Covid - 19: How is it affecting you?

[Magnus]

No, they are a horrible greasy 'delicacy' I can do without!

Generally true, C16. We buy our Scotch pies from a farm shop in East Lothian and they're everything that they should be. Gosford Bothy.

[G-CPTN]

When I fancy a Scotch Pie I usually buy them still warm and fresh from the oven.

[FD2]

Last time in Edinburgh I bought a hot Jock Pie from Greggs and sat in St Andrew Square to eat it - it was purely for reminiscing as we'd had something more 'polite' earlier in the day with friends. First bite the liquid fat ran out, down my chin and the front of my shirt. Bollocking ensued, bringing in greed, bad for my heart etc etc. Still loved the taste though.

Here we are watching the flare ups in NSW and Victoria with alarm and have been warned to think ahead to how we would handle another lockdown should the same happen over this side of the ditch.

[G-CPTN]

Among my close acquaintances it seems that none want another lockdown - not because they consider it unnecessary but they say they just can't face it.

Living in a 'tourist' village, the streets were deserted and all but the bakery and the Coop (and the chemists and the wee Post Office in the paper shop) were closed, whereas the tourists returned before all the shops re-opened (crowding out the bakery) and taking up all the seats in the Market Square and holding BBQs on the riverbank using disposable BBQs and leaving seats and tents and piles of bottles and nobody wants to go back to any of that.

Sure, the village depends on the tourists, but when the shops and coffee shops aren't open they really aren't welcome. At times the village was overwhelmed with crowds of sightseers - meaning that the residents stayed indoors to avoid catching the virus.
Even now, I only venture out after 7pm - never before unless I need to collect medication.

[Pontius Navigator]

Charlie. They were perfect fit for a Sonobuoy launcher
I could imagine seagulls chasing them dien6.

[Pontius Navigator]

Well I think it might affect POTUS. I predict USA will excee3 5 million cases tomorrow and India 2 million.

Neither country is top of China's popularity stakes so I am sure the Donald won't have missed that point.

I won't predict the next POTUS though

[jimtherev]

Major Stress
Daughter #2 started (virtual) school today.
They have given all of the students Chromebooks to use and the classes are being taught through Google Classroom. They have to be on the computer at the same time, i.e., regular class times. The only good news is that 2 of the classes are self paced (on line) vs. face to face.
The stress was the fact that they changed her schedule about 4 times in the last 2 days and had her in classes she had not signed up for. She doesn't handle stuff like that very well and took it out on me.
Yes, I know, if stuff like this gets her easily upset the real world is going to eat her alive.
Pray for me and my patience.

PP

You got it, PP. For you and thahsands of others. Life, after all, is a schoolroom for us all, as I just read on TOP five mins ago...

[FD2]

Should anyone have to endure a lockdown, here is something modern and life enhancing to occupy your time:

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/newsbeat-53684496

[OFSO]

If I understood the Catalan news just now, police (policias locales, or municipales) will shortly be undertaking a house-to-house search here for the virus. Better not look under our bed....

[om15]

No, they are a horrible greasy 'delicacy' I can do without!

Reheated and covered in salt and broon sauce they are a perfect breakfast, followed by a fag they set you up for the day, my staple start for several years from the Kinloss NAFFI wagon.

I think I have mentioned this before, when contracting at CHC I was invited to enjoy a rowie each afternoon, they really are a challenge to longevity.

[FD2]

Reading press reports of people overcrowding facilities, fighting, behaving noisily and antisocially at 0500, relieving themselves in inappropriate places etc it makes me think that these are the sort of folk who have been going to Spain and Greece for quite a few years and making their lives hell.

Tourist resorts in the UK desperately need their cash but it has come with a sting in the tail, as they have to put up with the selfish behaviour of an entitled generation without much self restraint. From overcrowded bars in Aberdeen to beaches in Cornwall they are probably praying for a return to normality with an older generation of tourists and that the younger British oafs go off abroad again!

Politicians like Sturgeon and Johnson should not put much trust in people obeying social distancing 'rules' - it needs firmer action than that.

[Ex-Ascot]

Talking to the GM of our largest air charter company yesterday. The owner, Stuart, is stuck on his farm in S.A. https://mackair.co.bw/ They have 17 brand new C208s at $2m each. Last month they were 98.7% hours down on last July. They will survive if we get tourists next year.

[admin]

Ex-A I would suggest Mackair need to sort out their website, runs so slow it's unreal. Suspect a good proportion of his business comes via their website. Lost patience and departed well before I managed to find out much about them. If I had been a potential client, then .......

Alison

[G-CPTN]

Ex-A I would suggest Mackair need to sort out their website, runs so slow it's unreal.

Was OK for me.

[Ex-Ascot]

Also OK for .us us. Usual slow speed. Most business is from the safari companys. You book a camp/camps through a tour operator they or the safari companys charter the aircraft.

[Karearea]

There have been four positive cases of Covid-19 outside of managed isolation or quarantine, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says. ... As a result, Auckland moves to level 3 restrictions from 12 noon tomorrow. The restrictions will last three days until midnight Friday. The rest of New Zealand will move to level 2 at the same time. ...

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/423 ... gence-plan

Bother.

[OFSO]

BBC claims Putin has had his daughter vaccinated.

[jimtherev]

BBC claims Putin has had his daughter vaccinated.

It may be that they have discovered something important, but personally I'm not Russian into anything.

[EA01]

It may be that they have discovered something important, but personally I'm not Russian into anything.

[Hydromet]

I'd be worried about what they've Putin it.