Well hello
chums, we are now 7/12ths of the way through 2019. 5/12ths
until Santa squeezes his fat white rear-end down several million chimneys. But have no
fear, he’ll be back. I just hope you will have been good all year. If you are
in the trade, that means not issuing C1’s and C2’s where not appropriate on
inspection reports. Remember this is a service to the public, and a C1 or C2
means an “Unsatisfactory” so let’s be sensible about this. For example, I have seen
a C1 attributed to an installation for asbestos in a fuseholder. Now this may
be potentially lethal to health I agree, but it doesn’t have any impact on
electrical safety whatsoever so this can NOT be a Fail (you can deal with the
asbestos issue separately, by bagging-up for instance). Some of your customers
are really struggling to make ends meet, they could do without having to deal
with this sort of crap. So please behave with integrity. Electrical
Inspection and Testing should be a service to ensure safety of installations, not
an excuse to rip-off. If any of my readers feel they may have been misled in
this way please drop me a line. I require no payment for simple advice. On my
travels this month I have been to Witney, Sidcup, Greenwich, Swanley,
Westminster, Bletchley and Ebbw Vale. Quote of the
month goes to a student on a PAT course: “Do we have the practice exam before
the real one?” As regular
readers will be aware, I always like to have charitable spot on my blog but as
the Eco’s have determined that the world will end in twelve years time there doesn’t
seem much point. Nevertheless,
when the weather clears up I hope to go for a spin on my motorbike, I suppose I
had better make the most of it before the sky collapses and the world grinds to
a halt. Seriously though, I do recognise that we have to keep an eye on
pollution. However, I strongly disagree that our children should be traumatised
by doom-sayers (for God’s sake let them have a childhood). We have teachers
even in Primary Schools preaching that the end is nigh to very young children.
No wonder the suicide rate amongst teenagers it at an all-time high. Climate
change is a subject not entirely proven (satellite data for the last 24 years
shows an average increase of 0.095 degrees Celsius). And I have said it before
but I’ll risk saying it again: Do the Eco’s think it normal for a planet to
retain the same temperature over Millenia? If you ask them about Continental
Drift they go strangely quiet. So don’t
start me off, (Oh Christ, says Ted Voice Number 2, now he’s bloody started) why
is it ordinary, working class people don’t need to find a “raison d’etre” like
Pollution/Nukes/Save the Gay Whales? I’ll tell you why, we’re too bloody busy
working to worry about such nonsense. And I’ll tell you another thing (Voice No
2 – Gawd must you?) at the recent demonstrations in London you’ll find these
were the same bunch of nerks that were at Greenham Common and every other
protest before/since, the only difference is they’ve been joined by their
brainwashed and/or petrified kids. Voice No 2 –
Right have you finished now? Ted Voice 1
– Yes Voice No 2 –
Do you feel better for that? Ted Voice 1
– No, I’ve got a
n’eadache Voice No 2 –
Right Ted, usual procedure then. Go and have brisk rub down with a copy of “The
Sporting Life”, take 2 paracetamol and a double ration of old gut-churners
whisky. That’ll sort you out. Ted Voice 1
– ok, I’m gonna have a
lay down now. Voice No 2 -
Right, that’s got rid of him so I’ll take over the show. Ok then
folks, you now have Ted Voice No 2 to take you through this month’s edition. I
am Ted’s Right Brain, so I am more artistic rather than my practical Left brain. I am the
part of Ted’s personality that wants to search for lost cities in the Amazon
and dig up Caribbean islands for pirate gold. I hoped and prayed that the
Titanic was in one piece so it might have been possible for her to be raised. I am a
dreamer and romantic with a touch of Engineer. By the way, did you know that
the word “Engineer” comes from the French “Ingenieur”? in other words, a person
who is good at finding ingenious solutions. Now see what
you get by reading my blog, you can drop that in at a dinner party along with
the odd “That’s an interesting concept” and appear to be mildly intelligent.
That’s what I’ve been doing for years anyway. In closing,
don’t forget to tune in next month and in the immortal words of Sergeant Dixon
of Dock Green – “Evening all” (those old enough to remember are probably humming the
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