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Me Bloods really low., thick and slow, back to weekly tests.... My heads fogging and my body is screaming, I am absolutely knackered, stressed to hell, miles behind on paperwork cos I am on site catching up and juggling jobs like mad...... People are doing my absolute nut in cos they think you sit in a yard primed and ready to go at the moment of their call..... too much going on and no time to think straight..

So..... Great time to write a Blog then!

'Sands & Aggregates'
I won't dwell on this for too long but WTF are the Aggregate Companies doing?
Has anyone else noticed the rather large thing in the corner?
We have Sand Shortages yet again this end of the World both North and South of London.. AGAIN!!! And others seem to think you should be grateful they will supply you sand in an Artic when 2 years ago it turned up in an 8 wheeler!
All this grief just before End of Season works!! Good luck everyone!!!

They have other sands, normally the too fine ones that are SHITE for specs but they seem to have in mountainous abundance but cos there is a shortage they still want full fooking monty price for it.
Yes I fully understand the whole 'It's what comes out that dictates the quantity of each grade you know' bit and yes my simple pleb like brain takes in the fact that there are massive PSD % variations in different parts of the pits yada yada yada BUT its not like you don't KNOW what the Sport Industry needs or how much at those sort of common regular times of the year... LIKE NOW!!!
And we have to listen to the head up arse smug holier than thou reps going on about 'using the right sands for the right jobs' but when you mention there ain't none 'ooh no its not at all like that'....  Well course it bloomin is else why is there a problem! WHY are there not products on the ground? Yes it was a shite Wet Winter but its been cracking for cracking on since Christmas ....

Well beyond the obvious, it ain't coming out the ground right issues the basic fact is ....
They Don't Give a Flying Monkeys about Sport! Its ALL about the Building, the Concrete and Tarmac plants and Water Processing.... Screw Football Rugby and Golf.... Least that's how it appears..

And don't even START me on Grit Gravels! Rarer than bottles of Fairy Wee now!

Well I wonder what goes through the minds of the people who influence production and stock levels I wonder if their kids play football at the Weekends or they play for a school side mid week or they go watch their local Team or they play Golf or any other sport that requires drainage or  sands for turf management.... Bet they bitch like mad at the cost of Sport mind!....

SORT YOUR SHIT OUT! It's pretty simple really... Sport uses X tons of specific sands and gravels.
PRODUCE IT!,
There only needs to be one big training ground project or Water Company demand and we are ALL screwed scrabbling around fighting for what's left or the next best thing rather than what is needed.

'The Change'

As I mentioned last time there is this slow burning 'Change' going on..... Have you noticed it yet? The 'Big Boys' are scrabbling around looking for new angles to sell you more Glitter and they can see it's becoming ALL about the Biology!

You're all being spun so fast you don't know it! This very week there was a fresh 'piece' put into trade press that basically said:

"Wetting Agents are GOOD for the soil as they encourage Biological Activity" Well so does having a shit on a Green! Doesn't make it right!

The 'Industry' and these companies have filled us all with a Chemist's perspective of how plants grow for decades ignorant and blinkered to the importance of the machine that lies beneath and have actively steered and manipulated the ethos of turf management to support sales of their products!

But now...... now they start see that people who buy and apply are questioning the ethics and sustainability and effectiveness of some materials and that there may be something else going on far bigger than anything they produce in a bag or bottle... and they want some of that shit......

Am I alone in seeing this? Is this just my very tired, blood deprived, prescription drugged and addled brain with associated mania making me see things that are not there? Are they slowly changing the patter to make YOU feel good about putting stuff on you may or may not need?

You tell me OK!