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Nice!

Nothing. Our system is down.

Watching the snow and a shopping trip.

I'm trying to sell some snow tyres on eBay so maybe this will spur a buyer to place a bid...

The school run in the van with snow tyres. Hilarious fun, jackknifed lorries and weaving beemers everywhere!

kiwikrasher wrote: Best of luck mate, you might get some info that pieces things together for you.

As for the her following you about, that sounds like a lady that wasn’t entirely convinced on the adoption process, or has regrets afterwards. I don’t know if you know the situation behind why, but if not might be the time to find out.

Thank you.
Well....she was 16 or 17 years old at the time. Her mother - so I guess my maternal grandmother, forced her to give me up. And apparently granny is still alive at 94, and STILL thinks it's a bad idea for us to have any contact.
The funny thing was, back in '89, right before I moved here, I sat in a club & had a drink with my mother, with absolutely no idea who she was.
The conversation went "that way" and I thought she was drunk, or crazy, or both....there was a bit of a scene, I suppose.
I told my Dad about it, he said yep, that would've been her. And then only a month after I'd moved here she'd been in touch with him ... so he ended up telling her I'd moved overseas.

D41 wrote:

kiwikrasher wrote: Best of luck mate, you might get some info that pieces things together for you.

As for the her following you about, that sounds like a lady that wasn’t entirely convinced on the adoption process, or has regrets afterwards. I don’t know if you know the situation behind why, but if not might be the time to find out.

Thank you.
Well....she was 16 or 17 years old at the time. Her mother - so I guess my maternal grandmother, forced her to give me up. And apparently granny is still alive at 94, and STILL thinks it's a bad idea for us to have any contact.
The funny thing was, back in '89, right before I moved here, I sat in a club & had a drink with my mother, with absolutely no idea who she was.
The conversation went "that way" and I thought she was drunk, or crazy, or both....there was a bit of a scene, I suppose.
I told my Dad about it, he said yep, that would've been her. And then only a month after I'd moved here she'd been in touch with him ... so he ended up telling her I'd moved overseas.

I think I'd be extremely pissed that someone thought they knew what was best for me.

I know what's best for you, Monty.

Family learning... AKA parent homework!!

This one, make a game using some electrical components.... Of course everyone happens to have a hobby electric set lying about, don't they? Well I don't...

What I did have was a bit of wood, a cost hanger, a spare led indicaor, and a I grew up with blue peter the shape was an attempt at a Christmas tree, the girl is going to connect a few bits later and put a green scrubby and some glitter on to make it more christmasy.

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Walk - AM - Eat - Lazed on the sofa PM.

Trying to find a Christmas present or a few for my Wife.. besides slippers, they're actually items for baby but cute for her to open.

Get her a day at a spa...??
Those are usually a hit.

Cav wrote:Trying to find a Christmas present or a few for my Wife.. besides slippers, they're actually items for baby but cute for her to open.

You gave her a baby, tell her to stop being so needy, or if you must, a nice set of race slicks should do the trick

Yeah...try that one, Cav - "I already GAVE you a baby... what else do you need!!?"
That ought to go down well.

The internet upgrade from Sky went active on Thursday.

Except it didn't.

Instead it just stopped!

In making the switch the engineer appears to have failed to complete the job, so instead of having the superfast internet we were expecting we have been rationing out my data from my mobile.
I had to leave my phone at home on Friday so my daughter could do her online lessons. Even though I was working I felt naked without it!

And the house this weekend felt like we'd had a power cut! Without the internet to suck away our soul we've had to do stuff offline, like talk to each other and stuff!!!

The boy didn't seem to understand my several reminders that if he carried on watching YouTube he would use up his data.

He does now!

Counting down to getting home.....

Am I counting weeks? Not any more!
Am I counting days? Not any more!

I’m counting hours! 21 to go!!!

A couple of days over 6 weeks away has been a f**king slog!

Just working as usual, gym on my dinner break then should have time to watch the big bellyflop, SpaceX Starship sn8 is due to do it's test flight and the live stream starts at 14:00 GMT.

They predict a 1/3 chance of success, should be spectacular either way.

kiwikrasher wrote:Counting down to getting home.....

Am I counting weeks? Not any more!
Am I counting days? Not any more!

I’m counting hours! 21 to go!!!

A couple of days over 6 weeks away has been a f**king slog!

Good things with the new roster is more time at home on your time off though!!

Cav wrote:

kiwikrasher wrote:Counting down to getting home.....

Am I counting weeks? Not any more!
Am I counting days? Not any more!

I’m counting hours! 21 to go!!!

A couple of days over 6 weeks away has been a f**king slog!

Good things with the new roster is more time at home on your time off though!!

Although my breaks are longer (by 1-2 weeks) I’m now working 50/50 where before I was working 40/60. So I’m away twice as long each trip and have less time ratio at home. They have increased our pay to compensate but it doesn’t make it any easier being away for a so long.

kiwikrasher wrote:Counting down to getting home.....

Am I counting weeks? Not any more!
Am I counting days? Not any more!

I’m counting hours! 21 to go!!!

A couple of days over 6 weeks away has been a f**king slog!

Pleased for you - you work harder than anyone i know at the moment!

Dismantling our spare double bed and chest of drawers for my cousin to have. The same cousin whose baby we put ourselves up for emergency foster.