I am struggling last few weeks if honest and I have a very high resiliance level....maybe as its winter, the cold, the rain.....Ive been working from home everyday since before last March lockdown, have converted a bedroom into home office and just drafting schedule to build summerhouse/office in back garden for a change of view!! I get up 8am everyday (Cher is usually playing on bedside radio) - My spare bedroom/office overlooks some woodlands and is next to a golf course so its quiet- I know the amazon delivery drivers by name now, I watch the two squirrels play, I watch my neighbours cats catch hunt for mice or birds and prentend i am on safari in Africa watch a big cat. I watch the walkers go by on way their up to Rivington Moors, the family with two small kids, the elderly man whose wife walk behind him....why?, the 'jogging' couple with all the new running gear kit, the sulky teenager forced to walk the dog.... I know the exact times they come, fucking Bill Murray has nothing on me FFS)- I take my own dog out for walk as he whines and harasses me while I work, the wee bastard usually does 3 shites just to get his revenge for not taking him earlier!! I sometimes walk the opposite way on my walks to make it a different view, I saw two deer on the golf course yesterday....wildlife reclaiming the 6th fairway I thought and wished I had a ferking rifle with a scope. We have a canal near by so I walk there sometimes and dodge past fishermen. In summer a canal boat was there with few hippies which was fun, a hippy girl used to do her yoga naked on the bank and my dog always seemed to stop close by for a pee .... My work keeps me busy till about 4ish as I am usually tired, I work harder at home than in the office....I am now an expert on ZOOM, TEAMS, SKYPE meetings..my Zoom backgrounds include a pub, church and prison cell depending on my mood.........I have "Alexa" speaker to keep me company, play my fav tunes, I have never listened to so much music.....I have some whatsapp banter with mates in between work.....but then it hits me.....I miss my mates, I miss my golf on a friday with lads, I miss my five a side 2-3 times a week and the craic, I miss the pub and a proper ferking cold draft pint, I miss going to CITY and having beers in town before a game, ST holder 20 years....I miss my holidays in the sun with the family, our weekends away in Lakes or Dales or maybe a wee trip over to Ireland to see family and have few beers in Belfast or the PD club in Andytown with my brother for game of snooker or watch footy.....I miss eating out and not having to ferking cook.......but most of all I just miss hanging out with mates in a pub and talking absolute fucking bollix!!
