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sungodsungod Posts: 14,343
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must get winter togs out

ride if dry, cafes, do complicated thing wfh, relax
my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny

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  • lincolndavelincolndave Posts: 9,441
    edited September 2020
    Morning, I agree with the winter togs sungod, raining with a strong Wind, what a lovely start to autumn, shopping first that’s if anything left on the shelves, (I hear People are panic buying again )
    Have a god day
  • thistle_thistle_ Posts: 6,169
    edited September 2020
    lincolndave said:

    shopping first that’s if anything left on the shelves, (I hear People are panic buying again )

    Popped in to the supermarket yesterday for some bits and overheard one of the members of staff saying "have you seen the state of the toilet roll aisle?"
    Non working day again today, might try and get up to llandegla seeing as it's not tipping it down today.
  • oxomanoxoman Posts: 10,448
    Morning Slackers. Family taxi duties and cleaning bike is all I'll be doing today. Definitely getting chilly as heating has come on. Chill out all and enjoy the wkend.
    Too many bikes according to Mrs O.
  • tlw1tlw1 Posts: 20,609
    Wore base layer for last nights run 😢 plans to try some of the route for the next race are genius - but finished at 23:30 and then an hour and a half drive home 🤬 bright side new car is very quick

    Today is work stuff and then 4 friends over for a social distancing dinner
  • sungodsungod Posts: 14,343
    rain ran rain, grrr, third morning in a row, splash to cafe in a while

    mrs s has the heating on and is not going out until summer
    my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny
  • FreddieVonRostFreddieVonRost Posts: 261
    Yup, rain here too in the People's Republic of East London. Work, work, work today. It's a four letter word and the curse of the drinking classes.
    Not a Giro Hero!
  • step83step83 Posts: 4,162
    FreddieVonRost said:

    Yup, rain here too in the People's Republic of East London. Work, work, work today. It's a four letter word and the curse of the drinking classes.


    Does that mean I can start using the Democratic Republic of Camden again when people ask where I was born? :D

    Certainly winter clobber time, hoofed the storage bags out the top of the wardrobe to swap later.
    Madness, was a calm 24c Sunday, now its a blustery 8c, anywho I have to monitor data being excreted from high performance hybrid motorised vehicles in deepest darkest Russia today.
    First things first, coffee, music and log burner.
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  • FreddieVonRostFreddieVonRost Posts: 261
    Certainly can, comrade 83.
    Not a Giro Hero!
  • darkhairedlorddarkhairedlord Posts: 7,168
    All quite here in the Soviet Republic of Parkstone. WFH, no time for bike ride today, too and making more ppt slides for later, very busy drinking espresso.
  • Stevo_666Stevo_666 Posts: 49,314
    lincolndave said:

    Morning, I agree with the winter togs sungod, raining with a strong Wind, what a lovely start to autumn, shopping first that’s if anything left on the shelves, (I hear People are panic buying again )
    Have a god day

    I popped into Sainsburys last night to get a few bit n pieces and there was a fair bit of bog roll. Most of the big family packs had gone but there was a decent stock of 9 and 4 packs. I reckon enough people realise from last time that its not arsewipe Armageddon time. I picked up a 4 pack for junior to take to Liverpool as I don't know if they have the stuff up there even in normal times.

    Onwards to conference calls...
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • darkhairedlorddarkhairedlord Posts: 7,168
    edited September 2020
    Stevo_666 said:

    lincolndave said:

    Morning, I agree with the winter togs sungod, raining with a strong Wind, what a lovely start to autumn, shopping first that’s if anything left on the shelves, (I hear People are panic buying again )
    Have a god day

    I popped into Sainsburys last night to get a few bit n pieces and there was a fair bit of bog roll. Most of the big family packs had gone but there was a decent stock of 9 and 4 packs. I reckon enough people realise from last time that its not arsewipe Armageddon time. I picked up a 4 pack for junior to take to Liverpool as I don't know if they have the stuff up there even in normal times.

    Onwards to conference calls...
    Run one of those shower attachments that go the taps under the toilet seat as a makeshit bidet. We have no shortages in our cache.
  • thistle_thistle_ Posts: 6,169
    edited September 2020
    Stevo_666 said:

    lincolndave said:

    Morning, I agree with the winter togs sungod, raining with a strong Wind, what a lovely start to autumn, shopping first that’s if anything left on the shelves, (I hear People are panic buying again )
    Have a god day

    I popped into Sainsburys last night to get a few bit n pieces and there was a fair bit of bog roll. Most of the big family packs had gone but there was a decent stock of 9 and 4 packs. I reckon enough people realise from last time that its not arsewipe Armageddon time. I picked up a 4 pack for junior to take to Liverpool as I don't know if they have the stuff up there even in normal times.

    Onwards to conference calls...
    There's plenty, they use The Sun there.

    Bit windy out. On the plus side I was freewheeling up some of the hills with the tailwind.
  • oxomanoxoman Posts: 10,448
    Suggested to the OH fitting a Japanese style toilet 🤔 Save me a fortune in rogroll. She's having non of it though.😫
    Too many bikes according to Mrs O.
  • Stevo_666Stevo_666 Posts: 49,314
    Oxo, if you run out she'll just have to use the hose pipe :smile:

    Seems a few of us have OH's who seems to have a mission to eliminate all bog roll from the known universe. Fortunately our lav paper consumption drops significantly next week when Stropteen pushes off to the Covid Institute, sorry Uni.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • sungodsungod Posts: 14,343
    many lives ago in equatorial parts i got used to the bucket of water and jug method

    the shattaf/douche in arab lands is best, though high pressure can result in hilarious accidents, i recall hearing a scream as an unsuspecting westerner accidentally drenched himself, there was water spraying over the top of the door

    both way cleaner than smearing excrement around with paper
    my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny
  • veronese68veronese68 Posts: 25,283 Lives Here
    Afternoon from the Royal borough of Kingston upon Thames,
    Chaotic day of wfh, lots of idiots to deal with. All dispensed so far, don't you love it when idiots don't get the answer they want so cc the MD on their follow up email, then get schooled by the MD as well.
    Lad was still half cut this morning having been out for his birthday bash last night. They obeyed the rules and started really early, finished up with 3 of them in our back garden once the pubs shut.
    Taking him up to Brum tomorrow, I'll keep an eye out for fast blue estate cars on the M40. Or is it quicker up the M1 from darkest SE?
    Had our food delivery a short while ago including stocks to go to Brum. Distinct shortage of pasta. I should get some sort of special dispensation as we always buy it by the barrowful, not just when panic buying. Didn't order bog roll, the lad can get his own.
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  • Stevo_666Stevo_666 Posts: 49,314
    veronese68 said:

    Afternoon from the Royal borough of Kingston upon Thames,
    Chaotic day of wfh, lots of idiots to deal with. All dispensed so far, don't you love it when idiots don't get the answer they want so cc the MD on their follow up email, then get schooled by the MD as well.
    Lad was still half cut this morning having been out for his birthday bash last night. They obeyed the rules and started really early, finished up with 3 of them in our back garden once the pubs shut.
    Taking him up to Brum tomorrow, I'll keep an eye out for fast blue estate cars on the M40. Or is it quicker up the M1 from darkest SE?
    Had our food delivery a short while ago including stocks to go to Brum. Distinct shortage of pasta. I should get some sort of special dispensation as we always buy it by the barrowful, not just when panic buying. Didn't order bog roll, the lad can get his own.

    I think we'll be going M1 unless there's a problem, but we're not off till next week as we've been given a designated drop off slot to spread out the arrivals.

    No such drunken-ness in our house as Stropteen had already done her celebrations before her mates started disappearing to uni. I'll have to change her nickname next year as Stroptwentysomething doesn't roll off the tongue quite as well. Stress bag will still be Stressbag though and she's going into overdrive with the uni prep just now...
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • sungodsungod Posts: 14,343
    if the scottish solution spreads, come december you could be calling her quaranteeny and sending food parcels :smiley:
    my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny
  • thistle_thistle_ Posts: 6,169
    Supermarket status normal but they seem to have been cleaned out of bog roll, pardon the pun.
    I'll assume there's some whankathon planned this weekend and it's not that I'm surrounded by morons.
  • sungodsungod Posts: 14,343
    thistle_(mbnw) said:

    ...
    I'll assume there's some whankathon planned this weekend and it's not that I'm surrounded by morons.

    johnson et alia getting off on the lib dem conference?
    my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny
  • Stevo_666Stevo_666 Posts: 49,314
    sungod said:

    if the scottish solution spreads, come december you could be calling her quaranteeny and sending food parcels :smiley:

    I like that name :D

    I guess sending a few pot noodles and bottles of Woodpecker in the post is a decent trade off for some peace at Christmas >:)
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • Stevo_666Stevo_666 Posts: 49,314
    edited September 2020
    thistle_(mbnw) said:

    Supermarket status normal but they seem to have been cleaned out of bog roll, pardon the pun.
    I'll assume there's some whankathon planned this weekend and it's not that I'm surrounded by morons.

    That's a bit s h i t.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • sungodsungod Posts: 14,343
    Stevo_666 said:

    sungod said:

    if the scottish solution spreads, come december you could be calling her quaranteeny and sending food parcels :smiley:

    I like that name :D

    I guess sending a few pot noodles and bottles of Woodpecker in the post is a decent trade off for some peace at Christmas >:)
    it still has more to give, next there's quarantwenty
    my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny
  • veronese68veronese68 Posts: 25,283 Lives Here
    Stevo_666 said:

    Stress bag will still be Stressbag though and she's going into overdrive with the uni prep just now...

    I can imagine. We have a milder form of that, but with the addition of not being able to move and worrying about food for tonight. All whilst I'm trying to wfh, being in the office has definite advantages ;-)
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  • Stevo_666Stevo_666 Posts: 49,314
    veronese68 said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    Stress bag will still be Stressbag though and she's going into overdrive with the uni prep just now...

    I can imagine. We have a milder form of that, but with the addition of not being able to move and worrying about food for tonight. All whilst I'm trying to wfh, being in the office has definite advantages ;-)
    I'll definitely be having 1 or 2 days a week in the office from now on. For the same reasons o:) And a good excuse to get some pedalling in.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
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