The Nice People No. 17

PasturesNew

Pyxis said:

Well, I have gone down with yet another mildish URTI/cold, and feel rather unwell, so am back in bed.
Have taken my temperature twice but don’t have one.
 
Hermithood is the way to go, I reckon.
Trouble is, that results in other problems like  forgetting what day it is and talking to oneself out loud (more than usual), etc. 

Oh dear. Well, you did your best.  No temperature does mean it's not something you need to worry about though  
What day it is isn't that important, except knowing when it's Sunday as shops shut at 4pm. 

The trouble is .... you really also need to wipe down every pack/tin that enters the house, not just wearing gloves because of trolleys/baskets.  Who knows WHO coughed over each shelf/tin, or what was wrong with who stacked the shelves.... 

You can only do the most you're prepared to do .... no point being completely bonkers about everything. 

PasturesNew

RM has updated the sales prices today.  I was sitting here thinking "hope it happens this week, maybe Thursday" and there it was.  If you were waiting to check what any particular house sold for recently, check it again now.

Unexpectedly, my neighbour's house was showing up.  Odd that as it's still showing on RM as "sold STC", yet it completed towards the end of January this year.  I was keen (nosey) to see how much it ended up at.  It'd gone on at £265k (£5k less than mine) ... and ended up completing at £247k (£5.5k less than mine).  He bought the house for £3k more than that: redecorated, ripped out the bathroom and had a flash shower room, re-did all the garden and added a huge garden room (aka big shed).  His looked a lot nicer than mine in the photos, if you were going for "looks nice".  He didn't have any side garden though, was adjacent to a commercial premises lorry loading bay and only had one/distant parking spot that was a trek. 

vivatifosi

PasturesNew said:

Pyxis said:

Well, I have gone down with yet another mildish URTI/cold, and feel rather unwell, so am back in bed.
Have taken my temperature twice but don’t have one.
 
Hermithood is the way to go, I reckon.
Trouble is, that results in other problems like  forgetting what day it is and talking to oneself out loud (more than usual), etc. 

Oh dear. Well, you did your best.  No temperature does mean it's not something you need to worry about though  
What day it is isn't that important, except knowing when it's Sunday as shops shut at 4pm. 

The trouble is .... you really also need to wipe down every pack/tin that enters the house, not just wearing gloves because of trolleys/baskets.  Who knows WHO coughed over each shelf/tin, or what was wrong with who stacked the shelves.... 

You can only do the most you're prepared to do .... no point being completely bonkers about everything. 

Dont know how to get rid of double quotes. If the virus lives on hard surfaces for 72 hours, will the temptation be to pack perishables in one bag and tins, packets etc in another. You could then unpack 3 days later when any risk has subsided. Depends on how much I really want to open those Weetabix.  I've always got a large store cupboard of food.

Has anyone checked out the preppers thread lately?  I should get over and check it out.  who else remembers that thread from years ago about emergencies? The one that involved Dopester's dog and licking the moisture off car windows?  The latter probably not a great idea for COVID 19.

chris_m

vivatifosi said:

Dont know how to get rid of double quotes.

You need to select the area you wish to delete, as per the screenshot below which was taken from the start of quoting your post;


Then hit the delete key. That will probably only delete the contents of the quoted area and leave the shaded background showing but a second hit of the delete key (without moving the cursor) should get rid of it completely.
HTH

Pyxis

vivatifosi said:

PasturesNew said:

Pyxis said:

Well, I have gone down with yet another mildish URTI/cold, and feel rather unwell, so am back in bed.
Have taken my temperature twice but don’t have one.
 
Hermithood is the way to go, I reckon.
Trouble is, that results in other problems like  forgetting what day it is and talking to oneself out loud (more than usual), etc. 

Oh dear. Well, you did your best.  No temperature does mean it's not something you need to worry about though  
What day it is isn't that important, except knowing when it's Sunday as shops shut at 4pm. 

The trouble is .... you really also need to wipe down every pack/tin that enters the house, not just wearing gloves because of trolleys/baskets.  Who knows WHO coughed over each shelf/tin, or what was wrong with who stacked the shelves.... 

You can only do the most you're prepared to do .... no point being completely bonkers about everything. 

Dont know how to get rid of double quotes. If the virus lives on hard surfaces for 72 hours, will the temptation be to pack perishables in one bag and tins, packets etc in another. You could then unpack 3 days later when any risk has subsided. Depends on how much I really want to open those Weetabix.  I've always got a large store cupboard of food.

I heard on one of the TV bulletins that paper and cardboard isn’t too bad, so things like post should be ok, although I still wash my hands after handling post.

So I haven’t worried too much about cardboard cartons, especially ones going in the fridge/freezer... (will the cold kill it?) ...but I have been wiping down food bottles and jars, and washing my hands after unpacking the shopping, etc.

It didn’t stop me catching this bit of a cold though, did it? 👹

GDB2222

I was up at 5.30am yesterday, then continually on the move until we arrived 13 hours later at our hotel by the med. It's a 5 hour flight, so that’s 8 hours doing other stuff. For example, it’s out of season and the flights are half empty, yet passport control still takes 30 minutes to get through. EasyJet still parks on the far side of the airport, 15 minutes bus ride from the terminal.

Forget about supersonic planes. The real time saving to be had is the easy, low tech stuff of speeding up what happens on the ground. 

GDB2222

Oh, and for safety reasons, I had my sunscreen confiscated. 

Pyxis

GDB2222 said:

Oh, and for safety reasons, I had my sunscreen confiscated. 

Was it more than 100ml?

PasturesNew

vivatifosi said:

 

... pack perishables in one bag and tins, packets etc in another. You could then unpack 3 days later when any risk has subsided. 

That'd work. For those with a garage or shed it could be used as a holding station  

PasturesNew

chris_m said:

vivatifosi said:

Dont know how to get rid of double quotes.

You need to  

It can still be a faff though as it's easy to find it doesn't do what you expected. 
One of the first times I did it I ended up saying "s0d it" and just went straight to the html to sort it out