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Post by quaysider on Jan 20, 2021 8:17:26 GMT
I've heard there has been an enormous rise in domestic violence during the lockdown. I bet Rog's crapping himself. fixed that for you... Look what happened to the poor chaps nose last year! Back to the op - not being one to join in with conspiratorial stuff, I can't help but wonder, if it was created by a lab and escaped in error (well I say in error - it might have been the plan all along) as a way to reduce population globally ... except it got out too soon and China had to share information with the rest of the world so as for it NOT to have been an act of war. I dunno and suspect we never will for sure. I suppose so long as we can grow food (even if it does have to be seasonal again), does it really matter? - we're all here for such a short space of time anyway, I'll get used to eating turnips and suedes in the winter instead of sugar snap pears and manegtout etc. It's just the boredom and lack of things to do/human interaction that I find hardest. I truly hate talking to people wearing a mask (both ways)... it' s all muffled and everyone spends thier days repeating themseleves louder - thus (perhaps) sending out even MORE infectious globules around the side of their masks. The lack of freedom to sit inside a cafe when out shoping to wait out the rain, or nip in a pub or even browse around a charity shop or book store does make for pretty dull days. Not having much money, until last year, I'd never realised how much free time I'd spend in charity shops - not always buying stuff but just chatting crap with other folks in there ... staff or customers. Since that has been removed, and the human interaction folks like me ... AND come to think of it even Stabby need, all this go in to a supermarket with a list and get out as quickly as possible and then rush home to do... nothing sort of removes our humanity. I'm waffling... I need to get over to the other thread to check if John v is ok ... i awoke at 3.10am by the engine bilge alarm going off... to alert me there was 1/4 inch in the rear section ... alas the bilge pump can't really do anything until it gets up to half so perhaps today I'll adjust the alarm ... after all, I took the battery out and will chuck a few nappies in this morning.
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Post by JohnV on Jan 20, 2021 8:29:36 GMT
I've heard there has been an enormous rise in domestic violence during the lockdown. I bet Rog's crapping himself. I'm waffling... I need to get over to the other thread to check if John v is ok ... i awoke at 3.10am by the engine bilge alarm going off... to alert me there was 1/4 inch in the rear section ... alas the bilge pump can't really do anything until it gets up to half so perhaps today I'll adjust the alarm ... after all, I took the battery out and will chuck a few nappies in this morning. Morning !!! water level over the quay about 7 or 8 inches about the same as it's been the last few days ..... For me to be worried about flooding it would have to be truly biblical levels ...... my mooring system and gangway will cope with up to 10 or 12 inches higher than the highest recorded level and if it gets to that level it would be over the sea wall and flooding half the county so it wouldn't rise any more.
No, I might be on a river but I had ages during the first lockdown to design and construct as near a flood proof mooring as possible.
I think people who are always more at risk are people where there is not a high risk of flooding ..... When they are flooded they are totally unprepared.
Thanks for the concern
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Post by peterboat on Jan 20, 2021 11:31:07 GMT
How about naughtyfox instead of just cut n paste for a change you actually answer the enquiry. How you faring during these ongoing restrictions ... after all you can't get to your boat either. Rog I'll take that as a no then. Rog He is worried he will never see the boat again
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2021 12:09:48 GMT
Weekends are hardest for me, week is easy with being in the office every day.
This weekend we have no plans, whilst I am happy to sit and play xbox and watch football, mrs is not, she will be bored and looking for entertainment.
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Post by perkwunos on Jan 20, 2021 12:16:30 GMT
Oddly, despite the usual January blues (that I've shared often enough here and on the blog anyway) THIS lock down feels much like the previous ones. Routine is what I need to keep me going - with a plan in my head when I go to sleep of "something to do" the following day or I can't sleep due to my brain wandering off and trying to replay every bad decision I've ever made or situation I could/should have handled differently ... a sort of nocturnal 'groundhog day' thing. I keep busy doing chores that I could have done in a few days (with the right weather) in stages - take those doors I've painted ... normally, I'd have done them all in one go - instead, I've done one a day. My 'walks' always (pretty much without exception) involve buying something to 'stock up' with ... that's as much to make use of the journey and the need to carry less weight more often than a massive load less often. It is tedious though. I'm missing having a bath and in fact, at some point in the new few weeks, I'm going to (possibly ) carry out some work on the boat (wink) that requires an overnight in a hotel whilst fire-cement dries or whatever... to have a legitimate reason to have a night off the confines of the boat. When I planned this life style, January was always intended to be spent on a cruise ship somewhere - a PROPER one not this one but as you all know, the last couple of years 'changes' to my circumstances have put paid to that. It may seem strange but I'm no longer mourning the various 'losses' per say... instead, I'm mentally fast forwarding to happier future times and new adventures to be had - perhaps not in 2021 but that's ok... having braced myself to write it off anyway, ANY thing positive is a plus and I'll embrace that with open arms. I still think world governments could have been more honest about the long term prognosis - perhaps even truthful about not giving two hoots about the (financially beneficial elements) of population reduction... using the guise of protecting health services as an emotive (and generally effective) tool to maneuver "us"... I GET that it's not all about covid now but having capacity to "save Bob who's just been run over's" life but the cynic in me does wonder if another, and another and another "mutation" will set us right back to square one vaccination wise again. Let's hope not. On the plus, the diet and dry January still endures and having sneaked on the scales again, I may make it to 1 stone by Friday - fingers crossed. ETA- I'm also distracting myself of an evening by looking for retirement property abroad - having exhausted Florida (and realized the whole green card thing might be an issue) , I've found the perfect place for when I sell up over here... www.aplaceinthesun.com/property/details/ap2660245/6-bed-villa-for-sale-in-villalonga-valencia-spainPlenty of great houses for sale here for under 200,000 pounds...
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Post by quaysider on Jan 20, 2021 12:53:14 GMT
Plenty of great houses for sale here for under 200,000 pounds... true but when the time comes to stop travelling around on 'Ellis' I want to be somewhere warmer - ... with milder winters... I don't fare well in the darker months so somewhere like the azores/canaries are most likely final resting places for me. 15 years plus I suppose.
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Post by thebfg on Jan 20, 2021 16:41:38 GMT
true but when the time comes to stop travelling around on 'Ellis' I want to be somewhere warmer - ... with milder winters... I don't fare well in the darker months so somewhere like the azores/canaries are most likely final resting places for me. 15 years plus I suppose. come down south. Lovely down here.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2021 10:33:57 GMT
Reasons to be hopeful continue with the ever increasing pace of the vaccination roll out ... the falling number of new cases ... and the NHS holding firm and (just barely) coping with the extraordinary high hospital occupancy levels.
We may be over the 'hump' ... let's hope so.
Rog
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2021 10:50:40 GMT
true but when the time comes to stop travelling around on 'Ellis' I want to be somewhere warmer - ... with milder winters... I don't fare well in the darker months so somewhere like the azores/canaries are most likely final resting places for me. 15 years plus I suppose. We dream of a villa out in the sun, just need house prices to boom over here and drop over there, and then we might stand a chance, We love Fuerteventura and before all this crap used to go twice a year in the colder months, hopefully we can go back in October...
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Post by perkwunos on Jan 21, 2021 11:20:44 GMT
true but when the time comes to stop travelling around on 'Ellis' I want to be somewhere warmer - ... with milder winters... I don't fare well in the darker months so somewhere like the azores/canaries are most likely final resting places for me. 15 years plus I suppose. I live in Brazil. The pound against the real is at 7.35 today. Outside of the major conurbations, there are really nice houses for sale with swimming pools, land etc, for less than the price of a grotty house in the UK.
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Post by peterboat on Jan 21, 2021 12:57:13 GMT
true but when the time comes to stop travelling around on 'Ellis' I want to be somewhere warmer - ... with milder winters... I don't fare well in the darker months so somewhere like the azores/canaries are most likely final resting places for me. 15 years plus I suppose. I live in Brazil. The pound against the real is at 7.35 today. Outside of the major conurbations, there are really nice houses for sale with swimming pools, land etc, for less than the price of a grotty house in the UK. I have always liked the look of Brazil but never been there outside of a stop when out sailing on boat
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Post by Telemachus on Jan 21, 2021 13:13:04 GMT
You'd have to be nuts to want to live in Brazil.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2021 13:47:19 GMT
Ba-doom-tish
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2021 14:18:45 GMT
Heard on the the wireless at lunchtime that scientists are recommending not reopening pubs and restaurants until at least May. Glad I am married to an excellent cook and I have a huge stock of beer.
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Post by Trina on Jan 21, 2021 14:21:08 GMT
Suspect quite a few smaller pubs will never open their doors again.
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