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Post by grahamthomson on Oct 6, 2008 9:32:32 GMT
I think I'm getting my period.
Saturday was spent at a local food festival whereby a huge group of local farmers, chefs and the like congregated in the nearby town of Stone, under one huge tent, to show off their wares.
So I must have spent a fair chunk of money on some astoundingly fresh organic, local meats, vegetables, beer, wine, cheese, sausages and so on.
And then I spent the rest of the weekend cooking and eating it all. Plus, now, a lot of it is in the freezer as pre-prepared meals for an easy week.
Be warned. I feel the next Hubday may indeed turn out to be a lavish, fattening, booze-soaked full-on dinner party.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 6, 2008 9:56:32 GMT
SOLD!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 6, 2008 10:00:06 GMT
A TMUK Dinner party - how incredibly civilised.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 6, 2008 11:30:42 GMT
Godzilla approves.
-Ralph
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Post by Dark Stranger on Oct 6, 2008 12:00:57 GMT
My girlfriend asked me to move in with her earlier this morning, and has promised to convert the spare room into a vinyl storage and Transformers display room.
Domestic bliss rocks!
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Post by Hero on Oct 6, 2008 12:15:24 GMT
Dinner Party RULES!
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 6, 2008 15:54:59 GMT
My girlfriend asked me to move in with her earlier this morning, and has promised to convert the spare room into a vinyl storage and Transformers display room. Domestic bliss rocks! Awwwwwwwwwwww. In other news, another day another afternoon down the local library filling out a job app. It was 'massage baby' day down there, apparently. Another job's closing date was today (did the form last week) so fingers crossed. Next week there is a 'graduate recruitment fair' so I can't score anything after walking round rooms full of dozens of employers actively wanting to hire folk, I'm as well giving up completely and firing myself out of a cannon towards Dimension X. There was some upset this morning when, while in mid-stream, Bob the Bastard spider ran down the wall at me. It was a tense moment. -Ralph |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2008 17:15:48 GMT
I came into work today and discovered that three people from out of the offices had been made redundant. Two of them I couldn't care less about but the third was the kind of person who got on well with the workers. It was his misfortune that his job was in a department that is already overstaffed and no doubt some of his former collegues will also face the axe before the end of the year.
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Post by Shockprowl on Oct 7, 2008 12:13:19 GMT
Sorry to hear that Zudo, sign of the times I suppose. One thing 'bout working for the Public Services is that, provided you don't do anything silly, touch wood you've got a job as long as you want it.
Hi Sports Fans!
I start Uni on monday (AAARRRRGH AAAARRRRGH AAAARRRGHH URRRAAAAGH!!!!!). I'm fairly calm about it. I got a block of 2 weeks, before it goes to two days a week, so I'll certainly be off the radar for the next 2 weeks.
Piglet continues to be a never ending source of entertainment. Her talking is really taking off leaps and bounds. On the way to one of her little friend's birthday parties, Mrs Shockprowl was suggesting to her that she practice saying happy birthday and asked her "Katy, can you say happy birthday?". Piglet replied "Of course I can Mummy." and then "At the party". What the?! My child's a genious. All I can see are private school bills before my eyes!
Well, take it easy folkes, I'll catch up wi yous in a coupla weeks! Hasta-lasagne!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2008 18:38:38 GMT
A Polish worker walked out today from the factory for reasons that are still unclear. One or two people are sggesting though that the management have now got bored of the Polish workers that they have dotted over for the past few years and are trying to ease them out of their jobs rather than make them redundant so that they don't have to pay redundancy.
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Post by Mark_Stevenson on Oct 7, 2008 19:31:21 GMT
I've spent the last week at work arranging permits, visas, ferries etc for a quite-well-known touring 'music and dance spectacular' troupe (hint: bin lids and brushes are involved) to go to Egypt. Customs regulations are going be the death of me.
Mx
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Post by legios on Oct 7, 2008 19:55:17 GMT
Speak not to me about transport. I had to brave the reduced train service caused by the signallers strike this evening on the way home from work. What fun - the train service cut to half what it should be, and due to end completely at 18:00 this evening...... The end result was that we were packed in like sardines into the train, required to breath in shifts as we clanked our way through the journey. And history is due to repeat itself on Thursday evening (but fortunately I may have a lift home from my boss all being well). Getting to work tomorrow morning could be a bit of an adventure as well.
A well, the price we pay to earn a wage so that we can buy books and the occasional plastic robot/mecha I guess.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 8, 2008 16:35:40 GMT
"Unscheduled off-world activation!"
Sorry, I've been watching an awful lot of Stargate shows recently.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Oct 8, 2008 20:23:59 GMT
"Unscheduled off-world activation!" Ah if only things in life were so simple. At least at the SGC and Atlantis they don't have industrial action, and whenever anything technical goes wrong we know who to blame - Rodney McKay. The journey into work this morning was actually more fraught than the journey home last night. They have made timetables for the temporary services available on their website as pdf documents. Unfortunately when you open them they appear to be blank documents, and no-one in authority at the stations actually is entirely sure of the timings. So I ended up down at the station at seven am this morning, discovering that the service was reduced to half its usual frequency. A good start. Then when the train did arrive it was half the length it would have been on a normal day, let alone a day when the service is restricted. The end result was that I ended up standing to Edinburgh in quarters so restricted that I was unable to move to my arms from the position they were in - let alone any other part of my body. So there wasn't any chance of reading or napping on todays commute. Fortunately I had my earphones already in and could reach the controls of my music player tucked in my jacket pocket - thanks to Yokko Kanno and Hummingbird I reached work with a few shreds of my sanity intact. From their the day proceeded in a similar vein, with me hearing some things that have left me somewhat disquieted, and then having to run around like the proverbial headless fowl to try and get caught up with some stuff. All in all I was glad to fall in the door at quarter-past seven this evening and contemplate a little bit of dinner and a nice peppermint tea. Karl |
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Post by karla on Oct 8, 2008 22:19:15 GMT
I love family guy: "Lets see how you do against the Rancor" at least i've put the latest strip of ABC Warriors on my i-pod happy bunny now  yes, I could do with some tea, feeling a bit weird |
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Post by grahamthomson on Oct 9, 2008 7:59:25 GMT
I swear by peppermint tea.
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Post by karla on Oct 9, 2008 11:11:00 GMT
as soon as I read that you had dinner and peppermint tea, I had to have some minus the dinner!
It makes your mouth so mint-holy and coooool, love it!
But then I spilt some on the keyboard and sat there waiting for it to catch on fire or something as they usually do in cartoons, but nothing. It stopped working though so had to find a spare one, such a long evening.
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Post by grahamthomson on Oct 10, 2008 7:58:44 GMT
I misread your post there and imagined you spending the entire evening looking for a spare mouth to replace the one that stopped working after the mint tea.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 10, 2008 8:26:31 GMT
as soon as I read that you had dinner and peppermint tea, I had to have some minus the dinner! It makes your mouth so mint-holy and coooool, love it! But then I spilt some on the keyboard and sat there waiting for it to catch on fire or something as they usually do in cartoons, but nothing. It stopped working though so had to find a spare one, such a long evening. Let it sit disconnected from everything for about three days and you will find the keyboard might work again. Andy |
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Post by chrisl on Oct 10, 2008 15:34:48 GMT
Can I get some chanelling for next week as I start my new job on monday and it's a HUGE jump in responsibility / salary compared to what I do now and I'm kind of panicing about it all.
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Post by grahamthomson on Oct 10, 2008 15:42:22 GMT
I shall set my channalarm for first thing on Monday morning.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 10, 2008 15:48:25 GMT
Sure thing Chris!
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 10, 2008 17:17:27 GMT
Can I get some chanelling for next week as I start my new job on monday and it's a HUGE jump in responsibility / salary compared to what I do now and I'm kind of panicing about it all. I shall channel. Very stressed today. Some ebay nonsense, family issues, the flat going on the rental market earlier than I expected (I'm still in the damn thing) and getting the closing time of the library wrong (meaning I filled in a job app in a tearing rush) have combined to no doubt high blood pressure. In general, though, I find I'm on a very short fuse. Which isn't usually me. But I'm tending to shout at the slightest things these days. Bought a curry and a few beers. Going to watch some nonsense this evening. -Ralph |
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Post by kayevcee on Oct 10, 2008 19:03:26 GMT
My great uncle Joe died at the beginning of the week. He was 86. The funeral was today. I didn't know him very well, but we heard some amazing stories in the eulogy about his time as a Lancaster bomber pilot in WW2 and his co-founding of a care home for the mentally handicapped. Between him and my great uncle Donald (a missionary doctor who is still around) I'm going to have to defeat climate change single-handed to be worthy of the family legacy.
Speaking of saving the world, I still haven't heard back from SEPA about the job yet. "We'll let you know around the end of next week" they said. Starting to brick it. I really don't fancy another Christmas at TRU.
-Nick
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 10, 2008 19:08:09 GMT
Sorry to hear of your loss, Nick.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 10, 2008 19:13:33 GMT
Sorry to hear that Nick.
Andy
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Oct 10, 2008 19:28:01 GMT
My condolences, Nick.
Martin
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Post by legios on Oct 10, 2008 20:16:10 GMT
Nick, I'm sorry for your loss.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 11, 2008 10:39:54 GMT
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Post by karla on Oct 11, 2008 18:03:03 GMT
as soon as I read that you had dinner and peppermint tea, I had to have some minus the dinner! It makes your mouth so mint-holy and coooool, love it! But then I spilt some on the keyboard and sat there waiting for it to catch on fire or something as they usually do in cartoons, but nothing. It stopped working though so had to find a spare one, such a long evening. Let it sit disconnected from everything for about three days and you will find the keyboard might work again. Andy I would like to try that, but my mum already threw it away, couldn't stop her. She's possesed |
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