It's time to start digging up those Squirrelled Nuts!!!!

crv1963

One of my favorites Living on the Ceiling! 

Managed to complete our supermarket shop yesterday morning, followed by an afternoon and evening tackling the shrub roses and we have removed all the dead wood. Not a task for the faint hearted when they've grown to around ten feet tall and six feet across! Skip coming today to rid the garden of all the accumulated rubbish from our efforts so far this year.

Had a cheeky glass of wine in front of the blazing dead wood as the sun set, it was nice and warm and Mrs CRV said "We could almost be abroad, apart from the winter is returning tomorrow!". 

hansolo2000

It’s time to sell the family silver

Thrugelmir

Username999 said:

Those e-Scooters are expensive Boris!!!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=e+scooter&_sacat=11330&_sop=3

Far cheaper than a Tesla. 

Sea_Shell

So we are now allowed to leave our house (and drive) for pleasure. But if we go out as a couple, we're not allowed to speak to anyone we might meet, as that's not just 1 to 1.    Even if I'm on my own, I can't talk to another couple either.   

Right, that's workable and enforceable!!     (it would be laughable if it wasn't so serious!)


As for the household "bubble" idea that was in the document (page 31 if you're interested).    We're not going to be on anyone's "bubble buddie" list, as it would be "mutually exclusive" and everyone we know, including family would have others higher up the "want to see" list than us!!

"For example, the Government has asked SAGE to examine whether, when and how it can safely change the regulations to allow people to expand their household group to include one other household in the same exclusive group. (*29)"
                                               
 "(*29), It is not OK to be in multiple household groups: if Household A merges with B, Household B cannot also elect to be in a group with Household C. This would create a chain that would allow the virus to spread widely"

You might have to choose between your families folks.   As if THAT'S not going to cause arguments!!!

Here's a link to the document if you want it... https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/our-plan-to-rebuild-the-uk-governments-covid-19-recovery-strategy




And what's e-scooters got to do with anything??!!  Or selling the family silver for that matter!!   

quirkydeptless

Sea_Shell said:

Here's a link to the document if you want it... https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/our-plan-to-rebuild-the-uk-governments-covid-19-recovery-strategy
 

Urgh, reading that it keeps being in BoJo's voice in my head 

shinytop

Username999 said:

Sea_Shell said:

And what's e-scooters got to do with anything??!!   

The government are changing the law to allow e-scooters onto roads.
This will let people get to work and avoid using public transport, 

Hmmm really?  I quite fancy one of these 
 
and hansolo2000 is just a spammer 

Sea_Shell

Username999 said:

Sea_Shell said:

And what's e-scooters got to do with anything??!!   

The government are changing the law to allow e-scooters onto roads.
This will let people get to work and avoid using public transport, 

Ok, but why bring it up randomly on this thread...??   

badger09

Apologies for length of this post, and hope no one is upset by it. I don't know the source. 

New Coronavirus Rules for England

* 4 year olds can go to school but university students who have paid for their tuition and the accommodation that they aren’t living in, can’t go back to university.

* Our youngest children go back to school first because... they are notoriously good at not touching things they shouldn’t, maintain personal space at all times and never randomly lick you.

 * I can sit in a park, but not tomorrow, but by Wednesday that’ll be fine.

 * I can meet one person from another household for a chat or to sunbathe but not two people so if I know two people from another household I have to pick my favourite. Hopefully, I’m also their favourite person from my household or this could be awkward. But possibly I’m not. In fact, thinking about it, I definitely wouldn’t be. But as I can’t go closer than 2m to the one I choose anyway, you wouldn’t think having the other one sat next to them would matter - unless two people would restrict my eyeline and prevent me from being alert.

 * I can work all day with my colleagues but I can’t sit in their garden for a chat after work.

 * I can now do unlimited exercise when quite frankly just doing an hour a day felt like I was some kind of fitness guru. I can think of lots of things I would like to be unlimited but exercise definitely isn’t one of them.

 * I can drive to other destinations although which destinations is unclear. I was supposed to be in Brighton this weekend. Can I drive there? It’s hundreds of miles away but no one has said that’s wrong.

* The buses are still running past my house but I shouldn’t get on one. We should just let empty buses drive around so bus drivers aren’t doing nothing.

 * It will soon be time to quarantine people coming into the country by air... but not yet. It’s too soon. And not ever if you’re coming from France because... well, I don’t do know why, actually. Because the French version of coronavirus wouldn’t come to the UK maybe.

 * We are somewhere in between 3.5 and 4.5 on a five point scale where 5 is all of the virus and 1 is none of the virus but 2,3 and 4 can be anything you’d like it to be really. Some of the virus? A bit of the virus? Just enough virus to see off those over 70s who were told to self isolate but now we’ve realised that they’ve done that a bit too well, despite us offloading coronavirus patients into care homes. Now we are claiming that was never said in the first place, even though it’s in writing in the stay at home guidance.

 * The slogan isn’t stay at home any more, so we don’t have to say at home. Except we do. Unless we can’t. In which case we should go out. But there will be fines if we break the rules. So don’t do that.

 Don’t forget...

 Stay alert... which Robert Jenrick has explained actually means Stay home as much as possible. Obviously.

 Save lives. Always preferable to not saving lives, I’d say, so I’ll try my best with that one, although hopefully I don’t need telling to do that. I know I’m bragging now but not NOT saving lives is something I do every day.

 So there you are. If you’re the weirdo wanting unlimited exercise then enjoy. But not until Wednesday. Obviously.

 

Sea_Shell

I know, crackers isn't it!!!

Thems the times we are a livin' in.


**Edit**
I've just tried to read that out to DH and I can't for laughing so much.   Thank you.

crv1963

Sea_Shell said:

I know, crackers isn't it!!!

Thems the times we are a livin' in.


**Edit**
I've just tried to read that out to DH and I can't for laughing so much.   Thank you.

You're quite right, it is sheer nonsense. I for one won't be driving anywhere for exercise, my travel will continue to be essential travel only. As for merging our household of two with another- no chance! I will however still miss the pub!