Goatchurch 30/09/07

[Hughie]

http://www.thisischeddarvalley.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=216899&command=displayContent&sourceNode=217599&contentPK=18370883&folderPk=101360&pNodeId=217618

Sounds like it's be one to avoid!

 

[cap n chris]

Inaccurate, apparently. No more than 60 expected underground, max! - mind you......!

 

[Peter Burgess]

I hope they are not going to do it all at the same time! Even 12 groups of 10 over a day would make the cave busier than normal!

 

[cap n chris]

Nah, it appears that there are probably only going to be three groups in the morning and afternoon, about 8+ per group.

BTW the charity itself sounds dubious at best - another "jobs over here, pretending to help people over there". 

 

[whitelackington]

Wots the largest known person to make a go of the drainpipe?

 

[Hughie]

I well remember the smell of sweaty forwards from my rugby days (being cuddled by two large props) - I wonder if that same "scent" will remain in the cave on the monday!

 

[Downer]

Wots the largest known person to make a go of the drainpipe?

You'd have to be bloody enormous not to be able to get through. Perhaps someone can mislead them into doing The Smartie Tube instead. Or would that be a Forbidden Trick (c) ?

 

[Elaine]

I am going to ask for a day off so that I can volunteer to sit at the end of the drainpipe and revive all these hunky rugby players as they crawl through!

 

[Downer]

I am going to ask for a day off so that I can volunteer to sit at the end of the drainpipe and revive all these hunky rugby players as they crawl through!

I can hear the screams echoing back and forth...

 

[SamT]

I thought you said relieve then  :-[

 

[cap n chris]

Their accounts show that they appear to get about £50,000ish a year from donations, about a third of a million from the government and other agencies and spend £100,000 of it on their wages, averaging £400 each per week.

 

[whitelackington]

Their accounts show that they appear to get about £50,000ish a year from donations, about a third of a million from the government and other agencies and spend £100,000 of it on their wages, averaging £400 each per week.

Cut the cynicism & publish your survey

 

[cap n chris]

Ah, and there was me cutting the survey and publishing my cynicism!

 

[Hughie]

Their accounts show that they appear to get about £50,000ish a year from donations, about a third of a million from the government and other agencies and spend £100,000 of it on their wages, averaging £400 each per week.

Have to agree with your cyncism, however, £400 per week is only the average wage in this country, so if the charity is UK based, the employees would expect that level of pay.

I ought to go and work for them.

 

[cap n chris]

Their website states they're not offering paid work at the mo'; you can volunteer to raise more funds for their wages, though, apparently.

 

[Hughie]

Nah - only after their money!

 

[cap n chris]

Other peoples' money, shurely?

 

[Hughie]

It always is somebody elses money, isn't it?

 

[fi]

I am going to ask for a day off so that I can volunteer to sit at the end of the drainpipe and revive all these hunky rugby players as they crawl through!

I'm sure you'll need an assistant...

 

[whitelackington]

Are they taking their balls with them :-[