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Post by peggs on Dec 28, 2018 20:58:06 GMT
I nearly crashed into a deer just off the A4260 today. Fortunately for both of us another deer ran across the road a few seconds ahead of it so I was wary, and then the second one popped out of the bushes just about where I'd have been had I not slowed down. Cool animals, deer. Where there's one there's nearly always at least an other, loads of them out today, was most impressed at my cool as a cucumber cello walker as three rocketed past his head. |
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Post by 49thand8th on Dec 28, 2018 22:58:00 GMT
Got back to NYC last night from spending time with friends and family in the San Francisco area. Back to work today! I'm lucky in that my relatives are hilarious, and I got to meet the first baby in our family in about 20 years. (We tend not to procreate, and if we do, have two at most.)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2018 9:23:30 GMT
I have to work today (at the “day job” been back at the other work since Boxing Day) And I’m already eye rolling at the pointless exercise- nobody is going to come and look at or buy expensive art in the days between Christmas and New Year so I’ll just be sat there getting texts from the manager asking why we haven’t sold anything....unless I get a big net to capture people with that’s not a thing any of us can control...
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Post by daisy24601 on Dec 31, 2018 18:33:40 GMT
I know at New Year people generally try to go into it with a new attitude, looking at it as a new start but all I'm thinking about is what I don't have and what I thought about that I didn't have last year and the year before...and it's still the same, I'm just older.
I'll probably go to bed before midnight 😕
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2018 18:44:54 GMT
So what are your plans for tonight?
I'll have dinner with my family, then I'm meeting my friends to eat the twelve grapes at midnight (Spanish tradition) and then find a place to have a few drinks and dance our butts off.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2018 18:58:00 GMT
I was invited to a friend of a friend's for a house gathering thing. But actually decided that I'd rather stay home- I have a lot of work to do (doing some now) and would rather be in my own bed at a reasonable hour. So I've just eaten a Chinese take away and later plan to watch some TV and have some wine before sloping off to bed not long after midnight.
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Post by NeilVHughes on Dec 31, 2018 19:11:05 GMT
New Years has settled into a two play day usually Hampstead in the evening as it is away from the madness of central London with the added advantage of being my closest Theatre.
Usually home for 11:00 glad to be away from the melee and false bonhomie.
Did get tickets for the London fireworks a few years ago, the throng of people as I made my way from the Shakespeare double at the Haymarket was crushing and couldn’t face it so went home, got to St Pancras at 11:45 and was the only one on the train, a truly surreal way to see in the New Year.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2018 19:17:08 GMT
I've got a completely empty house (possibly, depending on where the cats have got to), so I'm probably just going to watch the new Black Mirror then go to bed. No point staying up late if I don't have a reason, and I need to get back in the habit of waking up at a sensible hour if I'm to make it back to work on Wednesday. And to be honest, sleeping is what I most enjoy these days anyway, so why *wouldn't* I sleep through midnight? Can't think of anything better!  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2018 20:38:25 GMT
According to xkcd the majority of the world's population is already in 2019, so why stay up to celebrate with the few stragglers? |
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Post by kathryn on Dec 31, 2018 22:05:07 GMT
I have yet again come down with the lurgy for NYE, so am home alone on the sofa with telly. At least it’s just a head cold this year.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2019 1:35:04 GMT
I am currently braving London's (temporarily free) public transport to get home from a very lovely evening at a friend's house. We watched the fireworks on TV - I can't imagine standing in the cold on the Embankment for a worse view of the spectacle!
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Post by TallPaul on Jan 2, 2019 22:59:17 GMT
No word of a lie, the kettle in my hotel room has a label that it should only be used to boil water. Mindful of @theatremonkey's advice, I still rinsed it out half a dozen times, before boiling it, then boiling it again.
My cup of coffee still tasted odd, though I suppose that could be because the water came out of a river, rather than off the Pennine moors.
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Post by tysilio2 on Jan 2, 2019 23:02:53 GMT
So what are your plans for tonight? I'll have dinner with my family, then I'm meeting my friends to eat the twelve grapes at midnight (Spanish tradition) and then find a place to have a few drinks and dance our butts off. Is 'eat the twelve grapes at midnight' similar to having the 'backstage tour at the Queens' #euphemismcentral |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2019 11:52:40 GMT
Shout out to the guy at Delfont Mac call centre who pretended not to notice when I clearly fell up the stairs while reading my card details to him earlier...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2019 8:49:03 GMT
It's not even 9am and I'm already tearing my hair out...
Me: I will have that draft by the end of the month.
Organisation: When at the end of the month will you have it.
Me: At the...end of the month? I thought that was implied by the description 'end of the month'
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2019 8:55:44 GMT
? ? ? ? ? I mean, if the 31st of January were a Sunday, I can see them wondering if you're going to be writing up until the bitter end or if you're thinking more in terms of a working week and would send it in by close of business on Friday 29th, but the 31st is a Thursday this year so that's my best guess gone. Personally I would be extremely tempted to adopt cheerful passive aggression in my reply. "Hi! For clarity, as January has 31 days, I do of course mean that I will have that draft by Thursday 31st January, hope this helps!  " or similar. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2019 9:11:27 GMT
? ? ? ? ? I mean, if the 31st of January were a Sunday, I can see them wondering if you're going to be writing up until the bitter end or if you're thinking more in terms of a working week and would send it in by close of business on Friday 29th, but the 31st is a Thursday this year so that's my best guess gone. Personally I would be extremely tempted to adopt cheerful passive aggression in my reply. "Hi! For clarity, as January has 31 days, I do of course mean that I will have that draft by Thursday 31st January, hope this helps! " or similar. All I could think 'I can think of no better way to accurately describe a fire truck' (said in my best Freeeennnch accccennnnt) I did in fact say 'The end of the month? I can't think of another way to say that...' (I mean the implication was also there in context that 'if it's done before you will have it before, otherwise expect it by the actual end of the month day) |
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Post by peggs on Jan 6, 2019 14:53:38 GMT
Black Mark for whoever left open custard in reach of the toddler who found it just after I'd cleaned.
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Post by glossie on Jan 6, 2019 16:27:56 GMT
Oh what a fun few hours...suffice to say, after around 2 hours of me trying (unsuccessfully) to renew husband's car insurance online and realising we (I) hadn't renewed his car tax which was due on 1st Jan, not 31st as we (I) thought and having to hastily do that online, then discovering he didn't have the log book and having to find out how we (I) apply for a new one online, he had one job. Fill in the application form. Which we (I) printed off. You know those little boxes you're supposed to enter letters and numbers into so the computer can read them? He 'didn't notice' them.....................  |
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Post by Backdrifter on Jan 6, 2019 21:11:03 GMT
A lie-in, a walk on the beach, then Sunday lunch at a very good beachside restaurant. Back home for slobbing on the couch watching films.
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Post by peggs on Jan 7, 2019 22:22:45 GMT
Nothing like an inch-long splinter under the finger-nail to remind you that the airing cupboard shelf needed sanding down during your holiday break. Now my airing cupboard is 90% full of pointless unused things so useless for its purpose but at least it doesn't attack me (it's passive aggressive, if I do try putting clothes in it, it tops them onto the dust covered floor). |
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Post by Backdrifter on Jan 9, 2019 17:08:01 GMT
Finished work for the week at noon and treated myself to a current addiction, rice-flour rolls with dried shrimp at the local Chinese cafe. Then a walk to another cafe where they do the best mocha I've ever had.
It's exhilaratingly cold here and smells like mist even though it's not misty.
The other day I had my annual cadbury's creme egg, earlier than usual. That's it til next year.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2019 19:37:56 GMT
I'm not up to date with coffee culture but I was wandering round the supermarket today and saw some canned coffee with nitrogen in it. I have vague memories of nitrogen being used with ice cream but the coffee thing is a new one to me. Apparently nitrogen is the big thing these days. Everything is better with nitrogen.
Man, when these people find out about air it's going to blow their minds.
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Post by TallPaul on Jan 12, 2019 15:37:51 GMT
Please, don't anyone tell her and spoil the surprise, but I've just bought the 60th birthday present for my very good friend Tibidabo. It's the board game version of Poldark. Was £19.50. Now £4.87! I can't wait to see the look on her face. |
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Post by peggs on Jan 12, 2019 19:31:12 GMT
Have just discovered Luther, I may be gone some time.
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