The Home Front meets Covid-19

newlywed

Pyxis said: Please don’t anyone tell me to put the sliced-off carrot tops into water on the window-sill to grow! 😂

Nah... that never grows a whole carrot

Pyxis

newlywed said:

Pyxis said: Please don’t anyone tell me to put the sliced-off carrot tops into water on the window-sill to grow! 😂

Nah... that never grows a whole carrot

Phew! That's a relief!
I’ve eaten so many carrots lately, my upper incisors were starting to elongate.

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Perhaps it's to reinforce the necessity of keeping socially distancing when everyone is getting a bit fed up with staying inside.  Now is the time to strengthen the message and peoples resolve and keep the message of doing the right thing in the forefront of all our minds when the temptation not to might be at its greatest as we hear of another three weeks of shut in and that's probably not going to be the end of it then is it?

skogar

The thought of poor Pyxis having to face even more carrots from growing carrot tops did make me laugh. I'm overrun with potatoes here at the moment.

I got some extra tomato plants from my dad one year - the fancy variety he had grown the previous year had produced new plants from the previous years dropped tomatoes. They were good.

I was lucky with seeds - I had ordered some fruit bushes and plants that were on a silly cheap offer and came with a random mix of veg seeds and I had ordered a few packs on offer before this started. T&M still look to have seeds in stock although I think speed of service is slow at the moment from the main gardening online places. P&P used to be £2 on seed only orders. Not the full range of varieties available but enough. Our local garden centre is now doing home deliveries so that might be an option as well.

Can understand being driven mad by Covid 19 ads. As someone who stopped listening to classic FM many years ago because the normal adverts drove me mad. I'm told it is a lot better since those days but I've not returned. I'm not the best person to ask but on radio 3 I didn't notice any but as I normally only listen in the car and i have been working from home mostly it is 2 weeks ago since I was last listening. I have sort of got an idea though. Some of the libraries give you access to the online naxos music library subscription service through their online resources. If you are one of the lucky ones you could go onto that and find lots of good music to listen to. Some libraries will let you join if you live outside their area. I'm a member of quite a few libraries for different reasons.

https://www.manchester.gov.uk/directory_record/162270/the_naxos_music_library_-_classical_music_streaming_service/category/1214/arts_music_and_culture

Pyxis

@MoneySeeker1, regarding Classic FM, I have it on all day, every day, so it is just background for me, so maybe I just don’t really hear the ads anymore? I had more of a listen yesterday, concentrating a bit more, and I did hear some of the ads you mentioned.

A while ago, I was finding a lot of the music played very repetitive, (because it’s on all day every day), and too much of it was modern classics like film music and TV programme theme music, so when I heard that Scala radio was starting, and that it purported to be somewhere between Classic FM and Radio 3, I bought a DAB radio especially to try it.
However, I didn’t find it any different to Classic FM really, so went back to Classic FM.

You could try Scala radio, though, Money, and see if that is any better regarding Covid ads. I think you can listen to it online after downloading an app.

MoneySeeker1

Thanks. Will try out these suggestions. I am a member of two libraries - the one where I live and my old library and shall certainly see if the Manchester Library link will work for me. Will check out the programming for Radio 3 and see if I can get Scala radio.

Boredom is starting to set in bigtime now that I've done all the frantic getting myself organised to cope with Lockdown and dealt with the personal issue that came up (of my father dying/having to arrange a "remote" funeral). There's still gardening to catch up on (as that went haywire with those two things to deal with) and that list of "get round to it" jobs many of us have and I need my music for intervals now and after the "catch-up jobs" have been caught up on it - in case there is yet another extension to Lockdown #eek.

Imprisonment of any description has always been one of my biggest fears and am not coping at all well with it.

Pyxis

MoneySeeker1 said:

Thanks. Will try out these suggestions. I am a member of two libraries - the one where I live and my old library and shall certainly see if the Manchester Library link will work for me. Will check out the programming for Radio 3 and see if I can get Scala radio.

Boredom is starting to set in bigtime now that I've done all the frantic getting myself organised to cope with Lockdown and dealt with the personal issue that came up (of my father dying/having to arrange a "remote" funeral). There's still gardening to catch up on (as that went haywire with those two things to deal with) and that list of "get round to it" jobs many of us have and I need my music for intervals now and after the "catch-up jobs" have been caught up on it - in case there is yet another extension to Lockdown #eek.

Imprisonment of any description has always been one of my biggest fears and am not coping at all well with it.

Sorry to hear that, Money. ☹️

MoneySeeker1

Well just heard the other angle to yesterday's funeral for my father went as I had hoped it would.

That being that all the neighbours had listened to that "little bird" that might have just told them when the hearse would be going to my parents house and driving slowly down their road (I'm admitting nothing on that front of course....) and apparently all the road were outside their houses "paying respects" as it went past them. That was very comforting to hear and made it not quite such a "lonely little funeral" in some respects as it would have otherwise been.

Also the volunteer that was arranged to fetch my mother to and from the funeral was apparently very kind to her and has offered further help (also a welcome thought to me and I'd been hoping for that).

Those things help a lot.

C_J

Condolences, Money. It’s hard enough to lose your father at the best of times, and I cannot begin to imagine how much more difficult it is during the lockdown when you can’t be with other family members for comfort and support. Sending you good wishes and a virtual hug.

skogar

Hi Moneyseeker,

Sorry maybe I didn't make it clear as the Naxos thing is a log in service you have to be registered with Manchester libraries to log in. I know that you can register online to join the library but am not sure if it would get fullly processed or not as normally you have to pic your card up at a library. But you would have nothing to loose by trying. I can't workout if the libraries are picking up emails or anything in the current situation as all the guidance I've seen on the library websites appears to be for existing borrowers. However if you are a member of a library already then it is worth seeing what they offer. SOme do a good selection of emagazines as well as books and other odd e-resources. It looks like the manchester libraries facebook page is being updated so I have dropped them a line to see if it is possible to join now. I don't live in Manchester but I am a member of the library.