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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 27, 2010 11:24:47 GMT
Back in Cardiff after four nights in Bristol. After unpacking, my mission should I choose to accept it is to wander down to Sainsbury's in the hopes of acquiring half-price Christmas puddings.
Martin
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 27, 2010 11:49:54 GMT
Glad to hear you go home okay without any travel chaos.
I really should go to the nearby Asda and pick up a few things, but I cannot be bothered with the retail hordes today. Throat is starting to feel a bit off, as if my adams apple is about three times the size. I had thought I had missed most of the seasonal lurgy, looks like it might be here.
Andy
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 27, 2010 12:21:07 GMT
Feel better soon, Andy. According to my information, ther is only one thing that can cure lurgi, and that is to play in a brass band. Martin
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 27, 2010 12:38:48 GMT
Will stay indoors today and imbibe much liquids and eat something decent.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 27, 2010 15:57:36 GMT
I am wrapping up warm and imbibing many fluids and placebo-effect tablets to shift the lurgy ASAP. So far, it has not shown signs of developing full-blown Man Flu.
*touch wood*
-Ralph
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Post by Hero on Dec 27, 2010 18:10:43 GMT
I thought we were already in the new decade.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 28, 2010 8:38:35 GMT
Now in the strange hinterland at work between Christmas and New Year. From past experience in doing the kind of thing I do this is when it is either extremely quiet or completely insane...
-Ralph
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Post by Dezzeh on Dec 28, 2010 8:41:28 GMT
Successfully avoided all plagues and lurgies over christmas, despite seeminly EVERYONE around me being diseased.
Bets on it making an appearance for New year? The odds are favourable.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 28, 2010 8:46:09 GMT
I thought we were already in the new decade. ===KEN No. The first two millennia / twenty centuries AD/CE were years 1 to 2000 inclusive. The first ten years of the third millennium, or the 21st century, are years 2001 to 2010 inclusive. Anyone who says differently can't count. (I suppose the years 2010 to 2019 inclusive are _a_ decade, as is any ten-year period, but it is one made up of the last year of the first decade of the 21st century and the first nine years of the second decade of the 21st century.) Martin
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 28, 2010 12:46:49 GMT
Occasional visitors to Cardiff may be interested to know that after years of telling visitors to "manage as best they can" with the shower head on my bath, I have now at last bought a telescopic shower rail and curtain that I can put up when I have people staying overnight. Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 28, 2010 14:02:04 GMT
Kaptain Karl is sitting here with me at Phil's Mum's House.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 28, 2010 15:26:25 GMT
The Kaptain has been taken round the Kingston shops, shown a dept store with a dual carriageway through the middle and several Doctor Who locations as well as having a look at lots of new toys at Phil's Mum's House.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Dec 28, 2010 17:50:44 GMT
Occasional visitors to Cardiff may be interested to know that after years of telling visitors to "manage as best they can" with the shower head on my bath, I have now at last bought a telescopic shower rail and curtain that I can put up when I have people staying overnight. Martin Excellent! I didn't think it was possible to top McV Hospitality but now....
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 28, 2010 20:13:44 GMT
*touches wood*
Looks like it may be minor cold rather than proper space lurgy.
*touches wood*
Tipple and a veritable mountain of snacks have been acquired for Hogmanay. Hurray.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 28, 2010 20:24:54 GMT
I have a feeling mine could go either way at the moment.
Fingers crossed...
Andy
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Post by Hero on Dec 28, 2010 22:32:22 GMT
Happy for the kids who got bikes and scooters for Christmas this end as the snow has melted.
Really Really impressed with the new Thunderwing toy right now.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 28, 2010 23:15:09 GMT
Did you know the guns combine?
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Post by Hero on Dec 28, 2010 23:57:52 GMT
Nope.
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Post by Hero on Dec 29, 2010 23:26:16 GMT
Combined the guns and they look great! Did'nt get 5 Gold Rings today, but a Christmas card from Karl found its way over. Thanks bud Recovering from probably the worst night ever with my lil un, but hopfully going to make up the lack of sleep. ===KEN
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 30, 2010 8:16:46 GMT
From around mid-day today, roads and transport systems start to shut-down/be majorly affected by 'Edinburgh's Hogmanay', as the signs proclaim. Ralph anticipates this will make his job much more difficult than it needs to be today and tomorrow. Pre-emptive rage has been stored.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Dec 30, 2010 9:06:57 GMT
Yes, I noticed the signs on the way in from the airport warning of road closures because of Hogmanay events on the 30th through to the 2nd of January. How can you have a Hogmanay event on the 30th, or the 2nd for that matter? Hogmanay is the 31st of December by definition after all.
Karl
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Post by Hero on Dec 30, 2010 13:23:02 GMT
And remember. Don't talk to strangers...
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 30, 2010 19:26:48 GMT
Yes, I noticed the signs on the way in from the airport warning of road closures because of Hogmanay events on the 30th through to the 2nd of January. How can you have a Hogmanay event on the 30th, or the 2nd for that matter? Hogmanay is the 31st of December by definition after all. Karl Oh, don't start me. In other news, a life decision I was not aware I was ruminating about suddenly crystalised in my mind while doing something completely unrelated at work. It was like someone beamed an idea into my brain. How unexpected. -Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Dec 30, 2010 20:58:30 GMT
First day back at work in nearly two weeks, and GOD FORBID that anyone who was supposed to cover my work actually did the slightest thing, not even the smallest task was completed. Luckily the bosses seemed to know the score.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 31, 2010 1:20:21 GMT
Heh! That is always a pain in the ass.
That's me off for four days now.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 31, 2010 8:31:20 GMT
Yet more insomnia related non-fun. I feel like zombie Ralph.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 31, 2010 9:10:40 GMT
Yet more insomnia related non-fun. I feel like zombie Ralph. Not good. I've never experienced proper insomnia, but (I expect like everyone) I am sometimes kept awake by thinking about things non-conducive to sleep, such as work. The trick to getting asleep then is for me to distract the mind by concentrating on non-worldly things that can then slip into dreams. The classic is of course to concentrate on counting sheep. I find that too boring to keep my mind occupied, however, so I imagine other things, such as taking off and flying over the world (like in 'The Snowman' or on a flying carpet) - which can be very relaxing, but also demands concentration to control where you are going, since a perverse imagination finds it as easy to drift off-course as to go where you want it to go. Whizzing along an underground railway like in 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom' is another way I have found to use my imagination to put the real world out of my mind and slip away to sleep - you have to concentrate at junctions to make sure you go down the tunnel you want to go down (e.g. if you decide you want to keep bearing right, the mind sometimes tries to make you go left). But perhaps my favourite is a more sedentary fantasy, involving drawing together scattered Autobot forces to a single defensible location such as a cave-ridden mountainside, setting up camp there and assigning various Autobots to defend the various openings until all is safe and secure. I think that by doing this I effectively draw in all my roaming concerns and interests, consolidate them, put everything in its proper place and put up mental barriers and defences against worries and chaos. Sometimes my concentration slips and I realise I am thinking of work again instead of the fantasy of choice, and become more awake, and I have to mentally slap myself and re-focus, but generally it works, and I wake up the next day remembering only that I set out on my flying journey but didn't get far before sleep overtook me, or that I had constructed my defences and was planning to send out patrols but fell asleep before getting round to issuing the orders, or suchlike. Martin
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Post by primenova on Dec 31, 2010 21:20:37 GMT
Hope all the Hubbers in Nrth Ireland are ok. BBC not bothered to report on the water issue until a week later.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 2, 2011 14:03:56 GMT
Rough day today, lots of pain together with muscle spasms which are usually a rarity but I've had quite a lot the last few days. I've had my arms shaking like I'm having a fit. not good
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 2, 2011 21:31:14 GMT
I shall try out Martin's strategy.
-Ralph
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