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Ninth day in a row with no new cases here in Brigadoon & the govt is flagging that cafes and restaurants should be allowed to re-open in a couple of weeks (but with a bookings-only system so that contact tracers can find people if they need to). Yippee! Also, football looks like restarting under some arrangement or other but don't care about that.

Meanwhile it's pre-Winter rainy week and the health department is issuing its traditional warnings against wild mushrooms, magic & otherwise. Don't need to convince me - last time I ate any I was sure I was going to die for a couple of hours and then spent the next couple of hours lost in ecstacy at the aesthetic perfection of a rusty old water tower.
 
eggyg said:
Well, I’ve wallowed enough. Today is the day I start my shielding routine. Put on my exercise gear, leggings and a hoodie, basically my lockdown uniform, and on the sarcastic recommendation of a “friend”, I have done a Joe Wicks For Seniors workout! I was exhausted! I can walk 20 miles no bother, 10 minutes, supposedly gentle, workout and I’m sweating! I actually felt quite proud of myself, I’ve never, ever done a workout, in a gym or otherwise. So, what am I do with the other 23 hours and 50 minutes? I’ll get back to you on that! It’s early days. 😛
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Good for you @eggyg!

Hope you adjust and adapt without too much difficulty. Glad to hear that they now think we are ‘past the peak’ as of yesterday.
 
Just been told that, as from tomorrow, us oldies can go out for a walk including my dogs. Only 1 km from the house (cue the police armed with tape measures) but that will be like a holiday for us. As my village is less than 5000 population the times are from 6 am untill 11 pm unlike bigger conurbations where the times are more restricted. Hooray, it will be like a holiday for us.
 
Day off work today. Been to bank and post office this morning. Now back home watching stuff on Netflix. Hopefully if it's dry Sunday I'll cut the grass.
 
I've had a couple of rough days. My blood pressure has been a bit high and I've been working to tackle it with diet and relaxation methods.

Was a bit surprised to find that imagining punching my husband (he suggested it as he has been very annoying lately and I reluctantly gave it ago) was the fastest most effective way of bringing my BP down!!

I'm cutting my cheese intake down and making sure I don't skip my antihistamine and laying off my sneaky nibbles of the home made bread as well. I did spray some insect killer around the house when we had some bitey bugs turn up with a grocery delivery and my mum has been a bit tricky to deal with over the last few days too.

She ripped a light fitting off her bedroom wall so we had to travel down to her house and then I stayed in the car talking to her on the phone to make her stay in her front room while my husband fixed the problem and then I had shopping online to do for her when we miraculously got a slot for Tesco for her. I usually spend ages pondering over an online shop so having only two hours to do it with the threat of losing the slot hanging over me made it super stressful.

I've also got my PIP form to finish filling in and it is upsetting me because my coping mechanism is to delude myself into believing I have no problems at all and the form has made me focus in on all my 'cannots' and I hadn't realised just how much I relied on aids, help from my husband, coping strategies and it has become scarily apparent that I am not the tower of strength that he leans on after all - in fact it is the other way around.
 
Catching up on the thread I burst out laughing when reading the words 'back of the napkin calculation' - a tad too flippin PC for me, thought I !

It especially struck me since I had myself today used the phrase 'hoist by her own petard' online. Well physically hanging seamen has been outlawed for centuries yet we're still allowed to use that phrase without censure so why not 'back of a cigarette packet' ? (though I'd use the abbreviation fag in that context, otherwise only in a jokey way)
 
trophywench said:
Catching up on the thread I burst out laughing when reading the words 'back of the napkin calculation' - a tad too flippin PC for me, thought I !
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Now I'm completely confused. What has this got to do with PC? A napkin is another name (one I grew up with) for a serviette and I've often heard this phrase used since the seventies because people used to use paper serviettes/napkins and even the cloth ones to write stuff on especially when calculating their share of the bill at the end of a meal. Then again I grew up with family in the restaurant business and of European descent so maybe it is to do with that but I never thought it had anything to do with PC mainly because I heard it used commonly long before PC was ever a 'thing.'
 
Coped with Covo19 lockdown till yesterday, few personal issues going on so felt down & fed up, sort of hit brick wall with it all.

Shopping in Asda this morning bought items for full english, wife served up bacon black pudding eggs fried bread mushrooms toms & toast, big boost to mood & spent rest of day in garden tidying place. Tonight its chicken pork noodle mixed veg stir fry & garlic bread, washed down with beer & glasses red wine later.

Power of food to make ya feel good, mood improved problems still there, such is life suppose.
 
Maybe the restaurant trade is the key - whilst the meaning was never in question - and my mother certainly owned cloth napkins and purchased packs of paper serviettes for certain occasions - they were never and still are never an everyday item in my life. Whereas eg dad's Player's packets and visitors other cigarette packets always were an everyday item whether at home or at work. Hence since I don't regard the item in discussion as simply commonplace, I spose I regard it as 'a bit odd'. However of course, others might not think it's at all out of the ordinary! I know I have been seen as a little odd myself at times, and also know full well I can be absolutely wrong about some things too! 🙂
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
Sorry to hear that @Cazzablanca. Hope your anxiety subsides, and your husband’s return to work is uneventful.
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Thank you. From what I am hearing it looks like many people are about to return to work. I guess this will be the new normal and we all need to learn how to take the correct precautions and not get complacent.
 
The sun popped out long enough for me to finish hoiking out a periwinkle which had got the lurgy, whilst other half laid a few spare slabs in front of the shed. We have also decided to buy a very small greenhouse. This was prompted by being offered some peppers to grow but they need to be in a greenhouse. We have never had one before so this is very exciting. No idea what to look for. Any ideas welcome.
 
One big problem of the herd immunity is that they think that 70% of us would need to have had the virus for that to completely work, now looking at this very roughly when i look at the figures its around a 15% death rate from confirmed cases but the real figure overall is around 4% ish.
So if 70% of us had to have had the virus with that percentage of death rate if you just looked at our adult population that would equate to around 2 million dead just in the uk.
On another point another poster said about their local traffic, in bridgwater it seems pretty close to how i see normal traffic when the kids are off, may as well just lift lockdown as not many seem to care about it at all.
Grrrr.
 
Lucy Honeychurch said:
This evening me and OH, my siblings, their partners and nieces and nephews had a quiz night via zoom. Great fun and lovely to see everyone 🙂🙂
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That sounds like a lot of fun, may have to set one up.
 
strumming away on my guitar yesterday when my plectrum became possessed! it decided to flip out of my hand and went inside the guitar. spent half an hour trying to get the thing out when it then decided to pop out and fall on the floor only to find its way under my chair 🙄
 
I subscribe to a walking magazine and every month they set challenges. This months obviously they’re a bit different . One of them is to walk 10 miles around your garden. About three hours. I’ve been doing half an hour so decided to do it today as dry but not too hot. I managed an hour before feeling sick and dizzy with the added bonus of a headache. We have a decent sized garden with lots of nooks and crannies so difficult to get up any speed. It took me two hours to start feeling better! I’ll stick to my 10 minutes with Joe Wicks and my half hour walk I think!
 
eggyg said:
One of them is to walk 10 miles around your garden. About three hours.
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Good grief! 10 miles in our garden would be very dull. I’ve happily spent 3 hours hard landscaping, pottering and gardening before, but it’s just not a space you could walk in for that long!
 
eggyg said:
I subscribe to a walking magazine and every month they set challenges. This months obviously they’re a bit different . One of them is to walk 10 miles around your garden. About three hours. I’ve been doing half an hour so decided to do it today as dry but not too hot. I managed an hour before feeling sick and dizzy with the added bonus of a headache. We have a decent sized garden with lots of nooks and crannies so difficult to get up any speed. It took me two hours to start feeling better! I’ll stick to my 10 minutes with Joe Wicks and my half hour walk I think!
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My garden is tiny and on three levels of decking with rotting planks. I think I'd give that challenge a miss.
I'll stick with my exercise bike and virtual reality headset and a fan on full blast when the weather gets hotter.

I think 10 minutes with Joe Wicks and your half hour walk sounds like a wise choice.
 
So just got my flu shot. I think we act as kind of a flu vaccine test-site for the northern hemisphere's next flu season, so I'll let you know if it worked or not 🙂

It's very early in the season but so far flu indications are down to negligible levels compared to "normal". COVID-19 cases are also down to negligible levels, modulo the odd little cluster.

By treating COVID like ebola rather than like flu we've gotten attack rates and mortality way below normal flu levels. Maybe one result of all the effort will be that flu in effect gets treated like ebola also, and also gets eradicated, modulo the odd little cluster.

And not just flu ...

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