>>>>>>>>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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>>Now they even sack you in management-speak!!! I hope you will be OK (or if you wanted to keep working for such a callous shower).
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>so is your shed made of wood from that wreck

Oh, yeah. I went down to the sea wall on 2 occasions and fed up such that would fit in the car, with the seats down. So 2 car loads. It's been real fun, cutting it all into manageable sizes in the street. Oh, and a copper rand my bell the other week - he'd been calling next door and saw it in my basement area, so had to act.

"Do I take it that timber is from the beach, sir/"
"Yes"
"And what are you going to do about it?"
"I'm trying to get in touch with the Registrar of Wrecks" (should have been "Receiver...")
"Have you internet access?"
"yes"
"Well just google 'Registrar of Wrecks'"
"OK. As you can see, I'm not trying to hide it." (a requisite of "salvaging")
"I can see that, sir. I'll be getting in touch with the Registrar of Wrecks and passing on your address to them."

Yeah, I thought, you don't have enough paperwork to do back at the nick. Didn't even ask my name.

If he should come back and find it all gone I'll say that I lost my nerve and returned it to the beach. lol

The latest is they're now just chewing it all up directly on the beach at Worthing. There's still loads reported by everyone I know all along the coast, and they haven't even started on my lot, next to the marina

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver_of_Wreck