What are you all up to
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Got one piece of good news today amongst all the gloom and doom - had an email from Cinnamon Trust to say that volunteers were regarded as key workers and exempt from the one piece of exercise a day rule. So having told the old lady whose dog I walk that today would probably have to be my last day for a while I can now get in touch to say normal service is resumed! πΆ
I knew it was worthwhile getting those shorts out! π
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I know it's a very serious problem re coronavirus, but these episodes, like many before them, do produce opportunities for dark humour ...
Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary has just said that the 'travel and out and about' regulations for Carers 'include both Professional and Volunteer Carers AS LONG AS THEY OBSERVE THE 2 METRE RULE.
Now, if I were faced with that criterion and presented with the challenge of changing an incontinence pad, my first port of call would be the garden to see if I could, first of all, find a Clothes Prop ... The second challenge [assuming there was no washing on the line], would be how to manoeuvre it and the new pad into position ... [unsettling images appearing in my mind] as I battled with the 2 metre rule
Steve
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You're NOT to clean windows! If you fell off the ladders and tumbled through the glass, there's every chance you'd be in A&E with your condition being summarised as 'This patient? Admitted after a window cleaning fall. A complete pane in the a*$e ...'
Steve [reaches for his coat]
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That's what our lawn guy said. He also said tradesman can work in the house with no contact, hope that's right as new dishwasher Thursday. Had already agreed entry via side gate and conservatory. Kitchen door firmly closed. Fingers crossed.
Had a email to say Colchester area not collecting garden waste, not their area but on their entertainment list. Brother lives there hadn't had but his daughter had alerted him but he couldn't find confirmation! Guys behind his back fence, a memorial garden, just parking up their vehicles no grass cutting they were surprised. I the open space behind us was cut this morning by the sound of things, unable to see through my fence and screening π. Not heard about our collection but dumps sorry recycling centres closed as of Monday. What are we all going to do??
Just had message from neighbours on what app- anyone lost a tortoise? Obviously not self isolating. Which reminds me granddaughter has very wobbly tooth, her first. Cash isn't used much in their house so daughter scrabbling to see what's about lockdown tomorrow! So she has laidtge groundwork by explaining that the tooth Fairy maybe in self isolation ππ
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D8888T !!
Just got another E- mail from Cheshire Police via Neighbourhood Watch Warning of Scammers door-stepping us now,. They are Imitating Police , council officers etc and offering the Elderly & vulnerable Virus tests, collecting shopping etc.
Should you meet one of these $%&*Β£$ just put them down, then tell the bobbies -- guaranteed no charges will follow.
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We got a load of organic feed straw today, from Lincolnshire. From
https://www.vinehousefarm.co.uk/
As well as the straw there were some owl pellets on a bale- they're good for disecting when we have school visits so they're going in the freezer.
Also, there were a load of mice running round the trailer after the bales had been lifted of. Essential travel for mice?
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Was said somewhere that tradesmen working in the home, as in building work, are not allowed unless an emergency, outside is OK though. And some places are no longer delivering furniture and large appliances other than to the doorstep.
JL will still deliver as long as the 2m rule is observed, but actual installation of appliances is off the menu at the moment.
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Well, my reputation for
poor timing lives on unblemished; Rung again! ...I've had a couple of 'minor' falls [from less than great heights when measured from the soles of my shoes] when doing DIY Repairs,but even at a low height, there's a lot of bruising and muscle damage, so I sympathise.
I also have a dark sense of humour, that causes me to see, in a 'Tom & Jerry' cartoon mental image the 'funny' aspect of quite serious events. My late father [mechanic] bailed out my half brother and his disastrous purchase of a Ford Anglia with a shot engine by acquiring a Ford Thames van with pear rotten bodywork but a sound engine [but low compression rather than high compression] for Β£15 [was a long time ago] and doing the swap over a weekend. Came the time to dump the van and my mechanically inept brother and I ;even more inept] were deputed to control the front of the van as we lifted it clear of dad's improvised trailer transport, whilst Dad controlled the rear of the van.
The first I knew that something was wrong was when I looked down at my hands that had been gripping the nearside wheelarch and realised that I had only 6 sq inches of metal in my mitts ... The van disappeared off the back of the trailer, my brother dived out of the way on the offside of the van, and I looked up to see Dad's arms just above the roofline at the rear of the van which then proceeded to run him over, albeit slowly ...
Dad had had an operation less than 6 months earlier, and the van opened up the wound site and caused a lot of bleeding. So my half brother had to drive Dad to A&E for emergency repairs, but I had the 'cartoon image' a la Tom & Jerry in my mind and couldn't stop laughing, despite being very concerned for Dad's health ...
I'll try to be better behaved in future [a commitment I have made previously]. Perhaps this time I shall succeed ...
Stay safe ... and stay clear of me!
Steve
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Well, that's the end of that then !! Waverley on the I.o.W have been asked to close !! So we all have to depart tomorrow ,SO SAD ,we all hunkered down here self isolating ,BUT ,rules is rules !! The government require us to be IN OUR HOMES !! 
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Hope you can sort something out, Tricky.
Another fine but cool start to the day. Completed a repair job on the caravan, and after our dog walk, where we met few people and all of those kept the required 2 m clearance, I had the glorious job of deep cleaning the caravan toilet cassette, and cleared a couple of blocked drains....what fun this being at home is!!π
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Oh dear Nellie, best to get the horrible jobs done early, then hopefully if you get some nice weather, you can spend some time in garden. We have been very lucky here, by 10am itβs lovely and warm outside. OH is looking at Zwift cycling now, thereβs no stopping himπ
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Quite surreal, but one of our neighbours has just put his Christmas lights back up. Snowman and reindeer beautifully illuminated in his front garden.
On a sadder note, Pendle council have posted a warning that βpeople β are preying on elderly residents, pretending to be helping by doing shopping for them, pocketing the money and never returning. Awful beyond belief. π±
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As I posted earlier, Pliers, the scum have been posing as Police Officers, as Council Officials, and even more upsetting, as 'Just Good Neighbours'.
As somebody posted a few days back :-- They live amongst us, and, sadly, they are allowed to breed as well. !!
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I've just caught up with this. That's very good news, M. I'm sure the old lady will be very relieved. Well done you for helping both her and her dog.
Volunteers in all walks of life deserve a round of applause.ππππ
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There are going to be many volunteers who will be classed as key workers. Well done and a huge thanks to all of them π π
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Despite the web ad stating 12mm connections, the replacement pump arrived with 15mm ones and before anyone says "reducers", there ain't room. This is the second one from a separate source that supplied the wrong one. I've given up and cannibalised the bottom part from the old pump. A quick test and all was well. Fitted back in the van, tank replenished and then it took me about an hour to get rid of an airlock. π‘Finally, I'm all raring to go but confined to barracks.
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Our family consultant returns to work this week after isolating with a sick child. I feel she will now be at a much higher risk. There are so many people who are stepping up to help, I thank them all too.
Now is not the time for discord and petty arguments.
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