[Vicky.]

Took kids to the metro centre for food and for Skye to spend her birthday money...now bath and chill!

[Christmas Dynasnow]

I had a great mooch around B&M earlier and while working this avvo watched a couple of serial killer documentaries with police interviews/recordings. Sort of true crime documentaries as well as listening to the footy games with the boy.

[Urban Cragou]

Originally Posted by Zizu

That’s not too bad a day then … hopefully

Yep. All good in the hood.

Originally Posted by Ammi

…you were there for them and I’m sure that was very much appreciated…..

Absolutely. Plus the weight of that has made this boring Sunday a bit less existentially hollow than they normally feel for me. I might bemoan the empty void of typical Sunday-afternoons/evenings most of the time but sometimes you just need a boring Sunday to decompress after a long, taxing week (which this week just-gone was in different ways, albeit for a good cause).

[Cherry Christmas]

Originally Posted by Ammi

….awwwww, that’s disappointing…is that connected at all to the recent tower block fires…?….you’re still away for Christmas in Tenerife, though…?..

Not Ammi accusing Mr Wales of burning HK in the nicest possible way

[Cherry Christmas]

We travelled back from Krakow yesterday via Amsterdam and I learned a great new Dutch word @Nicky91...Hulp!

Means aid or help

Our flight from Krakow as delayed by 20 minutes which meant a few people on the plane missed their connection at Amsterdam, but I have no idea how they would have made it anyway as they obviously didn't leave enough time....

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Redway

Yep. All good in the hood.


Absolutely. Plus the weight of that has made this boring Sunday a bit less existentially hollow than they normally feel for me. I might bemoan the empty void of typical Sunday-afternoons/evenings most of the time but sometimes you just need a boring Sunday to decompress after a long, taxing week (which this week just-gone was in different ways, albeit for a good cause).

…yep, it’s good to feel that Sunday has a reason and meaning to it’s decompression, doesn’t it…that really does remove the ‘hollow’ from it and gives it a satisfying edge and you’ve extended something to others as well when they’ve needed that…..

[ChristmasNeeve]

Was a little bit hung over so had a bit of a couch day, watched Liverpool win their match, put up the Christmas decorations, went for a drive and got chips out for dinner, fires lit now and just going to watch IAC and the last episode of Stranger Things

[In the Drunk Tank]

Originally Posted by Cherie

We travelled back from Krakow yesterday via Amsterdam and I learned a great new Dutch word @Nicky91...Hulp!

Means aid or help

Our flight from Krakow as delayed by 20 minutes which meant a few people on the plane missed their connection at Amsterdam, but I have no idea how they would have made it anyway as they obviously didn't leave enough time....

How did you find Krakow? Beautiful city

[Cherry Christmas]

Originally Posted by MTVN

How did you find Krakow? Beautiful city

The main square is lovely, very touristy though, lots of horse drawn carriages etc, but some beautiful buildings, outside that the Jewish quarter is very nice but they really lean into graffiti and the ghetto area is pretty grim but Hero square is pretty poignant, all in all what I expected pretty Eastern European and can be a bit grim in places, there was also a hat shop and I was very excited to buy a Polish bobble hat until I found out the bobble was Fox...and they were also selling mink bobble hats

[Father Chris Mouse]

No work today, the town is without water supply for its 3rd day, been to get bottled water this morning. Getting boring now though.

[Ray.]

Left work, then got a call saying that a client of ours hadn't received an important email from yours truly, was asked to come back into work to double check and/or rectify the mistake, then just as I was arriving back on the premises, got another call saying that the client had actually received the email, and that it was due to a system update on their end that they'd had trouble finding the damn thing.

In the end I just found the whole thing kind of funny.

[Cherry Christmas]

Originally Posted by Ray.

Left work, then got a call saying that a client of ours hadn't received an important email from yours truly, was asked to come back into work to double check and/or rectify the mistake, then just as I was arriving back on the premises, got another call saying that the client had actually received the email, and that it was due to a system update on their end that they'd had trouble finding the damn thing.

In the end I just found the whole thing kind of funny.

are you not able to log into your work email from home

[Ray.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

are you not able to log into your work email from home

Well it's an intranet system. I mean I suppose I could go about getting an access point made up, but I've never bothered on account of 1. I don't consider myself high up enough on the company ladder to go to the trouble, 2. I'm a professional and I've never had to worry about that sort of thing before anyway, and 3. Work is like a ten minute walk and so in the end it wasn't the biggest inconvenience. I was actually eager to get down there anyway to prove my point and rub everyone's noses in **** when I got the call.

[Cherry Christmas]

Originally Posted by Ray.

Well it's an intranet system. I mean I suppose I could go about getting an access point made up, but I've never bothered on account of 1. I don't consider myself high up enough on the company ladder to go to the trouble, 2. I'm a professional and I've never had to worry about that sort of thing before anyway, and 3. Work is like a ten minute walk and so in the end it wasn't the biggest inconvenience. I was actually eager to get down there anyway to prove my point and rub everyone's noses in **** when I got the call.

ah okay fair enough, its actually nice when you know something has been completed and the fault is at the other end

[White Christmas]

Donated blood

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by OnTheRight

Donated blood

…great job…!!!!…

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Ray.

Well it's an intranet system. I mean I suppose I could go about getting an access point made up, but I've never bothered on account of 1. I don't consider myself high up enough on the company ladder to go to the trouble, 2. I'm a professional and I've never had to worry about that sort of thing before anyway, and 3. Work is like a ten minute walk and so in the end it wasn't the biggest inconvenience. I was actually eager to get down there anyway to prove my point and rub everyone's noses in **** when I got the call.

…that’s so incredibly annoying but on a positive, it’s a reminder to your company that you don’t misplace emails or forget to send or etc…and that’s never a bad reminder for them…?…I mean, this is THE Ray that they’re dealing with and let them think again about calling you another time …very annoying, though…I hope that your day leaves that behind and gets so much less disturbed…

[ChristmasNeeve]

work and Pilates class with my daughter at 5pm, not too exciting today

[Livia]

So far I've done bizzy-work and slacking off in equal measures.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

work and Pilates class with my daughter at 5pm, not too exciting today

How was her trip, Niamh?

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Livia

How was her trip, Niamh?

Oh brilliant, she was really happy with the work she got done over there. Her Supervisor has more funding left over so she's hoping to send her to a University in Birmingham for a month as well some time next year

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Oh brilliant, she was really happy with the work she got done over there. Her Supervisor has more funding left over so she's hoping to send her to a University in Birmingham for a month as well some time next year

That's great. Good for her. So glad it went well.

[Ray.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

ah okay fair enough, its actually nice when you know something has been completed and the fault is at the other end

Oh, absolutely. Even nicer when you know that the people who called you up are going to be profusely apologetic and arse kissing when you next see them.

Originally Posted by Ammi

…that’s so incredibly annoying but on a positive, it’s a reminder to your company that you don’t misplace emails or forget to send or etc…and that’s never a bad reminder for them…?…I mean, this is THE Ray that they’re dealing with and let them think again about calling you another time …very annoying, though…I hope that your day leaves that behind and gets so much less disturbed…

Funnily enough, I did get another call about an hour or two later from a scam artist claiming to be from BT. The party never stops on my phone. Sometimes I like to string them along for a few minutes and see how long it takes them to understand my sarcasm and that I'm not buying what they're selling lol. But today I was just tired and unceremoniously hung up.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Ray.

Oh, absolutely. Even nicer when you know that the people who called you up are going to be profusely apologetic and arse kissing when you next see them.



Funnily enough, I did get another call about an hour or two later from a scam artist claiming to be from BT. The party never stops on my phone. Sometimes I like to string them along for a few minutes and see how long it takes them to understand my sarcasm and that I'm not buying what they're selling lol. But today I was just tired and unceremoniously hung up.

…it’s like you’ve created a new Ray version of A Christmas Carol with the ghosts all visiting you…(…on your mobile…)…in the one day…you still have two more to come before midnight……

[The Human Santapede]

Been busy so far and it’s not even 10.

Done laundry, cleaned house and as away from next week trying to run down food etc. Had loads of oranges, lemons and limes sitting around so decided to dehydrate them in the oven rather than them just go off from us being away. Not dehydrated citrus fruits before, so hoping the oven method works ok.