2020 Fashion on the Ration Challenge

PipneyJane

Good morning everyone.

I’m glad to hear that you’re all doing well.  Ditto your parents, @Laura_Elsewhere.  We’re about to go out and tackle the garden.  Grrr..... Look out weeds!  

My sister in Melbourne phoned at 5am to check that we are OK.  Big Sis reported that eggs have more than doubled in price, increasing from $2.45 to over $6!  

- Pip

diminua

I'm here. Got back to London Thursday - after a rather surreal journey in which I was alone in my train carriage and the tube skipped at least one station and was virtually empty too. I'm avoiding public transport and large gatherings as per advice.
Work are being quite insistent that everyone who can work from home should work from home, and I'm surprised how smoothly that's gone - one of my colleagues couldn't get into the finance system to put a supplier on, so I had to do it for him, but otherwise it's all been fine. I suspect that management will wonder what they ever had all that office and meeting space for when this is over.   

Laura_Elsewhere

So far as I'm concerned everyone should be at home unless they *have* to be out for urgent food/meds or essential working. 

Niece, mid-20s, totally healthy, and her boyfriend ditto, both active outdoorsy types who eat healthily and don't smoke or drink heavily - both developed symptoms a few days ago, still at home in SE Scotland, but getting more ill. Breathing starting to become laboured for both, so they are phoning for advice today. 

Round here we've gone from no confirmed cases in the NHS area to having our first death from it, albeit someone with underlying serious health issues.

It really doesn't matter whether you are in an at risk group or not - EVERYONE can get it and become seriously ill. 

keepcalmandcraft

Late check-in for me today. Went for a long walk with the dog and tried to keep well away from everyone else out walking. It was a beautiful day which lifted the spirits. I have one daughter at home now not taking her A levels and my eldest daughter is in Manchester. She was supposed to be coming home for the weekend for Mothering Sunday and my birthday tomorrow, but we FaceTimed instead! 

Keep safe everyone.

dolly84

diminua said:

I'm here. Got back to London Thursday - after a rather surreal journey in which I was alone in my train carriage and the tube skipped at least one station and was virtually empty too. I'm avoiding public transport and large gatherings as per advice.
Work are being quite insistent that everyone who can work from home should work from home, and I'm surprised how smoothly that's gone - one of my colleagues couldn't get into the finance system to put a supplier on, so I had to do it for him, but otherwise it's all been fine. I suspect that management will wonder what they ever had all that office and meeting space for when this is over.   

If we all worked from home all the time it would be very, very lonely.  Even though we moan about going to work it does connect us with people which as social animals we need.

dolly84

Laura_Elsewhere said:

So far as I'm concerned everyone should be at home unless they *have* to be out for urgent food/meds or essential working. 

Niece, mid-20s, totally healthy, and her boyfriend ditto, both active outdoorsy types who eat healthily and don't smoke or drink heavily - both developed symptoms a few days ago, still at home in SE Scotland, but getting more ill. Breathing starting to become laboured for both, so they are phoning for advice today. 

Round here we've gone from no confirmed cases in the NHS area to having our first death from it, albeit someone with underlying serious health issues.

It really doesn't matter whether you are in an at risk group or not - EVERYONE can get it and become seriously ill. 

The problem we have is the information we are getting.  Our government has been telling us for 2 months that healthy people will get mild symptoms and some no symptoms at all so obviously we weren't worried about catching it personally but were concerned about others, then this weekend they try to blame us for going outside in parks and wide open spaces, we hadn't been told not to do that and it just felt like yesterday they were trying to make out the general public were causing the problem rather than them changing the goalposts every 2 minutes.

CAFCGirl

I agree with @dolly84
What was needed was clear, no nonsense guidelines and swifter action to drum home the seriousness of the issue. We are nowhere near the level of quarantine in some countries, and why the nation cant be thankful for that and do their bit is beyond me but then I realise no one is being told anything concise.
There's still parents ferrying teenagers around because 'they're a nightmare when they don't get to see their friends', or still taking kids out to playparks with everyone else. Yes, we can still go out and whilst we can I am very thankful for that (so is the dog) but I am avoiding being near anyone. I will cross the road, take a different side road etc to avoid people. A local seaside town to me was full of people from London yesterday - WHY?! 

This in turn I think would have negated a lot of this panic buying nonsense.

But here we are, and I am doing what I can and encouraging others to do the same wherever possible - including telling my loved ones when they are being idiots!

Perhaps our daily check in could include an element of fun, or perhaps a challenge within this challenge would lighten the mood a wee bit?

thriftwizard

I'm here & well! I've been busy trying to sort my allotment out; I've got half-way, and have some spuds, onions, shallots & carrots in the bit that's been sorted, alongside chard, spring cabbages & purple sprouting broccoli  still going from last year. To our horror, at least two cabbages have been stolen, sliced clean off above the outer leaves; the site simply isn't secure, and even if we're allowed to keep going up there, we won't be able to stop people just helping themselves when there's no-one around. So we've taken the decision to put the little polytunnel up in the garden - last used during the bird 'flu panic, to keep my bantams under cover - which will mean we can get some fresh veg, at least, even if the garden will feel smaller.

So no sewing for me as yet, though DD2's happily slicing up 6 metres of vintage silk with a pretty pattern of roses to make herself a summery shift-dress.

maddiemay

More gardening today, lovely and sunny.  We have just bought a pressure washer so OH has been having great fun cleaning the patio and paths, all very dirty so hopefully this will keep him occupied for a while.    I had what will probably be the first of many, a session sorting my masses of paperwork for filing or shredding, spent ages unblocking the shredder with a pair of tweezers!

PipneyJane

thriftwizard said:

I'm here & well! I've been busy trying to sort my allotment out; I've got half-way, and have some spuds, onions, shallots & carrots in the bit that's been sorted, alongside chard, spring cabbages & purple sprouting broccoli  still going from last year. To our horror, at least two cabbages have been stolen, sliced clean off above the outer leaves; the site simply isn't secure, and even if we're allowed to keep going up there, we won't be able to stop people just helping themselves when there's no-one around. So we've taken the decision to put the little polytunnel up in the garden - last used during the bird 'flu panic, to keep my bantams under cover - which will mean we can get some fresh veg, at least, even if the garden will feel smaller.

So no sewing for me as yet, though DD2's happily slicing up 6 metres of vintage silk with a pretty pattern of roses to make herself a summery shift-dress.

That’s horrible, @t@thriftwizard!  Nasty people.

We’re still OK.  I’m working in an almost deserted office and will be until my Australian colleague heads home on Thursday.  (He finally got through to change his ticket.). After that, I’ll work from home, starting work early while he starts work in the late afternoon Sydney time, so that we can get the job done.  However, I saw my Project Director today who reported that two of my colleagues have reported feeling feverish.  Both were down in Somerset last Monday and Tuesday, but one was in the office on Wednesday and bought a round of coffees.  We’ll see what happens.

- Pip

ETA:. Did you see the news?  Lockdown has started.  I won’t be going into the office again, until this is all over.