What a year eh!

[Martin]

Well that’s it guys another year is almost done and what a year eh?

UKW is well on its way and has rattled a few cages in the process I’ll be bound 😉

Just a short note from me (whilst I’m sober that is) to wish all that read this tripe a VERY HAPPY 2006!!!!!

….and Ken……I may piss you off an awful lot sometimes with the stick I give you……..but….trust me I’m on your side and can help out in 2006……… :martin:

Dave & Chris………sorry about the slimline dishwasher trouble recently……..but I promise to buy you guys a full size one next year 😉

Kevin……I will shift ISE’s when I can figure out how to squeeze them in the back of my van….honest 😕

Alex…hope you liked the CD?

and for the rest of you guys?………….A HAPPY & PROSPEROUS 2006 😀

[Alex]

Re: What a year eh!

Thanks Martin for the CD, You were mentioned in dispatches somewhere else on the forums, possibly in recommended listening.

Looks like we are going out with a bang at the expense of Brandt & CDSL

Have a good un.

Alex

[kwatt]

Yep, it’s been a good year in many ways, lots of positives which is great. Okay, so maybe not for everyone but such is life. 😉

Martin, I don’t mind getting stick. I’m a big boy now, I can take it.

I’ll save the rest for the mesage that will be posted just after midnight tomorrow on the front page.

K.

[Dave_Conway]

Re: What a year eh!

I like my 45cm dishwasher 😉 but wtf are you apologising for ? We know each other personally and I know your intentions are for the betterment (is that a real word ? 😯 ) of UKW.

Now shut up you short arsed slaphead and go have a happy new year ! :rotl:

Dave.

[Penguin45]

Re: What a year eh!

Dave_Conway wrote:short a**ed slaphead

Watch it with the short references 😀 . The hair’s all mine :rotfl:

To be serious for just a moment, 2004 was chaotic to say the least, this year has seen UKW move forward in a cohesive and co-ordinated way – the professional presentation of the site to the outside world has been outstanding. The achievements have been pretty stunning as well.

My personal thanks and well done to all the “management team”, outstanding job. Not bad for something designed to help engineers talk to each other.

Here’s to 2006, may we go from strength to strength.

And I still can’t get a full sized dishwasher into our kitchen…..

Happy new year to all,
Chris.

[kwatt]

Re: What a year eh!

Thank you Chris, we are trying and we’ll keep on doing so.

With bloody minded people like Kevin and Sean it’s less of a chore. 😉

Dave and I just plot and get on with the grafting.

That may all be lies, but whatever or however we do what we do it seems to work as we go at things from an independent’s point of view at ground level. I don’t see that as a bad thing at all.

I have always maintained that my position in respect of how UKW was moving was fluid to some extent. We react to market forces, opportunities and the general will of the community probably far faster that anyone else just because we can’t shut up, we talk all the time.

What I could hardly say in the little news piece on the front page is that we all take great notice of what’s said in here, then slot it into all the other pieces of the jigsaw. Thank you for expressing your opnions, it does make a difference.

I have to admit I’m looking forward to this year and I hope that we have a chance to fight back still more.

And I have all my own hair, Kevin says it’s thinning but that’s only to deflect attention from his baldness. 😆

K.

[Penguin45]

Re: What a year eh!

Ha!
At least we can play “Spot the bald patch” as opposed to “Spot the hair”.

The point I was making was about presentation – it’s a damn site more professional now. We don’t seem to have the “He said she said” and “Yaboo sucks” of 18 months ago. If we are influencing our little world, it’s crucial that it looks good,as well as having content.

I think it’s going pretty well…….

Here’s to 2006,
Chris.

[kwatt]

Re: What a year eh!

Presentation, yes…

An oft overlooked little thing that is, it seems to be that many think that “it’ll do” when in fact it does not. You’ve actually hit a very large nail on the head there and why I will not let anything escape from my desk/inbox unless I’m happy that it looks good and has the content behind it to back it up.

How it looks is just so important, I simply cannot stress how important that the presentation and, therefore, perception is.

As some fellow directors will tell you, I am totally anal about this and I will freely admit it, but it has to look slick. We as repairers, have to look slick and as if we are professional and know what we’re about, it’s crucial to our futures if we want to compete with the likes of British Gas et all.

From the emails that we get (Dave and I especially) we are generating the image that we want the public to have of us and that’s a fantastic start. Now all we have to do is reach more people, a task that we’ve already started on, in fact for now it’s well underway in as much as we can do with what we’ve got.

But if you all really want to become a cohesive force to be reckoned with and if you really want to take a chunk of control back, just give us a few more months. 😉

K.

[admin]

Happy new Year to you all,

Nice recital on Whirlpool Ken, I heard same rumour from a guy who contracted to the said service provider. Evidently one of the directors of the company that has/is going under has already been under before with Whirlpool under a different name

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