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Post by dippy on Dec 31, 2017 23:02:56 GMT
Had a lovely day visiting a uni friend and now it's time for bed, the only day of the year when I make sure I go to sleep before midnight, usually I stay up far later than I should but not on the 31st of December.
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Post by kathryn on Jan 1, 2018 0:29:19 GMT
Enforced family time over Christmas has led to everyone I was meant to be seeing tonight - including me - coming down with some form of lurgy. So no celebrations for me. Bah humbug. Bah humbug, sorry you're not well. Usually two friends and I gather in someone's living room for a low-key celebration, but we managed to all collectively cry off from various degrees of illness or just plain burnt out a bit. So we've decided to have a non-new-years evening later in the week. Meanwhile I've made it back to Cardiff relatively in one piece after a weekend in London (unlike poor Mum who managed to injure her foot in the process) Hope your mum’s foot heals quickly. I am not usually one for NYE celebrations, but being ill and stuck indoors on my own has made me really grumpy tonight. I think my New Year’s resolution is not to attend events with children - horrible little disease vectors that they are - since parents cannot be trusted to keep them home while they are contagious. Small consolation that the offending parent has apparently also come down with it now.
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Post by showgirl on Jan 1, 2018 5:03:54 GMT
Admittedly I've been a morning person all my life (yes, incompatible with my almost as enduring theatre habit) but have never seen the appeal in staying up late when you don't have to, let alone on NYE. Surely the best start for any new year is an early night, so you begin the new day (and year) refreshed and raring to go?
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Post by Tibidabo on Jan 1, 2018 14:52:46 GMT
Enough already with the Christmas breakages. Yesterday I had to buy a toilet. A whole toilet. Today I had, um, cause to check my washing machine's 5 year extended warranty date and you'll never guess when it ran out? I swear everything in the entire universe is secretly run by Apple and they remotely make everything break 3 hours after the warranty runs out.
The good news is I managed to get the soggy washing out that was trapped inside.
The other good news is that after my spoon jiggle, the disgruntled French coffee machine is grumpily producing coffee. Slowly.
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Post by showgirl on Jan 1, 2018 15:31:57 GMT
Bank Holidays, eh? Who'd have them? I was eagerly awaiting a few hours at home ALONE whilst OH went to the football. So first I went for a much-needed walk, during which it rained for only about half the time, unlike yesterday, when I left whilst it was dry, only to get drenched within 10 minutes. Then it was the equal delight of washing, ironing and cleaning, followed by drafting a long-overdue email about my personal injury claim. Haven't even finished that, yet now the game is over and OH is heading home - aargh!
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Post by tonyloco on Jan 1, 2018 15:41:10 GMT
Enough already with the Christmas breakages. Yesterday I had to buy a toilet. I don't wish to make light of what must have been a rather traumatic situation on New Year's Eve, but needing to buy a whole new toilet makes one wonder just what broke the old one and Major Bloodnok's expostulation on the Goon Show comes to mind: "No more curried eggs for me!" Do I have to get my coat? But a broken washing machine is definitely no joke and you have my sincere sympathy. I hope the malfunction did not include the floor of your kitchen, or whatever room the machine is in, being flooded with soapy water. So was that the third breakdown: coffee machine, toilet and washing machine? If so then you will be safe for a while because misfortunes always come in threes, an aphorism that I find generally to be true.
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Post by theatreian on Jan 1, 2018 16:00:00 GMT
Or as D Ream so nicely sung about: Things can only get better!
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Post by Tibidabo on Jan 1, 2018 16:05:36 GMT
Do I have to get my coat? Yes! And a wet fish to slap yourself with! Indeed - It was said unto Moses that 3 items doth a Christmas Breakage Total Make....surely? (Though Mini Tibs did cast a look around the kitchen at lunch time and mention something about us still having the same microwave since she was born ...😷😷😷😷😷😷😷)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2018 18:17:12 GMT
When my old washing machine broke it was a nightmare to drain because the drainage hole was about as low as it could be, leaving almost no room below it to catch the water. I had to fashion a channel from foil and gaffer tape to take the water away from the machine and then drain it bit by bit into a baking tray, which was the only container I had that was shallow enough to fit at a lower level than the drainage hole.
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Post by 49thand8th on Jan 2, 2018 0:50:27 GMT
Finally came back to the board here last night after a few weeks of absence (nothing personal)! I also finally left the house for the first time in a day and a half since I've been sick off and on since before Christmas. I did some grocery shopping after watching ridiculous TV and making soup. I hope everyone's had a nice 2018 so far!
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Post by TallPaul on Jan 2, 2018 13:21:27 GMT
Now that the Christmas holiday is over, I need a holiday. Despite going to bed just after 9 o'clock, and being sound asleep before 10, I'm exhausted. If only I were a teacher!! P.S. If you want to borrow my bucket Tibidabo, all you need to do is ask.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2018 13:33:00 GMT
When my old washing machine broke it was a nightmare to drain because the drainage hole was about as low as it could be, leaving almost no room below it to catch the water. I had to fashion a channel from foil and gaffer tape to take the water away from the machine and then drain it bit by bit into a baking tray, which was the only container I had that was shallow enough to fit at a lower level than the drainage hole. I'm sorry but I don't understand a single word of that post. Isn't this what the help is for? What is the point of paying someone a pittance and not reporting them to the Home Office if you have to do this kind of thing yourself? It's a world gone mad. If I'm honest, I didn't even realise I had a washing machine until the ice bucket hadn't been refilled one day and I had to go and drag the help out of something called a "utility room" to do it.
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Post by Tibidabo on Jan 2, 2018 14:26:57 GMT
I need a holiday. Despite going to bed just after 9 o'clock, and being sound asleep before 10, I'm exhausted. If only I were a teacher!! P.S. If you want to borrow my bucket Tibidabo, all you need to do is ask. Hey TallPaul - currently 300,000 classes are without a permanent teacher so you could always retrain!🎓........in which case, I'd hang on to your bucket as you'll need it for those days you don't get time for a wee.🚽
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Post by TallPaul on Jan 2, 2018 14:44:33 GMT
You must be so bored about ignorant so-and-sos making cheap jokes at the expense of teachers? Ergo, I have genuinely made it my new year resolution to stop. (Though when we had all that snow in the north last week, not one school had to close!)
I did actually give very serious thought to going on to a PGCE in my final year at university, but eventually decided that I would be pretty useless in controlling a class of 16 year olds. That was 20-odd years ago, and I imagine things have only gone in one direction since.
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Post by Tibidabo on Jan 2, 2018 15:25:05 GMT
I did actually give very serious thought to going on to a PGCE in my final year at university, but eventually decided that I would be pretty useless in controlling a class of 16 year olds. Well that must have felt like such a relief...........to the 16 year olds of Yorkshire.
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Post by Dawnstar on Jan 2, 2018 16:09:36 GMT
Failed to make it back to work today. After coughing practically non-stop for over an hour while getting ready I decided it wasn't fair to inflict myself on the rest of the office. Heartily sick of this very slow-moving cold. Praying the coughing stops before my next scheudled theatre on Saturday. Other than the coughing I'm not that ill but it's wrecked my appetite: I've managed to lose nearly half a stone over the Christmas holidays, which isn't what's supposed to happen!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2018 16:15:24 GMT
Or as D Ream so nicely sung about: Things can only get better! Oh dear God, Cherie Blair is in. Hide the royal memorabilia.
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Post by lynette on Jan 2, 2018 16:48:22 GMT
Failed to make it back to work today. After coughing practically non-stop for over an hour while getting ready I decided it wasn't fair to inflict myself on the rest of the office. Heartily sick of this very slow-moving cold. Praying the coughing stops before my next scheudled theatre on Saturday. Other than the coughing I'm not that ill but it's wrecked my appetite: I've managed to lose nearly half a stone over the Christmas holidays, which isn't what's supposed to happen! With you better, Dawnstar. As for the coughing, you are, as we are on the Board , considerate of your fellow punters. Last night at RSC's excellent A Christmas Carol, the coughing was so bad at times I thought they were adding sound effects to enhance the Tiny Tim TB suffering.
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Post by theatreian on Jan 2, 2018 17:15:42 GMT
Oh dear God, Cherie Blair is in. Hide the royal memorabilia And here was me trying to optimistic at the start of the new year!
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Post by kathryn on Jan 2, 2018 19:31:55 GMT
Failed to make it back to work today. After coughing practically non-stop for over an hour while getting ready I decided it wasn't fair to inflict myself on the rest of the office. Heartily sick of this very slow-moving cold. Praying the coughing stops before my next scheudled theatre on Saturday. Other than the coughing I'm not that ill but it's wrecked my appetite: I've managed to lose nearly half a stone over the Christmas holidays, which isn't what's supposed to happen! Get well soon. I also failed to make it into work today - but am feeling a little better. Will work from home tomorrow, just to be sure I’m not contagious before heading back in. It’ll be kind of obvious if I end up infecting anyone because the rash you get on the hands, mouth and feet is distinctive - it’s not like a cough or a cold that you could have picked up anywhere.
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Post by Dawnstar on Jan 2, 2018 20:24:15 GMT
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Post by dippy on Jan 2, 2018 21:07:53 GMT
Very lucky to be alive and not in hospital tonight. Was almost caught up in an accident on the M5 this afternoon when a lorry (after colliding with a car?) swerved out in front of us then back into its lane before overturning in our direction. Luckily managed to make it past but it definitely makes you realise how dangerous roads can be and how easily we could have all died/ended up in hospital. Hope the people involved in the crash are all still alive.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2018 7:35:14 GMT
Sounds awful, dippy . I quickly Googled ‘M5 crash’ and found a single report of it (nothing on BBC news for example) which suggests that these type of events are quite commonplace... Incredibly scary to think we can be here one minute and then snuffed out in seconds the next. Glad you are safe, and- as you say- hope that the others are alive.
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Post by dippy on Jan 3, 2018 8:44:48 GMT
I think you are right @caiaphas that these things happen far more often than we think. The fact that so little is online about it (other than there being a crash and the road being closed) makes me think that all involved are currently alive. A little bit of twitter searching showed that someone had seen a broken down car in lane 1 so maybe that was part of the cause. I've always known roads are dangerous places but it definitely reinforced that and like you say how easily we could have been snuffed out.
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Post by CG on the loose on Jan 3, 2018 16:41:51 GMT
Very lucky to be alive and not in hospital tonight. Was almost caught up in an accident on the M5 this afternoon when a lorry (after colliding with a car?) swerved out in front of us then back into its lane before overturning in our direction. Luckily managed to make it past but it definitely makes you realise how dangerous roads can be and how easily we could have all died/ended up in hospital. Hope the people involved in the crash are all still alive. I heard that one on the traffic reports - sounded nasty but unimaginably more so when you're so very nearly caught up in it. Very glad you escaped unscathed.
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