Good Morning Thread - Come say good morning, tell us what you've got on today. :)

We have this thread on TilersForums.com and it's just been restarted because the old thread had 20,000 replies and 500,000 views. And there were 700 pages. Started to lag a bit on slow connections.

I think we had a bash of this before, but I can't find the thread, so thought I'd start another one off.

If you have time in the mornings, come post in the thread before you head off to work, let us know what you've got on and what the weather is like in your area etc. Anything at all is fine. :)

Posts and likes get counted towards your total stats in this thread.

So GOOOD MORNING PEOPLE - WEATHER IS NICE TODAY IN STOKE. I'M THANKFUL IT'S FRIDAY, HAD A RUBBISH WEEK. THANK GOD IT'S OVER.

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It'll be just a couple of miles for me this week. Drove from home to Basildon last night. Got to do today's job then up to Spalding for the night. Tomorrow at Spalding then off to Sheffield for the night. Wednesday at Sheffield then drive to Runcorn job for Thursday. After Runcorn I drive back home Thursday evening. Friday sat down doing reports. Sat and Sunday off 😀
Only 333 days until next summers holiday, not that I'm counting.
 
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Part III, the eldest.
I realise I should have posted this at the weekend, but hey ho.

She’s had a full year now of teaching English in Seoul S. Korea, and has been accepted to stay another year at the same school.
To celebrate, her and a colleague took a weeks holiday to Japan…

You’ve heard of “Disney” World…. Then this must be “Super Mario World” World….

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Real life size. Actual people in this photo. Mad
 
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20th of August.

1 day until my wedding anniversary…..
Scottish kids are back to school (not mine anymore)…..
English kids are now in the middle of their summer holiday…..
We have had heatwave after heatwave…..

and B&M Bargains have their Xmas stock out

In August!!
Next we’ll be hearing Mariah Carey on the radio
 
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Used to do a lot of retail work and the Christmas stock turned up around July and normally put out September, depressing
 
And to think I was moaning when I saw Halloween stuff in Poundland today.
 
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And to think I was moaning when I saw Halloween stuff in Poundland today.
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Saw the Halloween stuff in B&M last week when I was in… but Xmas???

Granted, it was just one aisle, with selection boxes and some mug-and-hot chocolate type gift boxes.

Possibly last years stock
 
We’ve always had Halloween…. We just didn’t have “trick or treat”

We went “guising” instead. Which is nothing to do with Guy Fawkes… it’s short for disguising. To dress up.

Guy Fawkes. When we celebrate a failed attempt to blow up Westminster.

Does nobody “bob for apples” nowadays…
(Or “dookin’ for apples” round here)
 
I'd never heard of Halloween when I was a lad. Quite simply didn't exist around here. Oldest offspring is now 35, and I seem to remember a bit of turnip carving going on , but nothing more.
 
No I'd never heard of Halloween as a kid nor Father's Day.
 
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Does nobody “bob for apples” nowadays…
(Or “dookin’ for apples” round here)
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It was dunking for apples around here. Haven't seen or heard of it since I was a kid
 
Halloween is a USA invention as they do not have a Fireworks Night who would have thought we would celebrate an attempt to kill our King, the original intention I believe.
 
Trick or treating is a USA invention.

Halloween goes back centuries, possibly to pagen times and has roots in Christianity just like Christmas and Easter.
Shakespeare even mentions a lantern made from a hollowed out turnip on All Hallows Eve…. the pumpkin being the American import.

So Halloween was being celebrated before America was even founded…. Just without the plastic devil horns and Scream masks.
 
Pagen, Celtic, Germanic….. no matter. Still older that America.

We should take care that their 4th of July celebrations don’t start over here 🤪😏
 
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Just got to my diabetic retinopathy appointment. They put drops in my eyes that dilate the pupils then take photos of my eyes. The problem is the drops don't wear off for hours and it's a sunny day. My eyesight will be sh1te for hours 🤢
 
Wedding anniversary last week, and now we’ve hardly any kids in the house, we went out to something called a “gig”

Last time we saw live music that wasn’t a school theatre show would have been T in The Park, 1997


So, from about 2pm when the gates opened, we saw 6 support acts, and the headliners, Del Amitri…
The venue, was the North lawn at Floors Castle. And if you don’t know it, it was filmed as Tarzans ancestral home in the Greystoke, Legend of Tarzan film from about 1984.

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Not my video….
 
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Trying to work up the enthusiasm to drain down my CH and put a couple of new ball valves on either side of the CH zone valve, needs doing as it seems to be by-passing, it's been in a long time and probably the rubber ball is worn, I may try to freeze the pipe's first, have a kit, this time I will make sure the pump is off first and can't come on half way through the procedure. 🙄

I have no idea who Del Amitri are?
 
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I'm in Somerset for the day. M5 was suprisingly quiet. Probably stay until 6ish then head back to WW3. Our son has been down here for 4 weeks and the wife has done some tidying in his bedroom so he'll kick off when he sees it.
I've heard of Del Amitri but know bugger all by him/them.
 
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I'm in Somerset for the day. M5 was suprisingly quiet. Probably stay until 6ish then head back to WW3. Our son has been down here for 4 weeks and the wife has done some tidying in his bedroom so he'll kick off when he sees it.
I've heard of Del Amitri but know bugger all by him/them.
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Well you are one up on me having heard of them, but glad I am not alone knowing nothing about them.
 

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