What have you done today thread?

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Taipan wrote: Sun Jun 06, 2021 11:26 am
Yorick wrote: Sun Jun 06, 2021 11:01 am
Taipan wrote: Sun Jun 06, 2021 10:50 am
Wait it wasn’t quite as bad as I thought! :D I suppose the food was £50-ish then bung on 3 bottles of wine and a good few pints over that time period and you’re soon there. Lovely afternoon though and I’ve been looking forward to a sunny afternoon in a beer garden, so it’s alll good. :thumbup:

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Booked some train tickets.

Doncaster to Kings Cross, return for two people... £61.75.

Just need a hotel now, apparently the wife doesn't want to spend our anniversary in a Purple Palace.
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Taipan wrote: Sun Jun 06, 2021 10:50 am
Yorick wrote: Sun Jun 06, 2021 10:38 am
Taipan wrote: Sun Jun 06, 2021 9:55 am It was yesterday, but we took the In-Laws to the beer garden in the local Harvester. Had lunch and slowly drunk from 3-7:30 and got a bill for £160! :wtf: :D
Fark!
Wait it wasn’t quite as bad as I thought! :D I suppose the food was £50-ish then bung on 3 bottles of wine and a good few pints over that time period and you’re soon there. Lovely afternoon though and I’ve been looking forward to a sunny afternoon in a beer garden, so it’s alll good. :thumbup:

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636mick wrote: Sun Jun 06, 2021 2:32 pm
Taipan wrote: Sun Jun 06, 2021 10:50 am
Yorick wrote: Sun Jun 06, 2021 10:38 am
Fark!
Wait it wasn’t quite as bad as I thought! :D I suppose the food was £50-ish then bung on 3 bottles of wine and a good few pints over that time period and you’re soon there. Lovely afternoon though and I’ve been looking forward to a sunny afternoon in a beer garden, so it’s alll good. :thumbup:

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Watched Vettel put AM on the podium in F1 & saw Hamilton make a complete arse of it. Maybe LH should focus on doing his job & stop his fake woke crap.
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ZRX61 wrote: Sun Jun 06, 2021 4:14 pm Watched Vettel put AM on the podium in F1 & saw Hamilton make a complete arse of it. Maybe LH should focus on doing his job & stop his fake woke crap.
FFS, would it kill you to use the spoiler button.
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MrLongbeard wrote: Sun Jun 06, 2021 7:32 pm FFS, would it kill you to use the spoiler button.
I'm eight hours behind you...
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ZRX61 wrote: Sun Jun 06, 2021 8:20 pm
MrLongbeard wrote: Sun Jun 06, 2021 7:32 pm FFS, would it kill you to use the spoiler button.
I'm eight hours behind you...
Some of us don't watch the races 'on time'!!
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ZRX61 wrote: Sun Jun 06, 2021 8:20 pm
MrLongbeard wrote: Sun Jun 06, 2021 7:32 pm FFS, would it kill you to use the spoiler button.
I'm eight hours behind you...
whoop-de-do, and that some how negates a little common courtesy, like using spolier tags or posting it in the racing sub forum.
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Noggin wrote: Sun Jun 06, 2021 8:24 pm Some of us don't watch the races 'on time'!!
Tell me about it, I've lost count of how many times I've been saved the time of watching a race because someone on here or TRC posted winners etc. Haven't watched a bike race in probably 5 years, no need to.
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MrLongbeard wrote: Sun Jun 06, 2021 8:43 pm whoop-de-do, and that some how negates a little common courtesy, like using spolier tags or posting it in the racing sub forum.
Looked in that forum, didn't see a single F1 post so assumed no one gave a fuck about it.
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ZRX61 wrote: Sun Jun 06, 2021 9:37 pm
MrLongbeard wrote: Sun Jun 06, 2021 8:43 pm whoop-de-do, and that some how negates a little common courtesy, like using spolier tags or posting it in the racing sub forum.
Looked in that forum, didn't see a single F1 post so assumed no one gave a fuck about it.
Blind too then, there are at least 3 that I've read in there.
Fuck it, you're a inconsiderate twat, no point arguing about it as you'll not change / learn and my opinion of you won't change either, lets see how good the ignore function is on here, shame as I was enjoying reading the pool refurb.
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ZRX61 wrote: Sun Jun 06, 2021 9:36 pm
Noggin wrote: Sun Jun 06, 2021 8:24 pm Some of us don't watch the races 'on time'!!
Tell me about it, I've lost count of how many times I've been saved the time of watching a race because someone on here or TRC posted winners etc. Haven't watched a bike race in probably 5 years, no need to.
So you do the fucking same thing?

Well done
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Yorick wrote: Sun Jun 06, 2021 10:11 pm So you do the fucking same thing?

Well done
Given that I'm usually the one who no longer has a need to watch a race, I assumed you lot had already seen it. Oh well, anyone need a hankie?
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Gave blood and got tested to see if I'm suitable to donate platelets.

And got a pack of Mini Cheddars for my efforts. :thumbup:
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I went to the valley to get a 'top' for the sofa/wooden box/thingy that I wanted to finish today.

Came back and built it. It's very much more agricultural compared to the first that a friend built!! But I ran out of arm, enthusiasm and skill before I finished and just wanted it up!! Now they are both done, I know that they first needs to be taller and the second narrower! Going to see if Mr OCD (not from the forum, from here!) is willing to come back and do the adjustments!!

Just done some French homework ready for tomorrow morning's lesson. And about to do the last bit of homework then watch a video (of a song about a cat!) to prep for tonight's online lesson!!

Brain is nearly melted - hope it recovers for tomorrow!! :lol: :lol:
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It wasn't today, but I figured y'all could use a good laugh.

A friend and I were clearing a few trees out to open up a view of a valley out of a house we own in the hills of West Virginia. Mostly saplings and a few with 4 to 6 inch dia trunks. Loads of brush around in the area so movement was a bit limited. I was working on a tree and notching it to get it to fall away from a fence, so I cut a wedge out of it, or at least I was in the process when I did something rather painful. Just as the wedge came free the chain saw spat it out from the notch in the tree. I hadn't picked a good spot to stand. The notch was about waist high. It felt like Mike Tyson used my nads for a speed bag. It's amazing how much pain a bit of wood about 5 inches long and pointed on each end can inflict if well placed. There was a rather muffled yelp followed by me going to my hands and knees for a bit while the first if the pain subsided down from the deep ache at about kidney to mid thigh range. After a few minutes I rolled out of that position to sit on my arse for a few more minutes of recovery time. I finished felling the tree, dropped a couple more and then limped up to the house for a well needed beer break.
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Re-attached a boost pipe that blew off on the way home.

80mph, foot to the floor, accelerating hard... BANG!... car stops accelerating.

I knew straight away what it was as I looked under the bonnet this morning and saw it wasn't seated properly (I had to remove it to change the timing chain tensioner, obviously didn't tighten the jubilee enough)... then promptly forgot about it.
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New tyres fitted. Pedal with mi lady. Bbq. Work tomorrow. 👎
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Not today exactly, but who's counting?

Went to my mum's for lunch on Sunday at the invitation of my step dad. My mum has been tussling with bladder cancer for some years and now it may have spread to her kidney, meaning it will be whipped out if it needs to be. Understandably stressful. My step dad isn't the most empathetic of people, very old school bloke, no emotions, etc. Anyway after a few glasses of wine and a Scotch, we're sat in the garden and ge suddenly bursts into tears. Surprised isn't the word, but clearly he's been stressing and worrying and the way that comes out is bickering with my mum. I think it did him the world if good and allowed me to tell him that he wasn't on his own, that it's ok not to be ok, etc.

We get home, my sister rings. She's drunker than me by some margin and spends an hour on the phone as we talk about her late husband who died of pancreatic cancer last year. This set me off as I miss him as he was a good mate.

Yesterday I spoke to my friend and ex-colleague of 25 years who has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer weeks after retiring. That was a tough conversation, not least when we spoke about his daughter who's just in her early twenties. Really brought it home. We both choked at that point. Words cannot express how that must feel.

I feel thoroughly fucked off with cancer. 😕