How was your day? (Random off topic chat)

I love this thread. I have had a lovely day being lazy. I had a munchies Easter egg but the small pack of "munchies" inside the egg were battered and small and frankly pathetic, so I ate them and then cheered myself up by writing a complaint to Nestle. I have told them to send me more real Munchies. If they think they can get away with this travesty then frankly they are deluded.
Also read Tell the Wolves I'm Home....may have been crying a little at the end.....
Now for Line of Duty.
As you can see my life is very shallow but I sort of Iike it!

So theatre today, which I expected to be the highlight, was frustrating & disappointing. On the other hand, I saw 2 enjoyable new films first - Their Finest and The Sense Of An Ending - so on balance quite a good day.

Oh get us happy lot!  Stuck behind learner drivers, noses in septic tanks, extra intervals stuck into theatre shows, families being annoying, dates not arriving (hope they turned up in the end.)  Not to mention the biggest travesty of them all.....tiddly Munchies (Mingies.)

 Line of Duty watched. 

@thematthew if you have any useful advice for a technophobe for a first ever satnav that is easy to use I'd be forever grateful.

I bought a half-price Easter egg today, and it reminded me of something.

When I was a child Easter eggs were made as two separate halves that were held together by the foil wrapper. You'd take off the wrapper and then snap pieces of chocolate off the edges of the half-shells. It was easy. But these days all eggs seem to be welded together to create an unbroken shell, and when you try to crack the egg you end up with fragments all over the place.

What the hell, egg-makers? The egg shape is the result of a hundred million years of evolution to create a shape that is as difficult to break as it can possibly be. There is no worse shape that you could have chosen. What on earth made you think this would be a great design for something that cannot possibly fulfil its purpose until it's been broken?

That seems a phenomenally quick response, Latecomer, even if it didn't really address the issue. I think that'd be swift at any time, but over a Bank Holiday weekend, impressive. Or were they, for some reason, anticipating lots of complaints and open and staffed accordingly?

Found prog about Mary Arden on the catch up, Michael Wood. Seen it before but nice to be reminded. Ate packet of 'nibbles' .....anyone else addicted yet?

I wouldn't say it was dire so much as very expensive, as it ended up costing over £100 more than expected. At least I did have advanced warning though. It must be more infuriating to turn up on the day & suddenly find you're screwed. I guess it was a good thing that the production didn't live up to your expectations. It would have been horrible to have to leave in the interval if you'd been really enjoying it.

Feeling grumpy. Lost half the day to a migraine and can't have an Easter egg as have the double-whammy of being on a diet and dairy-free. My sister actually gave me a milk chocolate bunny (not a Lindt one, an Aldi one) yesterday because she hadn't heard so I gave it to Mum.

Bah!

Not the best day in the world. Currently in Paris for work and decided to go for a walk in the Bois de Boulogne. Had a random man who decided to walk next to me and talk to me. I tried very unsuccessfully to get rid of him. Eventually managed and about ten minutes later he reappeared. Luckily by then I was on the phone so I could completely ignore him and left the park when he finally stopped following me. My nice planned walk in the park wasn't quite so nice.

Then I've also just found out that a previous boss would have asked me to work with her on the job she's currently on (which would have been my dream job). However I was absolutely sure she'd never ask me to work for her again so hadn't been in touch with her.

This sort of thing is horrible, isn't it, dippy?  Regardless of whether the man seems well-meaning if thick-skinned or worse.  It has happened to me a few times when I've been out walking and can end up being a source of anxiety and preoccupation when you've gone out to unwind and escape.

One of the reasons I go out walking is to get away from daily life, including people, so however friendly someone might be, I don't want another person trying to join my walk.  On one occasion I had been on night duty, then walked for several hours and had just got to the top of Ditchling Beacon, where I was looking forward to a well-earned rest and a snack.  I bought something from the kiosk and was served by a very chatty man but managed to escape and go and sit down to eat when lo and behold, he appeared beside me, having decided to have a break himself and be a pest.  Tired and hungry as I was, I had to forego the rest and the view and gather up my things and move on.

On another occasion I was walking near Leith Hill when a persistent man appeared as two paths joined and would just not take the hint to shut up and leave me alone.  In desperation I turned off at the next fork, even though it was not the way I needed to go, and I then had to work out how to get back on track without encountering him again - all  when I wanted to be enjoying the outdoors and the freedom from the hassle of daily life.

Perennial dilemma, The Matthew:  when out walking, I never know when to greet others.  You can bet that if I try several times in a row, only to be ignored or blanked, so say nothing to the next person, s/he will be the one who acknowledges me!

Quick blood donation, now on to work feeling righteous 😉