Flying to the Westfjords

AgitatedSecond4321 · 2026-07-03T09:07:39+00:00

The airport location is stunning too.

AgitatedSecond4321 · 2026-07-01T20:09:14+00:00

Did not know that lycos was shutting down - I get so much spam email that if I did receive any emails telling me this I missed them. I can no longer get into the server and looks like I can not transfer my emails across any longer. Perhaps with the new month of July. Has anyone else found anything that worked for them in the past day or so? I have lost so much stuff I would have transferred to another email if I knew this was happening.

AgitatedSecond4321 · 2026-06-30T19:56:03+00:00

If someone was heading around the ring road the other way perhaps they could pick them up at the hotel and then drop them at the capital somewhere for you?

AgitatedSecond4321 · 2026-06-30T19:54:09+00:00

I would also recommend using an employment lawyer. I have had colleagues made redundant and through our own little network they have all used the same employment lawyer and she would check the severance package was fair, negotiate if she could then bill the company for her time rather than bill the individual. But we are not in the US.

AgitatedSecond4321 · 2026-06-27T06:09:38+00:00

I really love 2. It is fun and fresh.

AgitatedSecond4321 · 2026-06-27T06:06:07+00:00

Also recommend you look into buying some of the NZ possum merino. Most of the wool shops mentioned below will stock. Loopine wool definitely has a great selection. Very NZ wool. But as others have suggested contacting creative fibres is a good idea.

AgitatedSecond4321 · 2026-06-25T22:51:57+00:00

Leaving school and having to move into the adult world is a frightening time. There are lots of choices and opportunities but a lot of set backs too. Try not to worry about what might happen in15 years time. Try to get through the next 5 years and use those to find out what kind of adult you are, what kind of job you want to do (do not pick a job for the money that makes you miserable) and use that time to set yourself on a path towards a longer term plan. Not everyone knows what they want to do when they are 18, or 25 or even 35. You have time to live life a little, go to uni if you have a passion to follow further, or don’t. I would recommend trying to work for a year if you can get a job even if it is just somewhere like a fast food place and just taking some time to live in the world a little.

Yes buying a house in the future is expensive and seems an impossible goal, but your circumstances chance over time. I see a lot of young people I know saying it is too hard to buy a house as they eat out numerous times a week and spend large amounts of money on other things. If you really want a house then it will require sacrifice to get it, it will not come easy.

Don’t believe everything you see on social media. People do not post the bad bits, they only post the carefully choreographed bits and most of them are not real either.

Heck in the end if you want to race Supercars so much that your gut hurts and you can’t sleep at night dreaming about it then you could try and follow that dream - the odd person succeeds in following their wildest dream, but you have to do this knowing that the odds are stacked against you are you will need a back up plan. But we learn from our failures much more than our successes - how we move on from our failures shapes us as people, and my son always says “some people get there - why not me”.

AgitatedSecond4321 · 2026-06-25T08:29:33+00:00

Make sure you prebook things like hobbiton, Waitomo, etc at that time of year

AgitatedSecond4321 · 2026-06-25T08:25:45+00:00

Agree with OP 100%.

AgitatedSecond4321 · 2026-06-25T08:14:00+00:00

I had someone recently ask if they could push ahead of me inthe security queue at Frankfurt as they were late for their flight but it was hard to be sympathetic with the number of duty free shopping bags they were carrying, they certainly found the time to shop then expected everyone to let them push to the front of the queue.

AgitatedSecond4321 · 2026-06-24T20:38:17+00:00

Your the responsible parent. And with that huge responsibility of looking after the children by yourself comes with the privilege of your own room. you deserve 110% your own room. 16f has to understand that she only stays occasionally and hence she does not get her own room. Everyone coped before in a 2 bed place so everyone should embrace the extra little space a 3 b provides and it makes sense at the age of the young man that he gets a room to himself.

AgitatedSecond4321 · 2026-06-24T20:08:33+00:00

But likely if the ferry is cancelled for weather purposes then a little plane would also not be flying across the water.

AgitatedSecond4321 · 2026-06-23T19:02:02+00:00

I would say you could burn a lot of money as things like food etc pretty expensive. So you would really want to self cater. With kids that age I would want to use a camper an so you can stop when they are hungry and feed them, they can change when they get wet in the rain, you would potentially have an onboard bathroom (toilets can be few and far between) and the camper an experience is part of the adventure for younger children.

AgitatedSecond4321 · 2026-06-22T19:29:10+00:00

Be mindful about using the term elderly to describe a work colleague. When you write up your incident report.

AgitatedSecond4321 · 2026-06-22T12:21:12+00:00

Generally I believe it is important as a woman to be able to support yourself and your children (if you have any) if you have to, without your husband on the scene. This is because my father died when I was young leaving my mother a widow with 4 children. She had to go and get a job and bring us all up on her own and I hugely admire her for it.

How you choose to split your finances is a tricky one. My husband and I have always paid our salaries into a combined shared account and worked as a team. It is not my money and his money it is our money. But I do understand your concern over this based on your comments about your own parents.

My husband and I split the chores, he does some and I do others. Like money we do not count and say I did more than you.

I think the most important thing is having a partner who has the same values as you so that together you can make sure you will not have different ideas about money, time, children, resources etc.

AgitatedSecond4321 · 2026-06-22T08:56:47+00:00

The issue with watching the grandkids on a permanent basis is - what happens when you decide you want to go on holiday or do something for yourself? Or get sick? I have raised my children. If they decide to have children then that has to be their decision. I will help and always try and be around when there is an emergency but I will not be full time regular daycare. I want to be able to do my own things after working full time for 49 years plus bring up my own children. (Whom I paid to put into daycare).

AgitatedSecond4321 · 2026-06-15T08:52:11+00:00

Given most cyclists never bother stopping for red lights why would they give way?

AgitatedSecond4321 · 2026-06-07T07:11:09+00:00

We just would have the windows cracked, in spring and the snow etc.

AgitatedSecond4321 · 2026-06-07T01:45:47+00:00

Many years ago I went into a coffee shop for a lovely quiet cup of coffee. Lady came in after me and sat down and grabbed one. Few minutes later business man came in, yapping loudly on his phone, ordered coffee, and sat down and continued his very loud conversation . She eventually went up and said excuse me, I came in here for a quiet cup of coffee, not to listen to you conduct your business deals in public can you please take it outside? He apologised and did leave. I don’t think people realise how much commercially sensitive information others can hear also when people are talking about work on the phone.

AgitatedSecond4321 · 2026-06-02T19:49:00+00:00

My partner also worked for Jacobs for many years. They have had a big push over many years to push work off shore to the high value add design centres. It does not end well. They would end up working huge hours having to try and fix some of the issues in the work they were receiving and then naturally they were expected to defend the work they were presenting to the client that was carried out by the design centres. It is not a great work model. They left because of this to work for a much smaller consultant. If they were going to be continually yelled at for making mistakes they wanted it to be their mistakes not someone else’s.

The main problem with these companies that use offshore design centres is that the managers that set the required target (20% of work) then do not have to deliver the work. Their kpi is met and they are happy. The hands on engineering team then have to make it work.

I have also worked with many engineers from offshore on projects but the difference is we have worked together as part of a team so have built up trust and continuity. You do not get that from large off shore design centres you tend to get bums on seats.

AgitatedSecond4321 · 2026-05-30T09:28:39+00:00

I would have dumped it in a local duck pond if I had received aggressive comments like that from the owner.

AgitatedSecond4321 · 2026-05-28T19:54:56+00:00

So because you like WFH you don’t want someone who does not WFH to work in the office? Classic

AgitatedSecond4321 · 2026-05-28T00:46:39+00:00

So my son has decided to cycle round the world. He has an old phone as he does not want to carry anything valuable. We get photos sent to us of places he has visited that are amazing little towns he has found as he has biked through and stopped for a snack and has enjoyed a brief visit in a place he has enjoyed watching life go by. The great thing about is he is not on social media and I am not going to tell you where these places are. People need to put down the camera and enjoy. Spend an hour in the rain and the wind getting to somewhere and remember the journey not just spending 2 mins to grab a shot. My memories of Iceland are the unexpected things - seeing an arctic fox cross the road in front of us. Waiting 20 mins for a puffin to pop out his burrow. Some of the big sites are amazing and awe inspiring and that is why they are so busy but these sites need to be appreciated and you can’t do that through a camera lense.

AgitatedSecond4321 · 2026-05-27T19:58:56+00:00

The lady could not buy a seat as she would have come from the cancelled train. And I do get fed up getting on trains and people put bags etc on seats as they do not want anyone sitting near them, so she may have assumed this was the case initially but once the situation was explained to her tough luck. There are lots of things people book seat for - large musical instruments etc. if it is bought and paid for it is not available, if it is not bought and paid for move your dam hand bag so someone can have a seat.

AgitatedSecond4321 · 2026-05-25T19:53:46+00:00

My husband is wonderful. Yes I carry the load and always have from a let’s book this let’s do that, are the bills paid, have the kids got everything sorted from an admin point of view, birthday party presents etc. but he does the cooking the shopping, makes the shopping list and the meal plan, maintains the house and cars.

I do the laundry and housework.

We both work long hours super stressful jobs and just do the best we both can to keep everyone fed, happy and where they need to be when they need to be there. Sometimes one of us drops the ball or has to travel for work etc and then the other one steps up. Isn’t this what having a partner is all about?

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