My kids charge me Ā£10
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Iāve not been into the office since 18th December. I try to have a walk each day. Once a week I walk with a friend. I am starting to miss all the rest of the interactions. Going into the office still last year helped me get through more I think. Most exciting things recently was buying a hoover with the vouchers from being part of research.
Just waiting for 2nd jab (marchish) and/or numbers to be much lower to get back to the office a little.
Itās strange, I donāt miss anything about being in the office at all, I miss having after work beers with some of them but I donāt miss the office.
Maybe itās because, as a team, we have regular catch up sessions so get to talk regularlyā¦
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Youāve nailed it.
Itās pretty much a year since I last went into the office.
Once thereās some semblance of normality weāve decided that the office will be for client / team meetings and for those who canāt function effectively from home. No pressure to return
We have fortnightly meeting with a manager and the SPs (my level) but weāve not had may team meetings. One teams after work thing. One worker said today that weāve not had regular all team meetings.
I think for our work having someone there to talk to when a particularly nasty or demanding referral comes in is helpful. Rather than messaging the group chat to see if someone is free to speak to you.
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Iāve discovered a neighbour I get on fairly well with has a new puppy. Iām hoping to be able to offer dog sitting services when itās viable. That will cheer me up no end.
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What is the most pointless onversation starters in the United Lockdown of early 2021?
- What are you doing this weekend?
- Where did you go last night?
- Seen anybody lately?
- You nicked my pint, yābastard!
0 voters
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I remember the moment I finally accepted that the romance had gone out of our marriage.
It wasnāt when she started negotiating a fee for sex. It was when I lay there afterwards trying to decide whether sheād been good enough to merit tipping.
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Wait 'til the dog is a bit older and bigger. Its bones will break now. And get a saddle 
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Intiniki can cope with bareback.
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Nice try @Goatboy, but I have actually been more mortified. Iām pretty certain Iāve told this story before.
Back in the 1990s, my old dear accosted me with a complaint about someone many of us know well, Stampy.
The manās got a slow but distinctive speaking style. Itās not boring, and it seemed to allow him to get away with saying absolutely anything and get away with it.
Your mate Stampy is fucking disgusting
ā¦she says.
Wha?
(I was in the bog having a shit and wiping my arse wrong when this went down)
She continues.
Well I was hoovering your room, and he says ādo you want a hand?ā. I say āno, youāre alright Stampā, then he says āHow about a couple of fingers?ā
I accosted him about the incident shortly afterward, intending to have a proper go at him, but he just said āI donāt care. I think sheās fitā
I couldnāt stay mad at the cunt. People never can. That fucking voice. Disgustingly disarming 
You didnāt include āall of the aboveā
No he is just disgusting. Iām quite happy he lives in another country.
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Gales. Fine snow drifts. That feels like # os optimistic tbh.
And of course weāve had to walk to another lockdown Birthday party in it
Iām going to tell you all this story, which you will see is a very dangerous thing to do.
One of the things I do during lockdown, while we are sitting together on the settee, is watch weird (well, weird to me anyway) things on YouTube that Mrs TB finds.
The one today was from Japan, showing some blokey making street foods, and in particular octopus balls.
Dexterity was incredible, and these things did look delicious; they sell at about Ā£2 for a box of 6-8, with some salad stuff on the top.
Now, for all you crude lot, these are pastry balls fried up with a bit of octopus in the middle - they are NOT actual octopus balls as we might think of them!
Will be a little disappointed if there are no rude comments about this.
There - thatās another 10 minutes of lockdowns whiled away.
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Is there a YouTube link to this culinary delightā¦Iād like a 10 minute distraction. 
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Japan 2002 Sapporo night before the Argentina game, found a restaurant/beer hall. All menus were in foreignish.
They had plastic plates on display I pointed and had a tripe soup with Octopus Balls.
It was shockingly delicious
Thanks for reminding me!
(Beer was bloody superb as well!)
I was just trying to work out, if an octopus has eight legs, how many balls it has? Does it have a pair between every pair of legs?
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Yes, they have octo-balls and females have octoā¦
On second thoughts Iām not going to go there.
It doesnāt have any legs. It does however have eight tentacles. And unless itās testicles hang between itās tentacles, I think you can abandon your crude line of smutty reasoning 
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