How was your day? (Random off topic chat)

I'm clearly going soft in my old age. After arriving home from the 'fresh' Yorkshire coast, I've put the heating on, just to take the chill off.

I broke my journey from Scarbados in Hull, where I decided it was too cold for a Cooplands cheese sandwich, so popped into McDonalds instead, where there was a real life loadsamoney telling everyone, at the top of his voice, that in London he earns a grand a week just by moving boxes. He wasn't such a big man when he got ejected by a woman twice his age and half his size!

Can't tell left from right? No problem. Just drive down the middle of the road until you figure it out.



(Brown underpants time for me.)

I'm hoping that means that you will have a lot of family visiting you rather than getting through 3 tins in 3 days on your own!

I really hate hackers/spammers - had a spam email today which suggested that an old email account I used to use had been compromised and my webcam hacked. I suspect it isn't entirely true as I have very strong anti-virus software, and even if it is nothing of note has been compromised as I don't use the account and nothing sensitive is stored on my laptop, but still gave me a fright.

I used to get loads of those "We've hacked your webcam and we have pictures of you" messages, which wouldn't have been convincing even if I actually had a webcam, but I haven't had any for a while now. The most annoying ones for me are the painfully artificial-sounding recorded "This is your ISP we are going to cut off your Internet connection in 24 hours" phone calls.

Why isn't "Recognising a scam" a mandatory course in school these days? Bulk-contacting people is so cheap and easy that the scammers only need a tiny fraction of a percent of their contact list to swallow the bait to make millions. How to be suspicious should be a part of everyone's education.

The webcam scams don't even bother changing the content of the email as well. 

Good evening out with a friend (not sure if this is the right thread to comment! ) Went to see Chitty chitty bang bang at my local theatre. I think it is very important to support local talent (especially young people) and local theatre. Our theatre sits approximately 600 people and is now starting to bring in big shows (mousetrap, Buddy holly) and still has on local amateur productions. They’ve been brilliant.

A road trip to Windsor, first time visit to both the Town and Theatre.

One of the rare occasions that the car was easier and cheaper than the train even including the cost of parking which nowadays is the costliest part of any trip by car.

I did in my old job and people were pretty good about it. I find that I feel worse if I'm not honest about it, as I spent so many years not being honest with myself and that nearly broke me.

I haven't told many at my current job yet, except for a few colleagues at my level, but I will do if I feel I need to - I'm in a slightly better place at the minute so I don't feel the need to, though I would disclose if there was an event on mental health, for example.

Another point: it helps greatly to offer a solution at the same time and focus on what you can achieve. "I can't do that but I can do this instead" comes across a lot better than "I can't do that so now it's your problem".

Just had a box and the hard, chocolate covered toffee in the brown wrapper has been replaced by a softer Chocolate Caramel Brownie. Is that more for you Monkey?