27th November 2010, 04:39 PM
Curiously, having had a rather quiet summer and autumn, we're suddenly inundated in fieldwork, builders and utilities companies in northern England seem to have spotted that they can get more down-time in the pub doing stuff at this time of year.... Just slightly annoying for the frost-bitten trowel-fodder (it hasn't got above -1C here all day, and a foot of snow, and I've just split a lip due to the arctic wind walking to the supermarket). Have a full crew using the phone-round technique, so no help for the current BAJR crisis, but indication of the tentative beginnings of a post-spending-review up-turn? [although couldn't they have saved it for the spring, had a winter's worth of nice warm px to do - think I'm getting too old....]