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Scuba Shifts North and Debt.
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scubaangel wrote: »I have to admit my visits to Lancaster were to friends at University but I remember that there always seemed to be traffic jams and road works when I was in the car.
As well as people running away screaming....
scubaangel wrote: »No real progress on anything today, one mystery shop done, and mostly written up, several hours at work survived.
What's "no real progress" about that? What are you looking for in terms of progress?scubaangel wrote: »Hotels are booked for the work trips this week, I only need a couple more nights away to have earned a free night from a hotel booking site loyalty scheme.
Well there you go. Another couple of training days, and you'll be able to have a dirty weekend away at the coast... :T
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Ideally I'd think finding I liked a day at work to be progress....
Or finding lots of money to pay off the debts.
Weekend? Just one night, although it has been far too long since my last 'dirty' mid week weekend away on my own.
I think when I have a day off I want to go to Blackpool for the illuminations before they end I'm going to take myself off there for a day, always used to drive through the lights with my Aunt and my Nana, but Nana isn't going to be able to sit in a car long enough and I always wanted to get out of the car and get on one of the trams. So think I'm going to head out during the day and visit the Pleasure Beach and Sealife Centre then take a tram through the illuminations and walk all/part of the way back. I'll take plenty of pictures for Nana, just need to talk someone else in to joining me so I'm not wandering around alone!It’s not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren’t doing it.
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scubaangel wrote: »Ideally I'd think finding I liked a day at work to be progress....
No, getting *through* a day at work is progress. Enjoying it is just icing.scubaangel wrote: »Or finding lots of money to pay off the debts.
Weekend? Just one night, although it has been far too long since my last 'dirty' mid week weekend away on my own.
What do you do on your mid-week breaks? Sightsee? Photograph?scubaangel wrote: »I think when I have a day off I want to go to Blackpool for the illuminations before they end I'm going to take myself off there for a day, always used to drive through the lights with my Aunt and my Nana, but Nana isn't going to be able to sit in a car long enough and I always wanted to get out of the car and get on one of the trams. So think I'm going to head out during the day and visit the Pleasure Beach and Sealife Centre then take a tram through the illuminations and walk all/part of the way back. I'll take plenty of pictures for Nana, just need to talk someone else in to joining me so I'm not wandering around alone!
Yes, that's always a problem wandering around on your own. Saying "Look at that!" to your invisible friend does get you talked about...
It was especially apparent on my last wander."Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
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Depends where I go, if it's coastal/countryside I do my best to get lost walking. If I go to a city I explore the culture. I don't like cities.
It'd be Blackpool talking to yourself is practically normal there.It’s not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren’t doing it.
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scubaangel wrote: »Depends where I go, if it's coastal/countryside I do my best to get lost walking.
It's difficult to get lost walking the coast. Setting out - sea on side A. Coming back - sea on side B... :rotfl:scubaangel wrote: »If I go to a city I explore the culture. I don't like cities.
Any reason?scubaangel wrote: »It'd be Blackpool talking to yourself is practically normal there.
It has been quite a while since I went to Blackpool. The thing that sticks most heavily in my mind are the speed cameras at 20 ft intervals on the front..."Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
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People. I hate people at the best of times but herds of them, plus lots of buildings plus lots of vehicles and I get really really grumpy. I'm a very definite countryside person, I need open space and low population density.
Yeah even I struggle to get lost with that sort of easy to read hints to the route home.
I don't think I've ever actually driven myself through Blackpool and usually when I'm in a car there it's because we're seeing the Illuminations so getting above 5mph is something of a miracle!It’s not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren’t doing it.
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scubaangel wrote: »People. I hate people at the best of times but herds of them, plus lots of buildings plus lots of vehicles and I get really really grumpy.
:rotfl:
You work in a customer service role. You're supposed to *like* people. I work in IT - I'm allowed to be anti-social.
In fact - I even have the T-shirt...
scubaangel wrote: »I'm a very definite countryside person, I need open space and low population density.
Do you like camping as well?scubaangel wrote: »Yeah even I struggle to get lost with that sort of easy to read hints to the route home.
It only becomes a problem when there's a vast tidal range and the sea disappears. But it's easy to tell which bit of the land floods: It's where they're building new houses... :rotfl:scubaangel wrote: »I don't think I've ever actually driven myself through Blackpool and usually when I'm in a car there it's because we're seeing the Illuminations so getting above 5mph is something of a miracle!
I drove down the front looking for a car park. Hint: No car parks there.
I found it quicker to walk through the illuminations..."Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
"We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
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No I work in a customer facing role, I have to pretend to be happy to see people. Noone could ever pay me enough to make me actually like people.
Not been camping for years, always used to enjoy it though, loved it when I was a kid and Dad and his friends would take all their kids camping for the weekend, we'd usually hike up to somewhere remote and set up camp for a couple of nights near a river/stream if the weather was good one of Dad's friends at the time ran activity holidays so he'd take climbing kit and if we found a suitable waterfall abseil down it, have a swim at the bottom then find a route to walk back up and do it all over again until we got too cold. One year we were camping over Easter so we had an Easter egg hunt with creme eggs for the kids and mini bottles of booze for the grown ups.
There are one or two but they belong to hotels, and are either insanely expensive or strictly residents only. We drove as Nana couldnt have walked it even 10 years ago (not sure my Aunt could have managed either for that matter).It’s not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren’t doing it.
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scubaangel wrote: »No I work in a customer facing role, I have to pretend to be happy to see people. Noone could ever pay me enough to make me actually like people.
There must be *some* people you like? Like firemen with their tops off or something...scubaangel wrote: »Not been camping for years,
Why?scubaangel wrote: »always used to enjoy it though, loved it when I was a kid and Dad and his friends would take all their kids camping for the weekend, we'd usually hike up to somewhere remote and set up camp for a couple of nights near a river/stream if the weather was good one of Dad's friends at the time ran activity holidays so he'd take climbing kit and if we found a suitable waterfall abseil down it, have a swim at the bottom then find a route to walk back up and do it all over again until we got too cold.
Yes, that sounds really nice. Obviously stuck in your mind.scubaangel wrote: »One year we were camping over Easter so we had an Easter egg hunt with creme eggs for the kids and mini bottles of booze for the grown ups.
And these days it would be the other way round...scubaangel wrote: »There are one or two but they belong to hotels, and are either insanely expensive or strictly residents only. We drove as Nana couldnt have walked it even 10 years ago (not sure my Aunt could have managed either for that matter).
And the trams are normally too crammed for even sardines. :eek:"Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
"We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
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Time and lack of people willing to go with me mainly - the ex and I always said we would but when I tried to organise it he suddenly had all kinds of previously booked appointments.
I like swimming - not so much heights, but I always enjoyed the swimming parts - possibly because I was good at it, and it amused me watching the sons of Dad's friends struggling to stay afloat, or even more amusing failing to swim against the current until they were grounded in the shallows and all the cuts, grazes and bruises that it caused them (they were evil little creatures, hated having me around almost as much as I hated being around them since I was the only girl, and as one kindly reminded me not so long ago 'a fat brainiac' as a kid).It’s not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren’t doing it.
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