Good Morning Thread - Come say good morning, tell us what you've got on today. :)

We have this thread on TilersForums.com and it's just been restarted because the old thread had 20,000 replies and 500,000 views. And there were 700 pages. Started to lag a bit on slow connections.

I think we had a bash of this before, but I can't find the thread, so thought I'd start another one off.

If you have time in the mornings, come post in the thread before you head off to work, let us know what you've got on and what the weather is like in your area etc. Anything at all is fine.

Posts and likes get counted towards your total stats in this thread.

So GOOOD MORNING PEOPLE - WEATHER IS NICE TODAY IN STOKE. I'M THANKFUL IT'S FRIDAY, HAD A RUBBISH WEEK. THANK GOD IT'S OVER.

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[nicebutdim]

Nothing more annoying than not being told what questions you answered incorrectly in an exam. How exactly are you supposed to learn if no one points out the gaps in your knowledge?

 

[Moley]

Next two weeks I'm at Pembroke power station. Left at 5.45 this morning. Hopefully the weather will stay nice throughout.

 

[Lou]

I have got my fingers crossed!

We have got a lot of behind the scenes stuff to do today.

If anyone is on Insta, have you followed us yet? Find us @ElectriciansForums

 

[littlespark]

Nothing more annoying than not being told what questions you answered incorrectly in an exam. How exactly are you supposed to learn if no one points out the gaps in your knowledge?

too right.

i know the wrong answer was from a 4 question section; "Know the key requirements relating to electric vehicle charging equipment".... so i can only assume i misread the question...
One guy that was there was resitting the exam... he didn't get the 70% pass mark last time.



C&G exam conditions.... invigilator, laptop, silence.... but across the road, the trainee joiners were banging about with hammers and had the radio on.... So i joked "typical joiners, making all that bloody noise"

"Oh" said the invigilator... "I can go tell them to stop. This is supposed to be City and Guilds exam conditions. They have to stop if its a distraction for anyone???"

"No.. .its alright. I think we can manage"

 

[Mike Johnson]

C&G exam conditions.... invigilator, laptop, silence.... but across the road, the trainee joiners were banging about with hammers and had the radio on....

Have I read that correctly, you can take a laptop into an examination?

Trainee joiners allowed to have a radio on in a workshop?

 

[littlespark]

The laptops are college equipment. All linked to their servers. The exams are done online…(or at least within their network)

Everyone gets different questions in a different order… so there’s no “what did you get for q10?” type discussions later on.


The joiners have an outside area with a mock-up timber framed house to practice on… like sparks have our little cubicles for practical work.

Any job you go on, it’s always the joiner with their makita radio making all the noise.



Sitting in the class on Friday I took this photo. This isn’t the usual practical booth… but maybe for an advanced course?
I see motor controls on the right… an alarm system on the wall there and a pile of MICC terminations…. So that’s still taught in some places.

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[westward10]

Have you done the written exam yet?

 

[littlespark]

Just done papers, Westy. One on paper, apparently the “practical” side of it and the second one multi choice questions on computer.

 

[richy3333]

Wish more people raised geese. Right buggers to work with, but really tasty.

Very tasty. 4 in the freezer that we couldn't sell. They're Shetland geese. Rare breed and very friendly. My son cuddles them! (I wouldn't).

 

[littlespark]

Your son cuddles frozen geese?

 

[Lou]

Very tasty. 4 in the freezer that we couldn't sell. They're Shetland geese. Rare breed and very friendly. My son cuddles them! (I wouldn't).

Show us a photo of the geese, alive not dead lol.

Keep forgetting it is bank holiday this weekend!

 

[littlespark]

We’ve got the Jim Clark rally this weekend.. so that’s half the roads closed.

They’re going down through our village in one stage…. From the chippy that’s never open, down over the speedhump at the school crossing, then past the church and graveyard where Clark himself is buried… over the crossroads, past the pub and out into the open countryside.

That’s a bunch of souped up cars going hell for leather along country roads, trying not to find themselves on the wrong side of the hedge…

No change from any other day…. Except it’s legal this weekend.

 

[littlespark]

General election on 4th of July?

Scotland gets their summer holidays earlier than rest of Uk, so a huge percentage north of the border are not going to be here…

Is that to stop the snp getting a bigger share?
(Not that I want that, but it seems very early)


And you think they could have built a gazebo over the no10 podium to stop him getting so wet.

 

[nicebutdim]

And you think they could have built a gazebo over the no10 podium to stop him getting so wet.

That appeared to be the least of his woes.

 

[westward10]

Only his shoulders appeared to get wet.