To wonder how spies are managing during lockdown?

[CarolynMartens]

How can you do the “meet on a park bench” when you’re social distancing?

It’s also much harder to follow someone when there are no crowds.

I’m guessing they are just doing online stuff atm.

Dead letter drops
Coded radio messages

Following people must be easier... No one thinks it's dodgy that someone carefully stays 2 metres behind you in the supermarket while you select your aubergines.

When they go for their daily exercise they leave notes out. Or they run past each other and tap their nose once for yes, touch each elbow for no, stop and pretend to have a cramp if immediate mission abort.

Oh interesting.

The window art could be coded messages too... A rainbow means all good, a sun could mean I have a message, a picture of a nurse could mean I need help...

I have also been wondering this!! Cause they’re probably quite busy as well because lots of weird shit going on internationally

Brilliant thread!

my realistic guess is online work and intercepting inteligence via phones and electronic devices. There have even been cases when people have used coded messages over videogames.

Cool! I’m sure I have a spy living near me. We live near Cheltenham.

Maybe they've been furloughed.

Well, from watching Homeland, you wobble your chin till someone does all the hard work for you and then gets themselves killed.

Secured laptop and phone.

Nod nod, wink wink, say no more!

Think some of them are on here lol

CarolynMartens and without crowds or the ability to be closer than 2m you can't do the sneaky bag/briefcase changeover thingy as you walk nonchalantly past.

They're working from home.

NHS stands for National Home Spy, how often do you see those letters in windows or painted on stones during your daily walk?

Hiding in plain sight

I’m fairly certain there’s a spy outside my house. Every weekday, there’s a man sitting in a construction van all day long doing nothing. I assume he’s spying on someone on the street (I’m paranoid it might be me)!

I’m sure there used to be 2 of them so I assume his buddy is on furlough.

I could tell you but ....

They'll be using drones and quietly recruiting Mumsnetters to curtain twitch and tell them who's doing lockdown wrong.

This has given me a laugh I needed! Bloody good point.

Any increase in numbers stations?

They've on this thread . I'm ADAMANT ( caps to emphasive depth of my adamant, er, -ness) that they are not really wanting breadmaker instructions.

They're either spies, or Sex People.

Watching training videos on food hygiene, data protection, strangling enemies, and how to use a ladder safely.

I've noticed some people out and about wearing masks. Could that be the spies do you think?

TheSpottedZebra

Maybe they are working from home. Following their spouse around the house. Secretly searching their children's rooms and checking up on their boyfriends/girlfriends. Writing secret messages on the mirrors that can't be seen unless you turn the shower on.