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Seasidegal58

I hope your SIL is improving and it's not CV related @moving_forward. ☹️

You're right about feeling how lucky one is to have a steady job in these times - and which isn't on the front line. Love to all those essential people out there. ❤️❤️❤️

moving_forward

Ditto SSG xxx

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Ditto and ditto!
PD sends her fond regards to Dog and Puss Cat  

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BlackCoffeeNoSugar said:

Ditto and ditto!
PD sends her fond regards to Dog and Puss Cat  

Puss Cat and Dog return the fond returns and add kisses xx
Hope everyone is well and not coming down with this horrid so called virus.
It seems sister in law may well have had the CV19 (who knows without testing) but is recovering well and so far no-one else in the family is coming down with it so all's good.
We had a day off yesterday booked long before this rubbish so kept it and spent the most part of it running around delivering shopping and then doing extra shops and prescription pick ups to the oldies.  Today we have spent in glorious isolation tending to the garden, planting out a couple of things, moving plants about and have had a lovely day.  Its not often the Moving_Forward household get a whole day alone in the house and garden in such lovely weather.  We have took great advantage of it.  Tomorrow shall involve filling up with fuel and not much else  
Debt repayment is plodding along slowly, won't be back to normal endeavours until we aren't shopping for others and are able to got back to hunting out the best prices but we are grateful to be in a position to be fit and healthy enough to shop and that there is food etc about to buy.
I have started watching the bbc series "back in time to the corner shop"  its fantastic and quite bizarre to see them discussing the bare shelves during the wars and great depression and realising the kids of tomorrow will be studying the great loo roll shortage of 2020 in years to come!!  Can't still quite get our head round the whole business, feels somewhat like we are in a film or long dream and we will wake up and things will be back to normal.

Seasidegal58

I loved the Corner Shop series too!  It certainly made you realise that the U.K. has gone through some really tough times since the end of the 1890s.  I remember the three day week in the mid-70s. I had only been married for a few years and my DD was still very young. I was working at the time and used to dread coming home the evening shift of the regular powers cuts - sitting in the dark by candlelight!  Everyone used to go to bed early!

I'm glad you and your family enjoyed your day in the garden today - the weather was lovely. 😀

ladyholly

I too remember the 3 day week. I seem to remember there was a rise in the birth rate the following year.

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leave me diary unattended for five mins and there's talk of rise in birth rates!  Mr M_F will be getting ideas (practising not producing off spring - we have enough).
Welcome @ladyholly, does one have to curtsy now we are in the presence of a lady??

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I am old enough to vaguely remember the candles but I was a very young child so don't remember a 3 day week.  I am still on episode 3 of the shop series as its not for Mr M_F so I watch it whilst ironing or when hes busy doing other things.  We are happy to say we only have one tv in our house.  We tend to watch what we both like and have  turns when the other one can watch other stuff.  We tried an extra tv at one point but it didn't suit us.  We do have more than one computer tablet etc mind as they are our real obsession!

Seasidegal58

I originally had a small TV in my bedroom when I first moved in my flat years ago. I got rid of it after a couple of months as I wasn't watching it. I preferred to watch my bigger telly in the living room and keep the bedroom as a more peaceful abode for sleeping. 

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Seasidegal58 said:

I originally had a small TV in my bedroom when I first moved in my flat years ago. I got rid of it after a couple of months as I wasn't watching it. I preferred to watch my bigger telly in the living room and keep the bedroom as a more peaceful abode for sleeping. 

Yes I agree SSG everytime I,ve had a tv in the bedroom its certainly interrupted sleep. One Tv is plenty.