It stopped being used before we moved here, most of the garden being sold off for development.

No, there is a gardeners loo though, which is currently full of things like lawnrakers.

We're due some rain for the first time in quite a while tomorrow.
It'll save me having to water the plants, especially as the water butt is nearly empty.

On the free drinks theme we had an open bar every night if we were working away on a project and there were some pretty inventive drinking games, well as far as I remember.

It probably explains why most consultants are (barely) functioning alcoholics.

I wonder just how much reinforcing needed doing as, if I remember correctly, they were considered pretty floppy as standard.

Is there a reason for your bitterness?
Did one run over a member of your tribe in Gib. after it fell off the the sloping roof?

I've been a member of the MGOC for some 40 odd years, I've never met any other members nor do I plan to do so, I subscribe to the Groucho Marx view.
Parts and advice are easy to get over the web and that's all that I need.

Fair enough Merc, as you can tell I've never done this just buying and selling T2 parts where they've just been posted either by or to me.

I would question the 20 hours a week.
I can understand it if a lot of it is spent trying to source parts but not if it's selling and sending them out.
Maybe the role could be split in two, one sourcing and one selling?
The former could be based anywhere I guess.

So how many are in your Harley hareem now?
And how do they pay you?