Scuba's Saving the Ha'Pennies

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

Any events he wishes to hold in the pill boxes I want no part of!

It could be a WW2 re-enactment for all you know. Not fancy dressing up as a moll?

scubaangel wrote: »

Aside from anything else hes the same age as my Dad.

Sugar daddy...

scubaangel wrote: »

Day off today, so went for a run around the forest. I did the 2.5 mile trail, it was a slow run, mainly because there were big sections which were ridiculously muddy and its all slopes. But thats 1 visit towards covering the cost of the annual pass.

But was it *good*? Or just cold and muddy and an endurance test?

scubaangel wrote: »

Spoke to the friend I work with this evening, they've been talking about a work girls night out on Wednesday - apparently it was discussed in the office today so I'm planning to go to the cinema with them which will be nice as I so rarely get to see the ladies in the admin block.

:T

Just be careful what you're going to see though. For some reasons known only to Google Adwords, I've been bombarded with "Fifty Shades of Grey" adverts - so I guess it's out soon...

scubaangel

Valentines Day I seem to remember was the date they were talking about before Christmas. No I think In to the Woods was mentioned but tbh I wasn't listening much beyond the point my brain went 'out the house with people'.

Pfft or just a friend from the group who I meet up with quite often in London.

The flatter/less slippery and muddy bits were reasonably pleasant, but alot of it was just keeping an eye out for the trail markers as there are a few different trails criss crossing the forest and getting confused about which one to follow could add up to another 2 miles to the run or cut it really short. I think next time I'm going to try the 3 mile trail.

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

Valentines Day I seem to remember was the date they were talking about before Christmas. No I think In to the Woods was mentioned but tbh I wasn't listening much beyond the point my brain went 'out the house with people'.

You - or rather 'I' - would have thought people would be going to see romantic movies on Valentines day.

scubaangel wrote: »

Pfft

Oooo...that's dismissive... :rotfl:

scubaangel wrote: »

The flatter/less slippery and muddy bits were reasonably pleasant,

Nice views?

scubaangel wrote: »

but alot of it was just keeping an eye out for the trail markers as there are a few different trails criss crossing the forest and getting confused about which one to follow could add up to another 2 miles to the run or cut it really short. I think next time I'm going to try the 3 mile trail.

Once you've run it a few times, you'll know the ways and have an internal map of it. Then you can start making up your own routes.

Were you at work today?

scubaangel

Yeah I'd have expected more romance than bondage to be the theme of valentines film choices but who are we to say.

No views at all to speak of, the whole being in the forest thing meant even at the top of the slopey bits there were lots of trees in the way. Not my favourite running terrain but much much better than the roads.

Yeah the car parks shut at 5 so am hoping I can get out of work early enough tomorrow to go out and run one of the shorter routes (probably the 1.5 mile one) if not I'll go Wednesday, unless I decide to swim but for that I need to find a cash machine and get coins to pay the car parking in town, that said I need to top up the car as its been on red for a couple of days which means passing the pool and access to a cash machine.

No today was a day off.

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

Yeah I'd have expected more romance than bondage to be the theme of valentines film choices but who are we to say.

I'm sure there's occasions where bondage is very romantic. Say it with rope and all that...

In a Hollywood film? Probability is about 0%...

scubaangel wrote: »

No views at all to speak of, the whole being in the forest thing meant even at the top of the slopey bits there were lots of trees in the way.

If the hillside is steep enough, the trees stop growing there.

scubaangel wrote: »

Not my favourite running terrain but much much better than the roads.

When the summer rolls around, you'll be able to surprise the furry wildlife. That should be entertaining.

scubaangel wrote: »

Yeah the car parks shut at 5

I take it the hours widen during summer?

scubaangel wrote: »

so am hoping I can get out of work early enough tomorrow to go out and run one of the shorter routes (probably the 1.5 mile one) if not I'll go Wednesday, unless I decide to swim but for that I need to find a cash machine and get coins to pay the car parking in town, that said I need to top up the car as its been on red for a couple of days which means passing the pool and access to a cash machine.

Decisions, decisions...

scubaangel wrote: »

No today was a day off.

Up to anything?

scubaangel

And based on such a terrible book - I managed to read the first chapter while fighting the urge to grab a highlighter and pen to start editing it!

The hills aren't that steep this is the Surrey Hills not proper hills

There's a fair bit of wildlife in the forest all year round, saw some deer tracks in one of the more remote sections of the trail. But given my inability to run in a manner which could be categorised as light on my feet it's very unlikely I would ever be able to sneak up on things when running!

I think the times are generally 'sunset' which is advertised as 5pm at the moment.

I'll decide depending on how lazy I'm feeling after a 6am start on Wednesday, tomorrow I'll head over to the forest if its not too gloomy, if it is then I'll prehaps run part of the footpaths near work.

I went for a run.
Other than that I sat at home and watched TV, and read a bit but the kindle freebie I'm on at the moment isn't really interesting me.

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

And based on such a terrible book - I managed to read the first chapter while fighting the urge to grab a highlighter and pen to start editing it!

Almost needless to say, I haven't read it. I have read other books concerning bondage however - this one is quite entertaining.

scubaangel wrote: »

The hills aren't that steep this is the Surrey Hills not proper hills

Yes, that's true I suppose. I did look up the Surrey Hills and found out that the hill that I live on the side of, goes up higher than them. This hill doesn't have a name that I know of (you can't go round naming every slope), but I suppose you could refer to it using the name of the town that's at the top.

scubaangel wrote: »

I'll decide depending on how lazy I'm feeling after a 6am start on Wednesday,

:shocked:

scubaangel wrote: »

tomorrow I'll head over to the forest if its not too gloomy, if it is then I'll prehaps run part of the footpaths near work.

I went for a run.
Other than that I sat at home and watched TV, and read a bit but the kindle freebie I'm on at the moment isn't really interesting me.

I seem to do that a lot with Kindle books. Start it then read something else after a few pages. Usually after someone does something dumb. I don't want to read about dumb people in books. That's what newspapers are for.

Is your list of unread books going down more slowly now?

scubaangel

Hmm I can see a lot of uses for that one.

It's Surrey they have a stange sense of the areas importance which frankly I cannot understand. Its a moderately pretty region with some geographic features but nothing of any particular scale to make it worth the excitement the locals have over pretty much everything.

It's a theoretical short shift, 6am start through to the guests leaving but I'll probably stay til about midday if I can find things to do or I'm very short on hours this week.

I have internet access and a TV, I'm not sat in the house reading all the time now, I am making an effort to download some of the short books so when I'm struggling with the longer ones I can read something short and rubbish instead, worrying amounts of bad erotica which mainly just gets deleted when I realise what it is (must start looking at the cover or even the titles not just the length of the book!). I think the problem with the current book is that its the last in a series which I've not read the rest of, and it's a reworking of the King Arthur legend.

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

Hmm I can see a lot of uses for that one.

It has worked out pretty useful, despite the fact I seem to using a hangman's noose for just about everything... :eek:

scubaangel wrote: »

It's Surrey they have a stange sense of the areas importance which frankly I cannot understand. Its a moderately pretty region with some geographic features but nothing of any particular scale to make it worth the excitement the locals have over pretty much everything.

It does seem to be quite a prevalent attitude down there. I was introduced to one of England's ancient forests, full of historic importance, etc etc, and my first heretical, heathen question was:

• Where are the trees?
• Look they're over there.
• This is a heath. Not a forest.
• No! There's trees over there!
• If this was a forest. The trees would be over here.

scubaangel wrote: »

It's a theoretical short shift, 6am start through to the guests leaving but I'll probably stay til about midday if I can find things to do or I'm very short on hours this week.

Getting up for 6am just for a couple of hours... :eek:

scubaangel wrote: »

I have internet access and a TV, I'm not sat in the house reading all the time now, I am making an effort to download some of the short books so when I'm struggling with the longer ones I can read something short and rubbish instead, worrying amounts of bad erotica which mainly just gets deleted when I realise what it is (must start looking at the cover or even the titles not just the length of the book!).

Surely if it's that long, you must realise it's fictional erotica - it's the only thing it could be...

I take it that you don't target any genre in particular - apart from good fictional erotica that is...

scubaangel wrote: »

I think the problem with the current book is that its the last in a series which I've not read the rest of, and it's a reworking of the King Arthur legend.

Yes, I did avoid one book I had my eye on, as it was the free "Part 2 of X" - not good as a taster if you're dropped in half way through.

scubaangel

Yup the good thing about the local forest is that it is an actual area which contains lots of trees with not much space between them.

Yup but I have to have someone on site to serve the coffee and cooked breakfast to the booked guests. I don't trust one staff member to actually turn up on time (going to have to talk to her about her absolute inability to be on time for shifts this week after talking to my boss about it), and given they start arriving at 0630 and it takes at least 10 minutes to get the coffee made I can't risk it. The other who is reliable is off sick after a minor operation a couple of weeks ago, hopefully be back this weekend so I can avoid some of the stupidly early shifts!

Nope not bothered by genres at all, I was just downloading anything that was free thinking I'd work out what I'd be reading later, but I acknowledge that I went a little bit overboard and its just too many to deal with