So this is new. I have a travel letter. If I am accosted by the bizzies, I can present this letter and I am good to go.
Quite how thatāll go down when Iāve a pungent bit of herb in the glove compartment is anyoneās guess.
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You donāt need to open the window to show the letterā¦
Just following government advice surely 
Talking of government advice. Iām still going with āwork at home if you canā.
Has that changed?
Do i need a letter?
Doing about 350 miles on Sunday, dropping off uni layabouts, then back to godās house on Monday and no point asking him/her/it, they never reply.
Can i write my own?
As stupid as that sounds iāve experienced dumber with officials and letters.
Such irresponsible disregard for the lockdown, inviting people round. 
Frankly, Iām shocked. 
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Oh I use to love frogger and there was a digger one?
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The letters are for critical workers. I have one from the head of the council.
Not sure people are meant to be driving all over now?!
Frogger is excellent and somewhat underrated.
As to your second hazy memory, it may be Dig Dug.
Does this look familiar?
Frogger machine first, then half an hour on space invaders 
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Sheās more likely thinking of pacman?
How they get their stuff home is the issue.
Uni closed till next year and accommodation lease runs out before, so got to do it.
We shall see. @Intiniki is pretty well up on games. Until 1994. When I went to university.
It all ends there.
Yep. A firm favourite in our family (archaeologists eh?).
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Ah not so my dear. I had a SNES (still do collecting dust) and then a PS1 and continued to play games against people still in Soton until early noughties.
Then a bit in 2007 when I was in Lima at the kids home (impressed a few kids).
But since then only played a few games with kids on home visits. I was shit at some Lego batman thing.
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My mum was very addicted to that when I was a kid.
So our referrals after a massive dip seem to be increasing again. But getting calls about people self isolating and needing help. So far only over 70s are being helped but thatās going out to vulnerable families now. We are hoping to get supplies to vulnerable families open to us too. Housing offices have been told to get the homeless people off the streets so hopefully they wonāt pass them to us.
Weāve been offered free lunch (sandwiches,cake,fruit) though not on our site.
We may go completely working at home if our manager can get us some phones.
Only 3 in the office today sitting at a distance from each other.
Weird old times.
When will these desks be full again?
I have it on good authority that PacMan was a compulsive eater.
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Names on chairs is a bit ādonāt eat my cheeseā in a student shared flat mind 
They appear to be the same make and model so adjustment to favoured position is surely not a big deal? Or is it a viral thing? Only survives 3-5 days in objects
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Drug addict too. Big into the pills, init.
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It must be a generation thingā¦never remotely interested in computer gaming despite working with computers since 1972. I remember playing on a Space Invader at our Sports and Social Club when they first appeared. Stopped playing it very quickly as it was making me stressedā¦is that common. I found that happening with a few other computer games. Very odd.
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Me neither, maybe a few pence down the arcade now and again, but TBH, by the time they were worth playing, C4 had films on late at night with the āwarning Triangleā usually Swedish art house stuff which was shit apart from the explicit sex which for a 13-14 year old MoT was too good to missā¦ given the real thing would be an achingly long time awayš¤Ŗ
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Oddly enough, Iād play them in the pub at college, (late 70s,) then when I was working in the Midlands (80-83) most Saturdays started with a morning in the arcade playing Phoenix, space invaders, all those old arcade games. When the high-powered pc games and atari, nintendo, xbox etc started I couldnāt get interested in them. Never played a computer game since 84, I reckon.
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