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Post by Humph on Nov 20, 2020 15:20:30 GMT
Had to go to business meetings in Somerset on Tuesday and North Yorkshire today. Roads as busy as any normal weekday. Parking was a little easier, but still plenty of people about. I suspect/fear that there is less compliance this time.
This morning, I pulled into a supermarket near my destination to top up with diesel. After that I parked up in their car park to check mails etc, and saw two women getting out of a car, shortly afterwards they encountered another lady who had just parked in the car park and all exchanged hugs and cheek pecks. Clueless or couldn't care less, who knows.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2020 15:36:56 GMT
Both I expect.
Christmas will be a shitshow of idiocy and nonchalance, and there will be a third wave in January, if the second one even abates to any degree.
Happy Christmas, Grandma! Have a deadly disease! See you at the funeral, what are you leaving me? Can I have the silverware?
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Post by WDB on Nov 20, 2020 16:03:50 GMT
And I’m in Sussex this afternoon in pursuit of a buyer for the family seat. Driving down (wish I hadn’t gone through Reading) you’d hardly have noticed any difference from any other Friday. Maybe fewer cars parked outside the shops down the road but plenty moving about.
I’d checked the rules and established that meeting estate agents is permitted, in case I had to explain myself to a police checkpoint (!) I haven’t kissed any, though.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2020 16:12:31 GMT
Don't know what's going on but there's much heavier traffic than usual here today, must be an incident of some kind. Happens in all big towns I suppose.
EDIT: Just heard from someone there are some unplanned emergency roadworks on the B3345 Gosbrook Road causing jams all over Caversham. Sigh.
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Post by tyrednexited on Nov 20, 2020 16:50:44 GMT
And I’m in Sussex this afternoon in pursuit of a buyer for the family seat. ...getting it on the market before the post-Christmas rush...?  |
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Post by WDB on Nov 20, 2020 18:51:45 GMT
The horseshoe-shaped other end of my road is Bungalow Land. Every so often I trundle round there after dark just to see how many are now without lights. It’s fewer than I first expected but there are three or four For Sale signs and a couple more overgrown front lawns. It was dark when I set off for home today, so I suppose I might have tried the same down there. Gauge the market, like. 😈
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Post by Humph on Nov 20, 2020 18:58:02 GMT
I have instructed my son, in the event of my showing any interest in bungalows or a Honda Jazz, to make appropriate enquiries on my behalf at a suitable Swiss clinic...
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Post by Humph on Nov 21, 2020 9:34:54 GMT
Re Christmas. I'd be surprised if I was the only miserable old bah humbug who isn't entirely disappointed that there's a more than evens chance of not having to spend three days incarcerated with my wife's family over Christmas...
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Post by WDB on Nov 21, 2020 13:25:20 GMT
I wouldn’t be doing that anyway (Humph’s in-laws might be surprised if I tried) but I still think the whole ‘save Christmas’ thing is meretricious tabloid-pandering. Saving our children’s education might be a more worthy priority.
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Post by tyrednexited on Nov 21, 2020 13:26:10 GMT
I have instructed my son, in the event of my showing any interest in bungalows or a Honda Jazz, to make appropriate enquiries on my behalf at a suitable Swiss clinic... 😉 ...at the moment, as I'm decorating the hall, stairs and landing (a job which, in TnE Towers is not a trivial undertaking, requiring much use of a double, extended ladder and some precarious balancing) a bungalow looks a strangely attractive proposition......  |
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Post by WDB on Nov 21, 2020 13:29:01 GMT
I can send you some details of available properties, T&E. You might even persuade the executors to throw the gnomes into the deal.
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Post by EspadaIII on Nov 21, 2020 18:12:48 GMT
Roads in the Manchester region during the day feel as busy as usual but you can tell that overall that there is less traffic, as the slip road off the motorway at 'my' junction in the morning is less crowded than normal and at 5.15pm when I leave my office, the on street parking bays are conspicuously empty.
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Post by Avant on Nov 21, 2020 18:27:12 GMT
I think the 'new normal' for many office workers will be going in to the office anything from 1 to 3 days a week - good for teamwork but not having to commute every day.
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Post by EspadaIII on Nov 21, 2020 19:12:15 GMT
Before lockdown 2 our office staff were doing that, with only half the people in at any one time; the rest WFH.
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Post by Humph on Nov 21, 2020 19:47:31 GMT
Quite interesting, maybe, but my wife works for a major high street bank. Her role is investigating fraudulent transactions. Thinks she's Miss Marple!
But anyway, they get measured on productivity etc. Number of cases resolved each day and so on. Thing is, there's a load of evidence in her business that people working from home get more done per hour worked than those working in an office environment.
In my 40+ years of working, I've only spent about a quarter of them desk based, have to say, those were my most unproductive years. Too many interuptions/distractions at the water cooler maybe.
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