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Post by metanoia on Mar 31, 2020 12:29:50 GMT
Single handing through a lock this morning to reach the waterpoint, approaching the lock landing when two men - probably in their sixties/early seventies - passed a few feet apart, greeted each other and proceeded to stand inches from the middle one of only three bollards as I tried to step off to tie up. I had about 18 inches of space from each of them. They were still talking when I'd worked up the lock - and two other families had to turn back as there was no room to pass.
What bit of social distancing are people not grasping?
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Post by naughtyfox on Mar 31, 2020 12:35:04 GMT
Looks like Eurostar now running just one train per day:
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Post by patty on Mar 31, 2020 13:01:10 GMT
daughter collected my eye drops so thats me sorted....
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Post by Mr Stabby on Mar 31, 2020 13:17:41 GMT
I saw a queue for the Health Centre behind M&S in Nantwich, and it ran right around the building and across an adjacent car park ... but there were only about twenty or so people but the gaps between were ten metres or so. I was gobsmacked how many were queueing at this and other chemists ... who knew how many were on prescriptions ! Rog I'm not surprised there are queues at pharmacies, they are one of the few business sectors that are living in the dark ages. You go in with a prescription, nobody else in, they say you have to wait for 15 minutes, despite having 3 or 4 people working there. Why? I'd understand if there was a bloke with flasks and a Bunsen burner mixing up the concoction around the back but no, the medicines are all there, on the shelves, all that's needed is for someone to check the prescription, take the medicine off the shelf, give it to the customer, who can then leave. It not much more complicated than asking for a packet of fags but for some reason they want to make a big song and dance about it. Well, this is precisely so they can keep up the illusion that they are chemists when they are in fact shopkeepers.
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Post by patty on Mar 31, 2020 16:13:25 GMT
Pharmacists round here are working less hours ..therfor people having to queue
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Post by Telemachus on Mar 31, 2020 16:24:59 GMT
Pharmacists round here are working less hours ..therfor people having to queue We visited a rural pharmacy to collect Jeff’s Mum’s medications, but they were closed from 12:00 to 14:00 “for government-required cleaning”, according to the sign. We arrived at 12:07
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Post by metanoia on Mar 31, 2020 16:32:35 GMT
Pharmacists round here are working less hours ..therfor people having to queue We visited a rural pharmacy to collect Jeff’s Mum’s medications, but they were closed from 12:00 to 14:00 “for government-required cleaning”, according to the sign. We arrived at 12:07 Shit happens.... …. I watered up and escaped to a lovely quiet mooring at around the same time you two rocked up to the pharmacy - and out came the muck spreader - just YARDS away! Certainly nothing serious like not being able to get essential meds, I know but … … if it weren't for bad luck some of us would have no luck at all! Look after yourselves - especially Jeff's folks and your Mum x
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2020 16:39:37 GMT
It's that time of year metanoia ... be thankful you're in rural isolation ... and if you take big breathes the smell will go quicker We had two days of muck spreading, then today we moved to the embankment, and towpath side ... muck spreading! We didn't win an empire by avoiding 'rural' smells Rog
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Post by metanoia on Mar 31, 2020 16:41:46 GMT
eta - I didn't lay claim to any of the towpath - even my little mat was on top of my boat - but thought the two old boys chatting at the lock landing could have granted me more than 18 inches (you know what I mean!).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2020 16:42:41 GMT
eta - I didn't lay claim to any of the towpath - even my little mat was on top of my boat - but thought the two old boys chatting at the lock landing could have granted me more than 18 inches (you know what I mean!). That's one for Jim I think.
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Post by Telemachus on Mar 31, 2020 16:43:02 GMT
We visited a rural pharmacy to collect Jeff’s Mum’s medications, but they were closed from 12:00 to 14:00 “for government-required cleaning”, according to the sign. We arrived at 12:07 Shit happens.... …. I watered up and escaped to a lovely quiet mooring at around the same time you two rocked up to the pharmacy - and out came the muck spreader - just YARDS away! Certainly nothing serious like not being able to get essential meds, I know but … … if it weren't for bad luck some of us would have no luck at all! Look after yourselves - especially Jeff's folks and your Mum x Fortunately she has enough meds to last the weekend, so it was an inconvenience rather than a problem. We’ll go back later in the week.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2020 16:45:39 GMT
I'm still trying to picture metanoia 's 'little mat ' on the roof Rog
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Post by Jim on Mar 31, 2020 16:46:13 GMT
eta - I didn't lay claim to any of the towpath - even my little mat was on top of my boat - but thought the two old boys chatting at the lock landing could have granted me more than 18 inches (you know what I mean!). That's one for Jim I think. Oooh Er Missus. Did a titter just run through the audience?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2020 16:46:43 GMT
I doubt it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2020 16:50:40 GMT
I'm still trying to picture metanoia 's 'little mat ' on the roof Rog One way of avoiding the space before the apostrophe on the name tag would be to rearrange the sentence. Like this for example. "I'm still trying to picture the 'little mat' which metanoia has on the roof " Much tidier.
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