📚 The Sotonians Lockdown & Beyond Diaries

OMG!
I have work tomorrow!
A family transfer
Mrs P_F just told boss I cant do it.
As I wont fit behind the wheel :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:

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Got my 2nd jab at 09:30.
I now ache all over.
Not from side effects- from 5 glorious hours back behind the wheel!
Just a “transfer” today but just as I got back to base, we had a booking for the full works tomorrow!
Aushwitz & Salt Mines with a Polish group of 6
:man_dancing:
I’d celebrate but Mrs P_F has hidden the booze using her internet gleaned “can’t drink for 3 days after jab mantra”
:face_with_symbols_over_mouth:

Tell her that was complete bullshyte.

You trying saying no to a Polish female!

The Secret Lockdown Diary of Paul Taylor, aged 46 and 1/6th

Pilfered from own Facebook edition

One of my main worries about moving is the cat. He goes outdoors and you hear stories of pets travelling hundreds of miles back to their territory. West Derby is not a stretch. He could get the number 62!

Gingora tells me that you need to walk them about a bit on a lead for a few weeks.

I told her that I was planning on doing that anyway, as I intend to dress exclusively as a wizard in the new place, becoming a Purple Aki type local legend. A cat on a lead would add to the look.

So that’s my anxiety addressed. The missus suddenly has a new one! !

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Keep it in for a couple of days, also butter its paws so that it licks them (old wives tale)…

Yep.

I looked into this paw-buttering business. Seems a bit hit and miss.

I can’t believe it’s not better.

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Or batter it with a flat spade. Saves the agro of losing it and the upside of no shit in your veg patch. Fucking hate cats :cat2::skull_and_crossbones:

If you bury it it the Veg patch it feeds the plants

I’m sure they’re not overly fond of you either :wink:

They hate you too. I’ve just spoken with the Feline UN Commissioner.

Ew. @Saint-CD. We do not like him. Got any Felix?

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Dear Constant Reader.
You may recall the horror of the boredom of listening to the tales of one’s Song Writing career.
Well, Michal just released a new song.
It was commissioned to celebrate International Mothers Day or something.
Anyway, it does prove he is real even if I & you understand nothing.

Yes. Our stuff was also recorded. Yes, it is in the production queue behind this one.

So we’re going to be opening the garage doors for the first time in almost eight years. The padlock on it, very good, was also very rusted. Thus, we’ve spent much of the morning looking like we’re trying to break into our own garage.

Handheld grinder did the trick. Gingora is the accomplished lock-smasher.

Scousers, eh?

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Week one
Kitchen is now 12cm bigger in each direction.
BUT 5 layers of shit removed a layer of shit paint as well
Floor tiles up still the cement to go

Pro chaps done the doorway move & dug out the bathroom for piping.

Underneath everything found this

Old style “wallpapwallpaper” apparently a rare art these days. Base layer was painted then with a special roller, the designs were painted over…
I am broken but functional the back of the graft is broken need techs now plumber sparky & wall mander on Monday

You’ve been taking tiles off whilst I’ve been putting them on. Nearly done.

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That’s lovely, which hotel is it?

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Ouch!
But strangely…

It the demonstration bathroom they’ve got mocked up at B&Q in Nursling. They get well pissed off when Fam Goat all turn up for their weekly shower.

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