Tiery Weary & Crackers!

[Bikingbear]

As a carry on from the last thread

Feeling the same as most of you. I’m very much glass half full person but it’s getting hard to keep positive.
Upthread someone mentioned EJ email, we got one this morning from them. Our March ‘21 trip to Venice has been c/x. It is what it is I suppose. Was rescheduled from this March, who’d have thought a year later still c/x holidays.
Ah well see what next Tuesday brings.
Noticed Germany’s cases are rising they were about 21 in the world list now up to 12 with 20k cases per day deaths 800 or so per day. That’s worrying as they have such a much better HS than most off Europe.

This is the worrying crisis shoving us towards lockdown

That was cases, this is deaths.

Coquohvan we've just cancelled our February trip. It was looking so doubtful that we decided that pull out before we paid the flights before we had a fight with the insurance company.

@WaxOnFeckOff FGS it’s crazy mad our numbers yet NS deems them tooooo high

@Bikingbear EJ will refund us as they c/x again not us. Hotel is bookingdotcom can c/x 3 days before no charge.

Delurking to say thanks - this forum is good for reading a lot of what I'm thinking! Thoroughly fed up of the joyless messaging and constant danger warnings coming from across the UK.
My (rhetorical?) question really is how can a further lockdown be needed in January, when figures don't look that bad and the vaccine rollout should be plodding along, possibly with the Oxford one as well? How can they expect to see more ICU admissions and deaths if the most vulnerable are already in the process of being vaccinated? And if there is any increase, won't it be tempered and not merit another full shut down? Have I missed something? Also, how can the figures be described as better a week ago, and now "the tide is rising", when most of country is just recently out of Level 4? I really don't understand. .

Oops, that was more than one question...

Hi @latortugafeliz

I’m more of a ranter, than a question answerer but welcome anyway. Love the mix of folk on here who can answer with high level stats, start a healthy debate and keep me feeling like I’m not alone in weariness or a granny killer if I question anything along with the ongoing development of a 2M cracker

Your questions and confusion mirror most on here @latortugafeliz, welcome to the thread :)

Also, lockdown was all about protecting the health service from being overwhelmed and then about protecting the vulnerable so why is it we'd be doing it again? To wave our willies at England and say we're doing better than you? I have no clue.

Also, just started watching Game of Thrones (yeah I know I'm behind the trend...) anyway I'm only 3 episodes in so not got all the subtle nuances etc yet but now just imagining Sturgeon and Sweeney as guarding buddies atop the wall staring into Englandshire and muttering miserably "Winter is coming..."

Oh and Leitch is definitely Joffrey. No-one can be The Imp as none of them look like they've had a good time in their lives.

Not sure I really want to swap Covid for earthquakes and tsunamis though.

Also, not 100% sold on the BIG creepy crawlies, but I assume NS would be there like St Patrick and the snakes stopping them from crawling onto the new Scotland of the South. But of course, those things don't matter. Covid is All. And I'd be tempted to spend more time outside if there wasn't horizontal rain 10 months of the year.

Sorry to hear about the cancelled trips coquohvan and bikingbear - yes it is crazy that a year on we are still in that position of having joy pulled away. But I suppose EJ is just trying to save money by not planning routes/ staff/ plane space in the airports (or however it works) now rather than have to do it later due to restrictions or lack of travellers. Bummer though.

And hello latortugafeliz! Im similarly confused...I just can't reconcile the various presentations of the numbers with what we are being told. It really does seem out of proportion. But I agree it is lovely to have found some likeminded people I luffs you all

Never got into GoT though. Watched one episode and it was all a bit swords and boobs, and some smouldering. OK if you like that sort of thing I suppose .

I was talking to my friend who's a high heid yin in an NHS Scotland area. She says the y are experiencing the start of the usual seasonal bulge in hospital admissions so that could be why panic is stirring in the breasts of the SG, hospital capacity is being squeezed even if covid admissions are stable so it could be that? If it is that, i dont know why they wouldn't just be honest about it though. I don't listen to the briefings so I'm not sure what has actually been said mind you.

Anyone else in a less than 1/100,000 cases area (didn't want to write white area on Neighbourhood map as it sounds dodgy)?

Did you spot that they filmed the scenes of Winterfell at Doune Castle in the first episode?
With my Game of Thrones fan friends we would debate which house we’d be in; I’d be a Wildling... am no bending the knee for naebody and I don’t expect anyone to bend the knee for me. I did admire Cersei’s sharp tongue. Enjoy!

I'll ponder the cracker problem DH and I make props quite often and might be able to come up with something, its getting hands on materials that might be an issue...

First thought, thick wall paper (or lining paper) a tube made from a couple of layers of that would be light but stiff enough I think, you might find a suitably garish roll in the sale bin if to don't have one lying aboutand if you should be able to shape the ends by cutting slits like in a bought cracker. If you are worried about it crumpling, especially if you are putting heavy things in, you could tape a bamboo cane along the inside, or slice a stiffer cardboard tube into rings and space them out along a thin cardboard spine (like a snake skeleton).
Hope you have a glue gun!
It would make a fun photo, especially if you pulled it straggling the county lines!
I would also suggest party poppers for the bang.

@Wbeezer

Anyone else in a less than 1/100,000 cases area (didn't want to write white area on Neighbourhood map as it sounds dodgy)?

Yes, I'm in a white suppressed area, 0-2 cases per 100,000, most of Stirlingshire in the same boat but still Tier 3 so no alcohol or cinema or anything else we may find vaguely entertaining.

On holiday now but nothing to look forward to. We usually spend the boring part in between Christmas and New Year trawling holiday sites and booking next year's holidays but that won't be happening,
I was shouting at the telly last night at those kids in the school choir who were singing - yes actually singing - and we were told not even to play Christmas music in the background as the kids made their crafts in case it encouraged that most deadly and dangerous activity - SINGING!
I give up, I really do. 9 months of obeying all her stupid rules for what?

@Wbeezer

I was talking to my friend who's a high heid yin in an NHS Scotland area. She says the y are experiencing the start of the usual seasonal bulge in hospital admissions so that could be why panic is stirring in the breasts of the SG, hospital capacity is being squeezed even if covid admissions are stable so it could be that? If it is that, i dont know why they wouldn't just be honest about it though. I don't listen to the briefings so I'm not sure what has actually been said mind you.

I thought it could be something like that.

My P1 child has definitely been singing in class. She now sings various songs with a hint of a Scottish accent, I assume East Dunbarton type but exact identification is beyond me...

Still has some West Mids English accent in stuff learned last year!

Oh I never thought of party poppers. I've just ordered cracker snaps from Amazon.

I can probably get a cheap roll of wall paper, from BnQ or Home Bargains. I'm looking forward to a right giggle with these.

My filing will be individual pringles, nuts, I'd like nice Santa hats too.

No singing in Lanarkshire - BSL version of Little Donkey - DS wasn't impressed

Would poster roll work?

I cant picture how thick poster roll is, possibly not stiff enough. I'll do a wee experiment with some thick lining paper I bought for our lumpy walls later this evening.
I had another thought about the seeming overreaction to numbers that are actually falling, could the arrival of that extra infectious strain of Covid (now in Scotland) be causing alarm?