šŸ“š The Sotonians Lockdown & Beyond Diaries

2 ā€œwinsā€ today

  1. The REALLY Hot Lingerie chick from last year texted me. Basically, how you doing, I’m bored in lockdown at home. Do you fancy coming round.
    I heroically replied Lockdown could last weeks, I’d only last about 4 seconds.
    Anyway, she laughed.

  2. Sometime later Mrs P_F noticed I haven’t shaved. Cue dont you dare grow a beard. You’re growing a beard. You grow a bear I’ll kick you out.
    The Kids are pissing themselves laughing about it I reply.
    I’ll kick you out.
    OK, read this text from Tina the Lingerie model first.
    You Bastard. OK but only for another week.
    Fair snuff.
    Beard on. I’m gonna become a millennial
    :grin:

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My missus cut mine, and it went so badly it all had to come off…

@pap will appreciate this. For when the pubs ā€˜open’ again.

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COMEDY GENIUS!

:joy::joy::joy::joy::joy::joy::joy::joy:

Well the mother in law has been stuck abroad for ages and finally got back yesterday. Mrs Fatso picked her up from Heathrow and is now isolating with her in the MIL house for two weeks. Everything has already fallen apart here. Today I’ve spent most of the day pretending to be Rick Stein drinking wine and eating French bread and brie whilst playing saints v villa endlessly on FIFA 14. Rickie Lambert can only make the bench and no room at all for JWP :frowning:.
Osvaldo and Mayuka FTW!

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I’ve got a soft spot for Hale and Pace. Perfect ITV comedians and that is not a dig on them.

More a dig on ITV for replacing them with Ant and Dec.

According to footballdatabase.com, this is what Pablo Osvaldo looks like now. I don’t believe it’s him.

Osvaldo would score anywhere from 30yards out on that ridiculous attempt of a football sim(if only).

Concerning the rest of your post.
Get a fucking grip.
Your free to do as you please, so be a kid again and pretend life is something to look forward to. Make things, burn them(and whatever else happens to go up). Live life like you actually enjoy the reality of life, rather than a sad screen version.

Wouldn’t it be better to die on your feet, than live life on your knees?

As for the wine. Go online. Strangely the services for the rich haven’t changed at all(little bit dearer, but what rich person cares about that when their fortunes have gone up by hundreds of billions in the last three weeks alone. Strange how these things always seem to happen together :thinking:).

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I’m currently debating whether to let mine loose with the scissors, it’s getting to the point where I’m beyond caring how badly it turns out.

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When she started, I was properly nervous. She was jabbing away with the clippers. I thought I would end up looking like a golf ball. But as we went on she got more confident and I got less stressed.

There are moments when you want to say you have cut that bit three times now move on. Then you remember she has scissors in her hand

Beer helps - although when I suggested that she got me one she said ā€œthis is not fucking Stormā€

My reply of ā€œyou are not kiddingā€ wasn’t appreciated

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Big decision to make. If you let her loose now the worst will grow back before you have to see anyone not wearing a Beanie/baseball cap

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No don’t it @scotty…the only part you can’t get to is around the back and I hear long hair over the collar is very ā€œthis yearā€ #embracethemullet

Front and sides are easy to do yourself.

Businesses don’t have to shutdown, you just need to think outside of the box…

Assume instead of cash you swipe your card?:wink:

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The test arrived on Saturday early evening but had to wait until I could guarantee that the courier would be able to collect the test on the same day it was taken (actually from 9pm the night before).

So, I took the test this morning. A long cotton-bud-type swab is rubbed around the back of the throat and then right up the nose (until you feel resistance). Each for 10 seconds. It was uncomfortable but no real problems. It would have been easier I reckon is someone else had done it to me rather than doing it myself.

It is, however, the last time I’m putting something that long down my throat - or up my nose for that matter.

Amazon seems to handle the distribution of the kits as this was the envelope that it came in.

Which might explain why the distribution and collection process is so slick.

<geeks>It also seems Microsoft (Azure) is involved in the hosting too. A number of the websites that support the process are real skunkworks stuff - hosted on subdomains of the azurewebsites.net domain.</geeks>

The kit looks like this…

A bloke arrived to collect the kit at about 10am - wearing a surgical mask, gloves and apron as he got out of the car.

Now got to wait for the results - 3-5 days apparently.

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I reckon you’re pregnant.

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Sounds very similar to the test i had done in Labuan results back after 4 days clear so after another 3 days quarantine I can go back to work offshore.

Could be but the ā€˜bump’ has been with me for more than 9 months, though.

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There is a care home about fifty metres down the road from me. It has apparently lost 22 of its residents since this began, perhaps more.