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school run. walked the dogs, was gonna clean out the van but its raining so cleaned out the garage instead. rock and fahooking roll.
I did have a Christmas night out in London last year.
It was to some expensive rat-pack style place with giant pizzas the length of the table.
Wasn't the best night out for two reasons:
1) I had just discovered a cyberattack on our organisation an hour before we left for the party, with the CEO and Finance etc accounts all compromised, so was working to re-secure them then figure out how long it had been going on, what the extent of it was. Then getting hassle from everyone for working on my laptop during the Christmas dinner - folks didn't really understand the seriousness of it. See also - having to work during Christmas dinner.
2) My work wouldn't cough up for a hotel so I had to get the train back to Edinburgh after. So an hour on the tube to Kings Cross then onto the train. Weather was bad so the train took 8 hours to get home and had no booze on it anywhere. I'd only had a couple of drinks with work folk (try to avoid a big piss up with work folk in general), and after a very stressful day had been looking forward to reading my book and drinking free first class booze on the way up.
Disappointment.
Well looks like it could be a Mandalorian party given how many are looking forward to the finale. Might see if 'the boss' will let me hook the TV upto the stereo for 'loud' shooting and Tie fighters and stuff ! Whooo
I had plans for a chippy tea and a couple of beers from my advent calendar.
Apparently we aren't having a chippy tea tonight as we are getting a pizza delivered on Sunday for daughter's birthday - I'm not clear how the two are related.
So apparently I'm cooking some other tea for everyone before taking said daughter to a 2 hour gymnastics session - the joys of having her in an "elite" squad. If I then start on the beer tomorrow's morning ride may not happen.
Or I might drop her at training and just go and get myself a chippy tea. That would probably result in a more traditional Black Eye Friday.
I've just been out for a lunchtime ride with a couple of the guys that I'd normally be heading out on the lash with around about know.
I might go off to collect some wood offcuts from my brother's latest building project. Keep the log burner going for a week or so...
Tonight, a G&T and Netflix - currently watching a French police thing, Black Spot - which is confusingly named 'Zone Blanche' in French.
It’s Black Eye Friday up in the NE not Mad Friday
Speaking of the NE I'd even settle for a night out in Sunderland right now. I'd love a seat in front of the fire in the Dun Cow and a pint of Jakehead.
Then off to get 'radicalised' as we used to say, in the Isis.
WFH today - messing about with spreadsheets - need to go to Aldi later, and a walk this eve to tick off another day of 100 days of exercise.
Our usual work Christmas do is a week earlier, but obviously didn't happen this year.
Last year was a typically debauched affair - starting drinking around 11am - asked to leave a pub about 8pm after our sales manager fell down the stairs and cracked his head open.
There may have been some poor decisions made regarding snogging the goth chick from supply chain but to be honest its a bit of a blur..
Roll on Dec-21.
My Normal day off (my Sunday) and doing an assignment. Back at work tomorrow, then off Christmas Eve and day (normal days off), that's it for me
I've just got home after fitting my last wardrobe of the year. I've been mad busy for months so it's a very relaxing feeling.
I'm not to unhappy that I can't have a proper session this afternoon at the Railway Inn because at 4pm, my son is bringing round our 18 month old grandson who's going to spend the night with us, while he and our daughter-in-law can have a comfortable night in before their next child is due in a few weeks.
I'm so looking forward to it!
Nothing for me as I'm on call till Monday morning 🙁
Finish midday Christmas Eve plant starts back up 6am Boxing day, Oh joy.
Crazy evening planned - slouched on the sofa with the kids watching last week's episode of His Dark Materials. Before that I'm going to continue sawing up some studwork timber and whacking in some nails. Building a shed, innit?
Most UK universities stop teaching today, which normally means I knock off until the new year. Sadly I'll be working well into next week.
Friday night tho is home quiz/card game/cheating with offpspring evening. I expect this may be the time to crack open the keg of Pelforth I have in the fridge.
Sunday tho, going to the pub after riding. Because, you know Tier-1 🙂
I'm actually glad I didn't have a Xmas piss up this year. Last year we started at about midday and I had a flashback a bit later that I was 21 again and could handle my ale. And Bloody Marys.
I was spewing my ring at 7.30am the next morning and had to go into work. I got a lift with a colleague and her husband and spent the whole journey trying not to chunder in his car.
Not the best.
I've had a nap.
I've decided I'll be putting beer in my coffee cup for the final call of the day.
May go for a stroll around the estates and look at Xmas decorations later.
Then it's steak and Googlebox in the evening.
Living the dream.
I was working in a bar earlier today and the owner said “I’ll be lucky to make in a day what I usually make in an hour today”. Sad times for the pub trade!
Off to join the boat for two weeks ☹️☹️
I was working in a bar earlier today and the owner said “I’ll be lucky to make in a day what I usually make in an hour today”. Sad times for the pub trade!
Nipped in to pick some posh gin up off my mate who owns a bar yesterday. He said that the government have given them a grant of a grand to make up for each pubs lost trade for December
A grand!
He said that on Mad Friday he'd be looking to take three times that over the bar
I know we're all taking the piss about Mad Friday but the pubs need days like this to survive
Yeah it is a strange last day. I normally like this day in the office as it is usually a case of whoever is left takes down the decorations and de-camps to the pub at about 12pm. I work in a University so the pubs by this time near the office are usually nice and quiet and so I prefer the last-day-before-christmas to the actual christmas party which can be pretty full-on.
As it is, I'm going to log-off my laptop in my kitchen and maybe do a home workout. I did treat myself by putting the radio on all day instead of just in the afternoon and also eating a cherry bakewell.
It is the first year in the last 3 that I haven't had exams in January though so at least I don't have to revise tbf.
Don’t work Fridays anyway, played Animal Crossing for three bloody hours then did a ten mile trail run.
But as I’m theoretically finished for three weeks I should go out for a beer. Bars have just reopened round here last week, 8pm closing time and 10pm curfew. So a normal night for me!
mad friday being cancelled, thats the only positive i can take from lockdown, over the last decade, i recall mad friday deaths in holmfirth, uppermill etc
and then last year a car used as a weapon, causing life changing brain injuries in cleckheaton
I'm going absolutely, balls out mental and ordering in a curry.
I know.
I'm heading down the shed in a bit to strap as many cans of cider as I can to my Surly Ice Cream Truck, prior to our usual festive fancy dress pub crawl ride tomorrow.
Without the pubs, obvs.
I’m heading down the shed in a bit to strap as many cans of cider as I can to my Surly Ice Cream Truck, prior to our usual festive fancy dress pub crawl ride tomorrow.
You bastard. Not because of that but because you started my fat bike addiction with the Fatty I bought from you. And you dropped it off at the office. 👍🏼😁
Have a good one mate.
yourguitarhero - Your post reminded me of the bad decisions I made 2 years ago. I had the problem of work christmas gathering in London and daughters nativity play at 8:30am in Edinburgh the next morning. I really needed to do both, so Sleeper it was then.
As we approached the German beer hall I reminded myself I needed to leave at about 10pm to get to the train and also not get tanked.
I failed by getting into the Schnapps.
at 10:30 I remembered the train, somehow I got to Euston and was eventually persuaded into my sleeper, since occupancy thankfully. I made it into the top bunk in my pants, during the night i woke up for a pee. Confused where i was I eventually tried to get down the ladder and was left hanging by my pants on the ladder, drunk, on a moving train. As my brain processed that my pants spectacularly ripped and I hit the deck while hitting the sink itself on the way down. Impressive.
I eventually got back into bed somehow and woke up in Waverley. After thinking i'd lost my phone (down back of bed) i managed to stumble off and get breakfast in Burger King.
By the time I got to school I was feeling a bit more 'myself' however you did not need to be Poirot to work out I was vho.
Thankfully the attention on me was diverted to another Dad who threw up at the back of the sports hall, nice of him to do that !!
Anyway. I hope that explains some of my poor Xmas decisions. No Louises from accounts were involved.
I've just upgraded my evening from doing sod all to celebrating finleybgoode's last day of term with an order from Pizza Hut, a bit of gaming with him and then no doubt we'll tuck into the Mandalorian shortly...
Might see if i can run 3 loads of washing through the machine
1/2 a pizza and salad
Watch Romesh in Columbia
Bed around 830 as up for dawn windsurfing session
Letting my family know i wont be attending xmas day luncheon (again)
Living life on the sofa
I've got some pretty sweet spreadsheets from work to get into. Might get started on them with a glass of malbec before cooking venison with potato and celeriac mash and kale. Crazy, I know.
Eddiebaby - nice one! Is the OOF still running? I do miss that bike, it was great fun.
I've got a weird thing about twin top tube bikes - probably from my bmx days - so have a Stooge to fill that void now 🙂
on to my second Westvlateren. Positive feedback may occur soon...
Taking my amazing thank you gifts home is the raddest thing I'll be doing today.
Scotland give their NHS workers a £500 thank you for battling through this year, we got an advent calendar....on the 18th of December
Still, at least it's chocolate & I'm here to eat it, thousands aren't 😟
It’s Black Eye Friday up in the NE not Mad Friday
It’s both those Builders Day and Radge Friday depending what area. It was Mad Friday where I grew up, Builders Days just up the road, Black Eye Friday just down the road and Radge Friday where I live now.
Eddiebaby – nice one! Is the OOF still running? I do miss that bike, it was great fun.
Sadly I sold that to get a Fatty Trail with a Bluto. Hated it and bought another OOF. It lives in a Weymouth and is very happy.
Worked to 5. Logged off. Now sitting down. Again. That will be tonight's theme.
Year before I somehow ended up playing at a farmers Xmas do in Nantwich and at one point got pint lobbed at me.
Very rock 'n' roll.
Anyway I'm off to South Moreton.
Hasn’t been a mad Friday since we had kids, but would usually try and knock off earlier and up to the local for a couple of early doors pints, home before it got lively.
This year I’ve had today off, ran and done some errands, work has been manic this year and it’s no different this week starting with on call on Sunday.