ADs predict wine and rioting before 6.30pm (but only if the sun's out)

[Dowser]

Over here peeps.

Not much sun today..so plenty of wine it is

God, it's amazing how many people seem to be really, really keen to be locked up. There are people on the BBC comments who are calling for the army to be brought in.

The army itself will be horrified at any such suggestion. There isn't enough army to keep control of the entire population (because that is expensive and unnecessary) and controlling the population is not what the army is for. Can you imagine how appalling the photos of the army repressing the population would be?

Crucru I thought the army had already been brought in - they certainly seemed to be in army uniform on the tv last night doing the roads checks. Although that could have been particularly keen dementors getting in some practice.

We had the army ‘testing’ locally.

I say ‘testing’ because the reality was three very bored looking army chaps sitting in the sunshine in a local car park. I think they did a handful of tests, I didn’t see a single person being tested and they haven’t been back.

We are just outside of leicester city, very very close to the line on that map! Luckily just outside of it, so ds2 can go meet his teacher next week as planned and we can go on holiday to Wales the week after! Luckily we booked from 13th July back in January, and that's the date wales are allowing tourism to begin. Just made my final payment! Hooray!

Town nearby was very busy so I doubt people are staying home around here, despite the lockdown in the city and the next village!

Sorry @Ibake I forgot, though substituting Knob for Malaka is a good compromise. 😁

@Cattermole

Dare I ask what malakas means?

It means Wanker. But also used as a term of endearment between friends (random), and a word used to describe idiots who piss you off. Amongst other things. Versatile.

@PickAChew

ADs: Altogether, now... MALAKAS!!!

Malakaaaasss!

Though I did tell DH it was the greek word for waiter once. Led to an extremely awkward experience in a greek restaurant. Luckily I'm friends with the owner who instinctively knew I'd stitched him up.

Just sat chuckling to myself. DH is working at home and just asked what was so funny
"Nothing much, just teaching MN naughty Greek words"

DS back form school- they didn't do much but we weren't expecting much.

Apparently he was quite excited as some of his friends turned up at same time as him but turned out they were early and in later group.

Wasn't his form tutor but he did at least know the teacher.

He say it was okay - DD1 thinks it will be a waste of time as her friends aren't in her group and they won't be doing GCSE work but she'll go later in the week as well.

@cattermole
And
@Ibake
I definitely have got my rebellious attitude from my dad and quite a bit from my mum, though she did things in a quieter just going about her own business kind of way.
Also everything that life has thrown at me.
Dad had been dead a goI’d 20 mins or more after a fatal heart attack. Mum said the paramedics worked on him for an hour.
Dad was in a vegetative coma for 8 weeks, mum went every day. I couldn’t,I went 4 times a week.
Heartbreaking
He lived another 4 weeks after they switched off life support. He was only 70. He’d. Just retired as a JP , 6 months previously.
If it’d been a covid death,, they’d have said no underlying conditions because he looked both youthful and fiT but he did have angina, unbeknown to me.
Dad was Brain Dead, a pulse is not brain activity. He should’ve been left alone.
I do think dads spirit came back.
I came out of the room while the nurses turned dad, when I went back in, Mum was sat in a chair up by his head facing me, dad turned his head, opened his eyes , looked up at the woman he’d loved for 48 years and smiled, before going again, never to be repeated.

I definitely would not advise it. He was fed by a peg tube and had every bodily function attended to
His next step was to be transferred to a care home

@LivinLaVidaLoki
I thought it meant bollox

As in mallackers ( knackers)

Also Harry Potter has been translated into Ancient Greek, and Malfoy was renamed Malakos

It can also be used as a term for a wuss

@crucru
They did it very, very , too easily in Tenerife
Saturday beaches, restaurants open
Sunday , everything all shut
Just a few police cars need to stop people going onto beach ( it actually was a very cold day, which helped)
An armoured car patrolled the streets with a message in 4 languages saying stay at home.

It was that easy

[quote Dowser]@LivinLaVidaLoki
I thought it meant bollox

As in mallackers ( knackers)[/quote]
That would be "orchis"
Testicles.

@LivinLaVidaLoki

Just sat chuckling to myself. DH is working at home and just asked what was so funny "Nothing much, just teaching MN naughty Greek words"

Excellent use of your time, well done you!

DM list of doom
We aren’t on it ...yet
Blooming York..it probably had a tenth of people on the streets to a normal June afternoon

Dm doom- mongering again

Argh, you won’t be able to read that
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8473769/The-36-areas-England-Covid-19-cases-RISING.html

@Dowser

When my FIL was dying of a stroke the family told me that he was completely unresponsive, before I went to see him. When I did go, with DH, to the hospital, it was quite clear to me that he did respond. His eyes followed us into the room and around to the bedside, and a large tear rolled down his face . DH didn't seem to see this, so I've never mentioned it to him, as I think it's probably kinder for the family to think FIL was unaware by then. But at least in that moment, he was back.And he wasn't back for my sake because we weren't close, so it must have been DH he wanted to see.

PInched from a lockdown group

Today....paragragh 2, 1st sensible thing Boris has said for months! Paragraph 5, what was right about the nightingale hospitals?...cost a fortune and were barely used if at all and extra ventilators were not needed!
......................

Boris Johnson has thanked the people of Leicester for their “forbearance” with regards to the local lockdown, and said that the Government was acting quickly in its response.

But - speaking at Dudley College of Technology - he said: “We cannot continue simply to be prisoners of this crisis.

“We’re preparing now slowly, cautiously to come out of hibernation, and I believe it’s absolutely vital for us to set out the way ahead so that everyone can think and plan ahead for the future short, medium and long term.”

The Prime Minister said that some things have gone wrong in the response to the pandemic, and “we owe that discussion and that honesty to the tens of thousands who have died before their time.”

He added that many things had also gone “emphatically right”, including the construction of the Nightingale hospital within 10 days, the ‘ventilator challenge’ production lines, and the implementation of the furlough scheme.

Interesting Dowser I do wonder why all of the map is SCARY RED when there are not increases in all areas.
Again it's a zero sum game unless people can be retested and shown to be covid-19 free, the numbers will always rise, and we know the numbers have risen already.

It is handy to have the graph by area though.

That article is in the evening chronicle as well. @Dowser

Gateshead, Sunderland and Redcar and Cleveland all on it.

Spotted a lone ranger when I managed to drag Ds2 away from his road trip videos. There is a locked up play area to the right of the tree, right down to hazard tsoe around gaps in the hedge, but this rebel is freeeeeee!

@Dowser

DM list of doom We aren’t on it ...yet Blooming York..it probably had a tenth of people on the streets to a normal June afternoon

Dm doom- mongering again

On the day we went there were more peregrines than people!

On that lockdown group
Apparently..from a poster in the know

Across uhl whatever that is
75 inpatients on Friday with positive swabs.
So prob up to 100 or so now
We were at 300 and coping fine at end of march
No kids

People are mentioning Simon dolan