If it's not raining, natch.
I'll be busy packing my bags for my trip to Barcelona[1]. [1] prace bets now for how long it takes Domenec to post offering me a go on some ratty old dagocycle.
ogden says... <puts frilly frock on> Yay! I might get my new bike dirty though, and I just cleaned it.
cant see me getting out of bed and I should probably be doing the same as Darsy given I'm travelling to the US on Monday. Adie
Pah. The days of the early morning FOT are long gone - I never start one before 11. And how long does it take to pack a suitcase?
V (for that is her initial) generally starts packing 2-3 weeks in advance. Whereas I didn't even own a suitcase til last August. Men might be from Mars, but women are from Pickfords.
It's not just the amount, though, but the method. Everything has to be laid out in piles, usually on the bed, before then being packed into one of the several possible backs got out and tried for size. So I just wait the hour or two until jude's got all her piles out, check she's "finished", then add a little pile of my own and let her pack it as she sees fit. When I'm going away on my own, it's usually just a question of picking up the required number of socks, undies, Tee-shirts, a spare pair of jeans and possibly a change of footwear. Takes about ten minutes, tops, and that includes hunting through the cupboards to find where my boots have been buried. -- _______ ..'_/_|_\_'. Ace (b.rogers at ifrance.com) \`\ | /`/ DS#8 BOTAFOT#3 SbS#2 UKRMMA#13 DFV#8 SKA#2 IBB#10 `\\ | //' `\|/` `
I was sent out to buy a suitcase last year (we already had several, but no small ones since my "bag on wheels" self-destructed @ La Defense Granda Arche RER station in August). I bought one the same make and style as the larger Skyflight case we already have. Her (indignant) response? "Why did you buy one that colour?" Both new and older cases are dark grey.
Good. They're a fucking menace, as are the idiots who use them. They effectively increase a human's 'footprint' by three or four times and get under my feet when I'm trying to get anywhere. Our local supermarket has started using 'baskets on wheels' in a ploy to get people to buy more; a, obvious point which the fuckwits who use them either don't get or don't care about. So you get some bloke built like a brick shithouse wheeling one along behind him, and inside there's a packet of Laughing Cow cheese and a toothbrush. Why the ignorant **** doesn't just pick the basket up and carry it, beggars fucking belief. D. -- des French Biking Vocabulary: http://minilien.fr/a0kg0p 'Kaiser: "Can you prove to me the existence of G-d?" Bismarck: "The Jews, your Majesty. The Jews"'
yeah but starting at 11 means us leaving home at 9ish and out of bed before then. on a Sunday that aint gonna happen. packing for three days work, three suits, shirts, spare tshirt, knickers, sox, boots. about half an hour. I do the pile on the bed thing though. its the chargers and other stuff that takes the time to sort out. Adie
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, darsy You'll have noted that the number of spare knickers was not specified. -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest" WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (Fallen apart) Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Norton 850 Commando Kawasaki GTR1400
As per darsy: *boggle* . Sure, it's always a hassle, but I find if I do the piles thing then I can't be sure if something's packed or not. Putting the case/bag on the bed and putting the piles straight into it makes much more sense - quite apart from the efficiencies involved with fewer dat transfer, sorry, clothes moving operations, it makes it much easier to be sure that something is packed. When the other method is used, I'm often going to be in the situation of thinking "I wonder if X got packed? I know it was in a pile on the bed, but did it get rejected before the pile was packed?" -- _______ ..'_/_|_\_'. Ace (b.rogers at ifrance.com) \`\ | /`/ DS#8 BOTAFOT#3 SbS#2 UKRMMA#13 DFV#8 SKA#2 IBB#10 `\\ | //' `\|/` `
heh. I have about 5-6 suits, and I don't tend to wear the same one all week - usually one on Monday/Tuesday, a different one on Wed/Thu and then (usually) smart-casual on Friday. Then a different combination of 2 different suits the next week. In the summer though, I quite often wear "jacket and jeans" a lot of the time, which is a look that I imagine might make you scoff. But if I were going away for a few days on business, I'd wear the same suit the whole time, definitely.
My Mrs does that, but mainly so that once *I'm* ready to do the packing (?), she can check everything off the list.
actually, they're all fairly conservative. Two of them are even pin- striped. I used to know a bloke that wore the same suit for *years* without getting it cleaned. It was fairly shiny round the crotch and pockets. heh.
