Ten Years Asleep In The Queue For The Late Night Bus

[thebustocrookes]

1. The Americans have Black Friday. Here in Yorkshire, there’s Black Eye Friday (also known as Mad Friday) - the last Friday before Christmas, usually a time of carnage in town centre alehouses. So here I am at home, stone cold sober (i.e. Mrs B is off on her work night out, and I’ve been reading Danny Champion Of The World plus some Alice In

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So this works... how?

[mammadibiba]

1. What do we have here in (not so) sunny Angus? Helpful hints required

Re: So this works... how?

[thebustocrookes]

1. Those "73s" have left Sheffield now (they were here over the summer as "Tram Replacements" - I miss them and seeing exotic Angus destinations being advertised to the people of Sheffield

[_luaineach]

1. No, really! "Black Eye" Friday is a thing?! It sounds perfect for my early 20s

[thebustocrookes]

1. Yeah - whilst people in Yorkshire have taken Black Friday to become a regular event in the UK, and I've even seen people having "Thanksgiving" meals over here, I doubt Black Eye Friday will be celebrated elsewhere in the world! Thankfully I'm too old for social media to have bene around in my early 20s, so very little evidence exists

[skip_to_fiona]

2. 2 glasses of wine are my limit now, and only ever at the weekends. We're lucky that the girls let us sleep in at the weekends.

4. We get issued with a class list, and everyone in the class gets a card. It really helps with spelling some of the names! And they have post boxes in their classes to post all of their cards. Both my two play with boys, but we've had no talk of boyfriends or marriage yet. No awkwardness either. It's probably a rural Norfolk thing...

6/7. I can sympathise with you on this. I've always had an internal battle between idealism and realism. I feel like I've had to sacrifice my idealism in order to have a chance at getting elected. And now I feel I've been conditioned to think that way so it's really difficult to believe that Corbyn could get elected. However I think that politics in the UK is all up in the air at the moment, it's no longer as straight forward as it used to be, so who's to say what will happen in the future...?

[thebustocrookes]

2. Two glasses? You could drink me under the table...

4. That's properly organised! I thought that "Boshra" was called "Mushra" before we received her card (J is very softly spoken, shy) so I wish we'd had a list in advance - nearly made a major faux pas there!

6/7. I was nodding along when I read the word "conditioning" - I don't know if the idea that there aren't enough on the "left" to win power (without attracting at leat some from the "centre") is true or I've just bought into it because that's the drip drip that the media have fed me with. I just don't want to slip into the comfort zone of thinking that because "a huge number of Labour party *members* voted for Corbyn" that "a large number of *voters* will vote for him"... I'm tempted to believe the leader who's generally telling me things that I want to believe in, but sceptical that things aren't quite so rosy... like there's not enough to get headaches about in the world? :-/

[silver_starfish]

1. Sounds much more fun than town carnage to me

[thebustocrookes]

1. Been a long time since any "carnage"...

2. Mainly full and untouched... such restraint!

3. What is a "treat" nowadays, given your dietary restrictions?

4. People probably don't think of you as a cheeky tormentor but I know you better than that...

6. Sorry - Scottish politics is pretty depressing tbd

8. Yes; for everyone. How do I make AW-friendly trifle? Would hate you to miss out :-/

10. I need to work out when *our* ten year anniversary is... what as your name back in those days?

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