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What do County Battery Services Want From Employees

What do County Battery Services Want From Employees

The most watched Ted Talk is by Sir Ken Robinson entitled Do Schools Kill Creativity?  Sir Ken’s suggests that to attend the first schools was very expensive so the only people that could afford to attend were in business in some way or another, hence the important lessons were English and Mathematics. Art and music were much further down the list and the structure is still the same today.  

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Tax is very taxing

Tax is very taxing do you think we are doing this the right way?

Here is one that may raise some controversy and it is about tax and the amount of different ones. I think that the reason there are so many is so that nobody really knows how much tax they are paying. Because we live in a nanny state the politicians might feel that it would not be good for every one the know the full amount.

As some of you know we at County Battery Services practice 2 second lean

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Patriotism: Why only once every 4 years?

Patriotism: Why only once every 4 years?

I must own up to the fact that I really don’t like football. It may have been because I was never good enough to make the school team so I lost interest. That does not mean I don’t want England to win!

I am English and very proud of that fact and also a citizen of the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland.

I somehow think we have it wrong. We in England only seem to get flags out at football…

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Day 15 Rhine Tandem Tour Hull to Mansfield and Summary

We travelled somewhere in the region of 855 miles from the Oberalp pass in Switzerland to the ferry at Rotterdam. We then had a further 79 miles from Hull to home in Mansfield. A total of 935 miles

We had booked a suite on the ferry which was great

We got off the ferry and headed south on Cycle Route one and country lanes as far as Retford where we stopped at Mamma Guisi’s Italian Snack Bar and…

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Day 14 Tandem Rhine Tour Rotterdam to P and O Ferry Port

We have covered somewhere in the region of 850 miles from near the source of the Rhine at the Oberalpp pass following to Rotterdam

Yesterday we did some sight seeing in Rotterdam although there are not many old buildings possibly because of the bombing attacks during the war.

The maritime museum is interesting

Batteries for all these items can be purchased from County Battery Services

There are…

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Day 13 Tandem Rhine Tour Vienen to Rotterdam

Another scorching day and a shorter run into Rotterdam only about 40 miles today.

We weave our way along canals and houses one of which is built on the site of a moated fort to Nieuwpoort for a break

We carried on towards Rotterdam to see

nesting boxes for ducks and back to the river at Kinderdijk where there is the largest concentration of windmills in Holland

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Day 12 Tandem Rhine Tour Millingen an der Rijn to Vienen via Arnhem

We now have only two more nights and probably 130 miles to cover to the ferry terminal. We decide to have a reasonable push of about 60 miles to Vienen.

From our lodgings we ate only 100 yards to the ferry for the start of our day the further we got into Holland the more we liked it

We soon came to Arnhem which is famous for the Second World War battle which took place there. There are museums…

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Day 11 Tandem Rhine Tour Duisburg to Xenten and on to Millingen an der Rijn

A cool and overcast morning as we left Duisburg we have now covered just under 700 miles from our start in Switzerland. The first part of the journey was on block paving roads and was quite uneventful

Until we came to the lovely town of Xenten the only town in Germany that starts with an X

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We have only seen 7 Tandem’s on…

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Day 10 Rhine Tandem Tour Cologne to Duisburg via Düsseldorf

This morning we awoke to bright sunshine and then had to find a cycle repair shop for our Tandem’s damaged rear week

Google was helpful but my poor German was not fortunately the lady at reception at the Park Inn Raddison Hotel phoned them and translated

We went to Schneider who said they were really busy could we come back at 3.00pm

We explained that we had to get to Duisburg and the boss mended…

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Day 9 Rhine Tandem Tour Koblence to Cologne

We left our hotel in Koblence and headed back to the Rhine taking in some of the sights of Koblence

The point where the Mosel and Rhine meet there is a massive statue

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we carried on along the Rhine with great views

We travelled along to Andernach

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Day 8 Tandem Rhine Tour Mainz to Koblenz

So far we have covered over 550 miles on our journey down the Rhine from it source in Switzerland to our home in Mansfield Nottinghamshire UK. County Battery Tandem Team

This part of the journey is one of the best. We set off on an overcast morning from Mainz as we had a steady climb the night before we had a 8km down hill to the banks of the Rhine

We are following a route in The Rhine Cycle…

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Day 7 Rhine Cycle Tour Speyer to Mainz

Nearly forgot the last night stay was

Spira house an apartment €85 just brilliant

The owner was very helpful we had Alvey comfortable night. There was a massive thunderstorm but although there was a splattering of rain in the morning it kept dry and cooler than previous days

The route was not as exciting as some of the others we have travelled a lot of agricultural land not much to see

We were…

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Day 6 Rhine Cycle Tour Rhinemunster to Speyer

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Day 5 Rhine Cycle Tour Neuf-Brisach to Rhinemunster via Strasbourg

Another beautiful day on our tandem trip from the Swiss alps to Mansfield in Nottinghamshire our home

The route took us up a canal that had been built by Napoleon to help move his forces around. The ride is very flat really beautiful it is 45 miles of the same there doesn’t seem to be much happening around it we took food with us and ate on the way

We got to Strasbourg there are various signs…

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Day 4 Rhine Cycle Route Waldshut to Neuf-Brisach

On our County Battery Tandem Team we have covered about 210 miles from the Oberalpass. We checked our itinerary and decided to up the mileage and do 80 mile to Neil-Brisach.

The morning of 29-05-2018 was grey and raining but it was cool. I was interested to see how well our Sealskinzover-socks and our panniers and saddlebag performed. However the rain soon subsided although everything was dry the…

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Day 3 Rhine Cycle Tour Konstance to Waldshut

Day 3 Rhine Cycle Tour Konstance to Waldshut

We left Konstance at 7.30am to try and miss the heat of the day. We headed along the Rhine after about 20 miles came to Stein am Rhein

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amazing place we then headed for the Rhinefalls which we were told is the biggest waterfall in Europe.

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We then picked…

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Day 2 Tandem Cycle trip from Buchs to Konstanzo

Our tandem cycle ride from Buchs in Switzerland to Constantine with some help from the ferry

Feeling fresh and well we had a good breakfast and set off. We are following a guide book called the Rhine Cycle Route and as instructed in this book we moved away from the Rhine and cycled through very pretty agricultural land to Bregenz one of the towns we passed is Allistatten the route passes an amazing scrapyard

leaving the mountains behind us the route goes from Switzerland along the…

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