want to finish work early...
Discovered this yesterday on my way to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, 'Nail House' by Leonard van Munster . . . . .
Average Skip Hire Prices 8 November 2019 RANDOM RUBBISH Every year we survey over 500 skip hire companies across the UK – not just the ones in the AnyJunk network – to see what they charge consumers for a skip. From this, we produce average skip hire prices for cities in the UK. These rates are shown below for 6 cubic yard and 8 cubic yard skips – the two most common skip sizes – and commonly referred to as a ‘Builders skip’. Rates include VAT but exclude the cost of a skip permit or parking bay suspension. They are for general mixed waste. UK Skip Hire Prices 2019 (average rates of local suppliers) Location 6-yard skip 8-yard skip UK Average £226 £253 Birmingham £195 £220 Bournemouth £267 £328 Brighton £232 £276 Bristol £240 £273 Bromley £240 £280 Cambridge £201 £234 Cardiff £238 £247 Chelmsford £219 £249 Chester £232 Croydon £267 £313 Doncaster £186 £238 Edinburgh £175 £221 Exeter £267 £319 Glasgow £204 £207 Gloucester £235 £272 Hemel Hempstead £231 £275 Ipswich £217 £249 Iver £249 £294 Leeds £168 £227 Leicester £209 £231 Liverpool £203 London £258 £283 Luton £268 £288 Manchester £199 £227 Middlesbrough £230 £241 Milton Keynes £241 £267 Newcastle £227 £259 Northampton £175 £205 Norwich £205 £229 Nottingham £188 £236 Oxford £250 £295 Portsmouth £249 £296 Reading £239 £292 Sheffield £188 £226 Southampton £282 £337 Swindon £250 £308 Tunbridge Wells £241 £290 York £179 £223 Note: prices include VAT @ 20% but exclude skip permit fee & parking suspensions if on road. Source: AnyJunk Updated 8 November 2019 The above table tells us that the average skip hire price across the UK is £226 for a 6-yard skip and £253 for an 8-yard skip. Based on our analysis, the cheapest cities to hire a skip appear to be Leeds, Edinburgh, Northampton and York. Unsurprisingly, London is at the other end of the scale and is more than 10% more expensive than the national average. The most expensive cities in the country are Bournemouth, Luton, Southampton, and Exeter (and also Croydon town, which isn’t a city, but seems to have crept in!). Man & Van is cheaper In most regions skip hire is more expensive than man & van rubbish removal. To check live prices for both skip hire and man & van clearance in your region click here.
That's interesting - I always thought a standard skip was 7 cubic yards and the main denominator in hiring one (admittedly not for very many years) was whether one end would open so that you could fill a lot of it without running a plank up.
