How are you all doing?

[mikeydt1]

forgot to add, am now starting anti virals for possible shingles, this is outbreak number 5 ony 5 more years off this.

feel 100% better than the pain and stuff i was getting, must remember not to be tempted by scratching .

 

[Robin]

Well, I notched up another first today. I had 'virtual' coffee with a friend I normally meet up with face to face, on FaceTime. Both of us are technophobes, but we managed to link up, neither of us were upside down, and we didn’t break the internet or our ipads!

 

[Davein]

Day 18 at home and my first taste of boredom. It's been a lovely day and I spent the morning doing some weeding and generally tidying up the garden. After lunch I ran out of things to do so ended up watching Tenable, then Tipping Point and finally The Chase. Tea's out of the way now so looking forward to our evening walk. Afterwards our two sons have agreed to take a break from gaming and join us for a game of Yahtzee.

Martin

Watching Tenable, Tipping Point and the Chase in one session would be my definition of boredom also.

 

[Kaylz]

Cleaned out some kitchen cupboards today, I've never had space for my groceries and instead the cupboards were stuffed with old takeaway containers that were kept "just in case she needed them for anything", moved the health grill to on top of the cupboards as it isn't being used atm anyway so my scales are now easily accessible on the worktop, sorted my needle boxes, BG strip boxes into a nice big tub so they aren't scattered across the cupboard by people not taking care when they are in for their own medication
Spent £20 on chocolate to make sure I'm stocked up on Lindt 90% seen as I didn't get it yesterday as someone couldn't follow a clear list 🙄 never mind they will last me a while at least
Superdrug order has been despatched, never been so excited to know I'll be receiving toothpaste, hand cream and soap! The Range still haven't despatched my order of spec wipes that I placed on the 29th March though
Going stir crazy that my mum won't open a window as the house is stuffy as anything
xx

 

[mikeydt1]

poor partner fell this tea time, scarred the living daylights out of me. just had the district nurses up and they are coming back in the morning to do some more stuff.

i wanted my partner checking at the hospital but the district nurses warned it would be way too risky with the virus, god dam this thing.

 

[eggyg]

Well, I notched up another first today. I had 'virtual' coffee with a friend I normally meet up with face to face, on FaceTime. Both of us are technophobes, but we managed to link up, neither of us were upside down, and we didn’t break the internet or our ipads!

A friend of mine and I did this on Saturday. She is a total technophobe but her daughter set it all up for her. We had no looking up of nostrils or anything! We chatted for an hour. I’m calling her this Saturday at 3. We FaceTime our grandchildren and they won’t sit still, the three of them are always shoving each other to one side to see Gaga and Grandma, I feel sick by the time they’ve finished! Still lovely to see and hear them though. 🙂

 

[eggyg]

It’s been amazing weather today. After making some celery soup for lunch we went out on our allotted walk. It was great not to be wrapped up in coats, hats, scarfs and gloves. In fact we were sweating when we got home! Came home and had a cuppa in the garden and I read my book whilst Mr Eggy tilled the soil! I had to turn my chair around as I was burning. Supposed to be as good tomorrow. Fingers crossed.

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

@mikeydt1 - oh that sounds worrying. Hope it turns out ok.

@SB2015 - have you seen how to make your own yeast at home? My son has used this time while stuck in his flat in Glasgow to learn to make bread and I pointed him to a link on Youtube on how to make sourdough bread (which is actually very nice and not - as I'd thought- sour at all) I'll go see if I can find the link he used because it worked beautifully and he is now making his own bread and making breakfast pancakes using the starter discards (you take some out each day and 'feed' it to keep it going - here it is

I'm worried about the lurgy of course and worried about jinxing myself but so far we are having a very nice time and I'm feeling a bit guilty because so many other people are not.

The newest thing I've done is buy an Oculus Go virtual reality headset and I started using it yesterday and already my activity level has shot up.
I never went out even before all this business started and I was definitely a sedentary person and was rigidly controlling my carbs to keep my numbers good.
We've had to alter what we get as far as nutrition is concerned and we're getting a 'one size fits all' veg box delivered and it had potatoes and fruit and carrots and parsnips in it.

They are so nice I have not been able to resist and so my carbs have gone up to low carb level instead of keto so that means I need to increase my activity level to make up for it.

I have an exercise bike that I'd hardly used so I now drag it into our bathroom/wetroom and fling the window wide open for fresh air and put my VR headset on and today I cycled for fifteen minutes while experiencing virtual reality cycling at the same time and I loved it. I cycled on a mountain trek path, along a winter canal in the Netherlands and along a coastal road in County Antrim.

I am looking forward to doing more tomorrow.

I'm getting organic lemons delivered straight from the small independent lemon farmer in Spain tomorrow and organic avocados next week from a small Spanish farmer and meat from Dorset the week after. Once that meat delivery is done I will be ordering from a more local father and son butcher team that now does deliveries.

I'm speaking to my mum every day and we're keeping our usual daily contact going with my son which is a mix of chatting on the phone (encouraging him with his start up business) and online messaging.

If only it weren't for the awful reason we are now able to order food deliveries from local suppliers I would be completely content with this new way of living.

We only ever used to go out to buy food and we hated it and only went when it was at its quietest so being able to not do it at all is wonderful. We are so much happier staying in all the time and contrary to expectations we are healthier too and eating more fresh food rather than less and I like that we are giving our custom to local and small businesses.

 

[Robin]

A friend of mine and I did this on Saturday. She is a total technophobe but her daughter set it all up for her. We had no looking up of nostrils or anything! We chatted for an hour. I’m calling her this Saturday at 3. We FaceTime our grandchildren and they won’t sit still, the three of them are always shoving each other to one side to see Gaga and Grandma, I feel sick by the time they’ve finished! Still lovely to see and hear them though. 🙂

My daughter gave me one tip. Have the screen propped up on something at eye level, otherwise (in her words) 'all you'll see is your scrawny neck and double chins' Kids, don't you love 'em.

 

[eggyg]

My daughter gave me one tip. Have the screen propped up on something at eye level, otherwise (in her words) 'all you'll see is your scrawny neck and double chins' Kids, don't you love 'em.

They definitely tell it like it is!

 

[Hepato-pancreato]

Sorry to write this but it is'nt much different for me. Apart from not seeing kids & grandkids. Facetime is brill though. Hope everyone is doing ok, if you've ever been to jail? This is easy compared to 23 hour bang up.

 

[Eddy Edson]

93 year old who lives in my building had a fall & is now in hospital for a hip replacement, poor guy.

Talking with his daughter who lives with him.

"I guess I might feel bad about taking up hospital resources at a time like this", which I thought was a dumb comment as soon as I'd made it.

"No, he's just p*ssed at having to have his hip replaced". Doh.

The official word now is that having contained, we're now moving to eradicate the filthy virus from our lives completely. It's a pretty good, upbeat message.

 

[mikeydt1]

partner sat here this morning but been coughing blood so not so good, got the district nurses coming today and also got the doctor telephoning sometime today, this is getting way out of my league.

 

[Toucan]

Well, we have unexpectedly become quite busy!

My husband is a techy, and has part of his 'hobby' set has a 3D printer.
A call came out for anyone that had such a thing to join a group 'printing' face shields for front-line health staff, to help reduce the shortfall.
So together with a 1000 or so others we now have a very mini home industry going. The printer produces the frame to which a see-through plastic sheet and elastic retainer gets assembled and added. All done against a careful list of 'safeguarding' precautions.
We sent off our first batch yesterday, which was collected free of charge by DPD.
Lets hope that every little helps and the front line people do get the protection they so badly need.

Really good to see the resourcefulness and help coming through in many situations now - I hope that the silver lining to all of this is that the spirit of all helping each other is retained, and that the previous predominance of selfishness remains reduced.

 

[SueEK]

Well, we have unexpectedly become quite busy!

My husband is a techy, and has part of his 'hobby' set has a 3D printer.
A call came out for anyone that had such a thing to join a group 'printing' face shields for front-line health staff, to help reduce the shortfall.
So together with a 1000 or so others we now have a very mini home industry going. The printer produces the frame to which a see-through plastic sheet and elastic retainer gets assembled and added. All done against a careful list of 'safeguarding' precautions.
We sent off our first batch yesterday, which was collected free of charge by DPD.
Lets hope that every little helps and the front line people do get the protection they so badly need.

Really good to see the resourcefulness and help coming through in many situations now - I hope that the silver lining to all of this is that the spirit of all helping each other is retained, and that the previous predominance of selfishness remains reduced.

I'm fascinated but confused. Do you have a photo of what you produce so that my think brain can work it out 🙂

 

[KARNAK]

Thank your husband @Toucan for helping the NHS in this time of need well done.

 

[Ditto]

I must go and get my cat from my flat and I must get into the garden and tackle the grass and the weeds. 🙂

 

[Grannylorraine]

As we were ask to take a week off of work in the form of a shutdown, I am struggling with no routine.

@Toucan well done to your husband and all the other like him that are helping with these things.

 

[SB2015]

Well, I notched up another first today. I had 'virtual' coffee with a friend I normally meet up with face to face, on FaceTime. Both of us are technophobes, but we managed to link up, neither of us were upside down, and we didn’t break the internet or our ipads!

We discovered that you can do this with more than two people yesterday, by accident. I did a video call in what’s app to a group. Three of us enjoyed chatting over coffee for an hour. We did find one of use went sideways at intervals. Not quite sure why yet, so still more to learn.

 

[SB2015]

Well, we have unexpectedly become quite busy!

My husband is a techy, and has part of his 'hobby' set has a 3D printer.
A call came out for anyone that had such a thing to join a group 'printing' face shields for front-line health staff, to help reduce the shortfall.
So together with a 1000 or so others we now have a very mini home industry going. The printer produces the frame to which a see-through plastic sheet and elastic retainer gets assembled and added. All done against a careful list of 'safeguarding' precautions.
We sent off our first batch yesterday, which was collected free of charge by DPD.
Lets hope that every little helps and the front line people do get the protection they so badly need.

Really good to see the resourcefulness and help coming through in many situations now - I hope that the silver lining to all of this is that the spirit of all helping each other is retained, and that the previous predominance of selfishness remains reduced.

Such a brilliant use of a modern (or have I just missed this one when it came out?) invention.
Like @Robin I have no idea how they work. A picture would be great.