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anyone else?
hate em, hate the feeling of having to do something, hate it when i do decide to do something it is busy, hate feeling guilty because i have wasted the weekend.
i want the time off when i want to choose, not just because it is a bank holiday. 🙁
Nah, brilliant one here.
Feel your pain though, we've all had shit ones.
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Another vote lost for Jezza, then?
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Wow, your glass is definitely half empty.
I've been at work it's just another weekend.
Nope.
Been for 2 bike rides, one most of the day-er, and a couple of hours with the missis including a pub stop. Watched Guardians of the Galaxy which was hardly Shakespeare, but decent comedy. Tea at the reopened local, which is miles better than the pretentious version that closed last year. Fixed the door sensor on my van, I'm just going to put the panel back on now I'm sure it works. Done a minimum amount of decorating and other tedious crap.
Bring on the next one at the end of this month!
I've been at work it's just another weekend.
+1
Went for a post work ride and wondered why it was so quiet on the roads and why the local country park was so rammed with families and teenagers.
What's not to love about long weekends?
An extra 24hrs to do anything you want, or nothing at all or somewhere in between. BONUS.
Pub Friday night
Brixham Pirate Festival, BMAD festival and a 65th birthday party on Saturday
Rock Band at the local and a Lemonfest warm up party Sunday.
I definitely needed a long weekend to squeeze a ride in!
Had a blinder. Both kids out today so me and Mrs ws had 5 whole hours together. Dog walk to the pub was possibly the best couple of hours I've had this year.
Great weekend here. Watched the ladies race on Saturday then cycled to a beer festival in the afternoon, yesterday was spent on my first attempt at all grain brewing and then today a great ploddy 40 mile bimble with the better half, complete with mid point pub lunch stop. Couldn't be better to be honest.
Is it [url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/hating-bank-holidays ]Groundhog Day[/url]?
Dog walk to the pub was possibly the best couple of hours I've had this year.
No cows?
I work most of them,not May Bank Holiday though.Oulton Park BSB my favourite bike race meeting,love it!!
I had a nice drive to John O'Groats and back, picking up six elderly ladies who'd just cycled there from Inverness over 4 days. The total cost of their bikes would be less than one of mine - but they had a great time.
I love it seeing happy customers, so it was a good day for me.
Mine started shite but then has been brill!
Planned on getting out on the bike Sat morning, but my rear tyre was down so had to fight the Rock Razor to get it off (seems very tight) and then to get it back on (snapped [b]another [/b]tyre lever!) then the replacement tube wouldn't inflate, it was split already. Not sure if I did it or it was faulty so I had a trip back to the bike shop to get another, then the battle replacing the tyre was back on. I was that pissed off by the time that i'd done that I abandoned the ride.
The rest of the day was spent with the folks at a beer festival and Thai restaurant which was brill. I went for a ride on Sunday and then today have been to the local park with the kids and pub for tea. I'm now supposed to be preparing for tomorrow but instead i'm on here and watching 'Forged in Fire' on Blaze TV, lol.
Good one here!
Good weekend, smashed out rides Sat and Sun, good food n drink and a limp round Friston with rubbish legs today.
5417 missus went down with the flu on Thursday. I followed suit Friday. Guess I'll make it to work tomorrow.
Nope. Also had a nice weekend. Anytime off work is good by me! Saturday morning spent looking at new kitchens then the afternoon shopping with the family followed by a quick two hour session on the road bike. Sunday morning a big ride on the road bike and the afternoon spent at a local bar/club/live venue's grand opening of the Biergarten with live bands and stuff for the kids. A BBQ in the evening with some friends round. Today a couple of hours on the MTB hooning around the local trails and the afternoon spent helping die Kleinen Sternen with their homework. Actually, thinking about it, I'm exhausted. 😯
I worked Saturday and Sunday, I was paid to ride my bike on Sunday so not all bad. Off today and got the chores done plus changed the rear calipers on the ratty Saab.
I like it but I am behind my work ... 😆
I used to think that's what Bank Holidays were for. It's only recently I have learned there are other things to be done than spend 3 1/2 days in the Pub!
Bank holiday, pah, I'm not back in work until next Tuesday. Wooooooooooo
My weekend is Sunday,Monday.
I don't get bank holidays.
Took the young un a walk up a splendid wee hill, was 20 deg, had to stop for ice lollies on way home.
Grand.
Big day round Menstrie Glen, Kippenrait and Mine Woods. Dusty trails and wall to wall sunshine 🙂
Absolutely the crappest May bank holiday wev'e ever had.
Mrs Futtock has a hospital appointment on Wednesday which is more than very important, so we had to cancel our usual week in Ft William for the SSDT.
Apart from that, she/we are shitting bricks at what the CT scan on Wednesday will show.
Best of luck essel. Fingers crossed here.....
Would usually love them, this one though has been an example in ManFlu, so it has sucked!
Nope. Great weekend.
Twickenham fir the Army V Navy Rugby.
Caught up iwith lots of old squaddie Pals.
Then riding out today catching up with Steve now he's back from New Zealand.
Spent the afternoon looking at bathrooms, but somehow ended up buying new sofas fir the living room..
All in all?
A bloody expensive, but great weekend.
Still time to rescue it Ton, have a ****!
Sounds like all the pressure you feel towards Bank holidays is self inflicted, if you don't feel like doing anything then sit at home/in your garden and do absolutly nothing - not wasted time in the slightest as you should treat it as down time for your mind n' body, some of my best days ever have involved just myself and my thoughts whilst daydreaming in the back garden.
On the other hand if you wish to do something then why wait till a bank holiday weekend, work is never that important that you can't take a day off to do whatever you want.
work is never that important that you can't take a day off to do whatever you want.
Ha Ha ****n Ha. Don't join the prison service if you think It's that easy to get a day off then.
I'm not actually sure if I'm on block leave or sick, I'll let you know after Wednesday.
I spent the whole weekend revising.
Went down with stomach flu on Friday eve...I somehow managed a twenty mile pub ride outing yesterday, ended up in bed and slept thirteen hours straight.
I've no idea how I managed it, but I fell down the stairs at a motorway service station in my way home.
It's what you make of it. Some people take a lot of time to prepare to hate the bank holiday, deciding before to starts it's going to be crap. Enjoy the time off.
anyone else?
hate em, hate the feeling of having to do something, hate it when i do decide to do something it is busy, hate feeling guilty because i have wasted the weekend.i want the time off when i want to choose, not just because it is a bank holiday.
No time to yourself is wasted, you don't have to go places that are busy; Saturday was a usual Saturday, yesterday I had a wander round Bath because the weather was shitty, and it's usually quieter on a Sunday, found four CD's in HMV I wasn't expecting to find, saved having to go onto Amazon, and today I went to West Woods near Marlborough to see what the bluebells were like, and despite the heavy showers it was lovely over there - despite lots of cars parked up I hardly saw a soul away from the car park! It was quiet, there were birds singing everywhere, the air was full of the scent of bluebells.
Then I drove back to Avebury for a pint.
It was a great weekend, what I did was on my terms, and I was enjoying myself. If all I'd done was sit drinking beer and mugs of tea reading some of the pile of books I've accumulated it wouldn't be wasted, or even just finding a high bit of ground with a great view, and sitting just looking at the view and watching clouds wouldn't be a waste of time, it's time resting, being busy all the time isn't healthy.
Mine was great.
Proper early doors swift local ride Saturday, down to Nottingham to see old friends Saturday, saw my sis and new baby sunday and did a few chores. Amazing bluebells walk today and an unexpected alfresco meal / listened to banging techno at the neighbours tonight. Spot on selection of stuff!
Great. Church weekend away was an excuse for a 100km road ride there, and another insanely windy one on the way back. Then another ride around Woburn today. Then watching GoG2 at the cinema this evening with one of my kids.
EDIT: although sometimes as the OP says, it sucks, and you do nothing and wind up feeling frustrated.
somafunk - Member
work is never that important that you can't take a day off to do whatever you want.
10 minutes before going for a ride today I had a call from work
Now I could have just about postponed going in for 2 hrs but would have been risking getting home very late & causing a whole heap of people to also spend their BH stuck at work waiting for me to sort the problem.
On top of that my wife's carers didn't show up 👿 so she was stuck in bed till 3pm when I got back from work.
I'm sure its possible in office type jobs where when you go home that's it, but working in food manufacturing is very much 24/7
In Hong Kong, we got Monday May 1st, and we also get Wednesday May 3rd (Buddha's birthday). So the general idea is:
Friday - light drinking
Saturday - bike ride
Sunday - barely left my bed
Monday - bike ride
Tuesday - feigning work in empty office
Wednesday - bike ride.
That'll do nicely. 😀
Thursday - feigning work in empty office
Friday - feigning work in empty office
😉
Fair 😉
Bit of a non-event in my house.
Mrs Jay works every Monday, doesn't matter if it's a bank holiday, xmas day or the rapture, she works. Fridays too so Easter is equally damp.
Wasn't a bad weekend, Sat finally cleared out the garage, less old lady crap left over from the last resident and more bike workshop, took the ladies in my life for afternoon tea and a bit of shopping. Sun took a road trip to Cannock. Mon, took the kids to see my Mum as she's home now, traffic getting there meant it took twice as long and because of this need to make the most of it all other venues crammed so we came home and as the little one was all tired out had a Paw Patrol marathon and took turns to nap.
I jut sunburnt on mull.
It was aweful.
riding to work this morning, I felt fresh and rested. maybe a weekend doing sod all was a good idea.
Friday was a bit of a downer as I found out I hadn't got the job I was going for. However Parkrun Saturday morning with my lad and his mate. Afternoon in the garden and friends round in the evening for food and beer. Sunday at the folks for lunch and then me and the boy watched Guardians of the Galaxy 2. Awesome! Family bike ride on Monday, few beers and early night.
Love bank holidays!
Looking forward to a quiet day Sunday, mrsmidlife taking our son and three mates for 15th birthday to Alton Towers with daughter in tow too. Excellent, just me and (ill)eldest at home. Might even ride a bike for an hour or two.
Nope, just before ten the phone goes, my son. Mrsmidlife has stopped in the lanes of Staffordshire for a cheeky wee behind a hedge(country girl at heart), and promptly fallen down a bank and dislocated her shoulder, ambulance job. That leaves five teenagers, none of them drivers, one of whom has bad anxiety problems and is nonverbal stranded at a quarry entrance lane in the arse end of nowhere. Marvellous. Luckily my brother lives in Uttoxeter and is very capable, and went up for the initial pickup of the kids and got them to the theme park for the day, but then the working out which hospital she'd gone to, tracking her down, getting her patched up, getting my big car form Uttoxeter, picking up the walking wounded, collecting my brother's car from the quarry, collecting the anxious one from Uttoxeter where she'd had to sit the day out, back to Alton Towers to get the boys and home. Life, just one damned thing after another. Now to get the eldest up and down to her outpatients appointment in Nottingham, let's see what today can throw at me.
When I was self-employed I would often work bank holidays and take the time off later.
This BH was brilliant - three days biking in the north of Scotland recceing the northern loop of the Highland Trail with virtually no rain (a light five minute shower on Saturday afternoon that didn't warrant putting a jacket on). Rare that a full weekend's riding goes pretty well exactly to plan.
Nearly got taken out by a deer running across the road between Oykel Bridge and Rosehall, ran between my wife and me through a gap of about four bike lengths. The car driver heading the opposite way was a bit shocked as well!
Bad: Having to change the wheel on the van in a car park on Saturday, with about 1 ft between me and the car next to me. Managed to charm it out (with the extra long breaker bar charm), the car next to me pulls out, only to be immediately replaced by another who wasn't discouraged by the jack, tools and spare wheel littered liberally around me.
Good: 83km and 700m climbing Sunday on the road bike
Better: Ride to the May Day fair with the 3 boys and Mrs B - we do this every year and seeing the difference in speed and endurance with each step is amazing. As is figuring out how much it's going to cost me in bikes as at least one will appear too small for them.
Welsh Ride Thing this bank hol weekend, always a good way to spend a few days!
yeah crap really ... 🙂
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I felt fresh and rested. maybe a weekend doing sod all was a good idea.
Judging by your recent threads on fatigue/fitness, that sounds about right.
Shit, best of luck to Mrs Futtock!
I did a mini cycle tour with the family. So pretty damn fine, actually.
I agree with the OP.
OK, we had unusually great weather for a BH, but normally it's rubbish, main roads for getting to / from the trails are packed and takes twice as long to go anywhere and with my luck, something always breaks. And being a BH, everywhere is closed and I can't get spares / replacements. The missus had stuff planned with the kids, so I went to work. No phones ringing, no emails distracting me and actually managed to clear half my To-Do list. Not supposed to be riding my bike anyway, so it wasn't a lost day on the trails.
I would ban bank holidays if I ever came to power, the things make everyone go ballistic about having to do something so they clog up the nice bits of the country or all go shopping 👿
Thankfully I have a solution. I work them so that I get more time off during the week and get a lieu day to use for something when everyone else is in work. As I only work 4 days a week I can swap weekdays with anyone who gets drawn out for a BH (we raffle them) so I end up with an extra day off midweek and a day in lieu! Means I can go enjoy the nice bits of the country in peace while everyone else is working 😀
Milky ,you do realise in the next life you will spend all your bank holidays in ikea.
Bloody hope not 😯
My sister got that side of the genetics, 2 pictures in FB of my nephew falling asleep on the beds there from this one!