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Post by ruby on Mar 16, 2021 22:38:54 GMT
Just booked Mary Poppins to tie in with the rescheduled dates of The Show Must Go On in June. Keeping absolutely everything crossed that it all starts as planned, I absolutely cannot wait!
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Post by peggs on Mar 17, 2021 15:06:59 GMT
Into hour 7 of waiting for delivery of work laptop replacement (not a new one, another old one from cupboard of previously sent back broken ones) to replace previous replacement. Can't go on daily walk. Hours on phone to IT will be required when it does appear.
Thoroughly miffed.
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Post by lynette on Mar 17, 2021 15:39:22 GMT
The big unveiling of the new UK Govt. Media briefing room at a cost of £2.6 million pounds for the renovation. I was hoping for something a bit more for the money spent. It just looks really ugly. I just hope at that price the room comes with one of those clicker devices for the slide shows. Do they choose that colour cos it is best for tv? |
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Post by david on Mar 17, 2021 15:55:04 GMT
lynette, I was wondering that myself to be honest. Part of me was thinking that for the £2.6 million spent, I was maybe expecting something a little more up-market and some pictures on the walls. it just looks vary bare at the moment. Though I did like the inclusion of the Henry Hoover in the photo. Someone having a little joke?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2021 16:02:57 GMT
It looks like they spent £2.5m on design consultants and then thought "Crap! We still need to buy some actual stuff! Quick, go and close a school somewhere and grab us some chairs and a desk."
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2021 18:49:33 GMT
The big unveiling of the new UK Govt. Media briefing room at a cost of £2.6 million pounds for the renovation. I was hoping for something a bit more for the money spent. It just looks really ugly. I just hope at that price the room comes with one of those clicker devices for the slide shows. Do they choose that colour cos it is best for tv? I presumed it was because thats the Conservatives colour. They've been had; having spec-ed and budgeted for corporate events before, thats a pretty brassic install for the money. The Russians certainly saw them coming. |
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Post by peggs on Mar 17, 2021 20:34:14 GMT
Yes was there really no uk based company willing to do the job for that kind of money?! I think even I could have managed better than that.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2021 22:09:02 GMT
I've just finished rereading The Lord of the Rings. Now I'm starting on Stephen Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, which is about three times as long. Gulp.
Donaldson's a good writer but some scenes he writes are distinctly unpleasant. I'm skipping one chapter early in the first book because I remember what happened and I really don't need to read it again.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2021 11:56:39 GMT
Not sure about anyone else but I'm exhausted. Mentally.
Constant barrage of bad news wherever I look conditioning me to be outraged about everything. I haven't got anything left.
What is going on out there?!
Mental American carries our racist serial murder attack on Asians considered as having a 'bad day'.
British opinion being silenced as protests become illegal.
Immigrants fighting for survival and being dehumanised in the process; noone notices.
Black lives seemingly don't matter.
Women not safe on the streets.
EU restricting vaccine exports.
UK Parliament continue allow the lies and deceit of PM.
Climate rising; even more ice melting. US Cryptocurrency farms fueled by oil wells. Artists selling NFTs for millions causing megatonnes of CO2 generated annually. China farming cryptocurrency powered by coal burning. America is on fire and freezing simultaneously. UK fast tracks Cumbrian mega-coal-mine.
UK accelerates nuclear weapon plans.
What is going on?
We're on a sure fire path to destruction but mask wearing to prevent Covid spread is still an issue.
How are you?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2021 14:27:40 GMT
British opinion being silenced as protests become illegal. There are petitions, one against the restriction of freedom as a whole and one against the single-person provision:
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Post by lynette on Mar 18, 2021 14:30:00 GMT
Hello, Prof.MM
Gloomy day eh? I’m not saying it is getting better nor that it isn’t getting worse but there has been worse...if you see what I mean. I think our awareness of problems, or rather or airing in public at last of some problems, is in fact a ‘good’ thing. Wouldn’t we all like to be reading those history books when our ‘age’ is discussed, probably described as ‘the decline of Western enlightenment ‘ or ‘the rise of a new Enlightenment’ - who knows?
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Post by sfsusan on Mar 18, 2021 20:23:52 GMT
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Post by peggs on Mar 18, 2021 20:48:37 GMT
@mm I know how you feel. I think lynette is right in that these days you can't escape news and there seems to be so much bad stuff and so many or maybe not so many but sufficient powerful people who do not give a damn it seems and just do bad thing after bad thing. And it's hard to see how any of this ends well as we seem determined to bring about our own destruction. Do you have an escape, something that will take you away out of it? Trashy tv, a good book, music to dance to? In the old days I'd go hang out with little relatives as they're so demanding you can't think about anything else, harder now and clearly a fairly short term fix as they grow up and don't want to play any more but works for now. I find myself wondering if I will go back to theatre as much assuming it all comes back. Will I be able to afford it, will it have the some pull now I seem to have filled my time with other things. But I do recognise it used to be a great escape, because if it was good for a few hours that was all I thought about. |
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Post by peggs on Mar 18, 2021 21:32:04 GMT
My sister has just sent me two videos. The first is the two year snoring like a right trooper in the car while the three year old giggles. The second is the same double act in the bath with very slippy soap. Bless em.
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Post by firefingers on Mar 18, 2021 21:57:18 GMT
In the last 24 hours, I've gone from a nearly empty work diary to having work from August to Jan on two different projects, as long as the opening of society holds. So it's been quite a good 24 hours, and hopefully, a sign that theatre will be returning for all!
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Post by sfsusan on Mar 18, 2021 23:04:33 GMT
What is going on out there?! Actually, Peggs' suggestions reminded me of what worked for my sister-in-law... turn off the tv (or at least the news). If something is important, you'll hear about it; if not, it doesn't matter. And you might be surprised how much stress/drama/anxiety can be avoided just by doing that. I had to limit myself on Facebook for the last few months of 2020... between COVIDiots, US politics and US race relations, it was all just too much. I found myself doom-scrolling for hours, first thing in the morning... NOT a recommended way to start the day. Since vaccines and the US election, I can dip in and out of FB without drowning myself. (The interesting thing is I first heard this advice from a motivational speaker at a corporate conference probably 25 years ago! He said tv news primarily features war, crime, and disasters... why let that into your life since you can't do anything about it?) |
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Post by Roxie on Mar 18, 2021 23:37:10 GMT
I’ve been trying to limit my news - it just gives me anxiety! Had a busy day at work today, then on my lunch hour I agreed to buy a new car! Having an Audi A1 which I’ve wanted for years. Props to lockdown for allowing me to save a deposit! I’ve also started working out 3/4 times a week and I feel so much better for it!
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Post by oxfordsimon on Mar 18, 2021 23:55:28 GMT
What is going on out there?! Actually, Peggs' suggestions reminded me of what worked for my sister-in-law... turn off the tv (or at least the news). If something is important, you'll hear about it; if not, it doesn't matter. And you might be surprised how much stress/drama/anxiety can be avoided just by doing that. I had to limit myself on Facebook for the last few months of 2020... between COVIDiots, US politics and US race relations, it was all just too much. I found myself doom-scrolling for hours, first thing in the morning... NOT a recommended way to start the day. Since vaccines and the US election, I can dip in and out of FB without drowning myself. (The interesting thing is I first heard this advice from a motivational speaker at a corporate conference probably 25 years ago! He said tv news primarily features war, crime, and disasters... why let that into your life since you can't do anything about it?) I haven't watched any broadcast news programmes in over a year. I don't listen to radio news either. Right call for me |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2021 9:12:25 GMT
Thanks for the responses, its just hard not to get beat up by everything going on.
Left Facebook at the turn of the new year and all the better for it.
Stopped listened to Radio & watching TV to avoid news broadcasts around the same time.
Twitter is the hard one to curtail as its the feed for music/theatre news but with it comes opinion; along with a constant pull to Independent website during downtime in work. Even Instagram has become a trigger zone.
Hard to get away from that feeling of censoring exposure to 'news' is just avoidance though.
Good to read there is positive movements for others here though.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2021 10:16:04 GMT
I think it's important to remember that the overwhelming majority of people are good people but that doesn't make the news, and with an ever-increasing number of news sources desperately competing to gain a following there's little incentive to present a balanced picture. "68 million Britons committed no crime yesterday, again" isn't a headline.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2021 16:19:11 GMT
British opinion being silenced as protests become illegal. There are petitions, one against the restriction of freedom as a whole and one against the single-person provision:
Yes. Word is this bill has quietly been shelved until later in the due to the response it has received across many platforms. |
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Post by sfsusan on Mar 19, 2021 19:14:34 GMT
censoring exposure to 'news' is just avoidance though. It is avoidance, but so is not bashing your head against a wall... avoiding pain and stress seems like a reasonable response to me. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2021 19:47:52 GMT
How about some feel-good stories?
Also this, because why not?
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Post by lynette on Mar 20, 2021 12:45:27 GMT
That bird feeding certainly has put my bird table in its place!
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Post by peggs on Mar 20, 2021 18:50:16 GMT
I cycled a whole 2 and a half miles, in two bits and my legs have stopped functioning.
Worry not, i'm not taking up cycling, this is as far as i'll ever get, to my sister's to wave.
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