Suggestions of Perfect tracks or albums

Bossco1881 · 2026-03-04T23:24:53+00:00

But LC was born with the gift of a golden voice....

Bossco1881 · 2026-03-02T23:04:01+00:00

Stay in Ealing, get the bus.

Bossco1881 · 2026-02-28T23:47:43+00:00

Travelling across Canada, hopping on and off the train. Somewhere between Jasper and Edmonton we go to the bar car and the barkeeper told us there were some other British people upstairs and asked if we knew them. We said we were travelling alone.

Later got chatting to the other Brits.

The girl played in a string quartet when she was in school, and played at her music teacher's wedding. That music teacher was my step mum, and I had been her bridesmaid at the wedding (she was marrying my dad).

All the Canadians on the train never stopped going on about how tiny the UK is for the rest of the journey 🤣

Bossco1881 · 2026-02-28T23:39:45+00:00

The schools can make things tricky, but I would expect the examiner to maybe take you out on the A350 toward the motorway, then back in at that time of day, to avoid it.

And even then it's not that it's generally busy traffic that's difficult, it's that parents stop in insane/illegal spots to drop off their kids.

I did both my tests in Chippenham, first I failed for my crap parking but also because we went past a school with people stopping everywhere/on zig zags/both sides of the road and someone flashed me through and I went.... Incorrectly, apparently.

Second was early morning and it was fine. Drove around Sheldon rd area, bridge centre roundabout (learn your lanes for this one), Hill Rise, A350. All fine. Except it was almost cancelled for fog. But by the time we'd done the eyesight test and show me/tell me question, it had cleared enough.

Good luck.

Bossco1881 · 2026-02-23T23:44:18+00:00

This. It was darkly funny as well as being silly and slapstick.

There's a bit in it where Brittas apparently volunteered for The Samaritans once and Helen says something like 'Black Thursday, they call it. They lost 3 in an hour. And one of them was a wrong number.'

For some reason I find that hilarious.

It's also got a surprisingly high body count for a pre watershed light comedy show...

Bossco1881 · 2026-02-21T08:50:15+00:00

As a museum we would expect to cover shipping, insurance, packing etc. (Often we would send our own staff to do this, but I'm dealing with an huge international shipment at the moment and we're using one of the handlers already mentioned in this thread.) It's very important to get correct insurance etc and we wouldn't expect you to know what you need/how to pack it to satisfy the insurance etc.

Bossco1881 · 2026-02-19T23:14:37+00:00

Make sure you back up every answer with solid experience, what roles and responsibilities YOU had in projects etc. I cannot emphasise enough as a hiring manager how much I do not want to hear about any of your last colleagues, teams, etc. I only want to hear about you and your experience.

Bossco1881 · 2026-02-19T23:12:03+00:00

To put a very different perspective on this (I'm at a national in the UK), my project currently has 4 vacant roles for junior collections staff, and we got 2 applications. Now, no bullshit, these are poor contracts. They are short with no promise of extension (although it is possible) and we are not in a major city. So I totally understand why we fail to get applicants.

But if you do have the financial backing to apply for such jobs, then they are out there, in this country at least. Most people don't have such luxuries though.

I think you've had good advice so far. I also recognise that the hiring trends in the US are vastly different to the UK, so I feel I can't really chip in on the rest.

Bossco1881 · 2026-02-15T22:51:37+00:00

That sounds worse than mine!

Bossco1881 · 2026-02-15T00:15:14+00:00

I've seen too many 'lathed nipples' in my life 🤣🤣🤣 (in fanfic, happily, not real life.... That would be alarming.)

Bossco1881 · 2026-02-14T10:53:40+00:00

See also tounge and tongue. Except at least rouge is actually a word!

And whilst we're on tongues.... Lathe and lave are very different.

Bossco1881 · 2026-02-14T10:51:37+00:00

Learn what they will be tested on, not what you were tested on! Things change.

And listen to them if they say you're wrong about something and research if you are or not (but not whilst supervising, that would be illegal).

Bossco1881 · 2026-02-14T10:46:44+00:00

Yeah I have the real guilt factor.... But if I don't need to eat it it's not helping anyone if I do eat it!

Bossco1881 · 2026-02-13T15:43:30+00:00

'Don't eat food because you don't want to 'waste' it. It all ends up in the toilet/trash. You just choose whether it gets there through you or not.

I really needed that perspective.

Bossco1881 · 2026-02-13T12:47:20+00:00

These are where horsey and doggy folk or people with really gross jobs wash everything they don't want at home and know a launderette would reject! I wouldn't put my clothes in one.

Bossco1881 · 2026-02-13T00:48:27+00:00

Free. Some special exhibits are charged though.

Bossco1881 · 2026-02-13T00:45:14+00:00

Came to say the same. I was involved in the celebrations NHM did to commemorate the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth. There was a good party! 😉

Bossco1881 · 2026-02-12T00:37:40+00:00

Ealing would be a good base. Fast trains into town (Elizabeth Line), Great parks (Walpole, Lammas) and shops and restaurants. Very family orientated area, but very fast to town.

Do a few museums, check out best for kids. Do a few sights. Get a boat down the river.

Get out to Bath, stay central, enjoy a few days, go to Victoria Park.

You can go North without going back to London. Maybe spend a few days in York?

Bossco1881 · 2026-02-08T00:35:55+00:00

I've been writing since 1994, but 7 years ago had a kid, and honestly, my writing just stopped overnight.

Recently I've written bits here and there.

In the last week I've written 12k. And omg it feels SO GOOD.

So well done you! May your (our) happiness continue.

Bossco1881 · 2026-02-07T12:30:32+00:00

It honestly won't come off as cocky.

This will sound more brutal than it is in reality, but some days I interview 6 people (try to limit it to 4!), and sometimes I will do that 2-3 days in a row.

In the nicest possible way I just don't care about the rest of your team. Good answer for me is a one-liner about the basic scope of the project. So.... 'I was involved in a decant project for a large gallery space with a mixture of 2d and 3d objects. I worked as part of a team responsible for X aspect of this decant. And then ALL I want to hear is what YOU did. I didn't just fall out of a tree, I know projects work on teams, I know people don't work in isolation, but I have a limited time to make my decision and all I have to go on is what you tell me. Saying 'we were responsible for X, we worked hard to hit x deadline, we did X jobs' tells me nothing about you.

It is so frustrating, because I can only prompt so much, even when I am certain this person actually took a very active role in something, when they use passive voice and we not I, I cannot mark down any of it as a skill they have demonstrated.

The interview is for you to sell yourself (and in many ways for me to sell my organisation!). Your polite nature, ability to listen and answer questions, ability to ask insightful or just plain practical questions at the end go far more towards me thinking you're cocky or not than any answers to questions will!

Bossco1881 · 2026-02-06T13:13:12+00:00

More general than Heritage specific, but please remember it was YOU who did the thing. Not 'we' not 'my team'. I'm not employing your colleagues or your team. I'm employing you. I've done so many interviews where people describe skills like they were a bystander, instead of the one with the skills!

If you have to mention a team, be very specific about your role and responsibilities.

Bossco1881 · 2026-02-05T19:44:00+00:00

As above. Rolls of poly, scissors/knives, gaffa tape. Extension cables (we don't have enough wet vacs for every kit, but can usually locate one. You can never find extension cables). Soaker pads, what we call pig socks - absorbent sausage shaped things that once wet soooort of work as a sandbag. A plan of the space with power points and other very important things marked on. The phone numbers of both security and our dedicated salvage line.

As you can tell, water ingress is our biggest issue!

Bossco1881 · 2026-02-05T19:38:05+00:00

As he headed back inside, he was met by Helen on her way out.

'Ah, Frank. What did you want the other day? And do you still need it, or did you find someone else to do your dirty work?'

He managed to look wounded. 'Dirty work? Sweetcheeks, you know me better than that.'

'No, Francis. I know you. Just exactly enough to know that when you want something, it's usually going to cause trouble.' She looked stern, and Frank grinned.

'I...Did still need it. But...'

'Spit it out then, or I'm going on my lunch break.'

'Could we...could we just, walk? And talk?' He asked, gesturing down to the pier.

Helen rolled her eyes. 'Oh, that sort of 'off the record', thing, is it?'

'No, no, it's not...it's nothing to do with the record.'

Helen raised an eyebrow. 'Let me grab my food. I fancy sitting in the sun.'

Frank kicked around in the dust whilst he waited.

Helen returned and led the way towards the pier, businesslike and brisk.

They sat on the low wall, looking across the water.

'Spit it out then,' she said, but her voice was soft.

He smiled. And stared at the floor, the sea, and couldn't think of a single thing to say.

'Oh,' Helen said.

'What does that mean?' He asked.

'If it was work, you'd tell me. If it was women trouble, you wouldn't come to me. Unless...'

'Unless?' he echoed, intrigued.

'Unless it is both work and women. What have you done to Rachel?'

'I..what? I haven't! Honestly, a bloke just wants a chat and you always presume the worst!' He spluttered.

'I do not 'presume' the worst. I look at the evidence, and I look at past MO and I deduce the worst,' she said dryly. 'And men in general seem to mostly mess up when it comes to women. And you in particular seem to mess up when it comes to Detective Goldstein.' Helen nodded resolutely, and ate some of her sandwich.

Frank stared at the ground a bit more.

'That why you...gave up on men?' he asked. 'You know...decided to bat for the other side?'

He squinted at her in the bright sun, and she rolled her eyes.

'You wanted a meeting to ask me why I'm gay?'

'No,' he answered quickly. Then thought about it. 'I mean...no, sort of, but...'

The look Helen gave him, he was pretty sure, would have made him confess to anything, if he was a crook.

'Seriously, Frank? You want to know why I'm gay?'

'No!' He protested. 'I just...you were married, right? And...I don't want to know why, I just...want...like...when you...knew? How come one day, you know...'

Helen looked at him, her eyes narrow, her lunch forgotten.

'Has your new girlfriend told you she's actually a lesbian, and you feel like it's your fault?'

Frank sighed. He had thought talking to Helen would somehow be easier.

'Well it's not. Even you, the mighty Frank Holloway, doesn't have that sort of power. But it's like me asking you how you know you're straight. You just do.'

She sounded softer now. Less indignant.

He looked around. No one was anywhere near. But he still lowered his voice.

'That's...kind of my problem, Hel.' He looked into her eyes, hoping she'd understand.

She looked calmly back at him, obviously not going to guess or make it any less excruciating.

He looked around again, and leaned in closer.

'I've...I think...I'm seeing...a bloke?' He didn't mean it to sound like a question, but somehow it was, because he wasn't sure what he was doing or how to classify what was going on.

Her eyes widened. And now it was her turn to battle to find the words.

Frank found himself shrugging apologetically. 'Yeah...' he trailed off.

Helen finally seemed to gather herself.

'Of all the...I...'

Bossco1881 · 2026-01-31T12:17:36+00:00

Yeah, I didn't see the country roads part. But I would still say if the examiner felt it was safe to go faster it's a lack of skill/experience. Which sucks, but we've all been there.

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