[PlaneMan]

Lee, are you not fit, or unwell?

I’m fit but unwell, I could be classed as one of the vulnerable who should stay indoors for months. Problem with that is my mental health would go downhill quickly.

I’m getting some survival tips of Charlton Heston, The Omega Man, a true classic.

 

[RSB]

Unfit. Appart from my happy pills that is.

Americans: Over Sexed, Over Payed and Over here, Wat Wat!

[PlaneMan]

Loads of very easy things you can do to help with that Lee.

YouTube is your friend, as is very often the case.

All you need is a bit of space and your own body weight.

OFC go easy, don’t go to hard too fast.

[Dave Rice]

Just seen this:

AN URGENT MESSAGE FROM YOUR POSTMAN.

From Tomorrow if you receive a parcel or something to sign for, the Postie will knock and retreat 2 metres and wait until you collect the item before walking away.

If the item requires a signature, they will ask for your name and sign it as “Covid 19”.

This has been put in force across the country to protect everyone from the Coronavirus and help prevent the further spread.

Please be kind to your Postie, they don’t think you have the virus and they are just doing their jobs.

Please help them by staying at your door.

[Bob Williams]

RSB wrote:

@bullstuff2 Is no one helping you?

Yes I’m fine Lee, son, daughter and 3 grandbrats come round. Youngest gson was here today carrying out more work on the shed that will be removed to his dad’s when we go. Daughter’s 50th party on the 4th April. wife’s 75th on the 16th. Might not be able to go if we’re locked in. Daughter has taken lots of garden stuff away, says she can call on her way home from work. So does son.They all look after us in their own ways, will always answer if we need them, but know also that we want them to have their own lives.

We have a great family, I wish you had something like it mate. Don’t get down, we here are all rooting for you. You have a lot of friends here who respect you and admire what you did with Forumite. Keep on truckin’ Lee!

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[Bob Williams]

Thanks Dave for that RM “heads up”. I have 2 RM parcels coming this week and have warned SWMBO about the procedure, as I am usually in the bathroom when our Postie calls.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[RSB]

@bullstuff2 I am sorted one way or the other.

What do people think of this A movie night, forumite only. It will have to be old films, but there is some good one’s.

Americans: Over Sexed, Over Payed and Over here, Wat Wat!

[Dave Rice]

How would that work?

[Ed P]

My #1 son just got on the phone to me to have a moan. He had just been called away from work to pick up his child from school as the child had coughed. Child taken out and put in isolation, classrooms closed because they were not sure ‘where’ he had coughed, so maybe a couple of hundred kids sent home because of one cough (almost certainly an ‘ordinary’ cough as he has a runny nose).

If kids cotton on to this they have the potential to disrupt and close schools irrespective of other Government guidelines.

Yet another case of Government inattention to details!

[Ed P]

I should have said that parents had checked the child’s temperature before sending him to school, and no way is the cough ‘dry’.

[Dave Rice]

I’m afraid over reaction is rife. My daughter is on her way home from Bangor University which has stopped all face to face teaching for the rest of the academic year. Details of how they will be teaching online has not been made clear. I would expect a University to be able to organise some sort of confernecing but I’m not holding my breath. If Railbookers can manage this to sell me rail holidays…

Where the foreign students are going I have no idea. Staying in halls / rented accommodation I would expect as they won’t be flying home even if they are European (Bangor has a huge Chinese contingent, ask @SGB).

She and her mates have been winding themselves into a frenzy in the last 4 or 5 days with 24 / 7 news on 24 / 7 I have told her I’m fed up of her bombarding us on the phone and WhatsApp but have been accused over being complacent.

In contrast, #2 son went to Prague on the weekend of 1st then up into the mountains skiing. He got caught in the cancellation of Czech flights, but one of the resort managers was a Brit who was due to go back as well, so they drove to Krakow (3 to 5 hours depending on where he was) to get the last Ryanair flight back to Manchester (Dan lives in Leeds) as Poland shut it borders too. Ryanair have been brilliant about tickets and he’s actually quite pleased he didn’t have to drag up from Stanstead. No drama, he WhatsApp’d his siblings with the outline of the plan and phoned us yesterday after he was back home.

Back to Bangor, Harriet lives in rented accommodation and rent will still have to be paid. What are Student Finance going to do re loans? The house will be empty of people but full of things like computers and bulky possessions. If I was a Bangor tea leaf I know where I’d be looking and everyone knows where the local student houses are, especially in a small place like Bangor.

Bangor itself is going to suffer; population of 18,808 at the 2011 census, including around 10,500 students all of whom buy locally, even if it is only alcohol and pizza. Will the foreign students be back in the autumn, especially if Brexit turns nasty?

[Ed P]

A ‘Banged Up By Boris’ preparation.

Haircuts – no haircut for four months would drive me itching crazy, so its a summer Buzzcut tomorrow and purchase of a wet/dry cordless razor to give my head a nice shiny appearance each day.

[RSB]

Dave Rice wrote:

How would that work?

I have a lot of old films on my media server. I could upload to this server and see how it goes. The reason I say old films, many of them should be licience free by now.

Americans: Over Sexed, Over Payed and Over here, Wat Wat!

[Ed P]

To avoid problems check out if the films are in the public domain. Google on ‘uk movies in public domain’, and you will hit sites such as this.

[RSB]

Cheers ED. I have been looking at that for a few years. None the less I’ll be walking a tight line 🙂 However the films will be very old, the first one I have in mind 1944. But it’s good old comedy 🙂 I dunno, probably no one will be intrested. And then there is the issue of actualy getting it to work 🙂 First showing tonight hopefully 🤔

Americans: Over Sexed, Over Payed and Over here, Wat Wat!

[Ed P]

Just what we need a Covid-19 calculator. link

Actually it could be useful to judge when the peak load on hospitals will occur (about 10 weeks time), or when you should be living out of your store cupboard (about 4-6 weeks time if I’m correct in its use). However it looks like you will need sufficient food to last at least a month and maybe as much as two in isolation.

[PlaneMan]

My GP surgery is now not letting anyone in without a valid reason. The door is locked.

This was communicated via a  text message.  I understand the reasoning behind it but some more info would have been nice, like how to get my prescriptions.

I tried calling several times but could get no reply so I e-mailed them and had a reply within 5 minutes. Apparently there is a ‘hidden’ bell and when you ring it someone will come to the outside, glass, door and see what you want. If they believe you have a valid reason and look and sound OK they will let you in.

[RSB]

So, I will clean the page up, make it more pressantble etc…. But this is my first attempt. Cracking film it is aswell for an oldy.

https://forumite.co.uk/film-night/

Americans: Over Sexed, Over Payed and Over here, Wat Wat!

[Dave Rice]

Nolan, our surgery has been like this for the last year, apart from the physically locking the door.

All first contact is via a browser form and a clinician will phone or email you back as appropriate. If you need a face to face consultancy you will get one that day, much better than before. I’ve only needed to visit for the annual blood tests.

I get my repeat meds via patient access with most of them being managed by Boots for me. Any new one off meds, like when I had eye problems, automatically go to Boots and I get a text. As my Tramadol depends on use I deal with the repeat via the Patient Access website and again it goes to Boots, but I give it 5 days to process. When I was working away in Portsmouth they didn’t object when I ordered early.

[RSB]

Oh come on, some one could have commented on my film night 😣

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