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What is the appropriate time frame for a countdown?

Old Jan 27th 2010, 1:57 am
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16 too early?
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Old Jan 27th 2010, 2:13 am
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16 too early?
Never too early I do it each year, start the countdown to the next UK trip as soon as I get back - gives me something to aim for!
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Good lord, I start at 99 which is what my pda allows. 16 is almost tomorrow!!!! For me it is 18!
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When I worked in Saudi I counted it on hair cuts, one hair cut per month fourth hair cut home! Now counting down in sleeps 15 more to go and we are home from Dubai for good! Yeah bring it on, after 3 years have had enough.

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Originally Posted by quoll
Good lord, I start at 99 which is what my pda allows. 16 is almost tomorrow!!!! For me it is 18!
Okay I am lost on this one......some may not be suprised by this statement....lol...but 16...99..18.....pda????????
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Okay I am lost on this one......some may not be suprised by this statement....lol...but 16...99..18.....pda????????
Baffled?
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Good lord, I start at 99 which is what my pda allows. 16 is almost tomorrow!!!! For me it is 18!
58........... though I actually wish time would slow down this year as its only 34 till my best friend leaves
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Okay I am lost on this one......some may not be suprised by this statement....lol...but 16...99..18.....pda????????
I haven't got a clue what they are all on about neever
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Oh dear, sorry, just my mind going a zillion miles an hour.

Triboy has 16 (now 15) more get ups before he leaves Aus. I have 18 (well 17 now as I have just got up today!) before I leave - but just for a holiday unfortunately.

Usually I set my pda (Palm diary thingie) to count down the days for me so that when I look at the calendar every day I know how many more get ups I have before I can get on the plane and leave for my sanity hit. My palm will count down from 99 days (because it is a useful little gadget). For times longer than the 99 days, I actually go with the "haircut" and "haircut and colour" schedule as well!!!
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Oh dear, sorry, just my mind going a zillion miles an hour.

Triboy has 16 (now 15) more get ups before he leaves Aus. I have 18 (well 17 now as I have just got up today!) before I leave - but just for a holiday unfortunately.

Usually I set my pda (Palm diary thingie) to count down the days for me so that when I look at the calendar every day I know how many more get ups I have before I can get on the plane and leave for my sanity hit. My palm will count down from 99 days (because it is a useful little gadget). For times longer than the 99 days, I actually go with the "haircut" and "haircut and colour" schedule as well!!!
You are either all nuts or homesick

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You are either all nuts or homesick

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Well me dear, could be a bit o' one or t'other. Where you be too in Zumerzet? I be from Wells. (but I'm terribly sophisticated nowadays)

oops almost forgot: 15
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Well me dear, could be a bit o' one or t'other. Where you be too in Zumerzet? I be from Wells. (but I'm terribly sophisticated nowadays)

oops almost forgot: 15
Oohhh arrrgghhh I be from Frome via Wollongong and Liverpool
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Oohhh arrrgghhh I be from Frome via Wollongong and Liverpool
Frome is somewhere I don't know that much about. Been there a few times but mostly through it. Went there on my last trip home as we did the Xmas food shopping at Asda.

I wanted to go to Waitrose in Bath but my parents gave me that 'you're no son of ours, where did we go so wrong' kind of look.
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Default Re: What is the appropriate time frame for a countdown?

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Well me dear, could be a bit o' one or t'other. Where you be too in Zumerzet? I be from Wells. (but I'm terribly sophisticated nowadays)

oops almost forgot: 15

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Oohhh arrrgghhh I be from Frome via Wollongong and Liverpool
Small world - family live just outside Bristol now, I was born near Glastonbury, and my Mum has spent most of her life in Frome - grew up there, and moved back there for several years when we all left home.
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Small world - family live just outside Bristol now, I was born near Glastonbury, and my Mum has spent most of her life in Frome - grew up there, and moved back there for several years when we all left home.
With your taste in music I'd say Pilton?
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