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@Orangeblossom78 your rave made the papers!

I feel sorry for anyone kept awake.

But what's that I hear now?......
......is it the sound of a SECOND WAVE?

@NothingIsWrong
10k runs: you have my total admiration, cake or no cake.

I'm supposed to be doing a 50km ultra marathon with my sister on 10th October. Before lockdown I was up to doing 30km runs, then I had a knee injury, and the ultra was postponed from end March to October.

Since then I've sat on my arse and done nothing and now I'm staring down the barrel of a 6 hour run on no training...

Boris saying hope to not ever have another national lockdown - like a nuclear deterrent. on the BBC.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53460714

Boris Johnson has said he does not want to impose a second national lockdown in the event of another Covid-19 outbreak.
Speaking to The Sunday Telegraph, the PM compared the option of a nationwide shutdown to a "nuclear deterrent", adding he does not think the country "will be in that position again".

We used to have raves round our way... apparently DH's home village was a magnet for raves around 1988. Sadly we were both 11 then and completely oblivious.. we each attended a few of the new-agey ones in our late teens though (and a mini one a couple of years ago...)
Can't imagine what a rave without Josh Wink's Higher State of Consciousness would be like, though

I do experience the emotion crash described upthread a lot. Fine-fine-fine-fine-WHAM! Being a church organist who hasn't played since February doesn't help - though it was a massive commitment and could be a pain, it was worth it to hear everyone singing along every Sunday in their glorious, non-professional way. Mind you, there was a faction pre-Covid that wanted no congregational singing at all, scrap the organ and play Hillsong videos instead... it all seems a bit passive and sad to me, really, but what do I know?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-53462514

More fame!

@permanentlyexhaustedpigeon

I love hearing a church organ.

Singing is one of the joys of life for so many. That's why the "no singing" rule is so sad.

I'm not reading news links today because I started on the BBC news site this morning and it depressed me. So I may not quite understand Boris & his lockdown / nuclear deterrant analogy. But it feels like we're still being treated like naughty children.

I love the organ too! I have two singers and a trumpeter in my household: apparently both singing and brass instruments attract the virus, so there will be no choirs and no orchestra for the foreseeable future. Our church has reopened and the organist is back, though.

@permanentlyexhaustedpigeon DH is also a church organist who hasn’t played since February. Apparently the CofE is encouraging organists to go in and play them to keep them in good working order, but who knows when we’ll be able to sing along. That was always my favourite part of church, despite having a terrible voice.

Is the rave still going, or did they run out of steam?

It was going this morning but can't hear it now. Funny, raves...haven;t had many since the 1990s have we till recently

[quote Mrsfrumble]@permanentlyexhaustedpigeon DH is also a church organist who hasn’t played since February. Apparently the CofE is encouraging organists to go in and play them to keep them in good working order, but who knows when we’ll be able to sing along. That was always my favourite part of church, despite having a terrible voice.

Is the rave still going, or did they run out of steam? [/quote]
In ours the organist is playing at the beginning and end of each service, but obviously no hymns in the middle and no sung parts of the liturgy. I really miss it even though I can't sing!

[quote Dowser]@SpnBaby1967
Sounds like you had a fab day yesterday
Yes my dieting day hit the skids in ripon, when I went to booths and bought some nice gf and df cake.
I didn’t really have to eat it though..or the tyrells crisps before it

Re the car..is there nothing a bit cheaper you could love as much.
I spent £8k on my red toyota auris, which was 5 years old
Most money I’ve spent on a car I think.
I do love toyotas though, we’ve had amazing reliability and longevity from them. In fact I let the last one go as it was 18 years old but it went like a bomb and sounded like one too. It was an old style corolla.[/quote]
Yeah, our Toyota is getting on for 10 year old with 108k on the clock from years of Durham to teesside (for a while, Redcar) commuting.

Not even done 1000 on the past 4 months, mind!

Hoping to get the church bells ringing again next Sunday but the list of rules is so long I'm not sure what it'll be like. Maybe every other bell, something like that. Better than nothing but still sad. Singing is the best bit about church for me. Not sure I want to go to a service with no singing :(

@NothingIsWrong 1h 10 is still a good time! Good for you for getting out and doing it at all!!

And crikey, I limp walk everywhere but would be utterly broken after a 10k walk in one go.

@PinkFondantFancy my running motivation was one of the first things to go in lockdown - really pleased to see it back!

[quote NothingIsWrong]@PinkFondantFancy my running motivation was one of the first things to go in lockdown - really pleased to see it back![/quote]
My running mojo is AWOL again. A lack of goals, a lack of being ironed out at the osteopath, and an abundance of niggles on every run since mid-May. I had an appointment for this week but had to shift it as it clashed with DH having his first site visit in 4 months creating a childcare issue.

Currently in Wales having flocked to a beach and it is totally blissful.
It's making me look forwards to my holiday a bit more after the announcement this week kicked a bit of stuffing out of me.

@BogRollBOGOF you FLOCKED? You murderer...

On the subject of singing, I have seen a couple of buskers, they seem to be getting out again now. I guess there's less risk outside? The one out yesterday had 2 buckets for money, set out 2m away from him.

Two buckets was a bit optimistic. He was singing a terrible country /folk song about a woman who was sitting by her dead lover's graveside.

Perhaps he'd sadly died of it?

I am not a Boris fan but I'm so relieved to see him say no to another national lockdown. I am really hopeful we will never move beyond the situation we are roughly in now, where there are local outbreaks of cases and small pockets of people needing to take more care with social distancing (or very localised lockdowns) but nothing more than that. Please God!

Unfortunately the only thing we know with total certainty about Johnson is that he lies without thinking twice about it. I won't say that you can tell he's lying because his lips are moving, but it's heading that way. He says whatever seems expedient in the moment.

Yeah I hope so too. I worry a bit about local councils being given so much power. An increase in cases is meaningless if there's no change in hospitalisations or it's all within one carehome etc (while clearly very sad it doesn't necessitate the locking down of a whole city)

I wish I could get my running mojo back too. It's evaporated and I'm so freaking tired all the time I don't know how I'd get back to it. If I'm awake early the house really needs sorting or I really need to get and get into some work. I can't imagine having an hour free for it again :(

I've seen more people today than I have in months walking cycling and running.

Most heading to cafe/historical center at end of long pretty walk thats' just opened back up - volunteers all in visors and enfocieng limits on number in building and distance queueing and ordering but everyone waiting and behaving well. It was nice.

I hope they do well out of the vistors as it's a lovely stop on a great longer walk and they were already having their council grants cut and msised out on months of trade.