ADs getting ready

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Sorry it’s a bit of a lame title.

@RubberDinghyRapids

Checking in. Wearing my running gear but still firmly wedged on the sofa. Told DH I was going but under no illusions that it would be good. He said not to bother and go in the morning so off came the trainers. I have no bloody resolve.

I joined a C25K thread but am too ashamed to even read it until I've gotten back out there

I've started a thread about getting off my butt in July as June was my laziest month ever!

How’s about a regional roundup in case anyone wants to organise a meet up
I’ve roughly used this map
If you’re not happy , please report and ask to have your name removed

From memory

I’ll start with north east
Dowser
Pickachew
BlackBerry violet
The great wave
Rubber dinghy rapids
Nufc

Wales
Just asking
Nannyphlegm

Scotland
Sock yarn
Rookiemere
Mascotte
Insane in the viral membrane

South west and Cornwall
Cattermole
Ladyof the improvisedBath
All flights cancelled

Midlands
DominaShantotto
Country girl
Bog roll

East Anglia

North west

South east

The south

East Midlands

West Midlands

London area

Ireland
Is there anyone from Ireland?
Please feel free to add your area

I'll just slink off then.... (Daily Mail Sad Face)...

South east
BakewellTarts (although a bit Midlands)

Oops on that map South or East Anglia!

I'm not northeast, think I may have mentioned the outlaws who are though.... I'm from near where the Brummie's like to spread their germs by having a day off

the whole UK hospital deaths is 45, which is less than yesterday - I don't think there will be a massive increase in out of hospital deaths. Suppose it's feasible that cases have gone up (loads more testing in higher prevalence areas?) but I doubt they'd try to hide that - more likely to use it as a stern warning to behave. The ONS report this morning was reassuring.

I'm North East too ( Yorkshire)

The thing I think is odd about things like public toilets is that we've always had some quite nasty diseases about. Typhoid is rare but we have the odd case, cholera is a possibility, there's always a bit of hepatitis about and there is the occasional case of polio picked up from the faeces of someone (generally a baby) who's just had the sugar lump. There's also norovirus, salmonella, meningitis, etc, etc, even though we have vaccinations against the worst.

Toilets need to be kept clean enough that all manner of diseases aren't spread, so why is it apparently Very Very Hard to clean them well enough to stop Covid spreading? Why can we only use alternate cubicles, although adjacent ones are fine when there's 'flu about, even in a year when the vaccine isn't very effective, or meningitis, or glandular fever? And why, for many councils, is it better that people's excrement is deposited around the local area, rather than in toilets, which the public know to be careful around?

I have some news and a confession to make .... I went for a covid test earlier. Just felt slightly off with what felt like slightly off temperature (DH found our thermometer after I’d booked but I don’t trust it tbh it’s shit anyway). Anyway just received my negative result 10 hours later, slightly baffled by the Times going on about how long test results take 😂. Am so relieved was petrified even though I didn’t really have any watertight symptoms (mainly of the whole family 14 day self isolation tbf rather than covid itself)

The test is horrible though, just gross

@Willow2017

I'm technically in the West Midlands but only just, I'm actually closer to East Midlands really.

@Willow2017
That sounds UTTERLY FUCKING BONKERS. Visors in a hot kitchen sounds particularly fun.

P.S. I m in Sconnie Botland.

I'm south east

North East (Yorks) here.

[quote RubberDinghyRapids]@Willow2017
That sounds UTTERLY FUCKING BONKERS. Visors in a hot kitchen sounds particularly fun.

@Willow2017 I'm imagining you doing training in full ppe with a steamed up visor and not being able to understand anything that's said because of masks! Seems a bit overkill doesn't it!

Also, I missed all the posts where I’d posted my friend Nic’s octopus enhanced green glass bottle.
ShoDan, you said you’d love to see more of her stuff
She’s on fb as Alta ego. Her shop is a proper treasure trove.
I think she has a video on there.
Learnt some lovely stuff with her, didn’t quite get away with seed beads , but I made a lovely sea glass necklace for my daughter, how to wire wrap crystals, using macrame to make semi precious gem necklaces, She told us to where to collect sea glass..so very generous of her ( seaham) over 100 years ago, there was a glass factory and they used to throw the waste into the sea and it still gets washed up on the beaches, Acrylic pours, beaten copper pendants, enhancing an ordinary jotter
This is mine
Using fimo to make all kinds of things.
Wish she still was allowed to hold her classes, but we got about three years with her, so didnt fade too badly

Anyway I'm feeling reasonably cheerful as I've just read that Castle Howard are reopening their big new adventure playground from the 4th. The DCs will explode with excitement!

I'm East Midlands - North Lincolnshire - near Scunthorpe.

I’m south east (Kent).

Had some nice news today, DD won first place in a writing competition. It wasn’t run by her school but she entered through the school iykwim. She’s won some books and her school have won books for the library and an author visit. It’s really given her a boost, she even got a congratulations email from her very scary HT.

[quote TrustTheGeneGenie]@Willow2017 I'm imagining you doing training in full ppe with a steamed up visor and not being able to understand anything that's said because of masks! Seems a bit overkill doesn't it![/quote]
We have a regular customer who wears a mask. I cant understand a bloody word he says I am always asking him to repeat things or just nodding long with them. Then they take their coffee and go sit somewhere and take off their mask to use phone and drink their coffee with people passing by every 3 minutes! I am getting hard of hearing these days and masks dont help a bit.
Then we have all the faff over using reusable cups...we arent supposed to touch them but some of them wont fit under the spouts without leaning them slightly..customers are baffled by the faff with slates and say they dont care as they see us washing our hands all the time. You couldnt make it up!

Evening all. Busy day today so not checked in much. Outlaws, son and gf came for dinner. I'm NW, Cheshire but not that far from some of the N Wales crew I think. Anyone know what's up with the sadly daily deaths today. Can't see them anywhere?

I’m in the Isle of Wight.