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Post by jimmy20 on Mar 17, 2020 8:35:11 GMT
I think it's St Patrick's day tomorrow Jimmy(The 17th) you're right though, there won.'t be the same celebrations this year for them. Ron, if you're Irish every day is St Patricks day  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2020 9:12:49 GMT
Good news for elderly shoppers Woolworths, one of the Australia's two major grocers, introduced an exclusive shopping hour for the elderly and vulnerable. Sky News video |
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Post by jonjel on Mar 17, 2020 11:17:54 GMT
I think a lot of people are doing their best to help. I have just had an e-mail from my local pub offering to deliver lunch time meals to anyone who has to self isolate. That includes me as I will be on lockdown as from tomorrow evening.
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Post by ARENA on Mar 17, 2020 11:24:35 GMT
I think a lot of people are doing their best to help. I have just had an e-mail from my local pub offering to deliver lunch time meals to anyone who has to self isolate. That includes me as I will be on lockdown as from tomorrow evening. Never mind JJ , we'll still be in touch with you. |
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Post by jimmy20 on Mar 17, 2020 13:32:03 GMT
I think a lot of people are doing their best to help. I have just had an e-mail from my local pub offering to deliver lunch time meals to anyone who has to self isolate. That includes me as I will be on lockdown as from tomorrow evening. Very sensible of them, if business ain't coming to you then take your business to them |
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Post by jonjel on Mar 17, 2020 15:23:43 GMT
I think a lot of people are doing their best to help. I have just had an e-mail from my local pub offering to deliver lunch time meals to anyone who has to self isolate. That includes me as I will be on lockdown as from tomorrow evening. Very sensible of them, if business ain't coming to you then take your business to them I know him very well and think, knowing what he quietly does for the rest of the community the profit motive is not uppermost on his mind |
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Post by aubrey on Mar 17, 2020 16:40:08 GMT
I think it's St Patrick's day tomorrow Jimmy(The 17th) you're right though, there won.'t be the same celebrations this year for them. Ron, if you're Irish every day is St Patricks day
Same as cats: today is also St Gertrude of Nivelles' day, and she is the patron saint of cats.
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Post by rondetto on Mar 18, 2020 4:30:13 GMT
Morning all: Rain here this morning, got to drop my wife off then slip into town for a few things.
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Post by jimmy20 on Mar 18, 2020 8:37:10 GMT
Morning everybody, nice weather for a change - we got the patio half washed yesterday and should do the rest today. It was filthy, hadn't been done for two years. Living in a non industrial area it's amazing the amount of muck that comes down from the sky
I have one daughter currently on holiday in Vietnam who has struggled to get home with planes being cancelled. She's on a package with Tui and they have finally got a flight out via Thailand and due to take off in four hours. Meanwhile her daughter was on holiday in Peru which closed it's borders but she managed to get home via Spain
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Post by rondetto on Mar 18, 2020 13:35:40 GMT
It's very difficult working in surgeries as well as hospitals.
Our grandaughter is a district nurse and though like us have had the flu jab this is something entirely different.
My son in law was due for a new hip on 25th March and he's waited 18 months for it but that's been cancelled.
The lady who books our holiday rang to ask If we wanted to change the date till late September, we sat and talked about it and decided that we will wait another couple of weeks then If the situation hasn't changed or got worse then we will cancel and have a full refund.
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Post by jonjel on Mar 18, 2020 15:18:40 GMT
Been a difficult couple of days. Yesterday I set up most of what I need to work from home. I have a decent PC and printer, a few files and remote access to the office and telephone system. It is SO quiet. I am used to a bit of activity around me even though I work on my own in my own office. I almost feel as if I have abandoned the ship! Quite emotional after 43 years. Other people are all working, and we are carrying on, as far as possible as normal. I do know the telephones have gone quite quiet.
We have plenty of work to complete, but we are getting very worrying messages from some of the Universities telling us to hold onto stuff we have nearly completed for them as this or that department will be closed. However the main focus right now is what we are doing for one of the labs in Oxford who are part of the team of labs around the world looking for a vaccine. I have been in more or less daily contact with them, and their experts.
How long I can hunker down for I simply don't know. I will perhaps have a tidy house for the first time in years, and maybe even a tidy garden, but with 1/3 of an acre it is never ever going to be that tidy.
The one up side is, my slow cooker is ticking away with a rather nice smell of supper to come. And all of us can but hope everyone stays safe. |
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Post by aubrey on Mar 18, 2020 22:25:58 GMT
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Post by rondetto on Mar 19, 2020 4:28:05 GMT
Morning all: Looks like a nice weekend ahead for us, today dry but chilly. Off into town to M&S then home.
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Post by jimmy20 on Mar 19, 2020 8:40:33 GMT
Strangely Aub all junk emails to me have stopped since the last Windows update I was starting to wonder what I had done to be off their Christmas card list  |
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Post by rondetto on Mar 19, 2020 19:20:14 GMT
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