What are you all up to
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They’re heading for another civil war if the major news outlets(over the pond) are to be believed☹️. Militias openly marching around, & intimidation of voters. . .Geez, it’s heros to zeros🤷🏻♂️
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I think I have spent about £320 on fuel this year so far for both the car and the motorhome. Both tanks are full and at this rate I don't think I will need to fill either for the rest of the year given the circumstances!!! So if it dropped to 10p a litre it wouldn't be much help
David
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Yes just watching Channel 4 news. Army is out on streets in Pennsylvania. Shocking situation to be honest. So dangerous. It would be disturbing in some of the third world countries, but to see it somewhere like USA.☹️
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Went to Cragside today, although the house was not open the rest of the estate was. Firstly we walked down to the Pumphouse and back through the rock garden, then parked up for lunch by Nellie's Moss north lake for lunch in the car. Walked round the two lakes, by the Labyrinth and onto the play area in the afternoon. On the way back to the van we called in at Lidl and Aldi in Alnwick to stock up, so saving us having to do any shopping when we get home on Wednesday. After a fine dry and less windy day the rain has arrived again and the wind has got up somewhat.
Phone our doctor's around 4 this afternoon and was able to arrange our flu injections for Friday teatime, good service.
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Have a safe drive whichever day you go. Shame you have to go home, if you had only lingered in Scotland a bit longer.
Thanks, TG. Even if we had still been in Scotland we would have headed home, as I don't think OH would have been too keen of staying away for another 4 weeks, and there could still be a change in the tier levels up there which would have caused problems.
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Yes, very worrying, especially as she also often looks after her eldest daughter's baby.
Everyone in the family seems fine so far, her brother seems to have only fairly mild symptoms, hopefully it will stay that way.
I went down to DD's earlyish this morning to work on this toilet cabinet out in the garage, then picked up Callum from nursery. OH came down around 12 and was dispatched to B&Q to exchange some tile trim for the correct colour, and to Toolstation for dowels. The design has been approved and the pieces cut to size, so I should be able to put it all together tomorrow.
Meantime, the bedroom and bathroom which were being worked on are now ready for plastering, and work has moved to the other bathroom where a new shower and a new toilet are to be installed. Demolition, and removal of the old stuff started this afternoon, and it is, yet again, not good news.
There seems to have been 3 different attempts so far at the shower in there. First a shower tray with screen, then a wetroom, and lastly, over that floor, a mosaic floor area and shower screen, which has failed spectacularly. The mosaics lifted easily to reveal the wetroom floor and water below, and that has now been lifted to reveal a soggy floor, mouldy insulation, and 2 soggy walls.
Tomorrow the floor will be coming up and the state of the joists etc investigated, then repairs will have to be made before the reconstruction can start. I just hope the water has not reached the area where we have already fitted the bath and new basin. There was no sign of any problems when we did that, and the tiles on the floor seem sound, so that is good.
Just as well she decided to get this work done and discovered the damage before it got any worse.
There are 2 other shower rooms in the house, so now wondering if they are OK, they look fine, but then so did these ones initially. ☹️
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DJT has proved the undoing of the USA🤷🏻♂️. Isolating the country from the world is never a good thing, nor is dictators. Democracy is the only way, the attempt to curtail it should make today a foregone conclusion👍🏻
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It's the lunatic fringe of Trump supporters that is somewhat worrying. He does seem to encourage them as well. Joe Biden may well be too old for the rigours of the job but it is beyond my comprehension that "the Donald" managed to get the republican nomination. Was he really the best that they could come up with? I said to my wife about a week ago that we could see significant armed civil unrest. I pray that I am wrong.
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I can't get excited about American politics but if Bidens gets in his Deputy might offer hope in the future.
Back in the backwoods of the UK I'm debating whether to make a last dash to the coast, tomorrow looks like a good bet, but will it be like B&Q with queues?
Did I hear there is snow in Cumbria? Brrr.❄
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The Lincoln project is currently realigning the GOP sans the dross(quote). Encourage CY?, he expects & demands their level of lunacy & denial of facts🤷🏻♂️☹️. The Trumpkins are cult members & proud of it.
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Brue, I intend to use the forest as my exercise location throughout the lockdown👍🏻
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The peculiarities of the US electoral system could still see Trump come out on top just as he did in 2016 despite Hillary Clinton winning 3 million more votes in the popular ballot. A former colleague of mine, back living in the US told me then that Biden was by far and away the most popular Democrat in the country then (possibly riding on Obama's shoulders) and would have wiped the floor with Trump if chosen then.
Difficult to see a peaceful outcome to the present situation given the deep divides in that country.
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I just don't think people from the UK, including me, can generally comprehend what goes on in the USA. I was watching a YouTube video on roundabouts, as you do, especially if you live in Milton Keynes. It was a University study of the effect roundabouts have on road safety. In the USA situation they have been proved to reduce accidents at junctions by as much as 80% which also reduces serious injuries considerably. But the Americans still don't like them! Growing up we were always fed the story that the USA was the world leader in everything but the reality seems far from that. Unfortunately whoever wins the election I wonder how much will change. Just glad I am a European.
David
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I was watching a YouTube video on roundabouts, as you do, especially if you live in Milton Keynes
That made me chuckle😂 Always interesting what relatively obscure things catch the attention. I had a small fascination with spotting different pylon designs when out and about in MH. Latest thing is ticking off fishing boat registrations.......home port, and where you see them. I had OH hanging off the harbour wall straining to get me reg number of one at Eyemouth.....it was from Ireland. I am convinced a lot of Scots go on holiday to Newlyn in family trawler.......😉😂
Now TV has some great documentaries on USA down the decades. I think they cover 1950’s right through to 2010, so take in some of the most memorable events in recent American history such as Vietnam War, the Moon Landings, various race riots, Waco Siege, HIV, 911. Watched as a whole, you can see some threads and beliefs, cultural leanings, etc.... that are common throughout, ebbing and flowing like waves. It’s a country of vast differences, unbelievable wealth v dreadful poverty, incredible inventiveness v deep ignorance, right wing bigotry v free love and everything in between those extremes. What does come through is that it’s a very (small c) conservative nation, that there isn’t much of a safety net in terms of looking after those who have nothing, and that guns and uniforms feature frighteningly in various guises.
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We were in Amboise visiting the museum set up to Leonardo Da Vinci in 2016. Fascinating place. We were walking around the displays inside the museum and got talking to a couple over from America, white newly retired, probably what we would classify as Middle Class, she was a retired Higher Geometry and Maths teacher so she was fascinated by his drawings.
We mentioned the upcoming election. At that time the Orange One was attracting a lot of bad press for misogynist quotes and Stormy Daniels was headline news. Yet, both of these well educated people were fervent, and I mean fervent, Trump supporters. We couldn't believe it. They completely glossed over everything wrong with him.
Later on having a coffee in a cafe in the centre of town we were talking to another American at the same table. Also white and obviously a Democrat. He was in deep despair and he just knew there were enough people of similar hue to get the man voted in and enough people who would normally vote Democrat who actively disliked Hilary Clinton to not vote at all. He was spot on. He did say he would emigrate to France if he was proved right and I often wonder if he did.
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Picked up our prescriptions this morning from the chemists or should I say Mrs.WN did. Always a quiet day in town on Tuesdays.Quite a few hefty showers but the sun is shining at the moment so hopefully we'll banter off for a walk this afternoon.
Enjoy the freedom folks.
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That made me chuckle😂 Always interesting what relatively obscure things catch the attention.
I wonder if YouTube is the work of the devil as it is so addictive? Last night I was catching up with Dr John Campbell's COVID channel and happened to see the link to the roundabouts. I also saw another on why the USA does not have any high speed railways which was interesting and perhaps opened another window onto how the USA works, or doesn't in this case!!! Off at a complete tangent I came across this Italian folk song which is additive (sometimes called an ear worm!!!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqs2oIBFPxI which led me to discover this young Spanish lady playing the same tune on her guitar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mn6gmj14DI I then exploree her music which is extensive and then the whole evening has disappeared!!!
David
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I misread your first post David, I thought you were looking at YouTube on a roundabout, some sort of screen arrangement, I thought it must be a major distraction and obviously Milton Keynes with it's robotic deliveries was somehow ahead of the game?!
Are the deliveries still being used?
This morning I was reminded of another bare root rose languishing in a bucket of water, so OH has had the planting instructions now. The frost forecast will speed up the process, it's very nippy here today, cold air from the north.
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Definitely most media can be part devil. You start off reading something on a reasonably balanced, educated source, but then of course you start to click on a link to get a bit more information, until three or more clicks in and you are drawn into what could be the most untrue, made up, most blatant bit of guff you could imagine. The level headed get out, but the gullible carry on clicking, and believing.
It intrigues me just how many folks, often very intelligent, fail to realise that this is a route into either radicalisation or into the conspiracy theory world. I suspect that vast swathes of Americans would (rightly) condemn Islamic extremists for spouting the stuff they do, but actually fail to realise that some of their own politicians are manipulating and manoeuvring what they read and believe, in a very similar way. Trump has whole army of media experts doing just this. It’s in its infancy here, but has been used. Frightening stuff.
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My cousin and her OH were college lecturers in Canada (Winnipeg) history and economics, their take on the USA has always been ,that each state might just as well be on another planet to the one next door as to what interest each population takes, and non seem to understand , that central government is supposed to be for all citizens in what used to be a United states
A more recent conversation with them was on the lines of where her roots also are (Wolferton Norfolk)that it is such a shame that the UK is also it seems no longer united ,
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The voting system in the USA is steeped in the old ways of life over there, elect a respected person from the OK Corral to vote on your behalf...something is bound to go wrong. 🐎 It probably worked when there were just a handful of states.
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DK wrote "I then explored her music which is extensive and then the whole evening has disappeared!!!"
As the saying goes "Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach him to use the internet and he won't bother you for months"
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The Starships, as they are called, are still wending their way around where we live. The local Co-Op use them and we often see them trundling along the cycleways. I have not really had a good enough excuse to use one yet! They don't carry much, probably a couple of bags worth.
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Finally some dry is cold weather so back on two wheels. This is from the Cycle Hub on the quayside during my first tea break. I've checked and the Cycle Hub will still be open post Thursday but only for takeaways and so will De Mio's at Whitley Bay (lunch stop) - no need to thank me, it's a service I provide.
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Wherenext posted: got talking to a couple over from America white newly retired, probably what we would classify as Middle Class, she was a retired Higher Geometry and Maths teacher
It always amazes me how Americans put themselves into classes such as Middle Class or Upper Middle Class. Unlike in this country where "class" is more of a combination of status and wealth inherited from your parents, in the US it is primarily down to your income.
When were on holiday in Mexico last year we met a lovely couple who were both "veterinarians" and classed themselves without any thought as to how it might seem to us Brits as "Upper Middle Class"
I take people as I find them, class or wealth doesn't come into it.
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