Mundane News

[Lavender Rose]

Lovely day.

Off out on the MTB again as I've booked the day off. Should be close to 3 hours and 2500ft of climbing. Did a 4am airport run with my wife and her friend.

Waiting for my son to get off his bum and get to college, he also has numerous plates, 3 sandwich boxes and pop bottles to wash/recycle before he goes out. Despite reminders I get 'yeh', 'OK' etc. Still no movement - college is about 50 mins travel and we are 50 mins away from it starting. How the heck he hopes to hold down an apprenticeship - the one he wants is 9 miles away with 8am starts.

My wife and her friend are a bit concerned as her friend's 'ex boyfriend' has turned into a 'stalker'. He's apparently booked the same number of days off work - they are worried he will follow them out to Marakesh !!

Ever thought of applying for your day to day life being made into a soap?! I'd watch! I'm already hooked on the Marakesh story....when's the next update?!

Just checked the weather....15 degrees around midday till 2pm, limited breeze....perfect for a dog run later

 

[Cycleops]

"Light off" last night and woken in the early hours by shouting from next door. Apparently a theif had forced a downstairs window and the resident plus his brother were looking for the intruder with large lumps of wood in their hands. Didn't catch him and couldn't find out how he escaped despite razor wire all along the 2m high wall.

 

[Andy in Germany]

How the heck he hopes to hold down an apprenticeship - the one he wants is 9 miles away with 8am starts.

He'll suprise you. Ours started his apprenticeship last year and he's pretty punctual for work and college: he is organised (at work), his employer is happy, and he is getting far better grades than I would with the amount of revision he does.

Hopeless at home though, but as he said: He knows untimately he can get away with it...

 

[Tenacious Sloth]

Waiting for my son to get off his bum and get to college, he also has numerous plates, 3 sandwich boxes and pop bottles to wash/recycle before he goes out. Despite reminders I get 'yeh', 'OK' etc. Still no movement - college is about 50 mins travel and we are 50 mins away from it starting. How the heck he hopes to hold down an apprenticeship - the one he wants is 9 miles away with 8am starts.

You’re not alone in feeling this way. My son was exactly the same at that age.

For the sake of balance against Andy’s post, I should probably mention that he dropped out of College, suffered from depression, and now has a job driving a van delivering paint on minimum wage. At 22 he is still living at home with no real prospect of earning enough to be able to afford to move out.

All we can do is make sure that he knows we love him and that he’ll always have a warm bed available here, and hope that one day he’ll wake up, smell the coffee, and make something of his life.

But it does wear you down at times.

 

[fossyant]

You’re not alone in feeling this way. My son was exactly the same at that age.

For the sake of balance against Andy’s post, I should probably mention that he dropped out of College, suffered from depression, and now has a job driving a van delivering paint on minimum wage. At 22 he is still living at home with no real prospect of earning enough to be able to afford to move out.

All we can do is make sure that he knows we love him and that he’ll always have a warm bed available here, and hope that one day he’ll wake up, smell the coffee, and make something of his life.

But it does wear you down at times.

We are waiting for the 'lightbulb moment'.

 

[Tenacious Sloth]

I’m meeting a mate for a few beers at three this afternoon, so should really have a ride up to Rutland in the nice weather.

It’ll probably be a hilly 50-60 miles, so hopefully will offset some of the beer.

 

[pjd57]

I'm off to Orkney today.
Not staying, just collecting a grandson.
Glasgow to Scrabster by bus.
Boat to Stromness. Bus to Kirkwall.
Collect him then head to a different boat at midnight .
Kirkwall to Aberdeen.
Arrive at 07:00 tomorrow morning then a bus back to Glasgow.
25 hour round trip.

He used to fly down by himself but the airlines stopped that last year.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Fabulous day , half day,and London cycle show tomorrow..with 18° forecast

 

[Lavender Rose]

Fabulous day , half day,and London cycle show tomorrow..with 18° forecast

I am at the London Tri Show/Bike Show on Sunday....should be excellent weather! Enjoy it Mr x

 

[Andy in Germany]

You’re not alone in feeling this way. My son was exactly the same at that age.

For the sake of balance against Andy’s post, I should probably mention that he dropped out of College, suffered from depression, and now has a job driving a van delivering paint on minimum wage.

A 'like' didn't seem appropriate for this. A fair point though.

Depression is a very difficult issue and is endemic especially amongst men, sadly. I work in an organisation that tries to help people in this situation and we have an alarming number of men coming to us.

We are also in a different culture, with different expectations and opportunities.

All we can do is make sure that he knows we love him and that he’ll always have a warm bed available here, and hope that one day he’ll wake up, smell the coffee, and make something of his life.

But it does wear you down at times.

Sounds like you are doing the best that you can. Essentially, under the fancy programmes and job titles, all we are doing is trying to provide a space for people to figure things out for themselves and support them as much as possible when they do.

 

[biggs682]

First one of the day

 

[classic33]

The spring cleaning takes a back seat today.Had a great week cleaning.So today i a going to Otley for two lattes.Just nice and steady ,just a tootle,let the school run finish and work commute and about 9-30 ish off i shall go.

Not on the 33 service then?

 

[biggs682]

Whoop whoop first mile on a bike for 10 days just completed hopefully might get a couple more in later

 

[Gravity Aided]

We are waiting for the 'lightbulb moment'.

Has a significant other shown up yet? IIRC, that was my lightbulb moment, but those sorts of things happened a lot earlier back when we were free-range youth. I was riding the bus to school as my car was broken, and I met a girl, who was enthused about going out with me, so I had to raise cash to both get the car fixed and pay for the date.

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

I have finally got onto Twitter

It’s unreal

You can send messages to anyone

Crikey!