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Welcome into another thread of alternative reality as we try to nagivate through the Coronacoaster of life.

We may be up, down, spinning around (generally in confusion at the next random edict drawn up on the back of a fag packet) but never sucking the joy out of life.

Was so chuffed to get to the gym last night and hoping and praying Scotland stays out of lockdown if only to enjoy small things like exercising at the gym....there is not much daylight here in a few weeks time !

Thank god @Marshyellow

There are people out there on other parts of MN who are beyond rational argument

@AcornAutumn I don't know what has happened (even the pavement is cordoned off...) but the whole road is blocked to traffic since lunchtime and the traffic is apparently crazy in the whole surrounding area. It's already not great because of the bridge closure. Of course, none of this will matter after midnight as we should be STAYING AT HOME anyway.

[quote Jourdain11]@AcornAutumn I don't know what has happened (even the pavement is cordoned off...) but the whole road is blocked to traffic since lunchtime and the traffic is apparently crazy in the whole surrounding area. It's already not great because of the bridge closure. Of course, none of this will matter after midnight as we should be STAYING AT HOME anyway.[/quote]
I just looked and I think it’s also the knock on effect of major roads in central London being down to one lane of traffic for social distancing. Is there a head exploding emoji?

@Pootle40

Help! The coronavirus doom and gloom on MN is so out of control I need to take shelter here. Please say we don't obsess about people breaking the rules here like mass murderers .....

No. We have fun here.

Something that appeals to my silly humour, in case anyone else laughs

Or this

One of my favourite things is Bernard saying “everyone knows I’m going to die upside down on the floor of a pub toilet.”

We've been watching Black Books all day.... "you have.... beautiful eyes"

[quote Jourdain11]@AcornAutumn I don't know what has happened (even the pavement is cordoned off...) but the whole road is blocked to traffic since lunchtime and the traffic is apparently crazy in the whole surrounding area. It's already not great because of the bridge closure. Of course, none of this will matter after midnight as we should be STAYING AT HOME anyway.[/quote]
Central/west London traffic has been insane for the past couple of days. My commute from SW to NW London, which normally takes half an hour, is now taking an hour and 40 mins. No idea what’s going on. Covid pavement-widening perhaps?

Thanks @TheOrchidKiller, we are both fine. FTM nerves making me worry I think - I'm amazed I've got this far without it happening before.

Busy day today, including face to face (or mask to mask) contact with a whole four people outside my household (all for reasons allowed under the current Welsh rules). From Monday, I'll be allowed to meet up with up to three friends in a cafe/ restaurant / pub. I'd quite like to, but I am worried about the risk of being tracked and traced, given I'm going into the last month of pregnancy. Apart from anything else, I don't want to cause the (lovely) maternity unit any hassle!

God I love Black Books. "If you can clean an oven, you can clean me!"

@MercyBooth

No power cut YET but lights flickering over half of Essex. Braintree Halstead Witham. What the hell is going on. How on earth is the infrastructure going to cope with a winter lockdown???????!!!!!!!!!

Apparently there's been repeated messages from National Grid to the energy companies that it's fine - they're really prepared for it.

Jourdain “ Covid pavement-widening perhaps?”

Definitely the problem in my area. Can kiss goodbye to using the bus. Annoys me because the air quality- or lack of it - on the Tube aggravates my asthma, doc says this is very common.

I’m outer London, very outer, so bus routes were nice but pollution will increase with all this standing traffic.

I might have to rewatch Black Books.

West London is icky, especially round my area, because of Hammersmith Bridge. But the road closed today was completely cordoned off, even for pedestrians at one part. Everyone was having to tramp across the grass in the park, which was no doubt very socially distanced and Covid-secure. Of course, my ghoulish children (when I picked them up from school) were hypothesizing that there had been "a big murder in the middle of the road".

Can meet outdoors tonight, can't tomorrow
Am in Scotland that diesnt apply here.

Just had the best evening out with friends - drinks and a curry. It was great.

@Marshyellow

The supermarkets are at it again, questioned on my way in as to why my child was with me. Said it's because it's frowned upon to leave a toddler home alone, we walked here, and my partner is away with work. For me it's fine, but being asked to some is distressing, and the fact you have to justify yourself is really ridiculous. Also from tomorrow NHS can queue jump, as no one else has done fuck all this pandemic and has all the time in the world to wait around for longer than neccessary. Done with it today.

I think I would go absolutely ape shit if someone asked me that. I mean who the FUCK is anyone, to tell me where to go and when to the market and how?! And now we need to justify it to some jobsworth with one brain cell in his head! Ffs

Queen Nic planning to legislate to stop freedom of movement in Scotland 🤬

@Jourdain11
Nice to see you back!

@WouldBeGood

Queen Nic planning to legislate to stop freedom of movement in Scotland 🤬

Saw that earlier. Who does she think she is? Passing laws to stop a whole country from being able to move freely? Last time i looked we weren't in a dictatorship.

I know. Doesn’t she relaise that some of us have family across the border or even in Glasgow or fife.

FFS

it’s like control gone mad or just enjoying the control stuff

The traffic getting into my local city has been heavier all week. I think people are going shopping...the queue for primark at 9.30 this morning was 3 times the size it was on Monday.

Thanks for the sympathies. I've now found out the other school mum's have ignored the temperatures (as it's flu vaccine related). Honest to god I'm an idiot sometimes. I've kind of accepted that we'll be home (with no pay) tomorrow so I've had a little drink and watched telly. I'm wondering if there's any get out if the test comes back inconclusive as we shouldn't have had it anyway.

Similar issues here in South London. The 2.5 mile trip from work to nursery took me over half an hour today - normally more like 10

We better not moan to Boris though, he'll just pin it on the incompetent, despotic Mayor of London and his demagogic schemes. Or the Labour-controlled London Assembly, the members of which are protoplasmic supine invertebrate jellies...

@MercyBooth economy strike: while it is a bit of cutting off one’s nose to spite one’s face, I can see why. It’s the one way the public can hit back at the government. Probably saint Boris is going to put on a Santa hat in December and tell us to spend, spend, spend: of course we should, when many of us have had our incomes and jobs snatched away.

Seriously, people will vote on this lockdown with their feet. Everyone I know is planning to, er, interpret the rules this time round. Even the ones who were quite rigid about it last time.