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I've done Whitehaven and the more restrained Cockermouth Mad Friday, this year pub lunch and packing followed by hopefully a nice tap takeover at Track
Work until 3pm ish, a beer or 2 with the team then off home I think. May sneak to the pub later but certainly won't be out out.
Busiest day of the year at work today. (according to my boss, the reason I couldn’t take it as holiday) I’m sceptical, given the one enquiry I got yesterday, and my previous 10 years experience...
Oddly, it will be equally busy on 24th and 31st apparently too.
My new drinkin’ MO is to have 3 pints, not at the same time, then I’ll be pretty pished, then drink soft drinks until I feel myself sober up a bit, another pint and so on, tip-toeing my way between drunk / sober.
Good luck with that 🙂
I've tried and failed soooo many times
Working at home so I could do the school drop offs and collects, drop MrsSpudH off at tram and generally avoid anything festive in the office. Managed to get Monday off too which is a nice bonus.
WFH FTW, but can't ride as the wife is off to her Great Uncle's funeral and I've got to look after mini-me No.3 then collect No.1 & 2 from school later on, the weather is also shite
Boozy Xmas lunch, then head home before the amateur drinkers get up to full speed.
Shopping but may sneak a pint.
In work at 6:30. Trying (badly) to look busy at work.
Just treated my team to a greasy sarnie.
24 Crispy Cream's have also just appeared, with tins of shortbread.
Finish about 12, haircut, pick up one of the Wife's presents, walk the dog, pick kids up from School, cook tea, drop kids at Scouts, join other Leaders for a few drinks, bed. Done.
I might pick up some coke & hookers whilst on my cycle later.
😉
Happy 50th to harry the spider.
Not feeling much Christmas cheer this morning.
Posted my Christmas cards, the day after last posting.
Damp commute.
Bought bacon sarnies for me and the lady I share an office with - only two of us in. Felt better.
Probably sneak off early for a pint and a toasty in the pub.
Buy some more Christmas cards for neighbours.
Early night - get up at 4 or 5 and ride to a hill to watch the solstice sunrise (tomorrow's is closer than today's).
OP, Black Eye Friday surely? It was in Barra at least, when ship yard clocked off.
Sat in the office clock watching,keeping as far away as possible from the crowds and works pub culture,wondering on a scale from 1-10 how muddy i can get once im out on the bike later ,. I hoping for at least a 7
Working until 11pm and then on call all weekend so no beer here.
Happy birthday HtS. Sorry I can't make it for the reasons above.
I'm in the office. In the 11 desks near me, I am the only one in. Boss is WFH and off this afternoon. Might go for a long lunch.
<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">Am out for a few this evening, nothing too mad... </span>
Whew, Waitrose was “mental”, there was your typical Mr & Mrs #immorwimportantthanyougetoutofmywaypleb & #mumandkidinatrollywith7bottlesofproseccoandacheesesandwich & #elegantoldladylookingforafridaynightdate
So, here is a time to relax me and hopefully some of you too..
Its awesome, needs playing very loud👍👍👍👍🎉
Alarm went off at 23:45 last night for a 01:05 start. Got to work, job cancelled, agreed to cover a job from 04:22 until 13:11. Will get home, tidy the place as it's a dump and take the little one out in the pram and give mother a break. Then pick eldest up from nursery, chuck something down me, have a shower and get to bed as early as I can before another 23:45 alarm. I know how to live, me.
Home for Friday EFL.
I'm playing at a Christmas Party in Nantwich.....I think that we're just playing whilst they eat, so hopefully it wont be too crazy! Before that, im currently waiting for the estate agent to come around for a valuation of our house....potentially need to start my shopping too!
lemsip
paracetamol
antibiotics
corvonia
paracetamol & caffeine (bought by mistake, note to self - dont double drop when you plan on sleeping)
beechams honey, lemon and menthol (bought by mistake, eeeeuch)
woo-yeh
and I thought this place was full of older blokes who liked a pint or 2.
what a miserable boring set of old farts........... ;o)
I'm here in work in body only - having a buffet at 1:30 in the boardroom (better than it sounds as all prepared by Breda Murphy) then meeting the misses for a pub meal and a few beers - followed by fitting a Reverb 1x remote - then a christmas film, beers and many varieties of cheese - let the indulgence begin
Slightly hungover. Housework with occasional naps. Homemade curry and a couple of glasses of wine later, if I can be arsed. Otherwise it’s After Eights and crisps.
Just finished a half day at the office, unfortunately got a funeral to go to this afternoon.
Drinking will commence in due course....
I was once given a promotion to Whitehaven. Job fell through for admin reasons but after spending a week up there looking for a house and sounding out the area I was glad to escape.
Picking kids up from school shortly then heading to see friends in south oxfordshire, hopefully be in the village pub by 5, hopefully not be leaving until gone 2.
Mad Friday seems to be a recent term, always known it as Black Eye Friday...local press even mention it as such.
https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/17311096.cumbria-police-issue-black-eye-friday-warning/
@ Binners, I will be Policing Whitehaven and the surrounding areas....
Finalising a customers migration from one virtual server Cloud provider to another.
That's new Active Directory domain, Domain Controllers, Exchange server etc etc.
Culmination of a year of planning.
going out with work mates when office closes at 3pm, then after a skinful will get train home. 2.5 hours it will take when I usually drive in less than an hour. Northern Rail you legends
back in my twenties mad Friday was great, local pub crawl then into our local club. Miss those days. Now ill be getting up at 6ish when our boy likes to get up
I run a pub, so working and trying to walk that line between everyone having a good time and them all turning into bellends. Thankfully we're generally more civilised in Bath, not always though unfortunately.
Have fun all, drink responsibly and it's not often I say that
Driving up to Scotland to carry on shooting a documentary about Frightened Rabbit/related acts.
Crazy schedule.
Usual Friday, cycle to work, work, cycle home. cheese on toast, fall asleep on the sofa in front of the fire and TV.
leaving work soon and (hopefully) avoiding the usual the mad friday muppetry and hitting some of the more crafty establishments in the northern/green quarter, final destination is cloudwater.
happy birthday hts
mmmmmmmmm now eating freshly baked mince pies
Lol @ bikebuoy
Tomhoward is bob cratchit and I claim my £5 &
I hope you have a quiet shift monkeysfeet.
@monkeysfeet to be honest Whitehaven was all very good natured. It’s just how unbelievably pished everyone was - literally keeling over sideways everywhere. And obviously, being the ‘proper’ north everyone was in just t-shirts despite it being about -5, with a gale howling in off the sea 😂
Hope it all goes well tonight
Putting a newspaper together right now but at 6 I'll wander down to my local for literally just the one. Well OK maybe 2.
https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/alcohol/pubs-to-trial-professional-lanes-20181221180885
Damm right!!
@monkeysfeet you getting all the big boys city gear on tonight, those riot shields will need a dusting off 😉
@mrchrispty good choice, hopefully they don't run out of stuff this week!! Track are having a magic rock thing this evening too so lots of good beer to be had
Rode a horse wearing a really bright yellow ski jacket (me not the horse) through a forest full of French hunters and now I'm typing this to prove I survived.
Working until 5.30 (we decided against letting people finish early as we gave Christmas Eve as a free holiday) then straight home to change ready to go out in Harrogate with a big group of friends + partners. Getting to the sort of age that this sort of thing only happens once a year so looking forward to catching up and I intend having a few G&Ts and cocktails rather than be my normal tight self and just drink pints.
Playing kitchen-gimp/DJ, while my wife hosts 9 of her pissed-up female work pals.
I feel I dealt with it admirably last year, particularly when the drunkest of them began explaining that she lived her life in accordance with The Secret.
We’ve run out of Limes 😳🤮💩
How In earth are we going to cope ???
😵🤦♂️
Went for a wet ride around the local woods
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