Thames severe weather notice

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EA Thames advised late last night that, due to severe weather conditions, all Thames Waterways Lock and Weir Keepers stood down today 2nd March until further notice. This includes Teddington. Calls to duty desk will be routed to Waterways staff member.
 
What's wrong with people? Rolling news, hospital appointments cancelled. The roads are clear and it's about 1" deep on the grass by Teddingon lock, not 1m!
Nothing stops the rowers:)
 
Actionmat said:
What's wrong with people? Rolling news, hospital appointments cancelled. The roads are clear and it's about 1" deep on the grass by Teddingon lock, not 1m!
Nothing stops the rowers:)
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Surgeon walks 2hrs 50mins to get to hospital to operate on patient, NHS staff stay overnight at work so can be there today, EA chair and CEO both tweeting about how EA staff are out there helping communities and then Waterways gives up and becomes a snowflake department. Pathetic management.
 
oldgit said:
winter you call this a winter...... can remember having to chip the reindeers hooves free from the stable floor in order to use the sled to get to the salt mine on time ... :)
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I had a job chipping dogs off lamp posts in the winter of 63 :)
 
Now that was proper winter...well remember fighting with my brother about whos turn it was to wear the shoes to school and whos turn it was the carry the piece of coal !
Pulling the net curtains off the frozen windows was always a joy ......this pathetic lot dont know their born !

They go into meltdown in seconds if no tablet or phone charger instantly available :(
 
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EA chair Emma Howard Boyd and CEO James Bevan have been tweeting often today extolling the virtues of EA staff across the UK going the extra mile to help and protect communities. Theresa May has praised all public sector staff for getting to work and carrying on regardless.

Except in the EA Thames area where the regional director issued a diktat to close all offices and depots and that staff should not engage in any operational activities. Is it me or is it time these weak, ineffectual senior EA managers were called out for what they are? Hiding behind Health & Safety as an excuse to do nothing.

Or should I just not care? Answers please on a stamped addressed doughnut.
 
An off duty copper rescued a dog yesterday, breaking the ice with his arms as he swam towards it.

Let's start an online petition to get some scambled egg on his hat and a top job at the EA:D
 
Old Crusty said:
Except in the EA Thames area where the regional director issued a diktat to close all offices and depots and that staff should not engage in any operational activities. Is it me or is it time these weak, ineffectual senior EA managers were called out for what they are? Hiding behind Health & Safety as an excuse to do nothing.

Or should I just not care? Answers please on a stamped addressed doughnut.
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I assume that all the nav staff have been offered to assist other departments?
Sarcasm might be hidden in this post.....
 
Emma Howard Boyd

Anyone with a pretentious double-barrelled name should not be trusted...

Middle class affectation
 
Old Crusty said:
I had a job chipping dogs off lamp posts in the winter of 63 :)
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winter of 63---i was in charge of barges at the thames conservancy yard at sunbury----the barges were kept clear of snow---i would shovel frozen seagulls off the decks in the mornings-----thames locks up to the river wey were open as the grain barges went up to goldalming every couple of days----the ice was one foot thick----don t think any other boats were moving so whether the locks were open or not was irelevant
 
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Not sure about the name, but running a website in your own name https://emmahowardboyd.com/ (complete with a 'hey look at me with famous people' photo gallery section) and making money from it by having pay per click ads running on it (with traffic driven by public financed positions) seems pretty dubious. Still I'm sure every penny from those clicks helps ...
 
Old Crusty said:
EA chair Emma Howard Boyd and CEO James Bevan have been tweeting often today extolling the virtues of EA staff across the UK going the extra mile to help and protect communities. Theresa May has praised all public sector staff for getting to work and carrying on regardless.

Except in the EA Thames area where the regional director issued a diktat to close all offices and depots and that staff should not engage in any operational activities. Is it me or is it time these weak, ineffectual senior EA managers were called out for what they are? Hiding behind Health & Safety as an excuse to do nothing.

Or should I just not care? Answers please on a stamped addressed doughnut.
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Parabordi said:
Spot on!
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Before we get too far up our own bums :)

It does happen in this cruel old world of ours that after many years a family name with a long history of being neer-do-wells,cut purses, jobbing vagabonds and wandering oiks of the very lowest order traced back to the late 1500s, does not have any male offspring to carry on that name, merely a daughter.
The daughter marries and rather than lose forever the surname that she came into this world with decides to name her children with the surnames of both her and her husband.
The surname therefore carries on.

Suspect a sudden elevation into the financially well off world of the middle classes would be most welcome.
A nice house in a comfortable part of a leafy middle England with a boat on the Thames must surely follow. :)


O God think have just taken over Byrons old job. :(
 
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oldgit said:
Before we get too far up our own bums :)

It does happen in this cruel old world of ours that after many years a family name with a long history of being neer-do-wells,cut purses, jobbing vagabonds and wandering oiks of the very lowest order traced back to the late 1500s, does not have any male offspring to carry on that name, merely a daughter.
The daughter marries and rather than lose forever the surname that she came into this world with decides to name her children with the surnames of both her and her husband.
The surname therefore carries on.

Suspect a sudden elevation into the financially well off world of the middle classes would be most welcome.
A nice house in a comfortable part of a leafy middle England with a boat on the Thames must surely follow. :)


O God think have just taken over Byrons old job. :(
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