The Nice People No. 17

PasturesNew

Pyxis said:

 

Have you any plastic gloves you could wear? And take your hand gel with you.

It's that stock answer: I have gloves (bought for cleaning) ... in storage.  I would've had gel, if I'd got my own home as I'd have bought some in passing in the last month "just in case" as, in your own home you can have the space for things you might not need and can store/hold until such time as you do.

PasturesNew

Don't quote, will delete. 


Right, unexpected turn of events..... 
LL and bf were here... he knocked on my door as they wanted to check I was all right as my car's absent. 

So I told a MASSIVE fib ... and set things up to move forward. 

I told them about the MoT and then .... I have a compromised immune system, so might have to move out sooner than expected as my Dr's advised me not to share cooking facilities with anybody unless it's all stripped/sanitised daily   

So, I've had the conversation that precedes the "I'm leaving" one, making that easier as it's now expected. 

I thought it was easier than just saying "I hate you, I'm off"  

Cakeguts

I am keeping my mouth shut.  If I do what would help a lot of other people I suspect that my band conductor will cast me into outer darkness not just onto my nice plush naughty step in my  parallel universe. (The cat hasn't got to it yet)

He has issued a practice session for 30 minutes to keep us all in practice (I am not going to do it because I know it won't work very well and in any case I have something that works better and I always practice for longer than 30 mins) and he has missed out an important bit of pattern recognition which to me as a pattern recogntion person is so obvious but to everyone else is rocket science.  To play music well at sight there are 3 basic sets of pattern recognitions that you need to be able to do by practicing them. He has missed one out. 

I am NOT going to point this out to him athough it is very, very tempting. I won't be able to cope with the fall out.  And I know that he just won't get it.  Been here before and I just know that he will argue with me. 

PasturesNew

Bye bye London then.  

PasturesNew

Cakeguts said:

 

I am NOT going to point this out to him athough it is very, very tempting. I won't be able to cope with the fall out.  And I know that he just won't get it.  Been here before and I just know that he will argue with me. 

Yep, ostracised, sidelined, pushed out, excluded .... because you were right and everybody had their ears closed.... "we don't need your negative thinking" when all you did was "just said something important".   

They don't deserve us do they  

silvercar

PasturesNew said:

Bye bye London then.  

As you may know, I am just outside the official London boundary, I can literally walk to the sign that says "welcome to Hertfordshire" on the main road.
Normally people moan about this as it means our seniors can't get a free tube pass, our 6th form kids weren't eligible for free transport on London buses and a whole host of other discounts and stuff. Now we are all saying that if London goes into Lockdown we are still free!

SingleSue

Pyxis said:

Sue, I’ve been thinking of you a lot.

I hope my wittering on about hand-washing and deliveries and worrying hasn’t made things worse for you. Many apologies, if so. Plus germ-free virtual hugs.

Oh no, I've done that to myself. I've always been a little obsessive about washing my hands and because I am so worried about passing something onto my parents and the uncertainty around my job and money which has made my mood dip a bit, my OCD has gone a bit haywire.

It's one of the signs I display that things are getting too much and I am heading mentally downwards and as long as I recognise that and put things into place, then I can usually stop it. The difficulty this time is that so much is still up in the air regarding my employment is that getting an even keel is proving harder. Saying that though, I am feeling fairly relaxed this morning, I'm socially distancing myself in my bedroom, I can hear the birds outside and I am feeling oodles better than last night.

PasturesNew

silvercar said:

...if London goes into Lockdown we are still free!

First they came for the Londoners.... then the people that had been laughing at the sign for the previous two weeks thinking they were safe  

ivyleaf

Well, we'll have to wait and see what happens about London, but in the meantime the DM does admit that "speculation is raging." 

Pyxis I heard the most gorgeous blackbird song this morning 

Sue I'm glad you feel better this morning. The uncertainty is the worst thing of all, I find. x

I have a load of Muscari/Grape hyacinths in bloom in the little raised bed in the front garden.  Reminded me, in the circs, of Monica Dickens in her book "One Pair of Feet" about being a nurse during WW2: "People wrote letters to the papers noting that even Hitler couldn't stop the daffodils from blooming, though it would have been far more noteworthy if he could."

Cakeguts

Something tells me that the town planners who thought building a mass housing estate of "regeneration" of flats on the old Wembley Park exhibition site are going to have to have another teensy weensy little thought about increasing density.