Coronavirus

[Paddingtonwolf]

However, New York looks like it is just steadily getting more appalling.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

This weekend has been alright for me generally, found it much easier than battling through a day of WFH anyway. Had a good tidy up in the garden and a few little odd jobs round the house interspersed with some lounging around, broken up the time quite well and avoided doing any one thing for so long that it becomes an annoyance.

Not sure I'll be able to repeat this pattern too many times though, the list of potential activities is already shrinking. Garden bin service has been suspended so once that is full can't do a lot else there, got 3 bedrooms I could decorate but all would require some outside help at some point so couldn't complete any, and without being able to complete one obstructs me from even starting a second.

Seems to me at the moment there are lot of things I could nearly do that would fill a lot of time but annoyingly there's a few tiny hurdles that are putting majority out of reach.

 

[arklowolf]

I keep telling myself that the first pint in a pub when restrictions are finally lifted is going to be the best-tasting pint EVER. Something I can look forward to with a bit of relish.

I must admit that the sudden lack of structure in my life has become really un-nerving.

Yep, if we all get through this it will make us appreciate things that we previously took for granted.
Maybe we were spoilt tbh.

 

[James]

I agree there Paddy, it’s turned around in Italy but Spain is hitting it’s peak.

It’s been quiet on the Fylde Coast this weekend considering it should be the first weekend of the Season with people staying away and staying home.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

This weekend has been alright for me generally, found it much easier than battling through a day of WFH anyway. Had a good tidy up in the garden and a few little odd jobs round the house interspersed with some lounging around, broken up the time quite well and avoided doing any one thing for so long that it becomes an annoyance.

Not sure I'll be able to repeat this pattern too many times though, the list of potential activities is already shrinking. Garden bin service has been suspended so once that is full can't do a lot else there, got 3 bedrooms I could decorate but all would require some outside help at some point so couldn't complete any, and without being able to complete one obstructs me from even starting a second.

Seems to me at the moment there are lot of things I could nearly do that would fill a lot of time but annoyingly there's a few tiny hurdles that are putting majority out of reach.

First garden job then is build some form of compost area and away you go. Doesn't have to be super flash or anything.

 

[Tredman]

I keep telling myself that the first pint in a pub when restrictions are finally lifted is going to be the best-tasting pint EVER. Something I can look forward to with a bit of relish.

I must admit that the sudden lack of structure in my life has become really un-nerving.

That first pint is going to be fucking ace.

 

[Johnny75]

And you all have as much right to tell them what to do with their personal money as I have to tell you what to do with yours !

Easy to spend other people's cash isn't it?

 

[Johnny75]

That first pint is going to be fucking ace.

Depends if it's Carling, in which case it'll be thoroughly grim.

 

[Tredman]

Depends if it's Carling, in which case it'll be thoroughly grim.

I was about to post that even that would be ok, but yeah you’re right that would shit. Pretty much anything else, even Fosters would be fine.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

When they open back up I am going to be going to the Western at fucking light speed and having a Bathams.

 

[The Saturday Boy]

When they open back up I am going to be going to the Western at fucking light speed and having a Bathams.

I was supposed to be doing a radio outside broadcast from the Bathams Bull and Bladder in Brierley Hill yesterday. I had a special tasting feature all lined up. Possibly not great radio but personally would have been very satisfying...

 

[AndyWolves]

First thing I'm doing when everything is open again is dropping the fucking kids off at nursery

 

[leedswolf]

Jersey going into a UK style lockdown from 08:00 tomorrow until 30 April.

 

[sycophantia]

Living just feels like existing for the sake of it at the moment, no work, can't go anywhere, can't see anyone, nothing to do, nothing happening, nothing to look forward to. There's no purpose to anything, no structure anywhere and then you chuck on how much more difficult is to just to have the essentials around to live modestly.

At some point you do question what the point is.

The point is mate, at some stage it will be over (or we will learn to live/cope with it) and all the things we enjoyed but took for granted will be so much sweeter, hang in there and look to the future

 

[Rui_CostCo]

See Boris, THIS is how it's done!!

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

One positive thing - lighter evenings are going to definitely help my mental state.

 

[pavlosmacwolf]

Excuse my bluntness, but that's complete bollocks.

Excusae my blutness but it fucking well aint. i will find the gun sales story for you when i can, but as for reports from friends in the states, A senior hospital nursing supervisor, to name just one they seem to disagree with you.

 

[Alan]

Excusae my blutness but it fucking well aint. i will find the gun sales story for you when i can, but as for reports from friends in the states, A senior hospital nursing supervisor, to name just one they seem to disagree with you.

As I fucking live here and have family in 12 different states, including California and New York, I can tell you that anyone talking about looting or any kind of general panic over this stuff is talking out of their ass.

People aren't being robbed at gunpoint over necessities for fuck's sake. That kind of storytelling is a blatant lie and horrifically irresponsible and I'm not letting it pass without calling it the bullshit it is.

As for gun sales going up, that's not scratching the surface of a "surprise". People here buy guns when someone looks at a bullet the wrong way. But to suggest it's gone so far as "if you need it, take it" is just false.

 

[Templeton Peck]

Easy to spend other people's cash isn't it?

It's govt money. Read the notes.

 

[Parkins left foot]

Living just feels like existing for the sake of it at the moment, no work, can't go anywhere, can't see anyone, nothing to do, nothing happening, nothing to look forward to. There's no purpose to anything, no structure anywhere and then you chuck on how much more difficult is to just to have the essentials around to live modestly.

At some point you do question what the point is.

Dan it ain't great, but am on my own as well - ring if you want to sound off (will pm the home number as not really going to go anywhere much)