How are you all doing?

[Peapod87]

Carrying on with life as before, taking extra precautions like washing hands more using sanitiser gels.

Glad to hear it... my hands are red raw Haha! At least I know they are clean.. must stop touching my face.. it's so hard! Haha
Thank you xx

 

[Schrodinger]

Al fine over here except my OH infrastructure is struggling with so many working from home.

Bloods OK now I have sorted a stupid problem out. I'm still in work, I like traveling on the empty roads although the coffee shops are now only doing take away services.
Getting things is a bit of a pain as everyone else is finding out but other than that I'm happy and not to worried.

Yes I am taking care and washing my hands, but i have a stack of film to work thorough as well so thinking of projects to do now the days are getting longer.

Take peeps and wash your hands.

 

[stephknits]

Am starting to work from home as of next week. As I am a learning officer in a museum, most of my day-to-day work has gone anyway. I have one daughter at home since yesterday as the school were prioritising the older ones (before the exam announcement). Today is my older daughter's last day at school now. Hopefully we will get some clarity regarding the GCSEs today. So weird for her with everything she has been working so hard on just gone. Also no school ending stuff, no prom and the prospect of nothing to do school wise until September. The other one will at least have work sent home.
My husband starts working from home on Monday too, so that will be the four of us in the house. I think our dog is going to become super-fit!

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Living in the sticks does tend to have it's advantages as you can see as many or as few people as you please 🙂

Glad you managed to get the shopping sorted Sue.

How lovely of the pet shop peeps to look after you and Milly so well

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Just at this very moment my daughter in law is in labour and we are looking after the grandchildren but I defrosted and restocked the freezer and both fridges and bought tins and dry foods the week before everything ramped up

Glad you got your preparations in early @Drummer.

Hope everything went well with the labour. Must be very odd to have that happening at a time like this - and sad that all those early ’meet the baby’ family visits will have to be done via video/photo rather than proper cuddles

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

..yesterday ..I received a letter from the ✻Bowel Cancer Screening Programme✻ ..no further tests are needed at this time ..reason to be cheerful.

Great news Steven!

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Hope you are well. Was interested to know how many of you are actually self isolating even with no symptoms but as a precaution?

Thanks @Peapod87

I think there’s a bit of a mixture of approaches on the forum. Mostly ‘distancing‘, but some with extra concerns/conditions are sensibly moving more towards full ‘isolation’.

 

[AJLang]

Due to my range of illnesses, plus having a chest infection last year that nearly made me collapse I decided to keep myself to the house the weekend before last and cancelling friends coming round. It got me down for a while, well depression really hit, but this morning I'm back in my craft room doing some felt sewing of pretty hearts. I'm really lucky that I've got a very well stocked craft room 🙂
As my partner is part of the senior management team at the university he has been having to go onto campus every work day. But this will finish at noon today when he will be working at home for at least four weeks and will only go out for food shopping. I've managed to get Tesco delivery slots but goodness knows what will be delivered. We also have a small Waitrose near us - expensive but it's our closest shop - that was doing fairly ok until yesterday but my partner said that the shelves are now getting very bare and they're even running out of wine!!
So my plans are to craft, supervise things in the garden, watch the squirrels and birds, come up with imaginative meals based upon what food we've got (and that's suitable for the gastroparesis), read books and watch TV.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

We’re OK so far, have been carrying on as normally as possible but schools finish tomorrow so it will all be very strange after that! Everything has been being cancelled this week - Girl Guides, dance classes, hospital appointment which we were due to have tomorrow was changed to telephone appointment etc, so it's all feeling a bit sad at the moment.

It all sounds very surreal for families with kids. I saw something on Breakfast TV today where a mum was trying to work out how to work from home herself, while simultaneously helping her kids with their homeschooling, and allowing her husband to also work from home.

Sounded like a logistical nightmare!

Sorry to hear about the shopping woes - lots of us are finding similar fears and frustrations. And I am beginning to wonder how long it will take to settle. I am not seeing trolleys loaded high to excess, and perhaps it is just everyone buying ‘one more’ of this and that, because next time when you HAVE run out you suspect there won’t be any in. Fine if one person does that... but suddenly if a few items in every trolley become ‘2 of’ instead of ’1of’ people don’t think they are behaving badly, but over the course of a day it suddenly adds up.

It’s easy to blame some other ’bad people’ when I wonder if its now more a case of ‘a little bit of extra’ for everyone?

I like your idea of more flexible shopping. That’s probably something I will try. Much less stressful! And will lead to different meals rather than the same old same old 🙂

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

So my plans are to craft, supervise things in the garden, watch the squirrels and birds, come up with imaginative meals based upon what food we've got (and that's suitable for the gastroparesis), read books and watch TV.

Sounds ideal!

 

[miguel81]

It's getting all a little confusing. Early this morning we had an instruction that no-one is to go more than 5 metres from our front door. This affects my dogs and their daily runs in the campo and walks for me in the fresh air. Now, my little village is far from a hotbed of revolution but things erupted at the instruction this morning. The Spanish like to food shop daily and on Saturday for 2 days as everything is shut on Sunday. The authorities rapidly amended the instructions so now we can go to the food shops - no others - go to the doctor or the pharmacist. They even are going to let us walk our dogs but only as far as is necessary for them to err - evacuate, and then back home. Here we have health cards and our normal everyday medicines are listed on there but have to be renewed each year. My re-validation was due this week but as the authority does not want surgeries clogged up they set up a telephone line so that it could be done over the 'phone. Called them yesterday and they told me to wait for a call from my doctor today. He just called and re-validated my card for a year. I asked him about an antibiotic I need every three months or so for UTI's for which I usually have to visit the surgery. He said that he would add one prescription for it to my card. I cannot fault the speed and efficiency of the Spanish health service. I have enough food for myself and my dogs for 10 weeks 12 if I restrain myself. There is no more gardening to be done, if a weed dares show its face it is rapidly removed. I filled a bag with rubbish this morning and will take it to the basura (the big wheely bins that 'adorn' the streets in Spain) and use the opportunity to take my dogs along as well. I don't have any TV to watch and so am having to restrict my DVD watching to an hour a night. I do have an e-reader but am coming to the end of my stored novels. My sisters send me DVD's but we have had no postal services for 10 days. Well it is Friday and it is Spain so it is fish tonight and a few chips. The sooner that the world stops spending money on nuclear arms and high-speed train routes and spends the money on research against this virus the better for everyone.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Sounds really tough for you @Michael12421

Im not sure how far behind Spain the UKis, and whether that level of restriction is coming here, but nothing feels impossible right now

 

[grovesy]

I believe Spain locked down last week end, a friends daughter was holidaying near Alicante, got escorted of the beach by gun carrying policeman back to the villa.
My son was talking to an ex last weekend who lives in Madrid, she told him they did not take it seriously till lockdown, the weekend before there had been rioting in the streets.

 

[SB2015]

I started very confused by all the advice for Diabetics in the bulletins, especially after Monday.

I was pleased to see the DUK advice, and the revision regarding who needed to self isolate. As people with Diabetes we fall into the social distancing unless there are other serious omcplications (at present).

Really interesting reading what you have all been up to.
I had forgotten about jigsaws. We have one which is a street map of around us, with the central piece where our house is, and in the shape of a house.

I now have plans for a balance each day:

- Forum/emails/ ... stuff online
- Contact people I would normally have seen that day
- Domestics (The house will be cleaner than ever)
- Something on our ever growing job list (preparations for our new garden shed today)
- Creativity(weaving, weaving or perhaps some weaving)
- Music (singing, playing, .... perhaps singing lesson on Face Time. That will be interesting)
- Down time (perhaps that is where jigsaws come in. Better than watching the news)

Perhaps it is the teacher in me, I look a good timetable!!

Take care all.

 

[Robin]

Had an email from my sister this morning, who is self-isolating with her OH due to his health conditions. This morning, their son brought their 6yr old granddaughter round to home-school her in the garden. Grandma watched and helped with the answers through the window. (OK if the weather is fit, we could do with a bit more Spring)

 

[Drummer]

Just an update on the situation. The latest grandchild has arrived safe and sound as far as can be seen on first inspection. The other children are sad that today is the last day at school as there were all sorts of trips and events planned, now cancelled. They have not met their new sister yet as they are not allowed into the hospital, but of course these days there are cameras in phones so they have seen her. Hopefully the weather will warm up quickly so they can at last go out into the garden to play for some time each day.

 

[Davein]

An hour ago ago my greatest concern was making certain everything was in place for self isolating.
Then my partner of 40 years received the phone call from her consultant confirming aggressive lung cancer.
I always believed that due to my progressive chronic illnesses I would go first.
Suddenly the virus has become the least of our concerns.

 

[eggyg]

An hour ago ago my greatest concern was making certain everything was in place for self isolating.
Then my partner of 40 years received the phone call from her consultant confirming aggressive lung cancer.
I always believed that due to my progressive chronic illnesses I would go first.
Suddenly the virus has become the least of our concerns.

So sorry to hear this. It certainly puts thing into perspective doesn’t it? Best wishes to you both.

 

[eggyg]

I’ve calmed down today and don’t feel quite as anxious. I’ve started posting a daily photo on Facebook to remind us that life goes on. Today was my neighbour’s lovely camellia. I also have started recording what’s happening in my daily journey, just the highlights, my journal isn’t that big! I’ve FaceTimed my eldest granddaughter, she’s 13, and we have promised to do that everyday and if she needs any help with her school work we’re here to help, her parents are still working. Haven’t managed a walk today, hip playing up, but will definitely have one tomorrow. I’ve got a menu plan for four weeks and have listed the fresh things we will need in the coming weeks and when, to let our daughters know in advance. That’s the positives, the negatives today, postponing our holiday cottage on Arran until next April, cancelling hair appointments and other beautifying treatments. I will look like a different woman at the end of this! I don’t think I will be bored as long as we can still get out for a walk.

 

[Lucy Honeychurch]

An hour ago ago my greatest concern was making certain everything was in place for self isolating.
Then my partner of 40 years received the phone call from her consultant confirming aggressive lung cancer.
I always believed that due to my progressive chronic illnesses I would go first.
Suddenly the virus has become the least of our concerns.

I'm very sorry to hear that x