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I've read the book - it's great. But haven't seen the website - tvm...

Long bed = no clue North facing = rock garden?? Here (and way beyond) be dragons = no clue. Near bit sometimes floods (obviously), rest doesn’t. Leave well alone? Gulp Wild flowers?? Dunno 300 yards of this. Bluebells??? Near 100% moss here. HELP!!! Edit: oh FFS. All...

We bought a new place with a humungous garden and veg plot (think full on allotment + size for the veg plot). I love gardens, but know f all about gardening. A major problem. I've bought an electric propogator and it's currently got thai basil, peppers, chillies, and aubergine shoots. Got...

or 5: 20 Adar 5781, or 5: Rajab 20, 1442,

This in spades. I've got a place in London that had exactly this problem, with a near identical control system. I got the cartridge out in about 5 mins. I then spent 45 minutes trying to source a replacement before giving up in frustration. I got a local plumber to come and replace the whole...

Great idea. :thumbsup:

In no company I have run over the last 20 years have I ever been the highest paid employee. In most I'm not even in the top 10. Sales folk often earn more than me, as well as, as you say, seriously good techies. I'm just a businessman; I'm not the most important person in the business...

My experience, on the both the buy side and the sell side is that employees' T&Cs are one of the first areas in the acquired company that an acquirer seeks to 'harmonise' with those they have already got in place. Depending on jurisdiction and unionisation, there may be restrictions on what you...

That's one the accusations that can be levelled at such disclosure, yes; and one of many reasons why I rejected doing it this way - total transparency defeats any accusation that one is trying to be clever or spinning the data. A simple list of every employee's salary leaves no such room.

Yep - seen it done that way too of course. Large corporates tend to have very wide salary bands, even at lower salaries, and the bands can often overlap extensively. eg I've seen: Band 1: £22k-32k Band 2: £25-35k This makes the exercise futile, imo. It could easily work if the bands were...

Thanks. Not my idea (hardly anything is!); one I nicked from an ex-employer back in my yoof. Honesty and transparency are fundamental to the way I do business. It’s not always comfortable, particularly if there’s a downturn (such as in a pandemic, say), but I’ve found that you earn your staffs’...

The way I get round that is to publish all employees salaries on the intranet/notice board (you need each employees permission, of course - we don’t hire them unless they agree). Obviously, you have to be able to defend why each employee gets what they get - but then, you should be able to do...

These Albion player names puns are gross.

In the last decade: Olympics 2012, RWC 2015, Euro 2020 (part), plus others that I've no doubt forgotten...

I can’t see us garnering too many votes from European nations for any sporting event to be held here for quite some time.

Excellent stuff :thumbsup: indeed

If I said I was your wife's long lost brother, do you reckon I'd get the special deal thingy too?

Edited for (probable) accuracy. I take your point though. Edit: Though one of my female cousins (a 50-something hospital consultant) does build large lego models. However, I would guess she has an abnormally high testosterone level for a woman. I'll stop now, while I still have the semblance...

I suspect it's just me, but my first thought on watching the trailer was "Why?"... It's very impressive, "months of work", but...why?

The picture paints to me a very different view of events than his apology does. When I read the apology I thought "Silly man, you should have thought twice". When I saw the picture I thought "Nah, that's deliberate, and now you're trying to cover it up with some BS. Extremely silly man; twice...