ADs are braving the wind and the rain

[CruCru]

Hi all

I couldn’t find the new thread so here is one I set up. It’s windy out there! Glad I weeded my flowerbeds a couple of days ago.

Hi! Just checking in. Caught up with the last thread. That video by Emma Kenny made me well up. She articulated so well what I've been trying to say for months regarding our children and young people.
I've signed up.

Wind and rain here. Bloody miserable and looks the same for the weekend.

Thank you!

Ooh I'm back in purple
I'm appreciating the pots that I did last weekend already.

I need to psych myself up for a tip run in the next council area because ours still expects you to book weeks in advance

Oh, I was hoping for an amaretto reference in the title

On the thread that just closed, Piccadilly said “ I have been musing on the way we apparently must lockdown, despite the mental health, etc. toll, because more people will die if we don't. So those arguing for this accept that the action of locking down will kill some people. What is the moral difference between this argument and arguing that we should kill the odd healthy person in order to share out their organs and save six or seven other lives? I don't want to be offensive, but I genuinely can't see a difference.”

I think that’s an excellent point.

Hello all. Weather is horrid here but will try to get out at some point.

Incidentally, is it just my perception, or are a disproportionate number of us on this thread Welsh?

I’m in Cardiff...lockdown is miserable in the rain!

@CruCru thank you 💐 The wind and rain are definitely making this harder, there is another thread going for mothers with toddlers, many of whom are heavily pregnant, I feel so sorry for them. So glad I haven’t got little ones now, the 17 year old has been hard work as he is very sporty and prefers being outside. I am sick of wet muddy kit everywhere, but at least he entertains himself and isn’t up as early as a toddler.

There was some discussion on gin at the end of the last thread, has anyone tried the chilli and lime flavour? I'm curious but worried it'll be too much and it's not cheap!

Wind wailing here.

Quote from my book just now. A thriller, but wise:

Not dying is not the same as being alive

Jeffrey Deaver

www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/panic-buying-and-paris-exodus-as-the-french-lock-down-00mlnzlk8

Mad rush and road jabs in panic in France after new lockdown announced.

A retired family friend has just gone out there to their home in the south of France. Driving past Paris. wonder how they are getting on.

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Absolutely miserable here too. Need to go to the supermarket later and im not even sure if I can be arsed with that.

Getting dragged into other threads full of lockdown loving death fearing morons. Need to stop.

"All sorties beyond the front door again require the hated attestation, a self-signed and timed certificate that testifies to the essential activity you are performing. On the forest roads around Paris, pelotons of road cyclists got in a final run before the city gates slammed shut with a ban on pedalling more than a kilometre from home."

Blimey. Friend has several dogs. wonder if can walk them ok...

@Littlebelina

There was some discussion on gin at the end of the last thread, has anyone tried the chilli and lime flavour? I'm curious but worried it'll be too much and it's not cheap!

I get the odd flavoured gin but mostly I buy plain gin and add the flavouring with mixers. I haven't tried chilli and lime but you could decant some gin into a small bottle. Add some chilli flakes, give it a shake every day or 2, after about a week taste some with fresh lime juice or even Roses lime (although that has a pretty synthetic taste) and see how you go. Easy to vary the amount of chilli - you could even add more after the first week if the flavour isn't ramping up. I have a couple of those expensive cordials that I use as mixers sometimes and they work well. There is a ginger one that gives a bit of a kick and the apple and cinnamon one is pretty good too.

I love hearing the wind and the rain outside, makes me feel calm. Hot summer weather stresses me out no end!

Meanwhile here in Bath we are to get a 'letter' telling us off or something.

www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/residents-receive-stark-warning-letter-4652459

[quote Orangeblossom7777]Meanwhile here in Bath we are to get a 'letter' telling us off or something.

www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/residents-receive-stark-warning-letter-4652459[/quote]
Bath are so 4 weeks ago, Milton Keynes Council has already sent out that letter and we get a bi-weekly facebook reminder to behave.

We have our "Covid Champions" who are tasked with distributing the figures once a week, which is also then distributed later that week by the Mayor.

We've high cases now (Bath) maybe they are starting to stress. It's always been fairly relaxed. We'll see what happens. Trying not to worry. Might be of to a reclamation in Wells or Glastonbury today, if the rain lets us

On the French attestation, I don't fully understand the system, but why can't you have a load of pre-prepared ones? So if, say, you want to go out for 2 hours rather than 1, you just print yourself off 2 attestations? Or do they have to be logged somewhere?

Not too bad here in Leicestershire - at least, its not raining yet and relatively mild!!

I'm being an obedient citizen and self isolating as OH had a positive test on Monday. I was out of the 48 hours contact window by an hour so thought I would do the honourable thing and self isolate. Except for work - own office, own toilet, own transport, no interaction with other humans . It also means I can smugly respond to my dementoring relatives that accused me of breaking The Roolz when I went cycling during lockdown for more than an hour! And for moaning about wearing muzzles - apparently I should enjoy it as its for the greater good . Just to add, OH had no symptoms other than loss of taste for 24 hours followed by a load of snot but hes a dentist so tested asap which probably gave him a false positive!

My poor daughter will be locked up for 3 weeks in total - 14 days from the first idiot who gave her name even though she wasn't in close contact with him, just in the same house, plus another 10 days as two of her housemates (who were close to the initial person) tested positive last week.

At least I know shes my daughter - she forgot milk on the online shopping order but did get 2 boxes of Heroes as they were on special offer . She just needs to forget eggs and add gin and she's perfect

It also said

'The police are again waiting to pounce with €135 fines for anyone they suspect of breaking or bending the rules. A single crossed-out or altered word on the attestation was evidence of guilt for some officers last time"

Found you all. There are no good answers but I don't think destroying human interaction is the way.

In the computer game I am playing, I have just had to make decisions about a scary disease. The decision options you are given tell you which is the good one, the neutral one and the evil one. The good option is to try to solve the problem quietly without scaring the population.

Checking in while I sit in the seminar from hell.

Bit worried about this new idea of saliva tests for ten percent of us - not that accurate it seems. (on covid boards they seem very keen) it does say people will be 'asked to' do it not told though.

@Orangeblossom7777

Bit worried about this new idea of saliva tests for ten percent of us - not that accurate it seems. (on covid boards they seem very keen) it does say people will be 'asked to' do it not told though.

They're piloting them at my uni - just approaching a random selection of the student population from the email I got - piloting them at De Montfort and Durham unis... not sure if they picked based on them starting with the same letter or what!