While lots of things seem to go wrong at the moment, quite a few other things go very much right because of people doing some creative thinking to help eachother
Yes it did! Thanks for that
That's wonderful!
Love that song - hadn't heard that version, thank you.
Glad to hear that some common sense is prevailing. How are the minxes?
They are a great company to work with so relieved I emailed them this morning...hmm what can I say about the minxes they are tormenting Harry like mad...did I say Harry had eaten half the connecting gate to gain access well he has...the gap is blocked but Charlie & Lola stand our side & peer in at him poor Harry...they spend lots of time out in the garden they love it...eat like mad both so big & of course their absolute favourite sleeping...both doing great so far.
Wasn't there a Frenchman a couple of days ago who ran a marathon on his balcony?
Ever tried nettle pesto? It's very good!
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Unlike many families our kids and grandchildren have never needed to communicate with us through video technology as we met for family meals and outings so regularly. Now we are keeping in touch in such a way I am amused by my grandaughters when they are holding the device, I am seeing more of the inside of their nostrils than ever before.
Oh dear!
However it reminded me of our Guinea-pig named Tom Brown Mrs MC had for her class 45 years ago. It came home one school holiday and was put in a cage with an open run on the floor in our kitchen. At the time we also had a cat and an English Setter, sensitive readers don't panic this is not a horror story
Tom Brown was a character we used to leave the cage open and each morning he would rush across the kitchen floor squeaking to greet us. He would often leave his cage and bask in the sun by the glass door, he was House trained always returning to his run for the necessary. Our English Setter would lie with him in the sunshine and on cold days Tom Brown would lie on the Setter. If we called him he would come running some times his legs skidding on the linoleum floor whilst trying to get going. Cat was always stalking him but our Setter would see him off and this continued until he had lived out his life and passed away naturally, such an amazing little creature.
Oh, he became such a part of the home he never went back to the classroom.
So much for the great Gov idea of keeping 70 year olds at home. Mrs MC and I have just tried to shop on line at all of our local supermarkets NON can offer any Pick up or Delivery slots to select from
So I have to go shopping or subject my kids to the risk. No alternative.
Edit just for info we are not desperate YET! But it does not bode well in my opinion.
Perceived risk.. Very subjective.
2020.. Risk calculator.
Diving a car .. Pretty ok, but risky.
Diving a motorcycle.. For some to risky
Get on and airplane.. Risky but many do it
Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane..
Don't EVEN go there..
But Standing less then 2 metres from another human being.....
Perception, is surely about choice ?
As In @Muddy Cyclist choosing to self isolate for the greater good for example.
But with the govt's inability to handle the food situation across the country effectively, now forced as @PenguinMum , @gennepher , @HarryBeau and many others here and across the land are
To taking notice if the elevated risk and
Conducting themselvesd differently
due to THAT perceived risk.
One that almost every single recognised authority across the world had recognised as life threatening, with tens of thousands either dead or expected in the coming months.
I doubt there is much debate about the perception of the risk..it is perfectly clear that covid IS A CLear & Present Danger.
If others are happy to think this isn't so, maybe a part of the 'Media hype" far too many look to in many discussions.
I'd suggest a simple search on line for the common concensus from doctors world wide in affected ICU wards, and see why they aren't as ambivalent towards this disease, like they are almost every other one that they face, year on year.
I live in London.
Have lived through most of the bombing campaigns, all of the recent extremist attacks.
Bad things happen.
But me, my mistress, my daughter and all our fellow Londoners, got back on the buses and trains, to stick two fingers up at those who dared attack us.
We also have all the evils of society, the robberies, the stabbings, the murders
But we don't and didn't shut up shop.
Sure we may have taken small actions , that different route, maybe a bus not the train for a while.
All those things people do every where, just so they can have that modicum of belief that right HERE, this few feet of space, is as safe as I CAN make it be right now.
Anyone want to point out where is safe in London right now?...work, parks, buses, trains, hospitals... According to the govt all unsafe, take the necessary action..this is a public emergency.
They aren't warning about trips over kerbstone, not are they mentioning burglaries, and as far as I know none of them are warning about the invasion of Norman's, Gauls or Anglo saxons
The issue here and now IS covid..it's the only game in town.
And if a few aren't taking this seriously, I do fear, they aren't part of the solution, they are part of the problem, regardless of who they are.
Whether in govt or on here.
Discuss among yourselves as much as you wish..I'm going to be busy making sure me & mine are as safe as possible regardless of the drivel.
My tip would be begin doing the same.
This is coming.
) and flew back to Derby after having our lunch. My friend said later "I really thought we were going to die until I saw how calm you were. You freaked me out".
No I haven't. But I have enough nettles for a whole pile of stuff, I just won't be using them in place of toilet paper....
