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Post by couldileaveyou on May 3, 2020 19:46:14 GMT
I decided that tomorrow I'm starting a diet. I've put on so much weight during the lockdown that not even being cast as the walking character in a Yael Faber's production could save me. Luckily no summer body will be required this year.
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2020 7:34:36 GMT
Added a new painting to my gallery wall, so that made me happy. Cannot imagine living without original art around me.
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Post by poster J on May 4, 2020 9:07:56 GMT
Added a new painting to my gallery wall, so that made me happy. Cannot imagine living without original art around me. Art cheers me up so much. I collect mine on my travels so that is another reason I am itching to get abroad again! No two pieces of art in my house are from the same country. For now I will make do by painting something myself, though I am not artistic in the slightest so it will be a paint by numbers kit!
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Post by The Matthew on May 4, 2020 14:41:47 GMT
Watching an Animal Crossing New Horizons live stream fishing contest. It's strangely exciting.
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Post by alece10 on May 4, 2020 17:02:48 GMT
Well according to my manager we are getting back to normal and everyone is returning to work so no more working 1 day a week from home. This comes from someone who has spent the last few weeks working from home every day and drives in not having to use public transport. What planet is she living on?
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Post by peggs on May 4, 2020 18:33:20 GMT
Oh dear. I've seen floated around the idea that rather than use public transport when lock down ends, or changes, looks like stages, we're all going to walk or cycle! Lovely idea if you can but imagine most can't.
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Post by The Matthew on May 4, 2020 19:08:06 GMT
I've seen floated around the idea that rather than use public transport when lock down ends, or changes, looks like stages, we're all going to walk or cycle! I thought I might use this lockdown as an opportunity to get into cycling (which I haven't done since I was a child) but the complete absence of any open bicycle shops has left me lacking one of the fundamental requirements. So yeah, telling me to cycle somewhere is about as much use as telling me to use my helicopter or my rocket boots.
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Post by CG on the loose on May 4, 2020 22:00:52 GMT
Oh dear. I've seen floated around the idea that rather than use public transport when lock down ends, or changes, looks like stages, we're all going to walk or cycle! Lovely idea if you can but imagine most can't. My office is 98 miles away... guess I'll keep on working from home then.
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Post by alece10 on May 5, 2020 5:55:16 GMT
Well if I start walking now I might get to the office by the end of the week at my current speed.
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Post by londonpostie on May 5, 2020 9:15:42 GMT
Finally twigged the local Tesco opens at 6 so bound in there at about half past to find - *klaxon* **bunting** - crusty wholemeal breadmix AND Hovis Granery Bread Flour. Turned into a huge shop - the price of a Barbican refund and a Jermyn St refund combined. Finished the weeks laundry, found a large discarded pot for my surprisingly keen Basil seeds, and I am now planning a lie down with Michael Billington. May cycle through Hyde Park and the West End later, if the weather holds up. Not heard a plane yet, either
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Post by peggs on May 5, 2020 9:17:22 GMT
Well if I start walking now I might get to the office by the end of the week at my current speed. Ditto Seems bit optimistic to believe that everyone could opt to self propel to work but have till now just decided to cram into an expensive, packed, unreliable train or bus till now. I have a local office I could cycle to but looks like I'll no longer be allowed to go there as it's not my designated office and I'd have to hot desk and that obviously has more disease spread connotations.
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Post by dontdreamit on May 5, 2020 9:59:15 GMT
Oh dear. I've seen floated around the idea that rather than use public transport when lock down ends, or changes, looks like stages, we're all going to walk or cycle! Lovely idea if you can but imagine most can't. I drove before and will continue to drive as much as I can. If I take public transport I usually end up having to stand all the way in. On days I do that my back usually goes and then I have a bad few days. And I know London is lauded as somewhere easily accessible by public transport, but on a normal day it’s quicker to drive to work for me than taking the tube!
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Post by showgirl on May 5, 2020 17:55:30 GMT
I was coming here to post in the other thread but as that's locked and this still relates to today - and is good news in a way: I was surprised and initially excited to receive an email from the Yvonne Arnaud theatre in Guildford, saying their autumn season was on sale and something to look forward to. Very brave of them given their elderly audience and hitherto fairly safe programming, though the new AD has been trying to tweak that gradually.
However, when I looked there was nothing I wanted to see; an odd mixture of a bit too safe and boring (Jekyll and Hyde, an over-familiar Ayckbourn and Mischief Theatre touring Groan Ups) and a bit too edgy or niche (touring production of Malorie Blackman's Noughts and Crosses and New Old Friends touring Crimes On The Nile.) I really wish the theatre well; this is one of my favourite venues and I'm sure a lot of thought has gone into the autumn programme, so I hope some people here will be interested in seeing a few of these productions. From my own viewpoint however, if this could be my first visits to a theatre after months of going without, it would need to be for something I really want to see and feel enthusiastic about.
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Post by alece10 on May 5, 2020 18:08:57 GMT
Well I met a charming couple of my way home this afternoon. Walking towards me man, woman and baby in pram side by side leaving very little room on the pavement. I couldn't walk into the road as it's a busy main road so I stopped and stood against the wall. They made no attempt to walk single file and as they went last the woman actually went into me. I, (on hindsight a bad idea) said "that's a bit close" and the pair of them just tore into me with a tirade of abuse. Pretty much every word was a swear word. Very aggressive and intimidating. I even apologised, which I didnt need to do, but they just kept on. I was quite frightened and so just carried on walking. All I can think is that their child is going to turn out to be such a well mannered and rounded person.
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Post by Latecomer on May 5, 2020 19:20:30 GMT
Well I met a charming couple of my way home this afternoon. Walking towards me man, woman and baby in pram side by side leaving very little room on the pavement. I couldn't walk into the road as it's a busy main road so I stopped and stood against the wall. They made no attempt to walk single file and as they went last the woman actually went into me. I, (on hindsight a bad idea) said "that's a bit close" and the pair of them just tore into me with a tirade of abuse. Pretty much every word was a swear word. Very aggressive and intimidating. I even apologised, which I didnt need to do, but they just kept on. I was quite frightened and so just carried on walking. All I can think is that their child is going to turn out to be such a well mannered and rounded person. Sorry you had to go through this...it’s the sort of thing that would really shake me up. Give yourself a virtual high five for just walking away, put them in the box marked “idiots” (I could use stronger words but I won’t) and have a small treat of some kind to cheer yourself up.
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Post by xanady on May 5, 2020 19:33:07 GMT
alece10...sorry to hear this...I was power-walking on Sutton Coldfield’s huge golf course the other day and even on the wide open fairway’s three or four people were hell bent on walking directly towards me...crazy! Also read somewhere that if a breathless jogger or cyclist is coming towards you it should be a good 4m distance,but very few seem to follow the rules
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Post by poster J on May 5, 2020 19:42:05 GMT
alece10...sorry to hear this...I was power-walking on Sutton Coldfield’s huge golf course the other day and even on the wide open fairway’s three or four people were hell bent on walking directly towards me...crazy! Also read somewhere that if a breathless jogger or cyclist is coming towards you it should be a good 4m distance,but very few seem to follow the rules In this part of the world you seem to be lucky if a jogger or cyclist leaves 40cm of space, never mind 4m! Because why should a pedestrian mean they have to run an ever so slightly longer distance even if no-one else is around... I tend to chat on the phone when I'm out walking and I've taken to complaining loudly to whoever I'm speaking to about people who don't split into single file or walk too close.
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Post by xanady on May 5, 2020 19:48:02 GMT
My daughter was in the park near the lake with me the other day and overheard a little girl shout to her mother-‘Mummy,all the ducks on the lake are too close together’ I guess the mother would have to explain that social distancing rules don’t apply to waterfowl lol
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Post by peggs on May 5, 2020 19:51:55 GMT
Couples/groups do seem to be the worst don't they, like they can't possibly not walk next to each other for just a few seconds. I find it's about 50/50 of people who just walk/run/cycle at you and those who verge off to the side to allow some space.
Was sauntering along on my walk today and I wasn't exactly going going fast, saw a girl coming up fast behind me, cross as there were other ways to go, hoped they'd stay on the path after i'd followed on to the left, no still following me. Went off path so they could go past, they looked a bit puzzled so said 'you're going faster than me', dawdled so more to let them go ahead, one minute later went past her and a lad off in the woods, oh secret meeting (they were social distancing, tick) and the dog was presumably their get out of house excuse and thus their high speed explained. I determinedly looked in other directions so as not to seem interested and shot off.
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Post by The Matthew on May 5, 2020 20:18:44 GMT
I do a lot of holding my breath as I walk past people who are being uncooperative.
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Post by kathryn on May 5, 2020 20:48:45 GMT
I try not to snap at people because honestly social distancing just isn’t natural behaviour and we all have our absent-minded moments when we’re not paying enough attention. But it is hard! I did have to say something to a trio of people who didn’t even pause to let me get down a flight of stairs - the stairs are only a meter wide, you can’t distance properly on them even in single file, and they came up 3 abreast.
I was near the bottom so they’d literally only have to wait 30 seconds for me to get down and move to the side.
Then there was the chap who told me ‘it’s ok I don’t have it!’ when I backed down the stairs and move on to the side to let him pass. Mate, you don’t know that!
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Post by sophie92 on May 5, 2020 21:05:08 GMT
Then there was the chap who told me ‘it’s ok I don’t have it!’ when I backed down the stairs and move on to the side to let him pass. Mate, you don’t know that! And he doesn’t know that you don’t have it, so he should be wanting to distance from you as much as you wanting to distance from him!
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Post by peggs on May 5, 2020 21:25:00 GMT
I do a lot of holding my breath as I walk past people who are being uncooperative. Oh, not just me then! People are the best and the absolute pits aren't they.
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Post by peggs on May 5, 2020 21:27:32 GMT
My mother's opening gambit today was, 'We met the cows today, they are 11 months old and their birthday is in June'.
Now I believe the we refers to her and the dogs though I'm never entirely sure it isn't a royal we. There was no mention of having met a farmer who randomly informed a passer by of the birth date of his cows so I am left to believe that the cows themselves actually told her?!
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Post by lynette on May 5, 2020 22:27:27 GMT
Very fortunate where I live, people move to the side, onto the verge or into the road when I walk along. Mind you I am carrying a wicked looking black walking stick ...
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Post by lynette on May 5, 2020 22:28:03 GMT
Ps a good day, new vacuum cleaner got right under the furniture.
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Post by The Matthew on May 6, 2020 7:00:27 GMT
My mother's opening gambit today was, 'We met the cows today, they are 11 months old and their birthday is in June'. Perhaps she knows a Mr and Mrs Cow who had twins last summer. Or some differently-named couple of whom she has a very low opinion.
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Post by peggs on May 6, 2020 11:17:49 GMT
My mother's opening gambit today was, 'We met the cows today, they are 11 months old and their birthday is in June'. Perhaps she knows a Mr and Mrs Cow who had twins last summer. Or some differently-named couple of whom she has a very low opinion. I am dubious that they were people as she was smiling and that isn't the normal response to people, cows on the other hand generally get a thumbs up.
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Post by The Matthew on May 6, 2020 11:35:58 GMT
So, a strange thought just popped into my head. Who here thinks it would be awesome to ride a cow to work? It's probably the influence of The Far Side, but it always feels to me that there's something intrinsically amusing about out-of-place cows.
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Post by Forrest on May 6, 2020 12:20:15 GMT
So, a strange thought just popped into my head. Who here thinks it would be awesome to ride a cow to work? This made me laugh so much. But... No. I'm a bit afraid of cows: not because they are intrinsically scary - they are cute, actually - but because they are quite big and kind of clumsy. My day started with a lovely conversation with my boss, who - completely unexpectedly - spoke about me to out unit boss, and they agreed she should tell me that they are counting, if nothing goes awry re:funding, to extend my contract once it expires (still some time until that happens) and are counting on me being a part of our team for a long time, if I want to stay (which I do, I love my job, really! - but am hoping for some minor tweaks...). Which was both reassuring and lovely and unexpected, and much welcome since this whole WFH business is, admittedly, making me a bit nervous about the future. Also, it's sunny and warm, and I cannot wait to get outside.
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