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Post by Moose on Feb 28, 2013 18:49:09 GMT
Cos I need cheering up.
Am at parents' doing an online course for my sister and everyone else has gone out . Am feeling a bit melancholy. Distract me!
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Post by Moose on Feb 28, 2013 20:40:20 GMT
Anyone? *looks hopeful*
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Post by Kye on Feb 28, 2013 21:59:52 GMT
I. Want. Spring. Now!
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Post by Moose on Feb 28, 2013 22:34:03 GMT
It's been lovely here the last few days. Not warm - very cold at nights indeed - but beautiful sun. The sort of weather my dad loved (he hated it when it was too hot). When he could still walk, he'd have walked for miles on a day like today.
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Post by Kye on Feb 28, 2013 22:51:10 GMT
It will be a long time until we see spring around here. I guess you get your love of walking from your dad.  |
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Post by tangent on Feb 28, 2013 23:43:06 GMT
We have had two glorious days of sunshine today. I told myself, when we next have fine weather, I would spend some time repairing the windows outside. That never happned. I spent the time enjoying the good weather... and I'm glad I did.
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Post by Moose on Feb 28, 2013 23:58:56 GMT
I hope it does not go murky again. Things seem more positive when the sun is out
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Post by tangent on Mar 1, 2013 2:12:24 GMT
Indeed, I agree.
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Post by Alvamiga on Mar 1, 2013 8:29:17 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2013 8:34:45 GMT
We have dark skies and rain. I'm longing for spring as well. The season, not springs!
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Post by Moose on Mar 1, 2013 15:22:58 GMT
It's still lovely here. Cold but clear
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Post by Kye on Mar 1, 2013 16:53:10 GMT
It's about 0C but cloudy.
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Post by Alvamiga on Mar 1, 2013 20:49:25 GMT
It is not warm here yet, but heating hardly doing anything now and not had frosty conditions for a couple of weeks now. Starting to think about removing thermal linings from motorbike leggings already. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2013 16:21:46 GMT
I'm not looking forward to leaving the house for work tonight!
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Post by Alvamiga on Mar 2, 2013 16:39:21 GMT
I don't look forward to leaving for work on any day! |
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Post by Kye on Mar 2, 2013 18:09:45 GMT
It takes me 30 seconds to get to work, and it's all inside. |
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Post by Moose on Mar 2, 2013 18:19:15 GMT
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Post by Alvamiga on Mar 2, 2013 19:05:39 GMT
That sounds to me like living at work!!!  |
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Post by Moose on Mar 2, 2013 19:20:25 GMT
But in some ways that is nice tho no?
I was really impressed with the vicar who will be doing my dad's funeral .. seemed a lovely bloke.
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Post by Kye on Mar 2, 2013 19:24:55 GMT
I have a corridor (unheated) between my house and the church. I manage to make the psychological shift between home and work in the 30 seconds it takes me to get there.
It's good when I forget something, but bad when people ring my doorbell for a handout.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2013 23:11:06 GMT
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Post by Alvamiga on Mar 3, 2013 9:47:38 GMT
Yes, the house is completely dry inside!  |
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Post by Alvamiga on Mar 3, 2013 9:50:37 GMT
I have a corridor (unheated) between my house and the church. I manage to make the psychological shift between home and work in the 30 seconds it takes me to get there. It's good when I forget something, but bad when people ring my doorbell for a handout. Now I have this kind of image in my head...  |
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Post by Kye on Mar 3, 2013 11:11:12 GMT
Not quite...
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Post by Shake on Mar 5, 2013 3:03:28 GMT
It takes me 30 seconds to get to work, and it's all inside. It takes me over 30 minutes to get to work, and it's all outside! |
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Post by Kye on Mar 5, 2013 3:06:37 GMT
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Post by tangent on Mar 5, 2013 10:29:55 GMT
When I first started working, I caught a bus and the journey, door to door, took about 20 minutes. When I stopped working, public transport would take 1½ to 2 hrs.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2013 20:23:37 GMT
They just had an article in our newspaper this morning that said 25% of the "mega-commuters" in the US live in our metropolitan area. A mega-commuter defined as someone who goes over 50 miles and over 90 minutes each way, whether by car, public transport, or a combination. The average commute is something like 45 minutes.
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Post by tangent on Mar 6, 2013 6:45:13 GMT
I used to live within 15 minutes of the office. Then I was relocated and faced a 2 hr commute each way. So I moved house to reduce my travel time to 45 minutes. Ten years later, my company moved me again to a different location but fortunately the daily commute was only half an hour.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2013 8:05:48 GMT
It used to take my dad about an hour to get to work every day.
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