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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

@rudebhoy

Gorgeous dogs in your avatar. I grew up from 5 to 19 years old with a liver and white springer spaniel very like yours except sadly with rather less tail. She was a wonderfully gentle and good natured dog. I could greet just thinking about her.

If my lifestyle allowed for one these days, it would be a struggle to choose between another spaniel and a border collie. Might have to have one of each!

Cheers Colin. Unfortunately we lost the bigger one 7 weeks ago. He was 12 and had liver failure.

He was the nicest natured dog I've ever met in my life. The younger one is a total hooligan, but seems to be calming down now, mainly because he doesn't have to fight for attention any more.
 
Cheers Colin. Unfortunately we lost the bigger one 7 weeks ago. He was 12 and had liver failure.

He was the nicest natured dog I've ever met in my life. The younger one is a total hooligan, but seems to be calming down now, mainly because he doesn't have to fight for attention any more.
I've ran 6 miles each day with my springer since the lockdown. he was enthusiastic at first but today when I picked up his lead his looked at me and his eyes said "seriously"!!!!. wimp! he's only 7
 
You want to walk the dog - then walk it round the block - twice if you must. No need to drive to 'somewhere nice'

Absolutely wonderful... No doubt the can't be asked will be thinking it perfectly OK for their 'treasure' to foul our adjacent meadow... Then, if they actually break the mould, and bag up the mess they'll most likely revert to type and leave the bag swinging in the shrubs ??...
 
people near be just don't get this stay indoors, self isolation.

old dear, next door is up and down to her friends a few times a day, the nosey bugger at the end of the road is in his ndn garden helping out, he was up Torvean Ave talking to his mates in the flats when i went past on the bike earlier, now his son has his two children round , they don't live with him and they have two different mothers and a playing in the garden
 
Absolutely wonderful... No doubt the can't be asked will be thinking it perfectly OK for their 'treasure' to foul our adjacent meadow... Then, if they actually break the mould, and bag up the mess they'll most likely revert to type and leave the bag swinging in the shrubs ??...
that's some doggy owners for you.
 
Absolutely wonderful... No doubt the can't be asked will be thinking it perfectly OK for their 'treasure' to foul our adjacent meadow... Then, if they actually break the mould, and bag up the mess they'll most likely revert to type and leave the bag swinging in the shrubs ??...
They hang them off the trees at eye level on the bike path by mine.
I have missed a few and they have stuck in the vanes of my cycling helmet.
Fortunately none have burst YET.
Dog owners for you, well some at least.
 
Absolutely wonderful... No doubt the can't be asked will be thinking it perfectly OK for their 'treasure' to foul our adjacent meadow... Then, if they actually break the mould, and bag up the mess they'll most likely revert to type and leave the bag swinging in the shrubs ??...
Views on stick and flick? Dog poo is organic and better flicked under a hedgerow so long as it's out of the way of people's feet than bagged up and put in landfill imo. That's why I walk with a stick, as well as having a weapon should an aggressive dog have a go.
There will be fox scats, deer droppings and all kinds of other creatures dumpage on the meadow all helping to grow the wildflowers.??
 
Apologies if it's been exposed already.....
https://truepublica.org.uk/united-k...docs-emerge-to-show-how-theyve-failed-us-all/

A worrying read as both my daughter & her partner are NHS workers in Bradford..... both very fit & high-level, healthy Cross-fit exponents..... but is that the best protection they'll have!

Exposed? :unsure: And if a Government had built a facility to store and maintain 60,000 to 100,000 ventilators and paid the staff to man it, they'd have been derided as absolutely barking mad, squandering public money, not fit for purpose, you name it, they'd be slagged off for it.

Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
 
The lock down seems to be being stuck to ...I'm seeing less and less cars on road to work. Real test will be when it's an early shift as that's the real traffic.

Trying to only go out for work and shopping. Managed to eBay a few items that we normally have to go to different shops for (bin bags for example I only find Tesco ones work for us.. others split all time) so with that sourced I can do one shop a week at one store leaving the shelfs free for everyone else.

Her parents keep popping milk round just as excuse to see My daughter (through the window I'll add...must be hard for them)
 
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