I think this one is going to crack more people. With furlough extended to March, people are digging in for the long haul, without the short-term memories of being out and about freely in the world day’s past, as we had in March.
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It is really tough.
Mrs P_F works - early shift week/late shift week.
No tourists.
Nobody wanting English lessons.
Weather shit.
I’m looking at 2 months stuck in a couple of rooms.
It’s so bad I downloaded and updated drivers on an old Win 7 laptop as a backup streaming device.
Next week I upgrade the home Wifi with a decent Linksys SMB Router.
Yep I’m so bored I’m doing IT Shit
Have to say not much different really from before lock down 2 as when we could go to pubs/restaurants etc again we barely did that. I still get to meet up with my local friend for a walk as that’s permitted.
I bought a second hand bike off gumtree (seems legit rather than nicked 
) so my range will extend more than an hours walk from my flat. Just have to get used to London roads. Pray for me.
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Thing is, I think us middle aged types are used to that. Back when we were teens, multi-generational get-togethers were far more frequent than they tend to be in later life.
Most of us spent every Christmas doing that. The youngsters of today are no different. This is going to be the first year ever that they can’t do that, whereas for a lot of us it has happened by osmosis.
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Yeah I know it’s harder for the younger lot but maybe they should just try it out and get used to what the future is going to bring.
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Look, the poor fuckers already have us to deal with. Anything else will send them over the edge!
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Neither am I.
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I enjoyed your comment. All of us have a book in us apparently. I’ve never got the discipline together, which is why I’m a pantomime villain on an Internet forum 
@Waylander has actually done some.
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One of them is set around Southampton and the New Forest
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Funnily enough the book in me is a recipe book of all the family favourite meals - those that worked and made it on the list a few that didn’t and why, including the epic fails.
It’s a work in progress collating the info and I need to set a cut off date to start to pull it all together.
Drives the family mad but I know I’m on a winner (says self deluded old fart)
Interesting, a small world. Waylander may well be familiar, (In a literary sense) with my daughter. She writes fantasy/horror stuff, with some success. Says he modestly!
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Mad Max punks on Waterside?
I always knew they had it in them.
Sorry, not sorry @Cobham-Saint and @WorzelScummage.
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I started writing a book about 10 years ago, at an admittedly slow pace, about humans using up all Earths resources and having to evacuate the planet, sadly in 2014 Chris Nolan released Interstellar which was remarkably similar to what I was writing +/- a few details so I sacked it off. Probably for the best in hindsight and saved me a lot of work.
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Faerie Serial killers in the New Forest
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The Matrix. I was onto that shit in the early 90s. It was my drunken conversation piece de resistance. Didn’t really have the robot killer aspect, but I had that whole electrical signals shit sown.
I just thought “fucking fair play” when I saw it. Much better than anything I’d never have written.
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Possibly. I do know a fair number of people in that genre though I go to far fewer conventions than I used to.
Much respect for getting the work done. That’s massive on its own.
If your antagonists are scarier than Totton folk you’re golden
Sorry not sorry Totton folk, but it’s all in jest.
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Totton does feature
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Mine was so fucking convoluted, involved US and China faking signals from SETI (warnings of impending doom from higher beings) to convince the worlds leaders to fund an evacuation project, which then involved secretly setting up a large hadron collider on the moon (under the pretence of building evacuation ‘Arks’) to create a black hole to travel to another dimension but it was all a scam to save the elite whilst the rest of the world got swallowed up in the creation of the wormhole. I got bogged down in the physics of it all and next thing I know I’m in the cinema watching Interstellar.
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…in a literary reference…