Kurnal: I did not ask for your salary requirements as a pre-requisite of the job is a good knowledge of fire safety, plus I cannot afford to give all the free advice you clearly wish to disseminate to your competitiors.
Civvy: I genuinely appreciate your advice, as I did not realise that such things existed. Cunning these Chinese. I think I will leave it there though, as it will facilitate ease of communication by potential applicants. A regular reader of these Boards will be pleased to confirm that I will have no need for the first of the services you describe, while, if the second service provider could assist in minimizing the maintenance payments due to the former Mrs Todd at the end of next month, I will be pleased to hear from them. As for my mobile, I tend to work a bit on the principles of the Scottish Government, which are for fairness, openess and transparency, rather than disingenuousness as occurs from some of their English counterparts, the department of whom may cease to exist when we have a new government. We did some work at one time for a Football Club whose Chairman I always admired for refusing to go ex directory. Each Saturday night, he took calls from drunks berating him for his team's performance. He always listened patiently until they had finished and thanked them for their advice, but said that when they owned as many shares in the Club as he did, they could run it their way. In the meantime he would run things his way.
Jasper: I would anticipate that the successful applicant will have at least 8 years experience in fire safety within a LA F&RS (though not a certain met brigade in a large urban connurbation), but I am entirely open minded.
