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Had a bit of decorating done over last 3 weeks
and I have to say I am not the easiest customer.....no really I aint!

And the guy came up trumps!
Courteous, considerate and a first class job!
So thank you Mark White of Wolverhampton!
1st Class decorator.

I have a bit of an attention to detail problem and he handled that really well.
Didn't know what a brew was ....think he thought I was getting him pie eyed!
but of course it means a cuppa tea! up north.
He asked if he could have his radio on and covered all carpets up where necessary,
brought his own flask, and generally got on with the job.

I had to get rid of a carpenter I had round (won't go into that) and so
it was a pleasure to have someone that did exactly what it says on the tin!
A good days work for a days pay.

It made me think how much we put up with when people do jobs at our house
I had one guy give me a price and then when I went to pay him he said "oh is it not
cash? oh well I will have to put vat on that"
I told him where he could stick his vat and said cheque or nought.

Never pay for a job till it is done, get quotes, get refs if poss and don't take no .....thingy!

Brew - isn't that nationally if not internationally understood? Would he have understood "a cup of char", or as it was at home "Polly" as in put the kettle on!

My other half whose english isn't that good has got the nack of saying "put the kettle on" with (almost) a West Bromwich accent - as when my old folks are visiting it's the first thing out anybodies mouth on getting home!! He's not a tea drinker, so he rolls his eyes - don't know what he'd do in a crisis

Well Wolvie who is a W'ton lad
didn't know what a brew was when we first met!

He had a lot to learn.........esp about the slang of the north!
Slang I said!!

ah! it was sweet.....up in manchester as students
there we were in Salford in a cake shop getting a sarnie
Young ...good looking in those days... Wolvie (well good looking in the rite light)
Wolvie says.... a ham sandwich my dear lady
her behind the counter says
"do you want that on barm chuck"
he says...........

Sad really he didn't know his Barmcake from his Baps!

How old was this Mark White of Wolverhampton? Just curious mind!!

Northern Lass wrote:Well Wolvie who is a W'ton lad
didn't know what a brew was when we first met!

He had a lot to learn.........esp about the slang of the north!
Slang I said!!

ah! it was sweet.....up in manchester as students
there we were in Salford in a cake shop getting a sarnie
Young ...good looking in those days... Wolvie (well good looking in the rite light)
Wolvie says.... a ham sandwich my dear lady
her behind the counter says
"do you want that on barm chuck"
he says...........

Sad really he didn't know his Barmcake from his Baps!

Poor lad, he should have just asked for a "pace" (excuse the spelling)!
In danish "barm" means something entirely different!

Glad its all done and you are pleased.
Jo

Northern Lass wrote:Well Wolvie who is a W'ton lad
didn't know what a brew was when we first met!

He had a lot to learn.........esp about the slang of the north!
Slang I said!!

ah! it was sweet.....up in manchester as students
there we were in Salford in a cake shop getting a sarnie
Young ...good looking in those days... Wolvie (well good looking in the rite light)
Wolvie says.... a ham sandwich my dear lady
her behind the counter says
"do you want that on barm chuck"
he says...........

Sad really he didn't know his Barmcake from his Baps!

You crease me at times.

Don't encourage her Barb!!