09.01 in Renault Master van with 'er indoors, Puppy on lap. Orf to the Vet's for her second jab (10 weeks old bless her and a star in the making) In the passenger footwell the ol' gal (9 years) to have her stitches out where a lump/mass had been removed for Histology. Next to her was the middle labrador (19 months) and a Sister to the pup, who had come along for the ride! Went without incidence (phew) and quite enjoyable. Had to weigh the pup for the records though which was fun. Weighed me and the pup, then weighed me in front of an audience of waiting room punters who wanted to ask to be fair, but were too polite to do so, but hey, they wanted to ask!! Great day in all.
Martin in Devon (Very very windy tonight. Threat of flooding etc.)
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Breakfasting as a soon to be retiree should be doing that time of day.
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At 9:01 id just home from my first job of the day ( 07 XKR Jag - yes its lovely ) and went in to see if the wife was awake - she wasnt, so I put the bin out for the binmen.
Then I discovered there was nothing for breakfast except a coffee, which with 3 sugars ( real stuff, not the cancer powder ), is enough to get started with :-) Freetrade coffee dont ya know, its not bad at all and Carlos gets more for his beans lol
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At 9.01 i was at home having breakfast approx 1.5 mile from you in morley you should have popped round it was frosties and toasted current tea cakes with marmelade yummy next time pop in forget the white rose full of silly shoppers!
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Shamefully admits with red face........at 9.01 I was still in bed !
'Cos it was nice and warm ! I did force myself out about 9.20 for a pee so stayed up and had a cuppa and some Weetibangs.
Filled up the Note for Erin Dors, Had another cuppa, read the paper. She went to hairdressers ( triumph of hope over optimism ) I got th Suzi out and set off to Northwich to exchange a book, bought in error. Stopped on the way for a coffee with a friend in Hale Barns and ended up taking her for lunch near the Anderton Lift.
Got home in time for Countdown ! Complimented her on her hair, ( although she looked a bit like a Crested Canary. )
Oh, the stress of an oldie's day !...Will buckle down and do a bit on the Jowett tomorrow.
Ted
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Shamefully admits with red face........at 9.01 I was still in bed !
With no shame whatsoever, cheerfully admits, was still in bed fast asleep.
...and when you ask my little boy (fast heading for 2 years old) what various farm animals make what noises....the one for the pig, is remarkably similar to the one he uses when mummy ask him what noise daddy makes
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On the M53 just out of the Kingsway Tunnel in Liverpool taking the other half to Clatterbridge for radiotherapy treatment - fifth and final day.
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Hope the results are good, Stu.
I'm sure all the BR good wishes go with you both.
Ted
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Yes all the best Stuartli. Fingers and all sorts crossed for you here. (also in NW)
Edited by rtj70 on 14/11/2009 at 00:05
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When I am sleeping properly I should be fast asleep at that time. Nothing to be ahsamed of. People keep different hours.
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Many thanks for the kind thoughts.
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Well. it's midnight...I'm off to bed........for another 9 hours ! hehe.
Ted
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9:01am UK-time was 10:01pm here in NZ. Was on the sofa in front of the telly. Car wasn't used all day; it's in the garage where I am three-quarters of the way through giving it a thorough NZ-Spring clean and polish which has taken me 2 days already! Must make sure that SWMBO doesn't take it to visit her Mother at the weekend who lives 2 miles up a dusty dirt track :-(
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Woke up with a "start" this morning! sat bolt upright in bed, - thought to myself, "I really feel like doing something energetic and different today".
Bounced out of bed into the shower, dressed, and at 9.01am was sat in my chair having a cup of tea.
It was at this stage that i suddenly realised that I have the stupidest of idea`s sometimes, and by 9.11am, I was back in bed........till 11.00 ;-)
Warmest place in the house! and you use no food, gas or electric!!! - Humans should hibernate like all sensible creatures!!
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I'd already been up for 5 hours then, I can't seem to get out of the habit of starting work around 4am. The upside is that the world is a lovely place when everyone else is still in bed:)
I did some work on the course I'm writing and watched the dawn break ( eventually).
The ginger cat, who lives down the road but has adopted us decided it was time to get up and go home for breakfast, and the ensuing stand off with our two cats is a spectable to behold. It happens at least twice a day as Ginger comes and goes. Growling, fur all puffed up and an argument about who's house it really is, but we've got used to it now and if he wants to put up with that to sleep on the spare bed in the warm and dry, who are we to complain?
Next are the birds, mainly sparrows and blackbirds, but just as nice to watch.
Their early morning bath is particularly enchanting.
We have a big pond and have just extended it to make a small pool just for the birds. They emptied it at least once a day while having a bath so we fitted a small pump and made it into a shallow waterfall and they loved the trickling water. Each one wants to be in there first.
I spotted a grey squirrel the other day sat in the now redundant, stone bird bath, munching peanuts:)
Got the CRV ready for a trip up to Blackpool today for a family gathering and we'll see if we can get more than 32MPG out of it in this wind! I hate that small petrol tank.
Then we went down to where the caravan is stored and 'winterised' it. It's always sad doing that as good times have gone and plans for next year are too scary to make this early.
Mr pda went off to the doctors for his second swine flu jab which we hope is as uneventful as the first one 2 weeks ago, and requires a day off work, if you're a lorry driver, to make an appointment:(
Then we decided to secure everything that can be blown around in the garden in anticipation of the wet and windy weekend forecast, and listening to it this morning, it's a good job we did!
Pat
Edited by pda on 14/11/2009 at 05:30
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I'd been working for about 30-45mins by 9.01am - as usual checking for any overnight/early morning debacles/catastrophes on telephony servers that run software I write. Nothing of note, thankfully.
The day actually starts about 6:15am-ish, or maybe earlier - depends really when the dear old alimentary canal (the furthest end!) decides it get-up time. Marvellous thing the human body - works to its own rhythm if you just allow it.
So, the usual start: the three Esses - the last two are a shower & a shave.
It used to be be the 4 Esses in the morning... not alas, currently..
Driving next. Well, to the paper shop - usually before 7am, before all the Esses. Surprisingly, although I live in the sticks, there's an all-night mini-supermarket in the next village - caters it seems, mainly, for the late-night drinking classes & early morning paper-reading classes.
Read the Guardian & Daily Mail (surprising mix I know!) from cover-to-cover. Melanie Philips in the Mail usually get the circulation going & Country Diary in the Guardian the antidote. All washed down with a good proportion of the recommended 5-a-day. That's coffee & cigarettes - well, they're vegetation aren't they?
Well, that my life before 9.01am - best part of the day I think.
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At 9:00am+1 yesterday I was in my office in London reading my morning mail and reports, drinking a large strong cup of coffee. Went by train. Caught the 07:43 arrived in London at 08:19. Journey cost return, was £18. The car stayed at home all day.
To make the journey by car would have cost £35* and taken two hours each way.
*Parking, congestion charge, fuel.
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09.01 I was at work, where I shall be until 1800. Stunorthants - if you don't like Aspartame and other killer/dust sweetners try Sucron from Boots, it is a sugar/saccharin mixture. I think aspartame upset my sleep so I stopped using it.
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 16/11/2009 at 00:36
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At 9.01 yesterday I was a front seat passenger in a FIAT Punto Multijet on the Autostrada near Ancona. We were heading for the airport to catch a flight to Rome from where I would then travel on to Heathrow. In the back were a couple of Greeks heading for the same internal flight to connect with their next plane to Athens. The Greeks were an astonishingly good looking young couple who are good friends and colleagues of mine. The Italian driver was also an old pal but he he spent most of the journey speaking and e-mailing on his BlackBerry which made it necessary for me to change the gears for him from the passenger seat. He would nudge me and call out a number from one to five to save any confusion. The FIAT, despite having 230,000 Km on its odometer was remarkably quick....
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Nice to see that Italy isn't still a nanny state !
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Well it is a bit but no one takes any real notice ! Journey in my car from Heathrow to home was a pig. M40 particularly unpleasant.
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Nice to see that Italy isn't still a nanny state !
The unfortunate thing is we have sleepwalked into a nanny (police) state that does not extend to the low life.
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Sitting in a police station.
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9:01 yesterday. Sitting in an Airbus A320-200 taxiing along the runway at Duesseldorf airport having landed 30 minutes late and wondering what rental car I was going to get. Turned out to be a Mercedes C-Class, very nice.
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...Sitting in a police station....
GM,
I'm sure a lot of us would like you to expand on that a little bit - always assuming you can still gain access to a computer. :)
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...Sitting in a police station....
Fog lights on in good visibility?
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>> ...Sitting in a police station.... Fog lights on in good visibility?
:) :) :)
No, on the right side of the "box"!
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on the right side of the "box"!
Gazing down on the dregs of humanity with world-weary, good-humoured contempt you mean GM?
Thus:
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I always get on well with police.
CID is another matter ...
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