Tag Archives: Work

Feb
12
2013

Hacky Birtday

by Skippy

On Saturday 23rd FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology [*NOT* Federation Against Copyright Theft]) are having their buildings 10th Birthday party; Join FACT in celebrating 10 years since the FACT building opened on Wood Street in Liverpool with a family fun day full of party games, birthday cake and arty activities throughout the building. [...]

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Apr
19
2012

Dundas Basin Elsan Point

by Skippy

The Elsan disposal point at Dundas Basin on the Kennet & Avon Canal was taken out of service back in November 2011 and has remained broken since; British Waterways plan to have a temporary elsan point operational some time in April, with full repairs coming on-line in August this year. BW say the cost of this temporary disposal point at Dundas while it [...]

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Feb
23
2012

Task 72 – Learn to Program

by Skippy

On my Day Zero List is the desire to learn to program; one of the things that people have been playing with in their down time here at Pennant Traning Systems is Project Euler: What is Project Euler? Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical [...]

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Jan
10
2012

First Week at Work

by Skippy

For the past week I have been working at Pennant Training Systems Limited, which is in Staverton Technology Park, near Gloucester. The job is an intresting one However it’s very unlikely there will be any posts like the East London Line, MASCOT, or Flywheel posts from here Sorry guys.

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Jan
03
2012

Train and Cost

by Skippy

Tomorrow I start a new job in Staverton (near Staverton Airport) its a small village between Cheltenham and Gloucester Swindon to Staverton by Car takes 56 minutes and is 37.1 miles (according to google) and according to fuel-economy.co.uk This journey would cost me £6, or by train will about an hour ten (not including the half [...]

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Dec
18
2011

Skilling up

by Skippy

Last time I was without employment (back before CCFE) I managed to get an SL2 form from the Job Centre, and I used it to get my CSCS card (Construction Skills Certification Scheme), and my 17th Edition (BS7671 IEE Wiring Regulations Qualification: City & Guilds 2382-10 Level 3); neither of which I have really used [...]

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Dec
08
2011

Jobless Skippy, is less Jobless

by Skippy

Today I went for a job interview with Pennant Training Systems; I felt the interview went very well, what I was not prepared for was for less than two hours after the interview finishing being called by the agency and being offered the job of “Junior System Design Analyst” with a start date and everything! so [...]

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Sep
24
2011

Jobless Skippy is Sans Job

by Skippy

Things sort of went quite badly last weekend; and I did something silly on Monday evening, on Tuesday Morning I went to my GP and talked to him, He gave me a prescription for Citalopram and looked into setting up a referral for me to the Mental Health Team, On Thursday, I went was called into [...]

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