I work away, have done now for about four years. It comes with the job, there aren't many major construction projects right on my doorstep. In fact, there are none, so we work regionally and in the SW area so that means staying away. Once I'm finished here I at least hope to be closer to home, so I only have to stay away a couple of nights a week and travel the other days. I can't do a 'commute' of more than an hour though, it adds too much to my day to do that every day.
That red eye flight from JFK to Gatwick is a ****ing killer. Basically take off from New York around 6pm and lose the whole night in the time difference en route.
I used to do around 9 or 10pm from JFK into Heathrow and turn up at the office looking and feeling like utter ****. It was a tradition to go out large on Wednesday night which, on reflection, was not a good idea.
I lived in Brooklyn for a short while whilst I was doing a placement with a charity out there. I used to get the red eye back to Gatwick and feel like **** for the next 3 days.
That’s not an earthquake - we had a 6.9 last week. Me and the Mrs didn't feel it and came downstairs to find everybody else out in the road.
Often UK ones are very shallow faults or even subsidence related. Probably those Oil Shale twats out fracking again. Means you actually feel them more relative to size.
I know there's been some earthquakes and tremors near fracking sites in Lancashire. The one Quadrilla were doing near blackpool was shut down after a 1.8 quake. Nearest fracking site to us down here I think are in Dorset
House is a ****ing tip, furniture everywhere, had new flooring / carpets fitted, doing my OCD in. Meh.
View attachment 125 Drove to Toulouse this evening to drop eldest girl and boyfriend off, they are staying the night and catching flight home tomorrow evening ... Drove through an electrical storm that has now followed us back to where the rest of us are staying ... great views with lightning lighting up the sky .... start back north tomorrow ... Not the best pic ... but it's hard to time it right
Just shows what a class player he was to get a thrust fault named after him. You will never get fracking down in Cornwall - nothing worth fracking there.
Thank goodness. The whole operation is an environmental catastrophe and that's even before you get into the issues of burning fossil fuels.
