Mum let the kids out this evening.
Followed up with flying lessons which was so sweet
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Secret ballot. How has lockdown affected your level of skintness?
- More skint
- Less skint
- No change
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2 weeks away from zero.
2 weeks away from furlough pay coming in which will atm last until August.
Seriously squeaky bum cant even afford to MOT the car
Gutted to hear that, Phil. I also have confidence that you will pull something out of the bag.
You always do, as far as Iāve seen.
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As I have been locked down offshore I have had a 2% pay increase and an extra time offshore of 1.25 x normal daily rate for having no leave.
As I cannot get home due to travel bans They pay for my hotel and food to an equivelent of 20.00 GBP per week day and 30.00 GBP on weekends.
Sorry Lads am loaded.
Was ok. Just had to lump on for new brakes and tyres on the van and the house needs rendering. So thatās me skint again.
More skint, but only because I donāt get any* Government help.
*I get Ā£575 per month.
Iām actually in the less skint camp. I have worked throughout, bought beer at the newsagents instead of the pub, not pissing Ā£70 a week away on pub lunches, petrol costs way down.
Iāve also not bought any full price games for a few months, which helps.
Would have been better, but like Goat, that has been wiped out by brakes, tyre and exhaust for car.
Ā£800+. Cunts!
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Better off which is largely down to the fact that I have been unable to go to restaurants and go on holiday
About to become worse off as the Ayatollah is about to be let go
Divorce is an expensive business.
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I do wonder what the restaurant and pub scene is going to be like. A lot of people built private bars during lockdown. Thatās them and their mates sorted.
Social distancing measures when they first open, this will last approx 2 months whilst the industry puts pressure on the government, by the end of November pubs and restaurants will be back to pre-lockdown behaviour.
Irās all very well having home bars and mates around but it is somewhat boring. Part of going to the pub is seeing different people from your circle of matesā¦
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Very much how I see it. The government, any government, canāt sustain the economic loss of the pub and restaurant trade indefinitely, and any social distancing at all will push them either below profit or force them to raise prices so much to compensate for the limited numbers that people wonāt fork out for what is likely to be a pretty joyless evening out.
The Jamon is still going - a plate of that, some padron peppers and a some Big Casino from the dancing man - what is not to like about lockdown
Now Boris is going to fuck it all up by allowing us to do stuff and the Ayatollah has already got the diary out
What this experience has taught me is who I want to spend time with. I suggested that we go through our friends list and the ones we didnāt miss, we cull. The Ayatollah told me not to be a twat.
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Weāve got some friends coming round tonight for a socially distanced drink - local Tory Councillor and his wife who both voted Brexit. Nice people, but their politics seem to be quite opposed to mine now, and Iāve been warned not to bring up politics.
Now, do I listen to my wife and laugh off any political discussions, or do I go balls out, in the safe knowledge that she wonāt have a go at me in front of them, but be in trouble for Fatherās Day?
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Do you want to see them again?
If the answer is yes, then give it a swerve - we have friends who couldnāt be more different on the political spectrum and he is impossible to reason with - think @pap and then square it. I forgot myself last year and had the Ayatollah not intervened and changed the subject, I would have probably swung at him
If they fall into the cull camp then have at it
Donāt let them in.
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Itās happened before - I got drunk at this years Mayorās Ball, called a female Tory Councillor āa disgusting cuntā and then proceeded to hijack my local MP and shout at him for, effectively, being a Tory and not having an opinion apart from the parroted lines that Boris gives him. My wife was not impressed.
We were invited to that (as we are every year) by tonights couple.
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