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SB2015 said:
The good weather and gardens are an absolute bonus at present.
Your plants will no doubt survive.
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I hope so! I haven't got a very good track record when it come to plants. I killed a cactus once!
 
AJLang said:
But I count my blessings. As I said my Mum was great, my partner of 18 plus years is my wonderful rock and I have some extremely close friends as well as a wider range of wonderful friends. I was just feeling a bit low when I wrote my original post. Thank you for your support xx
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Haven't been on for a while and just wanted to say I have read your posts and I absolutely respect your choices and admire your resilience under the circumstances. It is a huge step to realise that someone we are programmed by instinct and expected by society to love does not have our best interests at heart and worse may wish us ill. Removing oneself from that relationship is the only healthy option. Simply from logic if they are so negative about the relationship then there is no benefit to them to continue it and if the relationship damages you then there is every benefit to withdraw and stay apart. The most important thing is to be kind to yourself and realise that there is nothing wrong or unloveable about you - the person who should have been your main source of safety and love is the one who has serious problems and it is no reflection on your value as a human being that they were unable to fulfil their role in your life - neither is it your job to make excuses for them nor to fix them.

Sounds as if you have plenty of people in your life now who recognise the unique and great person you are today and I can see you are bouncing back again now after a bit of a glitch. I think a lot of us are finding we have a lot of time to ruminate over stuff and with the various stressful situations happening I think many of us have had a few rocky patches where we felt a bit destabilised. Well done you for being incredibly self-aware and wise.
 
This morning we were visited in our back garden by what Fawlty Towers fans will identify easily as a Siberian filigree hamster!!!

Very large glossy and bright eyed. At first I thought it was a kitten and then a squirrel until I spotted the tail.
Turns out it was not as clever as I'd thought to try and not waste the four years out of date peanut powder by sprinkling it around the potato plants as a mulch.

Apparently Siberian filigree hamsters are attracted from miles around by the smell of peanuts and peanut powder is like the smell of peanuts on steroids.

I have scraped the powder up and bagged it and put new compost over where it was to cover the last residues and strategically place peppermint teabags impregnated with menthol and extra peppermint oil to deter any further visits.

I was a bit rattled at first (see what I did there?) but I'm okay now and henceforth shall be referring to our visitor as Basil.
 
Stitch147 said:
I hope so! I haven't got a very good track record when it come to plants. I killed a cactus once!
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Just don’t tell your new plants about the cactus.
 
I learn something new every day on this forum. Hitherto I've always thought - from the very fist time I ever heard of them - that they only ever ate Biscuits for cheese!
 
I’ve been in shops! 😱 Today Mr Eggy and I decided to have a walk into our town centre. It’s about 3 miles so we took a picnic, blanket and everything! It was quite a surreal experience, so quiet except for the queues outside the banks!I didn’t think folks went in banks these days. Anyhoo, set up the picnic blanket in the grounds of our beautiful cathedral, just the two of us and a nosy jackdaw. I’d like to say we had a bottle of bubbly and fois gras but we shared a can of Diet Coke that fell over, ham sarnies, packet of crisps and a KitKat. Classy! We then ventured into Boots for toiletries. All very well managed and was so quiet. Them Marks’ for some Piccolo toms and out local health shop for some wholemeal flour. All in all not too scary. Walked home, and laid on our loungers. Good day. Oh and the sun shone which is always a bonus.🙂
 
I am missing my friends, groups and meeting friends for lunches. I met up with one of my friends in the park last week and keep in touch on private Facebook, email and phone. Hubby working from home but am used to being on my own as he works and I am retired.

I am not as bored as I thought I would be. I have cable TV so a fair choice, I love reading, cooking, walking. That with housework and learning languages keeps me busy. I am a lover of puzzles too. My Italian and German tutors are sending work through so that keeps me busy. I do Spanish and French on my own.

Looking forward to seeing my friends again.
 
Another glorious day. I should have worn a hat! I met a friend in the local park and ended up playing table tennis. All very socially distanced. Got home exhausted and suffering from the heat. An hour in the cool solved that. I love having an older house.

Also joined the DUK Big1 which was a Zoom meeting about tech available to manage our Diabetes. An excellent opportunity to talk to people using looping as well as others pumping. The next one is on mental health and well-being.

Tomorrow I need to find time to make a shade for our new greenhouse to avoid the pants getting too hot.
 
I’m definitely a mixture of highs and lows at the moment.

To be completely honest I’ve never been so exhausted in my life. It seems crazy given how everything has slowed right down but I don’t think my boys were given that memo... whilst gorgeous and amazing they are completely relentless. N has completely given up naps now and has decided being awake for 2 hours a night is the thing to do... he’s not upset or anything, just awake which means he wants one of us with him until he eventually crashes. J is great at sleeping but up before 7 no matter what and so full of energy it’s unreal.

Anyway, enough whining - the weather is gorgeous and we are slowly getting jobs done round the house before the builders can get started.
One thing I’m loving is the amount of time both me and the boys are getting with D.
 
grainger said:
I’m definitely a mixture of highs and lows at the moment.

To be completely honest I’ve never been so exhausted in my life. It seems crazy given how everything has slowed right down but I don’t think my boys were given that memo... whilst gorgeous and amazing they are completely relentless. N has completely given up naps now and has decided being awake for 2 hours a night is the thing to do... he’s not upset or anything, just awake which means he wants one of us with him until he eventually crashes. J is great at sleeping but up before 7 no matter what and so full of energy it’s unreal.

Anyway, enough whining - the weather is gorgeous and we are slowly getting jobs done round the house before the builders can get started.
One thing I’m loving is the amount of time both me and the children are getting with D.
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That sounds tiring @grainger, but great to have time together.
Enjoy another lovely day.
 
So here we broke our weeks-long virus-free record with a new case.

A woman from the UK with a dying relative here in Adelaide managed to make her way to Oz on what must have been an epic journey these days. She landed in Melbourne, and went into 2 weeks hotel quarantine, like every "non-essential" new arrival.

But her relative was in in extremis, and she managed to get a compassionate exemption to break quarantine & fly to Adelaide and avoid the next 2 weeks hotel quarantine she'd normally have to go through as an interstate traveller.

At Adelaide airport she was tested as per protocol for recent international travellers. Then she was allowed to go visit her relative, attended by border protection personnel, also as per protocol. Because it was a weekend it seems it took ~48 hours for the test result, and it came up positive. Now she's in quarantine here, unable to see her relative, poor woman.

The tracers identified 19 people she had contact with since arriving in Adelaide, and they're in quarantine also.

This has generated a lot of angst, at least in the media. How could the govt allow this plague-carrier from a hotspot to sully our virus-pure state, when locals not able to attend bedside of dying loved ones etc etc (which is actually not true, here; there's never been that kind of restriction).

Overnight, the CMO goes from being a hero to being an inept evil bureaucrat no doubt in cahoots with Dominic Cummings etc etc etc.

Anyway, it illustrates the immense effort that a really effective trace & isolate strategy requires: 19 contacts quarantined from a couple of days potential exposure ... Also, the need for fast turn-around on testing.

And more broadly, the difficulty of opening things up. In this state and a few others we're essentially virus-free now. There's political pressure on to open up state borders, but while little handfuls of community transmission are still being found in NSW and Victoria, the "clean" states aren't buying it. It's understandable, but there's an obvious risk that this kind of isolationist stance gets more and more embedded over time, which wouldn't be good.

Anyway, I wouldn't be thinking in terms of an Oz holiday anytime this year or next, probably ...
 
@AJLang I saw that run of Chess too! It was brilliant, we were so glad we managed to get tickets.
 
Wow! What a fantastic day, weather wise. First thing got into our small front garden before it got too hot. Tidied up the dead bluebells. Looks loads better. Had our lunch outside and then sat under the parasol reading our books. Had a walk about 5 to the pharmacy, slightly cooler. Had tea outside, watered pots and baskets and veg beds. Oh and I got a text today from the GP surgery to say I had an appointment on Tuesday for bloods for my belated diabetes review. It had originally been postponed to September. They must be quiet.
 
Pleasant run out in car to Lakes, over fell past Caldbeck to Bassenthwaite on to Keswick then stopped in Penrith, Bassenthwaite lake busy, lay bys full folk on shore & in boats on water, Keswick quiet, weird seeing town centre empty. Sun hot so air con full on in car, loads of cyclist around scenery beautiful as ever.
 
Sounds very much like a “let’s have a run around watching folk spread the virus”. Good job you didn’t drive the same distance north into Scotland, you’d have been stopped by the boys in blue.:D
 
What other people do, is very often not what me and mine would choose! If a place is packed, we're likely to drive past it and stop elsewhere instead. If everywhere's packed turn round and come home. Hitherto we've preferred going places eg Monday/Tuesday-Thursday rather than at weekends - but that's not likely to work either at the moment.
 
mikeyB said:
Good job you didn’t drive the same distance north into Scotland, you’d have been stopped by the boys in blue.:D
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Eat their own over border.

Yesterday had nice run up to Alston then on to Penrith. Stopped for bite to eat next to where Hartside Cafe once stood, nowt left now as all knocked down & cleared, despite day view was spectacular as always, sitting having flask of coffee enjoying peace, being there is like sitting on top of world.
 
Bit of a damp and blustery weekend on the cards it seems.
 
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