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It's time for our first victims to be grilled!!! Johnny Wick and Dean Garside are in the spot light this time. Johnny is a team leader and Dean is a Senior Driver. Here's what they had to say!
What is your favourite holiday destination?
Johnny: "Anywhere hot!"
Dean: "Australia of course (I have dual citizenship)"
How do you choose to unwind after a hard days work at Total Removals?
Johnny: "Playing tennis and watching Spurs"
Dean: "Playing Rugby and making the most of London’s colourful nightlife, Scouting"
What's your favourite song of all time?
Johnny: "Moving by Supergrass"
Dean: "Not Over by the Claxons
Favourite food?
Johnny: "Pitza"
Dean: "Curry"
What has been your most memorable move?
Johnny: "Moving a 95 year old lady all the way from Bayswater, London, W2 to Pecs in Hungary only to move her back again a year later!!"
Dean: "Recently when the size of the job doubled due to the lady being able to sell any of her furniture."
What is your guilty pleasure?
Johnny: "Full fat English breakfast!"
Dean: "Murder she wrote - essential day time viewing!!"
What would you put into Room 101?
Johnny: "Traffic Wardens!"
Dean: "Pot holes!! And the council who do not get around to mending them."
Just when the Total Removals staff were starting to think it was all over, we cornered Ed Sykes, packer-in-charge/team leader, for some on the spot interrogation! He is currently the only member of Total Removals to have a photo printed on papyrus...
What is your favourite holiday destination?
Ed: "Houseboat on Lake Mead, Nevada"
How do you choose to unwind after a hard days work at Total Removals?
Ed: "I am a school governor at my daughters school. Also enjoy getting away from London at the weekend with the family in our new camper van!"
What's your favourite song of all time?
Ed: "Anything by S Club 7 sung by my daughter!"
Favourite food?
Ed: "Nuts!"
What has been your most memorable move?
Ed: "Last year when we undertook a removal from Bloomsbury to Camden for a professor of Classics. There were so many crates of books and documents that I really believed the floors would buckle under the weight. The house reassembled a warehouse!"
What is your guilty pleasure?
Ed: "Not telling!!"
What would you put into Room 101?"
Ed: "Speed bumps."
Next up for the TRS grilling is our very own man from Atlantis, Sam Coleman.
What is your favourite holiday destination?
Sam: "Mexico"
How do you choose to unwind after a hard days work at Total Removals?
Sam: "Playing waterpolo"
What's your favourite song of all time?
Sam: "All Along the Watch Tower by Hendix - possibly the best cover in the world!"
Favourite food?
Sam: "Steak"
What has been your most memorable move?
Sam: "A couple of years ago when the only lift broke down in a penthouse flat on the 8th floor in the Docklands!! We finished at 2am! Nice view of the Thames but novelty wore off!
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What is your guilty pleasure?
Sam: "Watching far too much Friends."
What would you put into Room 101?"
Sam: "The Congestion Charge."
We thought that it was time to corner Mr Big next - wheel our very own Company Owner & Director Neil Lyall into the interrogation room!!"
What is your favourite holiday destination?
Neil: "Has to be Australia as we postponed our departure three times!!
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How do you choose to unwind after a hard days work at Total Removals?
Neil: "Cycling and hanging out with the kids (does not always work!)."
What's your favourite song of all time?
Neil: "Change (featuring Luther Van dross) Glow of Love "
Favourite food?
Neil: "Avocado, prunes & very dark Chocolate (not together though?)"
What has been your most memorable move?
Neil: "Supervising an office move for Pickford's during the early 1990's in Bishop's Gate when an IRA bomb exploded a few hundred yards away demolishing the Baltic exchange. I was in the lift at the time and thought my impatience with the lift doors had caused the lift to explode! Fortunately nobody was killed that day I remember. "
What is your guilty pleasure?
Neil: "The Rah band: Messages from the Stars from 1983. I got a lot of stick from my school friends over this soppy inter-galactic love ballad!"
What would you put into Room 101?"
Neil: "Temporary traffic lights. Most of them are fazed incorrectly and cause even more delays than if they had not been put there in the first place!
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