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Post by daisy24601 on Feb 16, 2020 9:19:42 GMT
Heat pads? I find them very helpful for pain.
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Post by dippy on Feb 16, 2020 18:54:15 GMT
Cold and wet sounds about right, sometimes it's lovely working outside but on days like today it's not so fun. Luckily I had a second coat that I put on once it had stopped raining but sadly my waterproof trousers aren't quite as waterproof as I'd hoped and I left my spare ones in the car and I couldn't leave work to get to it. At least I'm now home, dry and warming up.
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Post by sherriebythesea on Feb 17, 2020 16:51:43 GMT
Hope this is not a look into things to come. Staggered out of bed at 3am to get to flight from Boston to Heathrow. Notice phone is lite up with a text from BA saying flight is cancelled and rescheduled me for an evening flight. Talked to CS, got checked in and seat assigned. I looked at flight details and it's a 747. I didn't even realize those were still flying?  First, and probably last, time on BA. |
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Post by Tibidabo on Feb 17, 2020 19:13:18 GMT
Could someone please tell me which eeejit thought it a good idea to design each of the logos of 2 of the biggest insurance companies in the identical colour?
Still, could have been worse. I could have tried to cancel my pet insurance with Asda.
(Or BP.
Or Holiday Inn.
Or Whatsapp
Or Heine....well...you get my drift.)
We're moving and I'm just too busy is my excuse. Mr Tibs had just one job...to sort out the wi-fi/telly package. So he goes and books the engineer for 8AM the morning after we move.
Eh? Maybe I've not been paying full attention, but I could have sworn the current Mr T was the same one I moved house with last time. The one who couldn't find his pants for 3 days afterwards, let alone early the next morning...
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Post by sherriebythesea on Feb 18, 2020 18:13:12 GMT
I was so wrong about BA. Plane was beautiful and crew were wonderful. We got a good tail wind and would have landed an hour early but had to hold until 6am to land
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Post by Jane Parfitt on Feb 19, 2020 8:18:44 GMT
Welcome sherriebythesea, hope you enjoy your 65th birthday trip and all the theatregoing! Let us know on here how you get on? I was so wrong about BA. Plane was beautiful and crew were wonderful. We got a good tail wind and would have landed an hour early but had to hold until 6am to land |
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Post by sherriebythesea on Feb 20, 2020 1:01:24 GMT
Wonderful theatre day. Come from Away and Mary Poppins. I learned never feel obligated to eat in a restaurant just because you used their toilet
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Post by kathryn on Feb 20, 2020 18:10:28 GMT
Had a really sh*tty day that involved: cancelled trains, getting on wrong train, spilling cup of tea, getting on right train then having to stand up all the way to Fenchurch St, arriving at work late, discovering that one of my work friends who is being made redundant is leaving next week and will not be in before then because of her ‘unresolved anger issues’, getting a really sh*tty email from a society contact, crying in the well-being room because of it, going to lunch in pub with colleague who has already been made redundant, getting sod-all of my huge task list done this afternoon, and another cancelled train.
On train now - hoping I make it home in time for the Cyrano NT Live.
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Post by kathryn on Feb 20, 2020 18:29:24 GMT
Train has not moved for the last 20 minutes so making it to Cyrano not looking likely.
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Post by peggs on Feb 20, 2020 20:48:28 GMT
Bad day kathryn, hope you made it in time and yours wasn't one of the screening that had transmissions errors as likely that would just finish of your day of frustration. |
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Post by kathryn on Feb 20, 2020 22:03:35 GMT
I made it to the ticket desk just in time to hear the guy behind it say they were having problems with the satellite, decided today is cursed, and went home.
They’re doing an Encore showing in a couple of weeks so I’ll catch that instead.
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Post by daisy24601 on Feb 21, 2020 18:21:30 GMT
Sounds wise, call the day a write off and start again tomorrow!
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Post by Dawnstar on Feb 27, 2020 13:01:18 GMT
I'm glad I'm not at work today. The weekly menu for the restaurant at one of the company's sites had today's dessert listed as "chocolate mouse"!
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Post by Dawnstar on Feb 27, 2020 13:31:46 GMT
So much for hoping I'd get a child-free matinee today. It appears that, unlike the rest of the country, Coventry is having half term this week instead of last week. Not happy.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2020 13:54:11 GMT
I'm glad I'm not at work today. The weekly menu for the restaurant at one of the company's sites had today's dessert listed as "chocolate mouse"! It might not be a misspelling, although one chocolate mouse isn't much of a dessert. Unless it's a chocolate-enrobed mouse, in which case it's too much. |
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Post by Dawnstar on Feb 27, 2020 17:47:49 GMT
It might not be a misspelling That's what I'm worried about! A chocolate moose is even more satisfying, though. I work in Cambridge, not Canada! It appears Coventry has different half terms for different schools as not only were there kids with parents in the audience but there was also a school trip in. In fairness, having sat behind a whole row of them, they didn't behave too badly, apart from various rather loud comments at times, & I was pleased to hear their teacher telling them before the start to make sure their phones were off. |
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Post by Dawnstar on Feb 28, 2020 18:46:59 GMT
Today at work one of my current colleagues was celebrating her 21st birthday. The coat I wear to work is only 3 years younger than her. I'm feeling very old.
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Post by alexandraastrid79 on Feb 28, 2020 20:39:31 GMT
Just getting over a bout of pneumia been a wrotten and dull few weeks! Fighting fit again looking forward to michael and alfie in concert sunday! Providing my trains dont get caught in the storms.
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Post by peggs on Feb 28, 2020 22:46:09 GMT
Today at work one of my current colleagues was celebrating her 21st birthday. The coat I wear to work is only 3 years younger than her. I'm feeling very old. I have several pieces of clothing older than my co workers, they roll their eyes at my inability to use my work iPhone. |
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Post by Dawnstar on Feb 29, 2020 13:05:47 GMT
@theatremonkey Junior school? You haven't grown since age 11?!
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Post by peggs on Feb 29, 2020 17:12:06 GMT
They don't make wellies like they use to monkey, mine barely last a few months these days so your childhood ones must have been impressive!
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Post by Dawnstar on Feb 29, 2020 23:03:58 GMT
Note to self: in future do not attend the farewell performance of a dancer you've never seen before. It does not work emotionally. Tonight was Thiago Soares' final performance with the Royal Ballet but I didn't find it any more moving than the other Onegin performances I've seen, & I feel very guilty about that. (I booked before it was announced it'd be his farewell.) My mother believed in "buying to grow into." It was baggy on me until I was at least 14... Baggy wellies too? |
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Post by NeilVHughes on Mar 1, 2020 9:21:34 GMT
Turbo Trainer packed away, first outdoor ride of the year and what a beauty it was.
Fitness not where it should be but nothing beats cycling through the countryside on a quiet sunny morning.
Fitness always drops over the winter as cannot abide cycling indoors on the Turbo, cannot see the draw of those Peloton systems, paying thousands of pounds to sweat on your own floors, give me an hour trundling through the lanes of South Hertfordshire any day and even more so in the Spring as you experience nature awaken and feel the lifeforce at its most potent.
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Post by showgirl on Mar 1, 2020 14:15:16 GMT
Beautiful spring-like day, so though I do try to keep the walking ticking over during the winter, I'm now trying to build up to full days again. Once it gets cold/dark/wet/muddy and all the colour has leached from the landscape, I have no enthusiasm for "proper" walking and keeping fit becomes a slog. February, despite being the shortest month - even with the extra day this year - seemed endless so I was really glad to see the back of it and today's sunshine and spring blossom revived my enthusiasm for longer walks, further afield. The distant hills looked mysterious and inviting again, even though I've walked them all umpteen times. And yes, the cyclists were out in force once more!
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Post by dontdreamit on Mar 1, 2020 19:54:49 GMT
I took advantage of the sunny morning and pottered about for a few hours clearing the garden a little bit. I always forget how much I enjoy my time in there when winter finally breaks!
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First, and probably last, time on BA. 
