What are you doing during the lockdown?

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What are you doing during the lockdown?

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Just wondered what people are up to if they're not out working. For me it's a mixture of refurbishing and fixing old machines and coin mechs etc and working through the massive backlog of household and DIY jobs I constantly have. With the nice weather recently it's been more garden based jobs
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Re: What are you doing during the lockdown?

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Ive cleared the garage, cleared the shed, painted the front of the house, jet washed the patio, cut the grass a couple of times, cleared and tidied virtually every room in the house. I suspect the accounts will still take until about the 18th December.
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Well I have learnt one thing so far from this lockdown and that is if the vending business fails I certainly won’t be going into a career in teaching!

Has made me realise how married I was to this business just hoping it doesn’t go on too long.......

Never seen so much of my missus and little one (which has its good and bad points!)
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I have done my end of year for 19/20 and submitted to the Accountant. My last set were submitted in early Jan before the 31st Jan deadline.

I have been up on the roof and scrubbed moss off! We can actually get in the shed now as well! I haven't seen the shed floor sine 1995
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Re: What are you doing during the lockdown?

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show me some shed pics steve, sounds proper interesting
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Saw two marked Police cars pass the house on the CCTV, yes it's so boring I am watching the CCTV LOL.

Went out to see what was happening, dog unit and another car there. After a while Police came down the street looking in bushes and around bins with the dog, they were looking to see if anything had been discarded (drugs), Had a look back on my camera to see if I could help them, and LOL, nothing that would help them but very funny.

I had heard a car earlier that went up our street at great speed as I had the window open and I tutted that people drive at that speed on this street, our street is a cul-de-Snack A Can, looking back on CCTV I see this car belting up the street at a great rate of knots, followed sedately 20 seconds later by a very nice clean shiny car that doesn't belong in our street which I now know was unmarked Police.

Few seconds later chubby Asian guy in flip flops runs back down our street at huge speed, followed by another skinny taller one wearing a surgical mask who really couldn’t run to save his life followed by the unmarked car.

Looked like something out of the keystone cops.

Morale of the story, don’t drive down a cul-de-Snack A Can to avoid the Police otherwise you will be running home without your car LOL which on checking the footage again frame by frame is a top of the range six month old Audi, going to be a bargain going at the Police auction next month LOL.

Bit of a distraction in the lock down ....

in writing this I discovered if you write cul-de-Snack A Can without the hyphens the editor auto-corrects the s a c to Snack a Can - when you submit it, Barbara what magic do you weave LOL see here cul de Snack A Can
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Re: What are you doing during the lockdown?

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Haha Richard, my spells are working I see ... that's a blast from the past! x
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Re: What are you doing during the lockdown?

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radical.richard wrote:Saw two marked Police cars pass the house on the CCTV, yes it's so boring I am watching the CCTV LOL.

Went out to see what was happening, dog unit and another car there. After a while Police came down the street looking in bushes and around bins with the dog, they were looking to see if anything had been discarded (drugs), Had a look back on my camera to see if I could help them, and LOL, nothing that would help them but very funny.

I had heard a car earlier that went up our street at great speed as I had the window open and I tutted that people drive at that speed on this street, our street is a cul-de-Snack A Can, looking back on CCTV I see this car belting up the street at a great rate of knots, followed sedately 20 seconds later by a very nice clean shiny car that doesn't belong in our street which I now know was unmarked Police.

Few seconds later chubby Asian guy in flip flops runs back down our street at huge speed, followed by another skinny taller one wearing a surgical mask who really couldn’t run to save his life followed by the unmarked car.

Looked like something out of the keystone cops.

Morale of the story, don’t drive down a cul-de-Snack A Can to avoid the Police otherwise you will be running home without your car LOL which on checking the footage again frame by frame is a top of the range six month old Audi, going to be a bargain going at the Police auction next month LOL.

Bit of a distraction in the lock down ....

in writing this I discovered if you write cul-de-Snack A Can without the hyphens the editor auto-corrects the s a c to Snack a Can - when you submit it, Barbara what magic do you weave LOL see here cul de Snack A Can
That sounds like a right laugh, you should YouTube it and put a link on here. Haven't come across that auto-correct before, sounds like the tubz vending vending vending vending one that is so annoying. How much did they pay for that Matt? Hurleys obviously never forked out because I don't remember it ever changing to Hurleys Foods when you type Hurleys in
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Re: What are you doing during the lockdown?

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Now you mention it I never really noticed that when I wrote just T u b z it was changed but I do remember noting how many people added the vending, ok going to try it out and just write the four letters T u b z and see what is displayed after I submit it.

Here we go

tubz vending
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Ok so thats proof
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