Well it looks like we’re going to have Fiona and the kids for the next few weeks. Kurt goes back to work on Tuesday (21/4/20) and will be frontline interviewing and dealing with the dregs of our society, those with the scroat gene and having to go out to deaths in the home. Obviously more at risk than most and is concerned about bringing Covid-19 home so they’ve decided it would be safer if Fiona and the kids came up here. Low risk to us and even lower risk to them. We’ve all been isolating / distancing for 3 weeks now.
On top of that, dealing with three kids on her own, Fiona will probably end wound up tighter than the girdle of a baptist minister’s wife at an all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast. At least up here she can share the mayhem.
Seems common sense to us all. Quite looking forward to it. Will we cope? Will my wine rack cope? Be interesting a few weeks from now looking back. Just off to kiddy proof the house and fit a padlock on our bedroom door – our bolthole sanity sanctuary and shelter.
Had to pick up a click and collect of wine from Waitrose. Bloody hell, no queues to get in and as few shoppers as muslims at a midnight mass on Christmas eve. Definitely the place to come and shop. No need to social distance it’s empty.
Pennsylvania’s decision to close liquor stores under the state’s coronavirus restrictions has reportedly led to scores of its own residents crossing state lines to stock up on booze.
But Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Monday aimed to put an end to those trips into the Buckeye State, calling the cross-border liquor runs a “health hazard,” according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Oh the joys of grandchildren, milkshake all over the coffee table; someones breakfast smeared over the back of my iphone; a 3 year old dragging a brain impoverished cocker spaniel around the house on it’s lead; a baby scaling the stairs and then sat at the top taunting us; a six year old wandering around with no clothes on.
How lucky can we be. We’ve a lot to be grateful for. We’re well fed, warm, safe and plenty to keep us on our toes. Yes, this lockdowns a tad inconvenient but there are billions of people who would just love to be suffering our deprivations.
Kids mither to watch Frozen 2 but it’s only on Disney Plus in America. VPN into Disney plus America and we get to watch it for free.
Iran: “Islamic medicine specialist” says camel urine cures coronavirus
Here’s a quote from CNN for the tree huggers who worship at the shrine of organics:
“A majority of the views right now is that (the virus) is natural — it was organic,”. Oh well that makes it ok then, we’ll have two of them, wrap them up in old newspapers and pay 47% over the odds.
Turns out my free year’s subscription to the Wall Street Journal has come to an end. So now it’s going to cost me £10 a month. On top of that I’m paying £5 for the Times. Yet for £9.99 I can have a subscription to Apple News plus which also gives me access to the Wall Street Journal and the times as well as many other magazines and newspapers. Seems like a no brainer especially when you consider that I can share it with five other members of my family.
Wow, fish finger butties for tea. The one good thing about this lock down is the sparsity of vegetables for tea.
First Asda delivery. Pretty good, but how will Wendy cope not being able to read the sell by dates on cans of beans before she buys them?
Let’s talk about B&Q. The only major store that has a 1 hour wait time to access their web site; sends out an email that at the top tells you they will contact you and at the bottom tells you your stuff is ready. Simple clear wording would eliminate this contradiction. What a total screw up this company is. No excuse just all that is bad about IT. They should hand their IT director a brown envelope.
Of the top 25 US National Parks there’s still 7 of them we’ve not been to. Amazed that Zion is not in the top 5.
Yoga and exercise is going well. Thankfully the exercise video reminds me to keep breathing. I wonder how many people have died because they forgot? Exercise is getting a tad too easy, I think by next week I’ll be looking for something more strenuous.
Now I know things are bad, started improving my French each morning.
The virus that shames China.
A typical day in the PPP Plague:
08:00 – get up, good breakfast, tea and read The Times, WSJ and Apple News.
09:00 – more newspaper and The Times crossword.
10:00 – coffee and deal with admin, screw ups, complaints and the like.
11:00 – more coffee and digitise old photos.
12:00 – sort out decking, patio, drive and varnish adirondacks. Plus any other tasks.
13:00 – more yard work.
14:00 – coffee and read.
15:00 – walk
16:00 – coffee and read
17:00 – Exercise and yoga.
18:00 – tea
19:00 – TV and wine until bedtime.
Busier than a $2 hooker on half price night. How exciting is all that. Thankfully we never watch the news, too depressing, especially BBC News.
The World Health Organization is asking European government officials to restrict citizens’ access to alcohol during the coronavirus pandemic.
“At times of lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic, alcohol consumption can exacerbate health vulnerability, risk-taking behaviours, mental health issues and violence,” the WHO reasoned on its website. “Alcohol does not protect against COVID-19; access should be restricted during lockdown.”
Now I know Trump was right to suspend conributions.
Using conservative figures and assumptions, a report by Derek Scissors of the American Enterprise Institute estimates 2.9 million total cases in China, rather than the total of about 82,000 Beijing reports. If Mr. Scissors is right, the number of cases that China has concealed is greater than the total number of cases reported in the rest of the world.
Now we’re out of our 14 day lockdown at least we can shop for ourselves.
Experienced our first ever click and collect from Asda. Got most of what we ordered, no substitutions and best of all they had all 7 bottles of wine I chose. Pretty neat way to shop.
What a gourmet week it’s been the best Welsh Rarebit and baked beans ever; black pudding and beans; at long last Wendy makes Macaroni Pudding; and now, after mithering and chunering away for two weeks, pilchards on toast for tea tonight – happy as a baby in a barrel of tits.
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Three films on Netflix Wendy doesn’t want to watch, “contagion”, “pandemic” and “Inferno”. I wonder why?
Northerner terrifies Londoners by saying Hello: