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Easter weekend
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"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain -
Originally posted by scooterscot View PostFlying to New Zealand tomorrow...
Lucky you!!!
It's Deja-vu all over again!
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Quite excited
It's weird though furthest I've been and you think to yourself people should be talking a different language have different customs, you know? The last thing you expect when arranging a B&B for the night is to be talking to a man from Dundee - it's all very strange, you go so far and I've managed to end up back where I started, or so it feels. There's something fundamentally wrong with that.... why don't i just go up to Fife instead? Ahh because they don't have palm trees...
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Joyfully awaiting the arrival of the Travis Perkins lorry which will bountifully supply me with enough timber, plasterboard and screws to put up several thousand acres of stud wall before the plasterer comes on Wednesday.
That's my Easter sorted
You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.
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I let my wife do all the terrible stuff like sitting in traffic jams. wadling round the uhhh whateever they're called..For some reason she enjoys sitting in traffic jams and goes out of her way to get in to them...for when she returns..a car that had a full tank of fuel is now empty. And she allegedly has only gone from one end of the m65 to the other (and back).Originally posted by TonyEnglish View PostMy wife thinks we are going out for the day tomorrow.
So I fully expect to sit in a traffic jam, listening to bored kids argue and fight in the back who will sulk when I shout at them after having listened to them argue for the past hour while having moved the distance between two cats eyes. I will arrive stressed and in a bad mood at some god awful crowded place where I shiver my @rse off all day in the Artic blasts until I can get back to warmth of the car and sit the same traffic jam (reversed) all the way home, having to endure the same cr@p arguments from the back seats. I expect will arrive back home, craving a beer, significantly lighter in terms of cash and contemplating where I could bury 3 bodies!
Happy days!
No, I'll be at home with the tantrum monster who refused to sleep, do anything I ask and generally make a mess. Thankfully he will eventually get to sleep and I can have 1 hour to de-stress. The wife will then arrive home all cheerful from indulging in her obessive and compulsive behaviour to rant on me about leaving one single sock lying around - and why isn't supper ready? Could hell be any worse? someone shoot me now!McCoy: "Medical men are trained in logic."
Spock: "Trained? Judging from you, I would have guessed it was trial and error."Comment
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Haven't you worked out how to make tantrum monster tired yet?Originally posted by lilelvis2000 View Post
No, I'll be at home with the tantrum monster who refused to sleep, do anything I ask and generally make a mess. Thankfully he will eventually get to sleep and I can have 1 hour to de-stress. The wife will then arrive home all cheerful from indulging in her obessive and compulsive behaviour to rant on me about leaving one single sock lying around - and why isn't supper ready? Could hell be any worse? someone shoot me now!
Anyway I'm off to visit family and friends' whose children are now polite teenagers and preteens except one. Well they polite to me as I've got them well trained from being toddlers.
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Well you can see it's mostly permies (err disguised employees) here
Judging by the lack of posting on the forum on a Good Friday afternoon.
Us real contractors are still hard at work.
You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.
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Originally posted by scooterscot View PostQuite excited
It's weird though furthest I've been and you think to yourself people should be talking a different language have different customs, you know? The last thing you expect when arranging a B&B for the night is to be talking to a man from Dundee - it's all very strange, you go so far and I've managed to end up back where I started, or so it feels. There's something fundamentally wrong with that.... why don't i just go up to Fife instead? Ahh because they don't have palm trees...
Yeah, I found that the first time I went to Australia.
Travel 24 hours on a cylinder unnaturally supported 35,000 feet in the air and land in a totally different place which looks much the same as the place you left (with the exception of some strange bouncy animals and aninexplicable dislike of poms).
It's Deja-vu all over again!
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Originally posted by bogeyman View PostJudging by the lack of posting on the forum on a Good Friday afternoon.
Us real contractors are still hard at work.
yeah!....of course .....hard at ....work
It's Deja-vu all over again!
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Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
threadeds website, and here's my blog.
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