It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas Off Topic Chat

On that last bit, one funny thing I saw at the game, 2 lads about 2 rows ahead of us must have agreed to swap jerseys at the end, one an England fan was wearing a jersey in dart player size (i.e massive) whilst the Irish lad looked like he was half the size and was wearing a player fit slim jersey, watching the English lad trying to get it over his shoulders had our whole section in stitches, no idea what the two of them were thinking, so they ended up just swapping scarves... have to say the few English fans near us were sound though, very complimentary towards our team & fans.

Same here @pigtail33, we used to get Good Friday as a company day but we've been taken over by a much larger company & it doesn't seem like we are going to get it. Proper raging over it as it's lovely to have Good Friday off & it makes the childcare situation so much easier!

I'm still mad every time it comes around and they changed the policy over 10 years ago! The extra day really did make such a difference, otherwise, it's just like a normal BH weekend. I used to always WFH on Good Friday, but that's the norm for me now, so I don't get anything extra. I refuse to take it as part of my annual leave!

I always think it's pure stingy of a business to make employees use leave when the office is closed.

I know a few places it happens and its so cheap. Especially in big multinationals where it'd be easily absorbed.

Ah jeez, I couldn't work for a Scrooge like that...and then the same company probably wonders why staff morale is in the dumps!

Worked in factories all my life. Never had it off. I think it's mostly just office staff and building sites that get this day off (after all it's just like any other day, businesses have zero obligation to give it off to a worker).

Best of luck to anyone who has it off. Would be great to have two short weeks.

Child's christening on Saturday now all systems go. 5 months have flown by.

What used to bug me most about working Good Friday years ago was that I used to get the train to work (to the world's most disgusting train station, Howth Junction 🤢🤮) but they would run a Sunday service on Good Friday! Caught me out more than once that I'd rock up to get the 7.20 train only to find it wasn't running! And they wouldn't have any notices anywhere, you'd go into the train station, be standing there like an eejit and then finally ask someone what's the story & they'd say "oh it's Sunday service today" and we'd be like "eh it's a normal working day for most of us"!

About time, it really needed it, it was desperate altogether.

Probably done over 10 years now, probably around the time it changed to howth junction/donaghmede

Always feel we're getting somewhere when we get to week 39, that's a full quarter of the countdown done and dusted.

Just home from croker, tell you what twas bitter cold out.

I love the "grand stretch" but getting up this morning nearly killed me.The cold and the tiredness mean today might be a bit of a struggle.

Same here, I wasn't expecting to have to defrost the car this morning, and doing it in the dark didn't help. Hopefully that's the last time I'll have to defrost the car until next Winter.

This exactly - our eldest never missed a day until Covid. Last year, she missed over 2 weeks thanks to quarantining at various points through the year. This year, we are back to full attendance so far!

How is your daughter actually DvB, after her injury?

Fingers crossed for her so! Glad she managed to avoid surgery!

Was still dark when I left at 6.20am but was brightening up by the time I got into the office, and as much as that's unfortunate its great having the longer brighter evenings to make up for it. We managed to have our first training session back on grass last night between 7-8pm which was great as the astro's are not great for skill development for either code for the kids.

After all the rain though the pitches were a tad 'soggy' however, so most of the lads went home a tad 'mucky' shall we say 😆

Whatever about the brightness I'm longing for some dry weather, sick of the heavy showers at this stage, cant remember the last time it felt like we had a day go by without it lashing rain at some point.

Sorry to hear that Gidget - look after yourself and I hope you're not too sick 😷.

It was still dark when I was dropping the eldest elf to the airport at 3am!!

@gidget hope you get well soon and take advantage of the isolation to binge watch everything.

Am smothered with a cold myself, thankfully covid test was -ve. Whiskey doused lemsip beside me to get me to sleep.