What are you all up to
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We're in the sunny Kingdom of Fife in a small town across the Forth from Edinburgh. My wife was born in Clydebank and my first job when I moved to Scotland was in Irvine.
We're trying to keep our heads down and hope that we emerge unscathed. We know that the number of cases is understated at present but hope that the true infection and fatality count doesn't have too great an impact. The Fife fatality rate has risen from 0.79 per 10,000 to 1.10 per 10,000 in less than a week, so no room for complacency.
There is a good tracking website for Scotland at: https://www.travellingtabby.com/scotland-coronavirus-tracker/ [discovered by my wee wifey from Clydebank
]Steve
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It certainly is getting closer, we've just been out for our walk around the edge of the village. OH got into conversation (at a distance) with one of his 'pals' seems we have a few cases in the village.
One is now in recovery (local councillor) while another is still housebound in the throws of it. How many others have it who knows, will we ever.
Keep safe, keep well
brue, the shop situation should be getting better, it is in our area. Even toilet rolls, baked beans, pasta and tin tomatoes are back on the shelves. Not registered for online shopping so don't know how bad that is in our area.
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I have a delivery on the way soon, most of the meat is missing and my "clever"purchase of quorn mince has been substituted with a quorn Biriyani thingy!
The next order in three weeks time is click and collect hoping the local situation will have improved by then? Pleased yours has improved TG I'm sure ours will eventually.
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We, or rather OH, have braved Aldi today, for milk, yoghurt, veg etc, I went along too, but stayed in the car.
OH said it was not at all busy, they were letting in 5 people when 5 came out, a short queue so not long to wait. Plenty of fruit and veg, quite a few empty shelves in the meat department, no hand wash or paracetamol, but otherwise not bad.
There were a few things she did not get, so we went over to Waitrose, but when we saw the queue there we just came home! It was all the way from the door, along the front of the store and all the way back along the front, so we will just look in the freezer for something for the next few meals.
A Friday afternoon is probably not the best time to try to shop!
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DIL in Dalgety Bay but Coronavirus gets us off childminding hook!
Gourock area was my first visit to Scotland after meeting Elaine and where we decided to 'give it a go' together, rather than my flying from Gatwick for the weekend each week. So Gourock has a lot to answer for ... [according to Elaine,that is}.
Steve
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'Messages' was the one that had me foxed for a while. 😁
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Try 8.30am Kj
only about 15 cars in the car park. M&S food store next door had about the same. Even managed to get another couple of packets of paracetamol when in Asda, they had quite a shelf full. We do seem to have fared better than some areas, either that or we missed the big shopping buy out
My elderly neighbour was chuffed to bits that I got everything and more (toilet rolls) on her list. We even got a free bunch of flowers with every shop, must be the left overs from Mother's day still looking nice so it cheered her up no end.
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Brue, after a disastrous start to my working life in Scotland, I obtained a temporary job as a Housing Officer [never having worked in this role] for Scottish Homes, covering the Gorbals and Anderston ...
Quite an entertaining time, and a need to learn 'stay' v. 'live in/at'; 'main door house'; 'chapping the door'; and my first weekend's homework, 'isnae', 'wisnae' and disnae'
The day I 'chapped the door' to start an antisocial behaviour interview with a tenant, whilst I was wearing my orange fleece, plain blue shirt and official England Football Team tie [an ensemble that I felt was quite smart but not overly formal ...] is one I shall never forget. Nor the 'innocent' enquiry from my 2 far more experienced colleagues who knew the tenant, 'How'd you get on with the interview then?' I forget the tenant's name [but can still picture his face], but I remember it was House 4/4 at 495 ... Street in Anderston ...
Lived to tell the tale and to fight another day
Steve
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Really?! Never occurred to me! As a foreigner I suppose I have only picked up the locally used terms. In Norwegian we would say "bor", which is much more like stay than live.
Live ......"Ieve" .......only being used in connection with being alive.
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TG, it took me a wee while to understand the bawled address [they always waited until I was about 100 metres across the Scheme], 'Eh, you, y'anglishpoof' ...
Two can play at that game. so my invariable response, in a faux Jeeves like accent was, 'I say, are you talking to me, my good man? And as far as my sexuality is concerned, I don't cross dress when I attend a football match...'
Eventually, I was accepted and I made some good friends of people who were really salt of the earth. It worked to be the second best job that I have ever had, one that I really enjoyed. Just a shame that it was a temporary contract and I had to change tack once more when a permanent job became available in North Lanarkshire.
Steve
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Posted this on another thread but thought I'd put it on here. Thought it summed it up very succinctly
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Ha! We went to watch Braveheart when it first came out in a cinema in central Edinburgh. The audience got well involved, lots of shouts of encouragement for dear Mel. We kept our little English mouths firmly closed......😂
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Oh Steve " Gourock" has such fond memories for me !!
The very first time I went to Scotland, for a holiday at a Guest House in Dunoon ( Carefully chosen from my pals' fathers Boiler makers union hand book ) took us across and back the Clyde via Gourock. Strange two 20 year olds ambling round the local area where the streets were 'marshalled' by very, very large gentlemen dressed in white, and carrying strange items called nightsticks. An American style minibus drifting round the streets, stopping at corners, two get out and two picked up !! The U.S. Military Police were very hard line even back in those days { early 1960's } Even we were sent back to our rooms if there looked to be a liklihood of 'little local difficulties' My pals parents gave us strict times to be back 'home'.
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A much cooler day here with a frost first thing and did managed to start clearing an area for a small wildflower meadow will have to clear it over a few days as very very stony but will get there.
Just heard we have had our lockdown extended until 15th April so will go shopping on my own again next week no online shopping/deliveries here but you can order online with click and collect only.
Take care folks.
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I am only just catching up on here. Sorry so to her your news Cornersteady. It is always difficult to lose a loved one but even more so in the current circumstances. Keep remembering the good times.
We have a new boiler being fitted on Monday - luckily they are classed as key workers as we have ho heating or hot water at the moment
- and as they are going to have to fit thermostatic controls to all the radiators I thought I had better clean behind them all 
. Lovely to read all your posts, too many to try and mention but good to know that you are all safe and well at the moment. Take care and keep safe.
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Steve, my folks moved up here (Perth) in 1966. I was still in secondary school so had a very steep learning curve. I was the only 'Sassenach' in the school so took a fair amount of stick about my Yorkshire accent.
One of the teachers used to get me to read out aloud 'Burns' poems, he thought it was very amusing, needless to say so did the rest of the class. Thankfully I think those kind of teachers no longer exist.
Once married (to a Scot) we lived abroad for 20 years but noticed when we returned that the accent is no longer as strong as it used to be.
I miss that.
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Electricity supply suddenly went off at 3pm. Not back on yet so plenty of candles, torches and the whistling kettle all brought out. MiL has about 50 T Lights. Not sure we have that many matches!
At least I was able to cook our meal on the gas stove.
Message from Scottish Power says might be Midnight before we get it back.
An early night beckons.
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I was the only 'Sassenach' in the school so took a fair amount of stick about my Yorkshire accent.
I was the child of a Serviceman (RAF) so we moved regularly. We eventually moved to Liverpool when I was 12 when dad left the service. Whilst i did not have a "Posh" accent, being fairly neutral, I did have a posh accent compared to every other sadistic bugger in the school.
Forum Decorum (nicely alliterative) dictates glossing over some of the more fruity nicknames but I was very lucky really as they could have been much worse and Dad did teach boxing in his time in the RAF so I was well able to hold my own for the odd one who didn't like anything "Posh" The time spent there sure knocked any illusions of grandeur that I might have had out of me.
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Tammy,
Elaine, my wife used to work with a colleague who moved to Pitlochry after retirement to run a B&B. Once the lockdown is lifted, we'll have to make the journey up the road to renew acquaintance.
It seems that we are about similar ages, so I can relate to your comments re teachers. I was educated, for want of a better word, in the West Midlands, at a bog standard Grammar School; teaching was often by rote, regularly reinforced by a slap around the back of the head if the chanting of the Latin or Greek vocabulary was not loud enough, the theory being that the lack of volume meant that you obviously hadn't learned your homework. I do have a very flat back elevation to my napper!
'Discipline by humiliation' was very much the order of the day, including being required to hold a piece of chalk between the tip of the nose and the blackboard. When the nose went numb, and the chalk dropped, you were given a choice; detention for not obeying the Master's instruction, or eat the chalk and return to your desk with a 'suggestion' that you behave. I did eat quite a lot of chalk, because I never learn!
Steve
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As Tommy Trinder used to say, 'You lucky people!' No naughties under the duvet, it's not your birthday
.I'm more towards the Kenneth Williams 'Around the Horne' approach where he did his Rambling Syd Rumpo accent on such occasions, explaining that he would 'Have to be a pleading of the 'eadaches, my deario...'
Steve
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I hope Millie gets some heat and hot water and WNs get some light! Sounds as though we'll feel a bit colder this weekend. Keep on keeping on everyone!
@ish Pasty from the freezer but we have now have a giant bag of prunes to get us through the weekend!! It is been like ordering something from a bran tub.
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I worked from home today for the first time. Quite enjoyed it. I got so much more done, it shows how many interruptions you get in the office. I set my “office” up in the conservatory which has a nicer view than my normal desk. Two pigeons were trying to find a nesting site in the small tree in our garden and got quite a shock to see me during the day in the conservatory. I think they’re used to having the garden to themselves during the week.
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