Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

woofers said:
Wow, 4,000 pieces! I am struggling with a circular 1,000 piece Lord of The Rings
Good, (old-fashioned) , pastimes like jigsaw puzzles are quite therapeutic, as are playing cards (patience, solitaire etc), crosswords and Sudoku in 'hard copy' , i.e.NOT on an iPad, tablet.
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I find doing a jigsaw an excellent mindfulness activity. I can spend 15minutes a few times during the working day changing my focus from the worries and issues of the day, to sorting and then fitting together little pieces of cardboard - and before I know it that 15mins is half an hour. And I find that with my mind having not thought of the worries or issues it's a little refreshed.

Who needs stoopid colouring books. Doing a jigsaw is the answer to our worries :)

btw - I only have one 4000 piecer. Most are 1000 pieces and just the job for when your mind needs a little break (or if you can't get out for a short walk)

#staysafekeepwell
 
Crazyface said:
Just tried to get in at a local course but told no chance as the seniors have a paddy day shotgun on???????????? How? I asked. Aren't they supposed to be self isolating????? Looks like the seniors are sticking the finger up. What a surprise!!!
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Played yesterday, the car park was the busiest I've ever seen it, had to drive round twice to get a space. Combination of folk "working from home" and people trying to get a game in before the world ends.
 
Old Skier said:
This working from home stuff has got to stop, HID has only been here half a day and is driving me nuts. She's also found the biscuit stash.

Civil Servants IT Departments didn't take into account 1000's logging in remotely :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
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are you kidding, on a Friday the majority of civil servants I have worked beside are WFH. Allegedly.
 
We're a Global IT Services and Consultancy business - yet at times in the afternoon it seems as if we must have hamsters running around in wheels powering out network, and in the pm they get a bit knackered.

Though tbh I jest a bit - most of my UK project delivery colleagues WFH, and so the network is scaled to cope with a lot of home working as most of us already do.
 
Crazyface said:
Just tried to get in at a local course but told no chance as the seniors have a paddy day shotgun on???????????? How? I asked. Aren't they supposed to be self isolating????? Looks like the seniors are sticking the finger up. What a surprise!!!
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I thought it was ADVISED from this weekend.
 
Crazyface said:
Just tried to get in at a local course but told no chance as the seniors have a paddy day shotgun on???????????? How? I asked. Aren't they supposed to be self isolating????? Looks like the seniors are sticking the finger up. What a surprise!!!
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Remind me - are you the same person who was hellbent on flying to Portugal in defiance of government advice?
 
Old Skier said:
This working from home stuff has got to stop, HID has only been here half a day and is driving me nuts. She's also found the biscuit stash.

Civil Servants IT Departments didn't take into account 1000's logging in remotely :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
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Yours collapsing as well? I've just had to speak to one of the girls about my work mobile & she reckons that the system is going down every 2 minutes with everyone logging on from home. It's not looking good for Monday.
 
Wolf said:
I think this whole pay debate is best left for a separate discussion board as there are so many rabbit holes we can go down with it. Like why does a nurse, copper or fireman deserve a higher starting wage than a soldier, airman or Sailor whose training is in many instances more intense and their jobs are often more life threatening and mean many months away from families etc.

We shouldn't pay anyone crazy money whether its a nurse, postal work or shelf stacker. Ultimately anyone working anywhere has a right to go to work be respected for what they do which adds to society in some way whether through taxes paid, putting food in shelves so we all get to eat or looking after our health care or nation's security, in addition to that respect they all regardless of role deserve a salary that allows them to live without having to seek further government assistance just to eat and keep a roof over their heads..

As part of this outbreak I don't merely want people to acknowledge how hard NHS workers work or supermarkets workers are undervalued. I want people acknowledge how important it is to be kind and helpful to other men and women as a whole and society to acknowledge we are all in this together and support each other as a whole instead of point scoring of who deserves what.
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"They are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then, also, to look after our neighbours." – Thatcher in an interview in Women's Own in 1987
What was created then, we've been reaping ever since. Greed & selfishness abounds in our Nation from the very top down. Thankfully the headlines are now more about our front-line workers selflessly risking their health to save so many in our Nation...... when this is all over... will folk remember that!!
 
2blue said:
"They are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then, also, to look after our neighbours." – Thatcher in an interview in Women's Own in 1987
What was created then, we've been reaping ever since. Greed & selfishness abounds in our Nation from the very top down. Thankfully the headlines are now more about our front-line workers selflessly risking their health to save so many in our Nation...... when this is all over... will folk remember that!!
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No
It’s like car insurance ,everyone moans about the price until you need to use it.
Once the cars fixed we go back to moaning.
 
Just had another update that the CEO of UK Active is meeting with the government tonight to discuss leisure centres and gyms, whether they're to remain open or put in place different procedures to what are already being used. So we should have an update tomorrow as to what happens there.. My household maybe royally screwed if they close though, as I can't start new job yet due Covid19 protocols, contracts end next week anyway. Mrs Wolf will be home with no SSP & her next stage/final stage of RAF recruit relies on an in gym fitness test??‍♂️.

Best tighten the purse strings a bit.
 
2blue said:
"They are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then, also, to look after our neighbours." – Thatcher in an interview in Women's Own in 1987
What was created then, we've been reaping ever since. Greed & selfishness abounds in our Nation from the very top down. Thankfully the headlines are now more about our front-line workers selflessly risking their health to save so many in our Nation...... when this is all over... will folk remember that!!
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Thatcher and Reagan...what a lovely job they did in devolving us as a species.
They more or less made Johnson and Trump inevitable, didn't they?
And what kind of a hit to our way of life will be required to get us thinking about getting back on track?
 
Ye Olde Boomer said:
Thatcher and Reagan...what a lovely job they did in devolving us as a species.
They more or less made Johnson and Trump inevitable, didn't they?
And what kind of a hit to our way of life will be required to get us thinking about getting back on track?
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Thatcher was absolutely the right person in charge at the right time, others will disagree. Cant speak for Reagan as my knowledge of US politics back then was scant. Johnson is definitely not the idiot that Trump appears to be but then our Prime Ministers are always politicians and not actors and golf course owners
 
So is there any chance that mortgage rates will match the 0.1% that BoE announced today?

Looks like HiD's place will shut for 2 months, i might be tempted at the mortagage holiday
 
chrisd said:
Thatcher was absolutely the right person in charge at the right time, others will disagree. Cant speak for Reagan as my knowledge of US politics back then was scant. Johnson is definitely not the idiot that Trump appears to be but then our Prime Ministers are always politicians and not actors and golf course owners
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As a more conservative person, you've been more blessed to have things go your way.
As a progressive social democrat, I've been prodded into a constant stage of near homicidal rage.
So far now, at least, your blood pressure is lower than mine.
Congrats for that, at least.:)
 
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