Life is riddled with a procession of minor impediments

[Funt Solo]

Today, four days late, I got my pay packet for the last calendar month. There was £300 in it. I was overjoyed, a £50 pay rise, at last, after all those months of asking. I thanked my boss and told her how big a difference this would make.

But she'd miscounted. Thanked me for my honesty.

And asked for the money back.

I can't believe she asked for the money back. Here's to hoping that she has some other, more positive qualities.

[The Legendary Shark]

Well, she puts up with me. So there's that, I guess. And, erm...

Nope, that's just about it.

It's gotten very Steptoe & Son all of a sudden. I should write a book. Sitemares.

[Angry Vince]

Having spent the year saving up for a holiday for the family. we all took off for Sydney for a long week of relaxation. Then the lot of us caught covid and I ended up in emergency.

On the plus side, apparently my heart is in really good shape.

PS: on an unrelated(?) note, there are a metric crap load of bats in Sydney. Who knew?

PPS: The A&E I got taken to was St Vincent's - so apparently the Aussies have canonized me. Finally, some recognition!

Edits for PS & PPS as my brain catches up with events.

[Jim_Campbell]

Having spent the year saving up for a holiday for the family. we all took off for Sydney for a long week of relaxation. Then the lot of us caught covid and I ended up in emergency.

If it makes you feel any better... for our twentieth wedding anniversary, I flew my wife and I first class to New York, booked four nights in a very fancy Manhattan hotel... and on the morning of our first full day there, just after breakfast, I said "Ooh. I don't feel so good..." and had to run to the loo in our hotel room, where I basically remained for two full days, barring the nights, when I had to sleep in the shower.

It was certainly a... memorable trip, albeit not necessarily for the reasons I'd hoped.

[Angry Vince]

Having spent the year saving up for a holiday for the family. we all took off for Sydney for a long week of relaxation. Then the lot of us caught covid and I ended up in emergency.

If it makes you feel any better... for our twentieth wedding anniversary, I flew my wife and I first class to New York, booked four nights in a very fancy Manhattan hotel... and on the morning of our first full day there, just after breakfast, I said "Ooh. I don't feel so good..." and had to run to the loo in our hotel room, where I basically remained for two full days, barring the nights, when I had to sleep in the shower.

It was certainly a... memorable trip, albeit not necessarily for the reasons I'd hoped.

Sounds worse than my pre-honeymoon to Venice where I spent two days holding tight to the hotel toilet.

Anyway, I flew back home last night. Feeling better this morning and have just had a morning coffee and taken some flu medicine.
On closer inspection, I think I've picked from the wrong end of the Night and Day pack. Going to be an interesting day at work...

[Funt Solo]

Yay - I've got Covid! Honestly, I felt like I was missing out. I'll be laughing on the other side of my face if my symptoms get worse, mind. As it is, some time off work is okay.

[Definitely Not Mister Pops]

Hark at you with yer exotic foreign new fangled lurgy. I've had the good old fashioned homegrown lurgy all week. Been pondering how it is that so much snot can fit in one (admittedly quite large) skull and worried that I might not make it to the Bill Bailey gig tomorrow night.

[Definitely Not Mister Pops]

Oh, and get well soon Funt. I've had the Covid thrice now, I've suffered worse with hangovers, but it's still no craic. How's your sense of taste?*

*in the aromatic sense. As a fellow squaxx, your taste was in entertainment is unimpeachable

[Funt Solo]

How's your sense of taste?

Taste seems to have survived. It just feels like a rough flu, overall. The weird thing is that it's triggered a rash - reminds me of measles. I've painted a plague mark on my door as a warning to others.

[JayzusB.Christ]

Get well soon, Funt.

[Hawkmumbler]

Got COVID.


Uuurrggghhh. I'm glad I'm vaccinated up because if this is what it feels like with a readied immune system I dread how insufferable it would have been without.
My dietary palette shall be of a liquid persuasion for the time being, I fear.

[JayzusB.Christ]

I'm afraid to hang around this thread - the Covid appears to be spreading. Hope you get well soon, Hawkie. I've had Covid - it isn't the end of the world but it's very debilitating.

[Funt Solo]

Day #6 and I'm over the worst of it (knock on wood). Day #4 was pure man-flu territory - I was the walking dead. Reckon I'll be fit enough to get back to work tomorrow, but I will moan about it.

Get well soon, Hawk.

[paddykafka]

Glad to hear that you're recovering, Funt. I had a similar dose meself, recently and it's a nasty one to be sure. Hope that you'll be better soon as well, Hawk and likewise to yourself, Definitely Not Mister Pops.

[Dandontdare]

Got COVID.


Uuurrggghhh. I'm glad I'm vaccinated up because if this is what it feels like with a readied immune system I dread how insufferable it would have been without.
My dietary palette shall be of a liquid persuasion for the time being, I fear.

Wish you'd mentioned that before I got in a lift with you today!