šŸ“š The Sotonians Lockdown & Beyond Diaries

Yeah gonna do the release so can actually go out with the little 'un on ā€œAdventuresā€ He is now 7 and told Mum - I want to take Grandad on an Adventure to London when he comes, I’m perfectly capable of looking after him even though he is old and I know my way around all the best places now.

:man_facepalming:

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I was thinking more along the lines of…does he really want to be stuck with you for 10 days lol

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he already has a shopping list :slight_smile:

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You asked your Dad to order you a Long Time?
Was that online or?
Asking for a friend

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This is something you really don’t want to order on The Waterside, believe me…

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I am with you there @Cobham-Saint.
Just the ride back in a taxi and the females walking the streets was nearly enough to turn my stomach.

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Just doing the day job…

Welcome to lockdown bods multiplied with summer clothing multiplied with a general lack of self awareness

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Speak for yourself :kissing_heart::wink:

That is one sight I’m not looking forward to on my return!

And not being non-woke, a size 24 ++ may well feel good wearing a large belt & size 12 vest but I do prefer not to frequent locations where that happens whenever possible.

I can see how horrid it looks in the bathroom mirror each morning when I get out the shower without being reminded when I’m out & about!

Ffs

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The test and trace team contacted me this morning
What a bunch of cunts.
an obnoxious woman who does not know the rules telling me I am not allowed to go for a swab test and have to have it done at home she actually hung up on me.
cunt
Had to call 119 and I am allowed to get my test done outside. she (the cunt) could not have understood. No shit Sherlock.

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Welcome home. :woozy_face:

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Well they ain’t gonna find me.
My mobile doesn’t have roaming

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Neither did mine it was a landline I was called on

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Meanwhile.
Down on the farm.
I’ve turned all those karaoke nights & song writing moments to good use.

I told the tale of the app and the bank and and.

Today has been

  1. Register at Hospital 1 for CAT Scan on jaw :white_check_mark:
  2. Discover they dont do the MRI
  3. Register at Hospital 2 for MRI :white_check_mark:
  4. Discover need certificate from Dentist that my bridge is MRI proof
  5. Register for special blood test before MRI :white_check_mark:
  6. Return to Hospital 1 to register for blood test before CAT scan :white_check_mark: :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:
  7. Go to bank present docs :white_check_mark:
  8. Order cash from bank :x: got to go to a cash holding branch and order via App. Where on App? Gets employee 2… gets employee 3…
    Changes App language orders cash. Gets employee 1 to change App back to English.
  9. Go to Boss collect forms :white_check_mark:
  10. Drive to Health Office for EHIC medical cover card :x: they moved
  11. Drive to new Health office across town get card :white_check_mark:

To be continued

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The Bank hasnt updated my details. Cant use the App :x:

The Secret Diary of Paul Taylor, aged 46 and 1/4.

It has been an eventful few weeks in the new Chez Pap. Yes, we’ve moved, and I personally bear the scars of doing so. The cat escaped over the wall morning two, I try to follow with only slippers on, fall off a 7ft wall and fuck my foot up. Still not expecting to walk without pain for a bit.

To literally add insult to injury, one of my colleagues phones up and calls me ā€œOfficer Dibbleā€, because I’ve been bested by my ā€œTop Catā€. Bastard!

The cat nonchalantly wandered back into the house two days later, I’m still injured as fuck and while the accusations coming from Ginge and Lastborn about me being the Mossley Hill Cat Strangler subside, they still give me jip for the next week or so because I was injured and couldn’t lift shit.

The day they hoisted my two fat tellies over was probably the angriest Gingora got. She couldn’t moan at me for being injured without looking like a cunt so instead I was given a Nuremburg level grilling over all the coffee stains I’d left in the kitchen.

I did briefly consider saying ā€œthose weren’t coffee stains, love. I took a shit on your kitchen topsā€ but this fabrication would not have been welcomed. She was already at Alan-Brazil-on-twelve-pints levels of redness and I did not think my contribution would bring harmony.

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Pap’s cat:

Pap:

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The Secret Diary of Paul Taylor, aged 46 and seventy one 250ths

Something of a milestone today. I went out and walked about in a TESCO. Every step hurt a bit, but far less than the excruciating and tear-inducing malarkey of the first couple of days. We went to the Park Road branch, which is in quite a dodgy area of Liverpool. Rather cleverly, TESCO have put all of the shop on the first floor, meaning shoplifters have to get down a ramp or a flight of stairs to rob anything.

The new area is very weird. I still don’t know it very well yet (I haven’t been out properly) but I am already a member of the local Facebook group. It’s odd - the houses down here are much smaller than those in North Liverpool - we live in a terrace - but the concerns seem a lot more middle class and dare I say it, wanky.

We’re talking lost cats, recommendations for reflexologists, complaints about inconsiderate parking.

Our last house was next to a pub. A murder in said pub, ten years before we moved in, sparked a gangland war which led to the tragic crossfire death of a 12 year old nipper. When we lived there, the house two doors down had its windows put out by a fucking shot gun (no one killed this time). My old house is on Ross Kemp on Gangs.

The pub also had a free function room, which is the last thing you want any pub near your house having. Funerals were the absolute worst. A group of people, often separated by decades and/or fucking hate each other, with the one person that kept them in line in the ground that day. Saw something akin to a football riot break out once.

On balance, I think I’ll take the lost cats and impromptu calls for foot fiddlers, especially if it means there’s less chance of that Ross Kemp cunt turning up here.

ā€œRoss Kemp finds lost catsā€ doesn’t sound hard enough for him.

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