I have to go to Chipstead on Monday.
This is a turn up and do the job no matter what it takes so I'll probably need digs/sandwich shops/reasonable pub etc.
A look on Google maps suggest that there is nothing apart from golf courses around the place.
I hate golf.
"A good walk spoiled!" as Mark Twain never observed.
there's a shop called "Fluffy Cupcakes" - but I doubt if that's what you want either.
I suppose I could put some HP sauce on it.
Lower Kingswood on the A217 (SW of Chipstead) has some shops, pub. I've never stopped there although been past a billion times.Then again, Coulsdon is closer/bigger so perhaps more joy.
I see what you mean about the golf courses.
Just put the postcode into a Travelodge site - etc.
There is the White Hart if you don't mind spending £5+ on a bowl of soup
Bloody adventurous you are.
Bill
I don't know the area well enough to suggest anywhere but hope your firm allows "actuals" for overnight expenses when there's no cheap motels etc nearby. But small mercies in that a few minutes away in Coulsdon there's a Waitrose for the little things one may forget; oh, and a TLC counter ;)
Nothing wrong with a Travelodge.
I do mind spending that when I am at work.
Thanks for that. I have a fusebox to CU swap to do next week. I'll pick up the RCBOs whilst I am there. And Waitrose is better than the Londis down the road from the job. And I just spotted DDs cafe.
Yes there seems to be a glut. In fact the one at Chessington has recently closed due to not making enough money, now the developers have their beady eyes on it. Brian
You must be very good and very cheap. ;-)
Seems odd to me it makes sense to employ someone from miles away for what sounds like a straightforward and relatively quick job.
Probably a contract. Win some, lose some.
I can't help but wonder if it's the boss being nice to Adam 'cos the boss knows he (Adam) has secretly fallen in love with London and all places within the M25.
Is that a euphemism?
He shouldn't rule it out.
Or, because Adam is the only employee that is prepared to work in this shithole? I have worked there, and it really is a shithole. The place is shit and the people are shit, the whole of the south is a shithole.
Is that in Chipstead, or Chipstead Road Coulsdon London a long way away?
And is DD the proprietor's name, or a nickname for her large baps?
Owain
When I worked for Crown, more than 10 years ago, we regularly had contractors from London or elsewhere coming in to work locally, when the local guys were going to do work in London. And when I drove a truck for a dry-lining supplier I once delivered to Plymouth, from Leicester, and another time went to the Excel Centre, when it was being built, with a delivery for one of the contractors there.
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