gold rover said:
When this is all over you'll be able to have him come over again. In the meantime you can phone, skype, whatsapp, do silly dances on your drive.
Stop weeping , and think of all those who won't ever see their
grand-dads again . Or the grand-dads , who never got the chance to see their grand-kids grow up. Whether it be due to Covid19, cancer, parkinson's, dementia, or a thousand other things.
You're alive, work with it!
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Many thanks for encouragement, am glad to be alive. Just going a bit stir crazy I think as wife has got me wrapped in cotton wool (someone will get us going off track on this one hopefully) due to my several ailments.
I have video calling et al but you cant beat a good face to face chin wag and maybe a glass of beer. As you say we all need to pull together and as Monty Python sang Always Look on the Bright side of Life dum, te dum
 
Rubberknees said:
Many thanks for encouragement, am glad to be alive. Just going a bit stir crazy I think as wife has got me wrapped in cotton wool (someone will get us going off track on this one hopefully) due to my several ailments.
I have video calling et al but you cant beat a good face to face chin wag and maybe a glass of beer. As you say we all need to pull together and as Monty Python sang Always Look on the Bright side of Life dum, te dum
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I hope it helped. We really do need to look at the positives. As someone who spent more time in the Army, than I have out of it, I am used to making the best of letters, phone calls and video chats. Perhaps that makes me, and those like me lucky, in the fact that we are used to being separated from loved ones.
Twelve weeks isn't that long, and if they extend it, so be it. How would everyone have coped before all of the technology,we now take for granted?!! Oh, yeah, they survived by writing letters, that took forever to get a reply to. That is if they didn't get lost in the post.
Yes, it would be nice to sit in the company of friends/loved ones. However, if we don't all get a grip, self -isolate and get inventive with messages on sheets of paper held up at the window, filming ourselves messing about, speaking on the phone, etc. We will actually drive ourselves nuts.
Instead of thinking about what you're missing, spend that time, and energy, on funny, entertaining, loving or just normal ways to connect with those you care about.


Or read a book, paint a picture, finish those little jobs you've been putting off................................................







Or vegetate in the corner , with the thief of time ( internet)
 
gold rover said:
I hope it helped. We really do need to look at the positives. As someone who spent more time in the Army, than I have out of it, I am used to making the best of letters, phone calls and video chats. Perhaps that makes me, and those like me lucky, in the fact that we are used to being separated from loved ones.
Twelve weeks isn't that long, and if they extend it, so be it. How would everyone have coped before all of the technology,we now take for granted?!! Oh, yeah, they survived by writing letters, that took forever to get a reply to. That is if they didn't get lost in the post.
Yes, it would be nice to sit in the company of friends/loved ones. However, if we don't all get a grip, self -isolate and get inventive with messages on sheets of paper held up at the window, filming ourselves messing about, speaking on the phone, etc. We will actually drive ourselves nuts.
Instead of thinking about what you're missing, spend that time, and energy, on funny, entertaining, loving or just normal ways to connect with those you care about.


Or read a book, paint a picture, finish those little jobs you've been putting off................................................







Or vegetate in the corner , with the thief of time ( internet)
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You are a star and an inspiration to us all. I only worked for the NAAFI but I salute you
 
gold rover said:
Thanks .
No such thing as 'only'. Without the NAAFI, where would we have got our sustenance, when we were on lockdown ;)
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I was based at Leconfield near Beverly and made some great friends among the service men and women. I had a father flew in Lancasters in the war, an uncle in the Royal Marines who saw action all over the world so I have the utmost respect for all of our armed service personel
 
gold rover said:
@Mark Piercy I seem to have caused a derailment
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Not at all I think, new thread title coming I think?
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Datatek said:
Apart from the food shortages no problem for us, we live in isolation all the time. We had a week of cold sunny days last week so the veggie plot is rotovated, wife has plated cabbage, broccoli, spinach and peas so far. The strawberries are coming on in the poly tunnel and we have some tomato seedlings coming on. Lots of grass to cut, barn clearance to finish and workshop to tidy so plenty to do. Just can't get materials for building work.
Yesterday & today it's like mid winter, about minus 5C wind chill.
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I have an allotment, not going to grow anything this year, I suspect it's all going to be nicked, and I am not going to do all the work so someone can take it away and eat/sell it off, I have a greenhouse in the back garden I am going to use that, I have chickens so get eggs every day, had 5 lots of neighbours asking for eggs, they don't bother at other times and don't want to buy them,
 
Dopey said:
I have an allotment, not going to grow anything this year, I suspect it's all going to be nicked, and I am not going to do all the work so someone can take it away and eat/sell it off, I have a greenhouse in the back garden I am going to use that, I have chickens so get eggs every day, had 5 lots of neighbours asking for eggs, they don't bother at other times and don't want to buy them,
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I have grown my own veg, for almost a decade, the gardener tending them when I was away. I've always given most away, as I can't eat all I grow.
@Dopey why not give excess eggs, to a food bank, or elderly neighbours? If the others never asked before and are not even making a token payment, stuff 'em.
My early potatoes are in. I will do my carrot, tomato and lettuce seeds , sometime this week.
Dig for Britain, ;)
 
gold rover said:
I have grown my own veg, for almost a decade, the gardener tending them when I was away. I've always given most away, as I can't eat all I grow.
@Dopey why not give excess eggs, to a food bank, or elderly neighbours? If the others never asked before and are not even making a token payment, stuff 'em.
My early potatoes are in. I will do my carrot, tomato and lettuce seeds , sometime this week.
Dig for Britain, ;)
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I do give some away, I take them to work what I don't use and give them to others very cheap, it pays for the feed, I get everything organic, and they are free-range
 
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