>>>>>>>The French Navy are running a recruitment drive, with a new motto: "To the water - it is the hour!".
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>>>>>>>In French this is: "A l'eau - c'est l'heure!"
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>>>>>>"To the water - it is time!"
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>>>>>"It is the hour (to do this thing)" as in "now is the time". Anyway, that's not important. Think of how the expression is pronounced (and how it sounds in English). As a francophone you probably don't get the play on words.
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>>>>Oh, you mean it sounds like "allo sailor". I must admit I didn't catch your originally intended obective.
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>>>>cheers (I guess still workless?... if so, not so much 'cheers')
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>>>I'm not so down at the mo. I've been building a big allotment shed, for our new allotment, out of all the driftwood off the beach. Really solid it'll be - made from inch thick floorboards on a stalwart frame. really enjoying this (been drying the wood out for 3 weeks) but now I've got it all cut up and in kit form for assembly on the allotment.
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>>Good.
>>I got news Friday that 180 of us across 4 deparments are to be "RightSourced" to India by July 1, 2008. It was the most arrogantly written letters I have ever received.
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>Hmmm, that doesn't sound good. Does it mean they want to move you to India or just your job? Or what?

The job (only), of course. I'm in no position, medically, to go off to India anyway.

I only signd on there in March last year and my direct management has been great regarding my medical problems. I believe they're included too.