I've been away but now am back (maybe)
all on one thread!
Mar 18th 2013, 1:12 pm
#34
Home and Happy
Joined: Dec 2002
Location: Keep true friends and puppets close, trust no-one else...
Posts: 93,819
Mar 18th 2013, 1:26 pm
#36
Home and Happy
Joined: Dec 2002
Location: Keep true friends and puppets close, trust no-one else...
Posts: 93,819
Mar 18th 2013, 10:45 pm
#37
has lost The Game
Joined: Apr 2005
Location: Chippendale, Sydney
Posts: 8,735
Re: I've been away but now am back (maybe)
If by big smoke you mean a boring suburb of Sydney then yes still in the big smoke. No I don't build PC's anymore I make iPhone and iPad games and apps.
Just about the only thing you can still do in Australia that isn't regulated, requires no red tape, no licences and best of all no boss, well except me. BUT it doe make me an exporter and the high Dollar really does hurt.
I've missed you all too.
Just about the only thing you can still do in Australia that isn't regulated, requires no red tape, no licences and best of all no boss, well except me. BUT it doe make me an exporter and the high Dollar really does hurt.
I've missed you all too.
Awww...
Any particularly boring suburb of Sydney? I find them to be very similar these days...
S
Mar 19th 2013, 3:17 am
#39
has lost The Game
Joined: Apr 2005
Location: Chippendale, Sydney
Posts: 8,735
Mar 19th 2013, 8:28 am
#40
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Mar 2003
Posts: 9,397
Re: I've been away but now am back (maybe)
Welcome back, Ark! And yes, having built a house and laid out a garden in Country Australia I empathise entirely with your posts concerning trying to source such exotic items as right-angle irrigation pipes etc!
Mar 19th 2013, 9:55 am
#41
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Oct 2005
Location: Hill overlooking the SE Melbourne suburbs
Posts: 16,622
Mar 19th 2013, 10:58 am
#42
BE Forum Addict
Joined: Apr 2012
Posts: 1,603
Re: I've been away but now am back (maybe)
Mar 19th 2013, 12:38 pm
#43
Ex BE ***** Addict
Thread Starter
Joined: Jul 2005
Posts: 3,770
Re: I've been away but now am back (maybe)
Oh those were the days!
Mar 19th 2013, 10:28 pm
#44
has lost The Game
Joined: Apr 2005
Location: Chippendale, Sydney
Posts: 8,735
Re: I've been away but now am back (maybe)
Just so long as you didn't try and buy sand in bunnings or sand blasting grit in the same shop as you bought the sand blasting gun. Or heaven forbid a new bearing in a bearing shop. Don't even get me started on water pipes from the water pipe shop. Oh then there was the paint missing from the paint shop. How about the fact the local bunnings only did stock take twice a year so only then knew what to restock on.
Oh those were the days!
Oh those were the days!
I f***ing hate Bunnings with a passion. They have the worst stock control system I have ever seen - the number of wasted trips I have had to their worthless warehouse is innumerable now.
And I feel your pain on the other items too. I need a chimney collar so that I can mount a chimney pot to the top of my chimney, and NOBODY here has ever heard of one. People think I'm mad asking for this dark piece of ancient technology. Managed to source one in the US, but they won't send it here.
S
Mar 19th 2013, 10:37 pm
#45
Ex BE ***** Addict
Thread Starter
Joined: Jul 2005
Posts: 3,770
Re: I've been away but now am back (maybe)
I f***ing hate Bunnings with a passion. They have the worst stock control system I have ever seen - the number of wasted trips I have had to their worthless warehouse is innumerable now.
And I feel your pain on the other items too. I need a chimney collar so that I can mount a chimney pot to the top of my chimney, and NOBODY here has ever heard of one. People think I'm mad asking for this dark piece of ancient technology. Managed to source one in the US, but they won't send it here.
S
And I feel your pain on the other items too. I need a chimney collar so that I can mount a chimney pot to the top of my chimney, and NOBODY here has ever heard of one. People think I'm mad asking for this dark piece of ancient technology. Managed to source one in the US, but they won't send it here.
S
Stock control went something like....big gaping hole on the shelf where white ceiling paint goes....hole sits there for months until I need some white ceiling paint....I enter the PAINT shop and ask for some white ceiling paint....storekeeper who is person 1 of 8 working in said shop goes to empty hole on shelf and notices for the first time there is no white ceiling paint...mutters they will have to order it for me, come back in 2 weeks time...two weeks later re visit shop, still no paint ask where it is from same person as last time....Oh have we not got any? we will have to order it for you..repeat 2 more times until I run out of patience....On last visit insist he order it while I am there.....Oh I can't says he, the person that orders the paint is on holiday!
Never did get my paint.