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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

GB72 said:
Hell you were joined at down the road. I was at Leicester in the early 90s. Was over at Loughborough a lot losing badly at rugby
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was at Loughborough 91-95 :) Rugby standard was stupidly high, will never forget fresher trials till the day I die lol.

We only came down to Leicester to play golf, had my first hole in one at Oadby in the middle of the racetrack :)
 
fundy said:
was at Loughborough 91-95 :) Rugby standard was stupidly high, will never forget fresher trials till the day I die lol.

We only came down to Leicester to play golf, had my first hole in one at Oadby in the middle of the racetrack :)
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I was at Leicester 91-95. Those were the days when Loughborough gave you an offer of 2 e grades if you played international level sport at school. Got hammered every time I played there. Did not play golf back then, only rugby.
 
GB72 said:
I was at Leicester 91-95. Those were the days when Loughborough gave you an offer of 2 e grades if you played international level sport at school. Got hammered every time I played there. Did not play golf back then, only rugby.
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The 2 Es was just for show too lol sadly they wanted 3 Bs from me!

My introduction to rugby at Loughborough was losing a couple of ribs to an aspiring youngster who went on to play for England!

Was lots of stories of the better sports guys being excused their first and second year exams scores
 
fundy said:
was at Loughborough 91-95 :) Rugby standard was stupidly high, will never forget fresher trials till the day I die lol.

We only came down to Leicester to play golf, had my first hole in one at Oadby in the middle of the racetrack :)
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Was in the team in 60s. Back then the Uni was engineering and the college was sports. Best grudge matches were between the jocks and us engineers.

The road to Nottingham in the hunt for females was a popular route.
 
fundy said:
The 2 Es was just for show too lol sadly they wanted 3 Bs from me!

My introduction to rugby at Loughborough was losing a couple of ribs to an aspiring youngster who went on to play for England!

Was lots of stories of the better sports guys being excused their first and second year exams scores
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Sure I remember Freshers could not go straight into the first team. Hence a few bad days in the front row for me playing second team UAU matches against international standard props. The good old days when Tigers sent the new kid down to present our end if season awards, a certain Martin Johnson
 
GB72 said:
Sure I remember Freshers could not go straight into the first team. Hence a few bad days in the front row for me playing second team UAU matches against international standard props. The good old days when Tigers sent the new kid down to present our end if season awards, a certain Martin Johnson
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Freshers definitely played in the first team at Lboro, a few of them turned up 3 weeks before the start of their first term for training ahead of the season (not that theyd been hand picked for their rugby not academic abilities ;) )
 
IanM said:
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We might be past the (first) peak, but there's a long way to go yet,
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Do you think we'll get another spike, either next weekend being a bank holiday and lockdown restraints due to be relaxed, or once we start getting people back to work and open the schools? If so what then? Back into lockdown and social distancing
 
Old Skier said:
Not sure they will be issuing get out of jail free cards by next weekend.
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Not sure that the announcement about the lockdown review us until Sunday so guess not. Then again, it is Boris talking in Sunday so guessing some relaxation and the start of track and trace if it works on the Isle of Wight
 
GB72 said:
Not sure that the announcement about the lockdown review us until Sunday so guess not. Then again, it is Boris talking in Sunday so guessing some relaxation and the start of track and trace if it works on the Isle of Wight
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Review update supposed to be Thursday but I think your right and won't hear anything firm untill his speech on Sunday.
 
fundy said:
was at Loughborough 91-95 :) Rugby standard was stupidly high, will never forget fresher trials till the day I die lol.

We only came down to Leicester to play golf, had my first hole in one at Oadby in the middle of the racetrack :)
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Played my first ever round at Oadby.
 
One customer started back today, albeit with skeleton staff but our machines are in production and will need looking after. I've heard two more customers local to me are opening up on the 11th.
Looks like this extended holiday may soon be coming to an end for me.
 
Went to the supermarket at what has been a typical quiet time and it was at least 3 times as busy. Whether just bad luck, or people generally feeling less at risk. Definitely seemed to be more people just buying a few items rather than a "big shop"
 
Definitely more cars on the road at 6.30 this morning and again after work at 3.00pm. HID went to get some basics for her parents and she said more people in supermarket and no heed of social distancing at all
 
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