So...what you all doing over the bank holiday?

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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,683
    Yeah but if they fall over the weekend they don't get shifted to Monday so you miss them anyway.

    Queen's day is on the weekend this year and next

    Rememberence day and is the same day as Liberation day and is only off every 5 years (for me, apparently)

    Acension day is off but it's a thursday (!!!)

    Sinterklaas isnt a day off

    So there are only 9-10 actual days off a year. If everything worked out for us we'd have one BH less than the UK.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    I thought Dodenherdenking was May 4th and Bevrijdingsdag the 5th?

    And you don't get sinterklaas off? Have you been a naughty boy!
    _
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,683
    ...not according to my Diary....

    Certainly did nt get any time off that week. Nothing official about Sinterklaas
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    - @ddraver
  • moonio
    moonio Posts: 802
    Possibly going to a noise night tonight.. although not sure my ear drums can take it ;)
    Sat, movie night Tulpan and Barry lyndon
    Sun, cycling and photography/filming
    Mon BBQ in hopefully sunny hoxton :)
  • scattered pedals
    scattered pedals Posts: 69
    Carnival!
  • Eyon
    Eyon Posts: 623
    Tonight: Getting ready for tomorrow
    Tomorrow: Driving to Cwmcarn for a day of riding
    Sunday: Driving to Afan for another day of riding
    Monday: Another day at Afan. Driving home. sleep.

    Yipee!
  • dunnnooo
    dunnnooo Posts: 900
    Asprilla wrote:
    dunnnooo wrote:
    Chillax

    You hear that? It's the sound of my skin crawling.

    Yerwhat? What's wrong with chillax?! It's an awesome word.
    I'd give my right hand to be ambi-dextrous
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,773
    dunnnooo wrote:
    Asprilla wrote:
    dunnnooo wrote:
    Chillax

    You hear that? It's the sound of my skin crawling.

    Yerwhat? What's wrong with chillax?! It's an awesome word.

    The wife and I use the word deliberately to make the kids cringe. If in public they try to disown us.
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,773
    Oh, should have said weekend consists of taking the boy to scout camp tomoroow and helping a mate take his old kitchen to the dump. Bbq on Sunday at another mates and my parents on Monday for a meal with my sister and her kids. Grabbing whatever time I can to get out and ride or tinker in the garage.
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  • Koncordski
    Koncordski Posts: 1,009
    dhope wrote:
    Turning 30 :shock:

    Been there, done that (last December). If your loved ones force a celebration on you then I recommend getting very drunk. With a bit of luck you won't remember you're 30 when you wake up. :cry:
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  • rickyrider
    rickyrider Posts: 294
    pootling about at home / bike ride(s) / feeling smug that I am not stuck in horrendous traffic on a motorway
  • dunnnooo
    dunnnooo Posts: 900
    Veronese68 wrote:
    dunnnooo wrote:
    Asprilla wrote:
    dunnnooo wrote:
    Chillax

    You hear that? It's the sound of my skin crawling.

    Yerwhat? What's wrong with chillax?! It's an awesome word.

    The wife and I use the word deliberately to make the kids cringe. If in public they try to disown us.

    I'm 23 and use it regularly. IT'S COMING BACK, DAMMIT!
    I'd give my right hand to be ambi-dextrous
  • clarkey cat
    clarkey cat Posts: 3,641
    did it ever go away? I thought it was quite a new thing?
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  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    edited August 2011
    clarkey cat wrote:
    I thought it was quite a new thing?

    Unfortunately.

    However, for me it's usage marks you out as some kind of homeboy wannabe and I don't even know what one of those is.
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  • NGale
    NGale Posts: 1,866
    I generally want to punch people and tell them to stop making up words when I hear the word 'chillax'

    :x
    Officers don't run, it's undignified and panics the men
  • clarkey cat
    clarkey cat Posts: 3,641
    Unfortunately.

    However, for me it's usage marks you out as some kind of homeboy wannabe and I don't even know what one of those is.

    Okay, chizzle.
    Dolan Mythos
  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    NGale wrote:
    I generally want to punch people and tell them to stop making up words when I hear the word 'chillax'

    :x

    Have I ever told you how much I admire and respect you?
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  • thefilbertfox
    thefilbertfox Posts: 91
    Tonight: Claygate Beer Festival
    Tomorrow: Visiting GF and watching Ruggers in the Pub
    Sunday: BBQ at mates / camping over
    Monday: On the MTB, somewhere in the Chilterns close to Wendover/Princes Risborough.
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  • NGale
    NGale Posts: 1,866
    Asprilla wrote:
    NGale wrote:
    I generally want to punch people and tell them to stop making up words when I hear the word 'chillax'

    :x

    Have I ever told you how much I admire and respect you?

    nope and somehow I don't think you will be :lol:
    Officers don't run, it's undignified and panics the men
  • king_jeffers
    king_jeffers Posts: 694
    Tonight: Out in local town for a few beers.
    Saturday: Sanding living room ready for painting, evening off to a wedding.
    Sunday: putting skirting board up, maybe some coving (best not mix those up!)
    Monday: painting (ugh)
  • Twisterboy
    Twisterboy Posts: 311
    Plans for this bank holiday weekend:

    Friday: Go to Tesco about 8pm, do the shopping and come home and grab a couple of beers.

    Saturday: Down to the bike shop, to pick my bike up after it being repaired, then heading to fife to try the fife coastal path, then coming back via the inlaws.

    Sunday: Relax maybe clean the bike and the car.

    Monday: Take the wife to work, dentist and out on the bike for a ride, then pick the wife up again from work, then maybe back on the bike again for a evening ride!

    Then it's back to work tuesday :cry::cry:

    David
  • thefilbertfox
    thefilbertfox Posts: 91
    thefilbertfox wrote:
    Tonight: Claygate Beer Festival
    Tomorrow: Visiting GF and watching Ruggers in the Pub
    Sunday: BBQ at mates / camping over
    Monday: On the MTB, somewhere in the Chilterns close to Wendover/Princes Risborough.

    Claygate Beer Festival = Done

    If you get the chance, try the "Double Espresso Stout".... it's a fine brew.
    The rest of the weekend is evolving, but should follow the orginal plan. loosely
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    60 percent of the time, all of the time
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    Well, today I cycled to Skipton in the rain to buy a bottle of Grappa and a bottle of pure grain whisky. Then I cycled straight back. 42 miles usefully employed :lol:
    Faster than a tent.......
  • medoramas
    medoramas Posts: 202
    dhope, all the best, man! I turned 30 last February. I'm still struggling to say how old I am if someone asks - it just doesn't sound natural ;-)

    Regarding what I'm doing this weekend: I twisted my back badly on Wednesday, the pain today is still big, so can't do a lot... Not an excuse for my wife and daughter...
  • nich
    nich Posts: 888
    Reading my new Tim Ferriss book (fourhourbody) and fooling around on my new gym ball - time to lose a few pounds.

    Tomorrow I'll be going for a swim in the morning, watching the F1, and dossin around on my xbox :D
  • Mr Plum
    Mr Plum Posts: 1,097
    Mostly working. I don't have to, but it pays...
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  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    thefilbertfox wrote:
    thefilbertfox wrote:
    Tonight: Claygate Beer Festival
    Tomorrow: Visiting GF and watching Ruggers in the Pub
    Sunday: BBQ at mates / camping over
    Monday: On the MTB, somewhere in the Chilterns close to Wendover/Princes Risborough.

    Claygate Beer Festival = Done

    If you get the chance, try the "Double Espresso Stout".... it's a fine brew.
    The rest of the weekend is evolving, but should follow the orginal plan. loosely

    See, this is just more ammo to my argument that I should move to Claygate and not Weybridge as the Mrs wants.
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  • kurako
    kurako Posts: 1,098
    Sitting out Hurricane Irene. Just saw a headline on the news. "Virginia pounded by Irene". Ooo er missus!
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  • cyberknight
    cyberknight Posts: 1,238
    Looking after a 4 yer old with a kidney infection.
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