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Fantastic article, thanks for posting.
If you want proof the virus addles your brain, here it is.
Ikea at Lakeside Thurrock reopened today at 10am. this was the queue at 7am. By opening time there were about 2000 people there with a 3 hour wait to get into the shop :-)19 :-)19 :-)19
 

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LadyA said:
We're still in "phase 1" of our easing of lockdown restrictions. This means we can meet in groups of up to 4, outside, as long as we are all within 5km of our homes. There are exceptions, like for caring for others or essential shopping or work. Yesterday, I took my mum, who's been cocooning since mid March, out for a while. She wanted to go to my dad's grave (quite a journey, trying to get her wheelchair over the gravel paths in the graveyard!!) and then we went to have tea in dau's garden. Dau got very emotional, as she and mum were close. Mum had done childminding for me from the time dau was born until I got married, when she was 9. Mum was so thrilled to see her little great grandsons again too. 2 or 3 months is an awful long time in the life of babies and small children! Mum said "I was afraid I'd never see them all again". :( I understand the reason behind the cocooning, but the mental and emotional cost has been so enormous. So, even though dau's house would have been slightly outside mum's 5km limit, I'm glad I did it. It gave everyone a huge boost. And the risk was negligible, as dau hasn't been anywhere since the beginning of March, and her husband, although he is back at work, works outdoors and distancing is easy.

From June 8, if all goes well, we will be able to have up to four meet indoors! Woo hoo! Also, we will be able to travel up to 20km!
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That sounds a much more sensible way to ease out of lockdown, especially the restrictions on how far you can travel from your home. If there was a local outbreak it would be much easier to trace and control it than if people had come from all over the place and congregated. So glad you had a bit of family time, it sounds a lovely treat for all of you.
 
bigyetiman said:
Fantastic article, thanks for posting.
If you want proof the virus addles your brain, here it is.
Ikea at Lakeside Thurrock reopened today at 10am. this was the queue at 7am. By opening time there were about 2000 people there with a 3 hour wait to get into the shop :-)19 :-)19 :-)19
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Those two women at the end of the queue are dead ringers for Sharon and Tracey out of Viz.
 
Hen-Gen said:
bigyetiman said:
Fantastic article, thanks for posting.
If you want proof the virus addles your brain, here it is.
Ikea at Lakeside Thurrock reopened today at 10am. this was the queue at 7am. By opening time there were about 2000 people there with a 3 hour wait to get into the shop :-)19 :-)19 :-)19
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Those two women at the end of the queue are dead ringers for Sharon and Tracey out of Viz.
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They may be dead ringers in about 3 weeks time.
 
bigyetiman said:
Fantastic article, thanks for posting.
If you want proof the virus addles your brain, here it is.
Ikea at Lakeside Thurrock reopened today at 10am. this was the queue at 7am. By opening time there were about 2000 people there with a 3 hour wait to get into the shop :-)19 :-)19 :-)19
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See also https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52874615
 
How many people need a flat pack table, or a meatball fix.
Similar queues on other retail park this am when McDonalds reopened. People really need to get a life. Funny thing they were all social distancing until they came out clutching their food, then all gathered in groups to eat it. McDonalds must also work as a shield as the people with face masks on came out pulled them under their chins and chatted happily amongst themselves whilst eating, pulled them up to walk away on their own
 
For those of you following the EON saga. The OH friend at Pinney Talfourd, soon sorted them out, and I got a grovelling letter from EON with apologies.
But with a heavy hint that I confused them. Which bit of my dad is dead, I want to change the account to my mothers name is confusing I don't know, and they informed the solicitor that they thought it was a new person moving into the property (what with same bank account)
Yet another day battling the crowds blocking the roads at Lakeside with an endless queue into McDonalds. verbal abuse from customers held up on the buses because of queue, told them, get out and sort that lot out.
A boot sale opened up as well locally and that was packed, large groups roaming around together, all touching goods. If the R number goes up I confidently predict it will be in Thurrock.
Oh and look what OH rescued, dumped along our lane. She got a phone call from someone down the lane, to come and rescue something strange before they get squashed. No one around here owns Guinea Fowl. Looks like we do now.
She walked down the lane with a bowl of food and rattled it and they followed her home.
They are pottering around quite happily, plan is to put them on the island in the duck shed where the food bin is kept for the time being to keep them safe, then sort something more permanent
 

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I'm sure you don't need me to tell you how noisy they are! Well done you and Mrs BYM, they are magnificent in their way, each feather is so interestingly marked.
 
I am incandescent with rage! I'm also in total despair because I thought there was a slim chance that people would respect the beautiful world around us but they can't respect each other so I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that they don't respect our heritage. :cry:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-52853799
 
I think I may have to stop looking at the BBC News website ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-52919630
 
Marigold said:
Wonderful, what an unexpected bonus. How will you get them across to the island?
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We have a bridge across to it, and last night just went out with some corn in a pan, and they happily came running up and across the bridge into the duck house, and settled quite happily, this morning let them across, it is gated at each end, but they flew up and onto the end gate, and down.
You can see the bridge in this pic, and what was originally a summer house we assume on the island that the previous owner had converted with perches. There are swallows nesting in it, various mallards have raised young in there, and we keep the food bin for wildfowl in there. Short term they are better in there at night, until we sort something more permanent. A lot safer than them being left on the lane.
 

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Margaid said:
I think I may have to stop looking at the BBC News website ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-52919630
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We need to direct the virus to eradicate these morons from society. Idiots have been deliberately setting areas of the Ashdown Forest alight and Thursley Common.
Then just to make me even more mad. I read that in Wales, they are having to put a 24 hour guard on heritage sites due to the amount of deliberate vandalism. Still when most peoples main aim is to join a 2 queue for a burger, what else should we expect
 
Thank you for that lovely calming picture BYm and for the story about the guineas. They helped me perk up again after the other posts. it sounds as if they're used to human company and know a rattling tin means. Strange they were abandoned. Or maybe they heard about you both and your lovely home and decided to do a runner to get there?
 
Marigold said:
Thank you for that lovely calming picture BYm and for the story about the guineas. They helped me perk up again after the other posts. it sounds as if they're used to human company and know a rattling tin means. Strange they were abandoned. Or maybe they heard about you both and your lovely home and decided to do a runner to get there?
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I'll second that Marigold! I wonder if they were dumped because they got too noisy?
 
Now this one has cheered me up. Stupid idiot ... :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-52922353
 
Thanks for the kind comments re Guinea Fowl, they will certainly be well looked after by. They have spent today hopping through the hole in the hedge to forage in the neighbouring farmers wheat field, then back again. They are very street wise, and not been too noisy.
Love that story, these idiots really haven't the brains they were born with, especially when it comes to bragging about their cars.
Friend sent me this today
 

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Margaid said:
I am incandescent with rage! I'm also in total despair because I thought there was a slim chance that people would respect the beautiful world around us but they can't respect each other so I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that they don't respect our heritage. :cry:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-52853799
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I am also enraged after reading this!! What the hell is wrong with some people nowadays? How did society become like this?
I get angry seeing litter, but reading that..... :x :x
 
Got even angrier when I was reading about various beauty spots in Yorkshire just being covered in litter, including a waterfall where the pool at the bottom was chock full of cans, packets and nappies, bags of dog waste. Then the police being called to a farmers field in Wales, where a huge party was taking place and people were just chasing his cattle round and round a field as part of the party fun
I had a few complaints made against me, because I put over the radio to all buses a gentle reminder that would passengers please not throw masks and gloves on the floor of the bus or tuck into seats, please take them and dispose of in the rubbish bins on the bus or at the bus stops or take home and also not throw take away cups, food packets on the floor dispose of them in bins also. People seem to think I was asking them to join the national front or something. One woman even said "it's a free world I can do what I like where I like, that's what cleaners are for to pick up rubbish not me"
There is no hope for civilisation, Now the McDonalds drive through has opened and is causing huge queues and blocking the road, we have seen people in the queue out, eat there food, sorry stuff it in as quick as possible, then throw the boxes out of the window, the verge is just a mass of rubbish from there and KFC. :-x :-x :-x
 
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