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Well homeschool and working has had mixed results. Spent the morning swearing at the work laptop trying to get it to talk to the printer etc. Am not impressed with daughter two's attitude to home learning either. She insisted on sitting on the table to do her biology and has flatly refused to address me as Mrs Parmee. Am going to attempt family yoga later, perhaps after a stiff gin
 
We managed a wok roast und a reservoir, and saw just four people, from whom we were well distanced. Good to get some fresh air and lovely to be warm in the sun.

My week to cook now and no problems with getting what I needed so far
 
We’ve been for an 8 mile walk, door to door. No car involved. We saw some cyclists, three joggers, two dog walkers from across the road. Oh and a llama! WT heck? I’m thinking this may be the last long walk we will be doing for a while. :(
 

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I’m just picking my jaw up off the floor after this morning's shopping experience in the medium sized co-op in the next town. I was dreading it, but when I got there, around 10am, there were hardly any customers, shelves full of stock (Oh well apart from looroll which I didn’t need anyway), got all the stuff I needed for the week, (which was mainly fruit and veg, but I did panic buy fruit pastilles and jelly babies in case of hypos). Shelf stackers busy replenishing stocks, but all moved out of the way and gave you your 2 metres of distance if you needed something near them, all in all, more relaxing than a normal Monday morning! Took a spare mediwipe from my Libre sensor pack to clean the trolley handle, and sanitised hands once back at the car. I couldn’t believe it was such an oasis of calm after the panic and empty shelves of last week. Perhaps everyone’s finally run out of room in their fridges/cupboards/sheds.
 
eggyg said:
We’ve been for an 8 mile walk, door to door. No car involved. We saw some cyclists, three joggers, two dog walkers from across the road. Oh and a llama! WT heck? I’m thinking this may be the last long walk we will be doing for a while. :(
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We were thinking about Llamas yesterday, you hear about trekking centres where you lead a llama, and we worked out this would keep you nicely spaced 2 metres apart. Horse riding is similar, a horse is about 2 metres long. (But I have a feeling tonight’s Boris speech might well scupper riding for a while).
 
SB2015 said:
We managed a wok roast und a reservoir, and saw just four people,
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I know that was just a bit of autocorrect, but I am helpless with giggles here Sue.

I didn’t even know you spoke German!
 
If only I checked before I posted them.
Mind you it made me chuckle too.
A good thing after hearing Bo-Jo
I am glad that I have loads of interests.
 
Robin said:
We were thinking about Llamas yesterday, you hear about trekking centres where you lead a llama, and we worked out this would keep you nicely spaced 2 metres apart. Horse riding is similar, a horse is about 2 metres long. (But I have a feeling tonight’s Boris speech might well scupper riding for a while).
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You can still go out to exercise once each day.
Is your horse at home with you? Could be a good form of exercise,
(Not for me as I find that there is no brake, steering wheel and gears is a bit of an issue in a horse)
 
SB2015 said:
You can still go out to exercise once each day.
Is your horse at home with you? Could be a good form of exercise,
(Not for me as I find that there is no brake, steering wheel and gears is a bit of an issue in a horse)
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No, unfortunately, we have to travel to the stables t have a lesson, and can’t really do it without involving other people. I expect the governing body of riding schools will order them all to close anyway.
 
I am not sure that we will notice much difference with the new rules. We will just walk nearer home after our meal as our exercise, and get on with stuff in the house or garden. Might need to plan my meals a bit more to reduce the number of shopping trips.
 
Marvin is looking very forlorn at the idea of having to drop to only one walk a day :(
 
I guess you called him Marvin for a reason, Mike, so being gloomy must be par for the course:D
 
Marvin! LOL :D
 
Benny G said:
Exponential growth of a new virus in the human population? I remember when HIV was spreading around the world, scientists explained the facts and figures and showed how the whole human race would be infected by 2006, I felt devastated.
But it turned out that not everybody was at equal risk of catching HIV: Once the appropriate protective measures were introduced (for those most at risk) the virus became less apocalyptic, and in time even manageable.
So back to the present situation, we could either concentrate protection at those most at risk of pneumonia while the rest of the very low risk population keeps working or we could put the whole country under martial law and then have to live through the decades of economic wasteland.
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Three immediate problems.
1. How would you stop it being transmitted into care homes by carers who had been exposed to it in their daily lives.
2. How would you keep essential services running even if, say, only 10% of the workforce was suffering from it at any one time,(bearing in mind that when the day most people get it 'mildly' a lot of them still have to spend a week in bed with a high temperature, like 'flu used to do before they invented the jab).
3. How would you define who needs to be kept apart? It’s emerging that in the UK there are a surprising number of younger people (30s and 40s) needing critical care.
I wouldn’t like to be a vulnerable person self-isolating, and find that if my house catches fire, there aren’t enough firemen left standing to man the fire engine, or if I needed to go to hospital, half the nurses are off with it.
(Sorry, this is derailing the thread, perhaps it should be moved to a more appropriate place.)
 
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Setting politics aside, and focusing on our current situation,

Today
I plan to conquer the problem of not being able to upload photos.
(@everydayupsanddowns be warned there may be more squeals of ‘help’)
My garden is growing and we will be spending lots of time in there.
I have three weaving projects near completion and want to add to the Procraftination thread.

This along with Pilates (because that is what I would have done normally today) and some time in the sunshine gardening (or perhaps just reading my book. Why does that still feel so decadent after all these years)

Weird times, and somehow the decree to stay at home feels safer.
I can’t promise that I will be feeling quite so positive in weeks to come.

No Marvin to be walked, And I am glad that we do not have to have a dog to be allowed out for our exercise.
 
We're still piddling around with soft semi-lockdowns and border closings here, but I imagine that will tighten up over the next couple of days. Too often still policy here consists of following what country X did - not a great strategy when country X is eg the UK.

Magpies, natural social distancers, have taken it upon themselves to help out. Here's one monitoring social distancing compliance:

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Generally magpies stand around on the ground doing nothing except social distancing and warbling beautifully, and for two weeks in spring attacking anything which approaches their nests with beserk fury.

Sometimes one develops a Mussolini complex and decides to stand on something tall instead of on the ground. (The others politely ignore him.) Poor form in normal times, but these days we need leaders.

Corellas on the other hand are completely useless:

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The death rate in Italy is finally showing signs of slowing so that's a hopeful sign too.
 
Still no joy with uploading photos!
Frustrating. I don’t seem to have, or can’t see the options of reducing the size of the file
 
I thought that I had solved it, using one of the little buttons on the menu bar.
@Robin, @everydayupsanddowns when do you get the bit that gives you the choice of how big the file will be. I am on an iPad.

Step away from the machine and accept defeat for today.
 
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