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[Doctor Gollum]

Well, that's another month off

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

At least.

[Doctor Gollum]

The term used was 'until further notice'...

Intend to put the time to good effect and make a start on my Part 66 A licence. 

[78bex]

The perfect home test for the virus is simple 
Pour out a glass of your favorite tipple, now does it smell & taste ok 
If it does then all is good & as we here from Boris more testing will be a benefit
This evening I`ve tried stringing the tests together & I feel just great 

[Doctor Gollum]

You're doing the test wrong...

Tipple into a shot glass, and inhale it via a straw.

That should feel like the proper test. Stop if you get a nosebleed. A failure to complete the test is the same as a positive test.

[New POD]

Well, these young people etc. can party all they like, but when I see them on telly crying that their Granny has just died of Covid, I wont have a shred of sympathy for them. 

Strangely, it won't be the Same young person. The young people I know have been ultra careful and are developing mental.health issues.  Ultra OCD. 

[New POD]

I watched it on the telly on the way back from Mums. I think its something that had to happen, as it did back in March.

I can see a period of 3 or 4 week stringent restrictions, followed by a similar period of looser, but still restricted, times. all repeated until a viable workaround can be implemented, with vaccination(s) looking the most likely.

I think he delayed doing it so that easing would start early December, as its absolutely critical that retail gets a workable Christmas, else there really will not be a High Street next year.

I do fear, though, decent pubs will be a thing of the past, esp in urban areas - though you could argue that happened a decade ago when gastro pubs or those selling artisan beers exclusively cause the extinction of the social pubs.

The seeds of the pubs decline were first sown with more severe drink driving laws and attitudes, along with no smoking allowed inside them and cheap supermarket booze. The young get their thrills now ( well before COVID ) in establishments that give them far more for their needs in the 21st century.



The pub as we knew them back then are going the same way as bricks and mortar shops. Like the latter they will soon all be bulldozed / converted for the building of homes. 

The seeds of pub decline started when pub landlords were forced to start IDing anyone under 25. Back in the day, I became a regular of my local. Aged 15. Half the customers were under 18. I was in thier darts team at 17.
Now kids that age just hang around on the street, smoking dope. Its easier to get.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Our local village used to have a Bobby. He knew several of the 15 - 17 year olds regularly had a pint or two in the local pub.
He was happy to turn a blind eye as long as they behaved themselves inside the pub and on the way home when they left.
This kind of common sense seems to be sadly lacking these days, as indeed is the old fashioned village Bobby.

[BazaJT]

While some of the shops are shut not much else seems to have changed,still plenty of traffic,people visiting others,the local Kosovans still doing car washes etc.

[STEMO]

While some of the shops are shut not much else seems to have changed,still plenty of traffic,people visiting others,the local Kosovans still doing car washes etc.

Yep, life seems very normal here. Then again, I don't go to Primark, or any clothes shop, or drink in pubs.

[BazaJT]

Nor do I.

[ronnyd]

Same here in Suffolk. Went to Mums this morning, (she is 101 now and her health is failing). The roads were just as busy as before the start of this so called lock down. Though she has carers coming in 4 times daily, myself and my brother supply her meals and do her washing.

[TheBoy]

On Wednesday, the sky was full of light aircraft, low, with no exhaust silencers, a;; sounding laboured.  As I walked back from the postbox, I could see over 10 simultaneously, along with the obligatory parachuters over Hinton.

Thursday, none. Zilch. Peace.

[Rangie]

Walked into town for sprouts & a newspaper nice & quiet .

[STEMO]

Just been out to my usual dog walking place, never seen it so busy. Cars everywhere, in the car park, on the road, on the grass verges.......manic.