i dont want to be off work when everyone else it. i want to go somewhere quiet, where there are no other folk. i dont want to be sat in **** traffic with everyone else.
i spend bank holiday weekends at home now, like a miserable old sod i am.
Must admit I hate how busy everywhere seems to be on bank hols too, will venture out to do a bit of food shopping shortly and then hide away from the world, hopefully being entertained by a decent snooker world final duel for most of the rest of the day… But not too late a finish I hope! 😛
Whether looks rubbish outside today, rain expected. Yet yesterday, when we had a family get-together that lasted all afternoon, lovely weather (albeit a bit chilly in the shadows). Felt really odd walking around Itchen Valley Country Park without my bike, as a random detour on the way home after lunch at the Harvester pub just north of Eastleigh.
i dont want to be off work when everyone else it. i want to go somewhere quiet, where there are no other folk. i dont want to be sat in **** traffic with everyone else
thing is, i dont find chilling at home a waste. when you ride every day like i do it is quite nice.
i just hate having to have a day off when i would rather choose when to have one off myself.
No bank holiday here, but I grew up working every bank holiday and I’d happily work them now and get time off in lieu to take when it is more convenient.
I like the bank holidays when I’m working as I get double time – like today. £40/hr for sitting about surfing the internet and drinking tea is not to be sniffed at.
This is the first bank holiday I’ve been at home for ages. We usually go to France or further. Last trip (easter) was a traffic congested abortion. The chunnel was backed up for hours and it was major aggro getting back.
This time, I just couldn’t be arsed. I’ve done very little over the weekend. A bit of house and boik maintenance, no riding and lots of reading.
Working here, well there’d be a riot if I shut the pub on a bank holiday. Rain forces everyone inside for a beer too, so just a short surf and back to it. 😀
it’s been a very miserable bank holiday here, tweaked something in the back of my calf bowling in the nets last evening and been hobbling around all day in agony 🙁
Working at the local tip,you don’t get bank holidays off as it our busiest time with everyone doing the gardens and DIY !
I don’t mind as I take the lieu day when I want and its quieter to do stuff 🙂
Any day that I have to spend more time at home than is absolutely necessary is a bad one. It’s why I spend so much time at work and then go to the gym.
Living with someone that I hope to be divorced from in the near future is a frickign nightmare. It’s not even 5 and I’ve already had drunken abuse from her.
My bike’s in the lbs till Wednesday so no riding for me this weekend. I’ve had a great time though, my 5yr old played Lego all morning while the wife n I watched the Revenant, great movie. After lunch I took the girl swimming while the wife (2 weeks from due date) rested. Tesco ont way home for a curry n some budweiser, which I am now supping, Cheers all.
i dont want to be off work when everyone else it. i want to go somewhere quiet, where there are no other folk. i dont want to be sat in **** traffic with everyone else.
You really are a miserable bunch of bastards! And you don’t know you’re bloody born!
Back in the Day (TM) I used to work behind the bar at the Hacienda. Bank holiday weekend meant one thing. Sunday night I’d be working the Flesh all-nighter. The biggest gay night in the country. You’d be on your feet for 12 hours, serving drinks to a club chock-full of people who’d make the village people look like a bridge evening at the local rotary club. The word deabauchery is thrown around too liberally nowadays IMHO. All I’m saying is that what is seen can never be unseen.
This is what I felt like by 9am on Bank Holiday Monday morning….
Nowadays I sometimes look back at those days, have a little cry, remember what my therapist told me, and then just enjoy the rest of the weekend .
I welcome any day off work but I know what you mean- I went out for a road ride early doors this morning but wouldn’t ever consider going mountain biking on a sunny bank holiday, way too many people out. Having said that it pissed it down today but you see my point!
I’ve had a lovely day thanks, lie in, train to Manc, morning in the Art Gallery, wee browse of the shiny things in the shops, coffee and a sandwich in my fav cafe, and a happy chance meeting with well know mountain bike guide and trouser mogul and a swift pint…
I had a nice long ride today. Parts of the NDW were heaving with walkers but it was fun. I got cheered up a big bastard climb, shared a joke or two with most of them (always one sour faced git isn’t there), got rained on, bonked badly 15 miles from home and rolled back in a right state 😀
Kids are having a Harry Potter marathon this afternoon, Mrs is out at aikido training and I’m sat on the sofa eating my way back to health.
no, not me i am afraid. not been on the bike since thursday. having a rest prior to going touring next week.
i wont be a miserable bastard for the next 2 weeks then…….. 😀
Went down to garage to feed fish and grab the Wazoo wheels (to fit the JJs tyres and FR tubes indoors while watching the snooker). Except silly me took off my jumper, where I had placed my keys before starting the bike dismantling, then as I closed the garage padlock “Oh ******!”
Better half was working, but fortunately her mum lives on the same road, so I turned up on her doorstep with my fat wheelset and my track pump asking for shelter for a couple of hours! 😆