tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4839580695171614261.post3882419574066414867..comments2023-11-03T12:45:06.591+00:00Comments on Why Miss Jones...: Such Great HeightsMiss Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11405389518233540306noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4839580695171614261.post-74885329796725884502011-04-08T06:03:04.950+01:002011-04-08T06:03:04.950+01:00Gotta say if I could ever get to the top of a cran...Gotta say if I could ever get to the top of a crane I'd just spend all the life long day watching the weather, more specifically the clouds drifting on by.<br /><br />If I could be insulated I'd love to watch a lightning storm develop around me. That might be cool.<br /><br />Then my last problem would be getting down again. I suspect this might require strong drugs and non-erotic bondage to stop me flailing around in a blind panic.<br /><br />Ho hum...prodigy9https://www.blogger.com/profile/05668490175609586371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4839580695171614261.post-71781703110155590852011-03-04T00:08:28.915+00:002011-03-04T00:08:28.915+00:00Over the last fifteen years I've taught IT in ...Over the last fifteen years I've taught IT in various adult ed centres in Bristol, and I've been privileged to watch new education blocks going up from the windows of the old ones while my students practice their mail merge. There's a clear process to these things, and several identifiable stages.<br /><br />1. The big hole in the ground. This takes about 6 months. First they dig it, then they mill around it for a while, pointing at parts of it and lowering things in. This is their favourite bit.<br /><br />2. Then they build the building. This takes about a week.<br /><br />3. The finishing stage. Tenons and mortices, paint and cables. Seems to last for ever. Towards the end the percentage of suits on site rises, until finally<br /><br />4. It's ready. Classes begin.<br /><br />5. During the second term, minor war criminals come for their photo opportunity. I saw Tony Blair and John Prescott. We all got very excited when we thought John Craven was coming, but it turned out to be an ordinary businessman who's name just happened to be John Craven.<br /><br />6. After the photo op, the decline. The buildings are still fine, but the money to run course programs steadily diminishes, and in the end they sit there, 90% unused.<br /><br />Half my tutor friends are unemployed, the rest of us got other jobs, which is how come I'm the receptionist.Jon Eccleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08290702187373241154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4839580695171614261.post-62832342337451733232011-02-20T14:53:41.330+00:002011-02-20T14:53:41.330+00:00I'd love to have seen you all waving at each o...I'd love to have seen you all waving at each other. Was there funny face pulling as well, or is that not a good look when you work in women's mags?<br /><br />We've got some massive ship-building cranes here on the Clyde. But they don't do much these days, just stand silently in the rain like the dinosaurs in Fantasia.<br /><br />Happy New Office ;-)<br /><br />Ali xAlison Crosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06565962059926865121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4839580695171614261.post-46427705009714861572011-02-20T12:03:51.114+00:002011-02-20T12:03:51.114+00:00you're office can't be more than five minu...you're office can't be more than five minutes away from mine! We're on blackfriar's bridge, we used to have a nice view over the river and a fetching building site, not we've been moved and have the railway track and can see into a very corporate and secretive building next door - no-one knows what they do in there...magpiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01119671217679661676noreply@blogger.com