📚 The Sotonians Lockdown & Beyond Diaries

There was a minor chicken emergency at Chez Pap tonight. The chicken the missus was planning on cooking tonight smelled off, so I offered to buy takeout.

On hearing this, the eldest, who was just planning on cooking for her and her boyfriend says “I might not have steak tonight”.

Quick as a flash, Gingora says “I’ll have your steak then”. I pipe in, saying I’ll have the boyfriend’s steak and they can both have takeout.

They’re both having steak.

Kids, eh? Won’t pay for anything and after tonight, how they can say they don’t have a steak in the future is beyond me.

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Hair clippers should turn up Thursday. The Ayatollah has an evil glint in her eye.

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Mine was attacked yesterday.
Have to say that hearing the word KOURVA after the 1st slicing was not encouraging…
A few bits are “unequal” length but tbh she done good.
And as I said. I dont give a shit. I ain’t going anywhere except the village shop & all the guys have the same problem!, you fvck it up you live with having to look at it all the time.

The moment she cried Kourva

Home trims, Wife beater top. Sweat Pants, Crocs & socks.
How fast civilisation ends…

I hate you Butlaaaaaah!

Butler2

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I have far too much time on my hands :lou_sad:

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That’s genuinely brilliant although it should really say “I’ll get you butler!”

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Number two all over.

First time will take you as long as everyone else to get used to, but you’ll remember that clean fresh feeling, hanker for it even(might just be me).

That was a reply to CB, not yourself. The site is obviously all over the place, rather than myself :roll_eyes:

Alright, Fat Stuff, don’t get so emotional about it.

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Is that not still illegal in Britain?

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In praise of Whyte bikes

OK, I recognise that I might be dominating this thread with discussion about my bike, but I wanted to say well done to Whyte bikes.

I have a broken spoke which has pulled my rear wheel out of line. I read the specs on their website, looked on a number of cycle shop web sites, took the bike to Halfords, but nobody had the correct part.

I tweeted Whyte asking for the correct product ID or for them to put me in touch with a supplier (as I needed my bike to get to work as a keyworker - did I mentioned that I was a keyworker @Fatso?) .

They just DM’d me to see that they would send me some spares - FoC.

Nice touch!

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Shout out to Portswood Cycles too who did the set up and checks on Mrs G’s new bike and refused to take any payment.
edit: Mrs G doing ok out of Covid so far. New bike, free maintenance, new iPhone and battery case. Hoping her car melts down.

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Group A - people like me, captain Tom, the Dutch woman who drew the rainbow NHS thing, the old woman climbing the stairs, Gary Barlow and Elton John…helping others during the Corona crisis. Doing our bit, thinking of society and others

Group B - people like Bletch and Richard Branson. How can we use the Corona crisis to get something for nothing? How can we exploit our position and the goodwill of the people

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Whilst I know Mrs Goat is a keyworker, she’s nowhere near as important a keyworker as me. :lou_wink:

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That’s one hell of a five-a-side team. Does Elton start or is his bottom touching wood?

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I know that some are experiencing domestic problems due to the lockdown, here is a useful tip for anyone thinking of kicking the wife out. Try and arrange to do it on a Thursday evening, then it will look as if the whole street are glad to see the back of her.

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The youngest is still working at TESCO.

During her last shift, she was approached by two women, one of whom asked where “fresh burgers” could be found. My daughter points in the direction of the fridges where refrigerated burgers can be found.

“No, not them - the ones that come complete and you put in a microwave”, the woman says.

“Rustlers?”, our kid asks.

“Yeah”, says one delighted customer after being pointed to the Rustlers.

Fresh burgers. The dirty bastards.

Microwaved Burgers.
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We have survived lockdown with neither an Oven NOR a Microwave.
We have (an antique) Eectric Pan thing with a lid that acts like a Grill Pan, we have a BBQ and have done ribs etc. But we have coped. Just meant things like Deconstructed Shepherds Pie (Mash & Mince)
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I think it would have been more accurate if she’d asked for “processed to within an inch of their lives” burgers

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Oh. Fucking. Yes.

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