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@Stitch147 tell Trev happy birthday from me too 🙂 xx
 
So the last 3 days I've managed to walk away from the sink without being straight back washing my hands again, yes it's taking repeating things over and over in my head but as long as it works I'll continue to do it as my wrists are looking and feeling better already!
Dad's GF text me, asked her to pick me up a few bits at Asda and she got everything bar the Antibacterial Surface wipes 🙄 , apparently she might have even picked me up some kitchen roll as well, now to try and find out how I'm receiving my supplies, I told my dad he could send them which he was fine with but then gave him the option of leaving them at Bruce's door but he hasn't gotten back to me to let me know yet
Currently searching the net for a kettle as our stainless steel one abruptly gave up on us in the space of half an hour! :(
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Kaylz said:
So the last 3 days I've managed to walk away from the sink without being straight back washing my hands again, yes it's taking repeating things over and over in my head but as long as it works I'll continue to do it as my wrists are looking and feeling better already!
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Great stuff @Kaylz - that’s really great news!

You have every right to feel very proud of these important steps. Hope you can continue over the next week and see your wrists really begin to recover. (Hope they aren’t too itchy as they heal!)

And sorry to hear about your kettle :(
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
Great stuff @Kaylz - that’s really great news!

You have every right to feel very proud of these important steps. Hope you can continue over the next week and see your wrists really begin to recover. (Hope they aren’t too itchy as they heal!)

And sorry to hear about your kettle :(
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I shall hopefully have hand cream on the way soon, Superdrug own brand, I ordered last Tuesday but still not been dispatched yet as I'm running out of the Aldi stuff, never mind it is 48 tracked so doesn't take too long when it's finally dispatched, I have soap in that order too!
We have a spare plastic kettle but I can taste the plastic hence why I prefer a stainless steel lol
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Kaylz said:
o the last 3 days I've managed to walk away from the sink without being straight back washing my hands again, yes it's taking repeating things over and over in my head but as long as it works I'll continue to do it as my wrists are looking and feeling better already
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well done Kaylz. Be very proud of yourself.
 
had a off day yesterday with fibrosis, today managing to cough stuff up again, only been a few days since starting treatment so i can't expect miracles. got to go on a website to learn various cough techniques which should be interesting, i may see if the doctors can give me some print outs.

feel okay and partner doing well which is good with the situation we are all in.
 
Working from home for the fourth week now. I normally work from home two days a week anyway, and being a software developer it doesn't make a great deal of difference going into the office or not, specially as none of the other team members work in the same location as me.

We are lucky that our children are well behaved and like learning, so they've been getting on with their school work while my wife and I were working. My wife is now into her second week of furlough, and we'll see next Tuesday what happens next.

It is starting to feel a bit strange not having direct social interaction, but what I miss the most is my long Sunday morning rides, which I have stopped for the time being, limiting myself to short local circuits with the children.

Take care everyone.
 
had a fair day today with fibrosis. this is going to be a learning to adapt to things new along with better control of diabetes. day by day job.

if i am okay in the morning then it is a fish tank clean out, take the fish out, lay them on the floor while cleaning, only joking 😉

been a glorious day here be it a bit nippy, just hope those sun bathers out there use more common sense and not ruin it for the rest towing the line.

tonight will sit here in the dark looking out of the patio with some music on, every thing looks the same but in the mind you know it ain't but at least i can escape for a bit.

off now and t.c all.
 
Whopping supermarket shop for me today. Most shelves well stocked too. Should last almost a fortnight I hope 🙂
 
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Stay-at-Home Day 17 and the weather's been lovely, just as forecast. Decided to take advantage of the weather to get in some Smite practice in the garden ahead of the annual World Championships in Cornwall on August Bank Holiday Sunday (assuming it isn't cancelled because of coronavirus). We go every year and have booked a week in Fowey leading up to the event. Surely this will be over by then?

www.originalsmite.com for the uninitiated.

We play this! but don't have our own set, we were introduced to it whilst on a naturist holiday in France - Decathlon amongst others sell it in France - they sell a lot of things the English shops don't eg Speedo type gents swimming trunks, since you are not allowed to wear 'swimming shorts' in any pool open to the public even on a privately owned campsite, anywhere in France.

Anyway, it isn't called Smite by our European neighbours but nether of us can remember what the heck it is called. We have both played petanque/petanca/boules for a good many years and usefully, when the boulists are off the courts (most places it's only very busy at certain times or on certain days) a boulodrome makes an excellent playing surface, but the technique required to successfully score at 'Smite' is very different - and you do need practice with both.
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mikey - you know you've been successful if none of them demonstrate an ability to float on their backs after you've cleaned the tank !
 
Glorious weather again, but still nippy out there.

I shall do my Pilates at the usual time this morning and hope that things are then
warm enough to do some gardening.

Still searching for yeast but heard that there was a delivery yesterday so just hoping that the early birds will not have bought it all.
 
Had our first death in my state today - sad. CMO in tears at the press announcement, bless her.

Given the paucity of cases, and the extent to which the health system has ramped up to deal with a flood which hasn't happened, the deceased and the handful of other patients in ICU would have been getting Boris Johnson-level care, no doubt.

It really is another world. A little angst because of that death and also because community transmissions increased by one, to four; and there were 4 new cases overall, compared to the 2 of the last couple days.

Testing rates are down, because with the social distancing and hygiene measures, there are fewer people with sniffles. Since January here every nose/throat swab has been checked for coronavirus, and GP's generally have been swabbing anybody with a sniffle. So 19K+ tests per million, and high-intensity community surveillance has happened from the beginning.

The result: 70%+ of cases are original imports; 99% are imports + their direct contacts; < 1% community transmission; probably just about every case has been detected so far.

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Because the response was driven by public health experts treating it like ebola, rather than modellers dusting off & frantically trying to re-purpose their flu models, for now it's been stopped at the border.

If every health authority & government had also followed the standard public health approach for epidemics, I reckon that's what everywhere would look like, and the world wouldn't be turning to c**p in a bucket.
 
SB2015 said:
Glorious weather again, but still nippy out there.

I shall do my Pilates at the usual time this morning and hope that things are then
warm enough to do some gardening.

Still searching for yeast but heard that there was a delivery yesterday so just hoping that the early birds will not have bought it all.
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Yep, looks like everyone is a baker now. Our Tesco has been out of flour for the last month. Yesterday there was a solitary pack of khorasan wheat flour left when I went.

Our stock of flour is now somewhat depleted, but we still have yeast, so we still bake a couple of loafs a week.
 
testing for public in the UK will be at least a month away, also found out if people ring 111 with suspected covid they are not doing any tests unless the person is taken to hospital. how it works for MP's and other high that they get tested and yet general public are not getting tested is unclear, 1 set of rules for 1 lot and for us out there, stuffed up.
 
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