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  • french frank
    Administrator/Moderator
    • Feb 2007
    • 30205

    They do say that moving house is one of the most stressful experiences people have ... [Dunno about that]

    Anyway Welcome back!
    It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26514

      Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
      i am back!!
      "...the isle is full of noises,
      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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      • BBMmk2
        Late Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 20908

        thank you dear friends on these boards! Since October 22nd been without internet. My! Peace and quiet here though!! :)
        Don’t cry for me
        I go where music was born

        J S Bach 1685-1750

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        • mangerton
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 3346

          Originally posted by french frank View Post
          They do say that moving house is one of the most stressful experiences people have ... [Dunno about that]

          Anyway Welcome back!
          I second both of these statements. Delighted to see bbm back, and speaking as one who has lived in fifteen houses, I can confirm that moving is quite stressful.

          (i should make plain that moonlight or keeping away from the bailiffs had nothing to do with any of these moves)

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          • teamsaint
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 25190

            welcome back BBM, glad you are sorted out now.

            quite why or how it takes SO long to get broadband sorted in this day and age is mystery indeed.
            I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

            I am not a number, I am a free man.

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            • BBMmk2
              Late Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 20908

              Open Reach, trying to get this country connected!!! I think not. Eventually but not sooner!!
              Don’t cry for me
              I go where music was born

              J S Bach 1685-1750

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              • Karafan
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 786

                Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                i am back!!
                Huzzzzahhhh!
                "Let me have my own way in exactly everything, and a sunnier and more pleasant creature does not exist." Thomas Carlyle

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                • Barbirollians
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 11661

                  I haven't moved for a long time but when i hear about so many people having cowboy experiences one can understand why despite their cost Pickfords still thrive .

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                  • Beef Oven!
                    Ex-member
                    • Sep 2013
                    • 18147

                    Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
                    I haven't moved for a long time but when i hear about so many people having cowboy experiences one can understand why despite their cost Pickfords still thrive .
                    Thrive?

                    The receivers took them into administration towards the end of last year and they are only just about viable at the minute (including taking measures to ruin the pensions of their loyal employees in order to prop-up their future financial viability).

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                    • Barbirollians
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 11661

                      Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
                      Thrive?

                      The receivers took them into administration towards the end of last year and they are only just about viable at the minute (including taking measures to ruin the pensions of their loyal employees in order to prop-up their future financial viability).
                      Sad news - they still know how to move things properly according to a friend of mine whose piano they took to Spain.

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                      • Petrushka
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 12229

                        Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
                        Thrive?

                        The receivers took them into administration towards the end of last year and they are only just about viable at the minute (including taking measures to ruin the pensions of their loyal employees in order to prop-up their future financial viability).
                        Seem to still be going http://www.pickfords.co.uk/home-moving
                        "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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                        • Beef Oven!
                          Ex-member
                          • Sep 2013
                          • 18147

                          Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
                          I know,

                          My post says ''only just about viable at the minute''. They were bought from the receivers.

                          Keep up!

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                          • Beef Oven!
                            Ex-member
                            • Sep 2013
                            • 18147

                            Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
                            Sad news - they still know how to move things properly according to a friend of mine whose piano they took to Spain.
                            But they don't thrive and they have shafted their long-standing staff on the pensions front.

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                            • Barbirollians
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 11661

                              Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
                              But they don't thrive and they have shafted their long-standing staff on the pensions front.
                              Sadly that appears to be all too common nowadays .

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                              • Beef Oven!
                                Ex-member
                                • Sep 2013
                                • 18147

                                Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
                                Sadly that appears to be all too common nowadays .
                                Yes, you're right. The human impact is enormous. Scores of thousands of people with lowered retirement income, for many years to come. It makes me very sad and very angry.

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