I would just like to say

[derwendolly]

I do just about remember it, with my parents, but it was a bit more than £10, I think! £50 maybe? My parents joked that they wished they had enough money to worry about it! iI those days £50 was an average bloke's wages for three weeks or so!
My first ever pay packet for a full week's work was just under £10.

Somewhere I still have the £10 passport, I must look it up.
My first teaching month's salary was £39! - September 1965.

 

[Stanleysteamer]

Somewhere I still have the £10 passport, I must look it up.
My first teaching month's salary was £39! - September 1965.

Bear in mind I was only 10 years old then!!!!

 

[derwendolly]

Bear in mind I was only 10 years old then!!!!

 

[Stanleysteamer]

Somewhere I still have the £10 passport, I must look it up.
My first teaching month's salary was £39! - September 1965.

Bearing in mind that was only about £10 a week then my first week's pay, in 1972 at £10 wasn't much better/worse. As a factory hand. The fact the pay hadn't improved much just shows that inflation wasn't such a problem then.

 

[derwendolly]

Bearing in mind that was only about £10 a week then my first week's pay, in 1972 at £10 wasn't much better/worse. As a factory hand. The fact the pay hadn't improved much just shows that inflation wasn't such a problem then.

Bear in mind that mine was a professional salary!!

 

[Stanleysteamer]

Off out for the last walk of the night everything is frozen lookin,

Feckin cold down here too!

 

[Stanleysteamer]

Bear in mind that mine was a professional salary!!

Well of course I do get that! I'd have to dig into my archives to see what I earned as a teacher in 1981. My first year doing it. Before that I'd done all sorts of jobs including a rep with a firm's car. £30 per week seems to stick in my mind.

 

[derwendolly]

About that time the teachers had just had a massive pay rise - hard fought for and backdated for many months but I just can't remember exactly when. With ours we booked on the 22hrs ferry from Harwich to Hamburg and then toured northern Germany, both east and west for four weeks!

 

[Stanleysteamer]

About that time the teachers had just had a massive pay rise - hard fought for and backdated for many months but I just can't remember exactly when. With ours we booked on the 22hrs ferry from Harwich to Hamburg and then toured northern Germany, both east and west for four weeks!

I am glad you managed to benefit from it. You as well as me know that that never really happened again. I nearly left teaching in about 1983/4 due to the rubbish pay.

 

[Stanleysteamer]

Nite all!

 

[Turktowner]

Mornin all.
New rad an intycooler today.
Best get crackin

 

[Dippypud]

Morning all, feeling carp t'day as the Cov2 booster on Satdi was a Pfizer one and I feel beaten ...

 

[kevstar]

Morning all, feeling carp t'day as the Cov2 booster on Satdi was a Pfizer one and I feel beaten ...

Chin up you'll feel better tomorrow.

 

[kevstar]

Morning all landy is out defrosting its self while I watch from the windy wi a cuppa tee.

Have a good week peeps.

 

[DanClarke]

Morning all, feeling carp t'day as the Cov2 booster on Satdi was a Pfizer one and I feel beaten ...

Sorry to hear it. I hope you feel better soon.

 

[DanClarke]

Morning All
A very chilly day today here (coldest morning so far).
Back man at 10:30, rest of day as yet undecided.
I might get some time in my little workshop.
Have a great day!

 

[derwendolly]

Morning all, feeling carp t'day as the Cov2 booster on Satdi was a Pfizer one and I feel beaten ...

Interestingly my first two were Pfizer ones and I had no effects whatsoever, the same can't be said for the booster one which was Moderna. I feel for you and hope you recover very soon. I will NOT be having any further boosters if they offer me Moderna.
Look after yourself.

 

[derwendolly]

Frosty 'ere but not as bad as it was a couple of weeks ago. The big plus is that we get lovely sunny days to follow the cold nights.
Enjoy your first day of the week, only four more to go.

 

[doriz]

Freezing ear and oil price has shot up

 

[derwendolly]

Freezing ear and oil price has shot up

Pity about that as my heating oil is going to have to be replenished in the not too distant future. The only good thing is that since I had a new double bunded one fitted it only takes 1200 litres to fill it - the last one was in excess of 2000 litres.