The Dew Drop Inn Virtual Rugby Pub, Oxford

First topic message reminder :

Hello and welcome to the Virtual Rugby Pub - a place where you can come in for a sly beverage and discuss whatever's on your mind, or just eavesdrop on the regulars if you fancy a break from all the rugby chat.

The Pub has made it's way to Oxford - the new location for newly promoted London Welsh.

The only rule in this pub is one of mutual respect for everyone in it, oh and no tampering with the montage of pictures of Lyn Jones above the bar.




Old Pub: https://www.606v2.com/t31486-the-dew-drop-inn-virtual-rugby-pub-beal-feirste

Enjoy, Mrs P!

Bring me back a parrot MrsP!

Hi all. Hope you are all having a nice day.

Rory, delighted to hear your news from yesterday. Wright's are a very well established company and frown on the consumption of . Mend your ways lad

Their company values are listed as: -
DRIVEN

• Demonstrate passion, pride and excellence

• Relentlessly strive to learn and develop

• Insist on honesty, integrity and accountability

• Value the environment and act responsibly towards it

• Earn the respect of our colleagues and customers

• Nurture and retain our people

Seriously though they are a fabulous company who fill their order book to suit their workforce and not the other way around. You should have good job security with them so the best of luck with the next stage.

Rory / Rav,

What kind of business is it? I've never heard of it to be honest...

Congrats though Rory!

It's to do with programming, Mick, it's no surprise you haven't heard of them.

: laughing out aloud >;

Mickado wrote:Rory / Rav,

What kind of business is it? I've never heard of it to be honest...

Congrats though Rory!

Mick, they are one of Europe's leading manufacturers' of Buses. Export all over the world. London has quite a number now and they recently started supplying them with the hybrid electric bus.

http://www.wrightbus.com/site/default.asp

Nice one Rory. Sounds like a good company. Acronyms wreck my head though. Management speak bullshoite.

Rava wrote:Hi all. Hope you are all having a nice day.

Rory, delighted to hear your news from yesterday. Wright's are a very well established company and frown on the consumption of . Mend your ways lad

Their company values are listed as: -
DRIVEN

• Demonstrate passion, pride and excellence

• Relentlessly strive to learn and develop

• Insist on honesty, integrity and accountability

• Value the environment and act responsibly towards it

• Earn the respect of our colleagues and customers

• Nurture and retain our people

Seriously though they are a fabulous company who fill their order book to suit their workforce and not the other way around. You should have good job security with them so the best of luck with the next stage.

Thanks mate. I can't wait to get started to be honest, despite the fact work starts at 7 in the morning.

And thanks to everyone else as well btw!

Is it a temporary or permanent job?

Permanent mate. It is an apprenticeship, so I will be getting training for a few years.

Ah I was wondering whether you were qualified by age 19.

I hear that Sin E works for that company.

red_stag wrote:Ah I was wondering whether you were qualified by age 19.

Nah not at all. I didn't even do technology at school for my GCSEs. So I will have to work really hard.

red_stag wrote:I hear that Sin E works for that company.

Congrats on the new job rory, what type of apprenticeship are you going to do?

Seriously though they are a fabulous company who fill their order book to suit their workforce and not the other way around.

Is that wise? Where's our resident capitalist...?

biltongbek wrote:Congrats on the new job rory, what type of apprenticeship are you going to do?

Thanks! It is an apprenticeship in production. So I will be learning how to make a bus.

Though if you don't want to work for them and carry on in engineering or something they help you with that.

Rory, they also have a Company Song ...............

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsAzI4Jdsj0

Sounds good..

Fair play.

There's a great satisfaction in making something with your own hands, i haven't done it since my college days (made a wind turbine) but if i had a house i'd love to have a little workshop to tinker about in.

Rava wrote:Rory, they also have a Company Song ...............

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsAzI4Jdsj0

Yeah they made me sing it for my interview.

I would have no confidence in anything I'd built.

I never did woodwork or anything like that so I have never fashioned anything too great. I'm a great putter-together of things though.

Ahsure, measure twice, cut once. You’d be graaaaaand.

It's a bit weird, my grandad on my dad's side was a carpenter (made his own house in West Cork, his own boat etc) and my Uncle on my mom's side has more or less redone the majority of his house by himself. My dad wouldn't be great at the whole manufacturing side of things though.

Flew in to Eindhoven from Dublin this morn. Man it was sooo HOT! So was the burd sitting opposite me, on a bus to the Dam, as she purposely and slowly wound me up by peeling her top off. Jeeeezuz!

She knew. She bloody knew what she was doing.

It got even worser when the air-conditioning kicked in. Ya could have hung a wet duffle-coat on them.

When does it stop, Da!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjdgijpgOl4

Story regs?
Good be back in The Dam.

Afternoon pub

Very productive morning today And hats off to the lovely lady I spoke to in Environmental Health at my local council. Very nice and a source of all the help and encouragement I needed

My small-scale cake making business is slowly taking shape now

I'm probably going to regret asking this but does anyone have any clever ideas as to what I could call my little enterprise? Suitable ones though please!! And yes Glas and Mickado, I am looking at you two!

Swanny's Cup-Cakes?

Best way to come up with any name is to just brainstorm everything that comes into your head, no matter how stupid! Then narrow it down.

Well there's the probably used already:

Ace of Cakes

or some out of left field
Flour Power
Eat it 2. (have your cake and .......)



Nice to hear you're back in the dam Gibbo

Cake a Chance On Me?

Cake Rattle & Roll?

Good to see you Gibbo

There's some great ideas already! Thank you people

Rasing Dough?


Let them Eat?

Dough Momma?

Half baked?

It should be named in a way that reflects you and your personality swanny, but also relate to the company.


Bake-well Tart should do it.

Hoi Swanny girl, hoi T.

Swanny's Sweet-Cakes?

On the basis that sex sells but you cant be too direct:

"Baked Goods"

Putting younger people immediately in mind of the original American Pie

For the hard of thinking you could have mashed apple pie as your logo.

Third Base

Sophisticakes?

Creme of the top?

Muffin really matters? (more of a song parody along Gibbo's lines)


Knead it , love it?

Pantry D'Or (Pun on pantry door and French for God)

Victorias Secret Sponge

Ive got it! Ive got it!

Swanny's Sweet Things.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QzDWIOUnM0

Hoog wrote:Victorias Secret Sponge

Glas a du wrote:Third Base

I properly laughed at that.

Udder delights?


Tokens of my confection?

Tokens Of My Confection.
That is genius.

Hoog wrote:Victorias Secret Sponge

That takes the cake

Gib

I really do like 'Swanny's Sweet Things' and it'll encompass sweeties if I decide to go down that route too.

I'm making a list of all the suggestions and will have a ponder. Keep 'em coming!

Thanks everyone, you really are lovely people

EDIT: just seen TT's suggestion, Tokens of my Confection. That is superb!!