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Deleted User YDKXO
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Re: Market maker
S**t, you rumbled me!
S**t, you rumbled me!
deborahann
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well I've someone looking at my barge this saturday, he's seen the pics and is travelling up from dorset to lancashire, so must be fairly keen. he has also just cancelled a new barge he was having built (by the same boat builder as mine) as he didn't apparently realise he would have a huge VAT bill to pay on it.
Planty
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Not in the Furniture Clique but do Installations Nationally, customers include IKEA, Porcelanosa, Jewsons, Homebase etc. All report business very slow and IKEA who one might expect to weather the storm report being 25% behind their target for first quarter of 05.
Yes Gordon "economies in great shape!" Well Done!
Yes Gordon "economies in great shape!" Well Done!
tcm
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Re: rolls royce economy : not quite that trashed
um, you could rent the dinghy for that if you like?
um, you could rent the dinghy for that if you like?
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Deleted User YDKXO
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Re: rolls royce economy : not quite that trashed
Wot that RIB thingy which your Emma used to tool around in? Hmm, not bad, a small RIB costs £300 a day in the UK so £500 a week sounds cheap. I'll think about it
Wot that RIB thingy which your Emma used to tool around in? Hmm, not bad, a small RIB costs £300 a day in the UK so £500 a week sounds cheap. I'll think about it
oldgit
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Best year ever ?
H,mm Can only comment that myself and chums who all run very very small companies with max of twenty or so souls between us and engaged in dentistry insurance and electronics for the last twenty odd years have had rather good start in year and in one case best ever quarterly results.
Nothing is ever quite so good or quite so bad as it first appears,perhaps.
H,mm Can only comment that myself and chums who all run very very small companies with max of twenty or so souls between us and engaged in dentistry insurance and electronics for the last twenty odd years have had rather good start in year and in one case best ever quarterly results.
Nothing is ever quite so good or quite so bad as it first appears,perhaps.
ccscott49
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Re: rolls royce economy : not quite that trashed
Not my dinghy, thats for sure!
Not my dinghy, thats for sure!
tcm
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dinghy
er no, it's a blowup thing under the rib. Tender to the tender i spose...
er no, it's a blowup thing under the rib. Tender to the tender i spose...
CaptainThames
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Some areas of shipping are doing OK. Container trade very busy and not enough Uk big ship berths - China/far east trade to europe. Oil charter rates doing well. Cruise business continues on, seemingly regardless. Main area suffering is Ferries who are struggling with too much competition inc tunnel, loss of duty free and increasing french tobacco costs reducing profit margin for sales onboard. Go for the container trade and importing Chinese goods. Alternative is to find somewhere away from conservationists but close to motorways/rail with lots of deep water and build a new container port - will then be able to afford an overpriced UK boat and pay for over taxed diesel IDC. Why didn't I think of that......
hlb
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Same thing happened in 89/90, November busiest on record, then come January, everything stopped dead. Course the goods will still be coming in from China because they were ordered months ago., So more and more goods coming in, which cant be stopped for a long time, and less and less selling. Dont realy see how we got out of that resesion. We did not sudenly start manufacturing more, or exporting andithing really, just seemed to borrow more and creat a fauls economy out of selling hamburgers to each other. The only thing we seem to have exported is jobs to India. So If we got out of the last resesion by borrowing Trilions which we aint got. How we get out of this one??
gimmesunshine
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I work in the electronics industry and we have never been busier. We have tripled our output over 4 years and are transferring assembly from germany to our uk site because we are cheaper and better quality inthe uk. Our equipment suppliers are doing better too than a couple of years ago. And the building trade seems balistic. Just built my own house and contacted recomended builders before hand - all were booked up for 6-12 months! Also sunseekers have just secured a new site on Poole quay to build even bigger stuff and make way for the new bridge. I think the big boat market is a little flooded, 2 years ago targa 34's were hens teeth, now theres 15 or so in the south. Are people moving to sail in anticipation of the diesel rise?
whisper
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Re. availability of builders. The reason that they are booked up for 6-12 months is that they are probably good at their job. Unfortunately, the quality of workmanship of those that purport to be builders in the Yellow Pages etc is frighteningly bad. I'd never use anyone that had not been recommended personally and even then I would inspect their previous work. I say this as a part time developer and ex brick manufacturer.
If I was 30 yrs younger I'd seriously consider becoming a plumber - in desperately short supply - especially in areas where there are lots of holiday flats/homes, like S.Devon /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
The building industry is rather weird at the moment as the sale of "used" houses has slowed down considerably especially darn sarf. There is, however, a shortage of certain types of new housing, in certain areas, so many developers are still busy. I'd not risk my money in property at present as I think it is in limbo, prior to a decline of some sort, though not a major crash.
If I was 30 yrs younger I'd seriously consider becoming a plumber - in desperately short supply - especially in areas where there are lots of holiday flats/homes, like S.Devon /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
The building industry is rather weird at the moment as the sale of "used" houses has slowed down considerably especially darn sarf. There is, however, a shortage of certain types of new housing, in certain areas, so many developers are still busy. I'd not risk my money in property at present as I think it is in limbo, prior to a decline of some sort, though not a major crash.