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Post by Alex on May 15, 2020 17:30:53 GMT
One of my colleagues has wisely used his furlough free time to build his own pub in his back garden! Just waiting till lockdown allows us to other people's houses so I can go for a pint.
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Post by Martin on May 16, 2020 11:09:25 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2020 12:18:27 GMT
It looks like it should, bloody marvelous.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2020 14:43:01 GMT
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Post by ChrisM on May 16, 2020 19:18:54 GMT
Been out for another long-ish bike ride this afternoon, about 6 miles in total. On the way back I stopped for a few minutes at one point...... This is taken just yards from what is usually a very busy dual carriageway, from the entrance to an industrial estate/business park that is just beyond the lake. I watched the 2 geese and "platoon" of youngsters waddle down to the water's edge then, one by one, enter the lake
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2020 7:53:12 GMT
6 miles is a long-ish bike ride? I walked around 10 miles yesterday, 8 with the pooch and then went to two supermarkets in town to buy some beer.
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Post by ChrisM on May 17, 2020 8:41:24 GMT
6 miles on the bike is long-ish for me. At 60 and not having been on the bike at all for 3 or 4 years prior to the current pandemic restrictions, and living in an area with plenty of traffic and few cycle lanes, I'm not going to start off by overdoing things
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Post by garry on May 17, 2020 15:55:43 GMT
6 miles on the bike is long-ish for me. At 60 and not having been on the bike at all for 3 or 4 years prior to the current pandemic restrictions, and living in an area with plenty of traffic and few cycle lanes, I'm not going to start off by overdoing things 6 miles is great - it’s infinitely better than 0 miles and with a bit of photography too it hopefully lifted your spirits. i took full advantage of the new rules and did a sea swim from Ainsdale beach near Southport yesterday. Three of us swam with one spotter, giving us some semblance of safety. It was great but it was tough - Seven weeks without a swim is probably my longest break in the last ten years. The beach was really busy but it’s really big so there were no worries re social distancing.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on May 17, 2020 16:44:32 GMT
6 miles on the bike is long-ish for me. At 60 and not having been on the bike at all for 3 or 4 years prior to the current pandemic restrictions, and living in an area with plenty of traffic and few cycle lanes, I'm not going to start off by overdoing things 6 miles is great - it’s infinitely better than 0 miles and with a bit of photography too it hopefully lifted your spirits. i took full advantage of the new rules and did a sea swim from Ainsdale beach near Southport yesterday. Three of us swam with one spotter, giving us some semblance of safety. It was great but it was tough - Seven weeks without a swim is probably my longest break in the last ten years. The beach was really busy but it’s really big so there were no worries re social distancing. Definitely, it’s not about the distance it’s just about getting out in the fresh air and discovering stuff. I used to do it all the time as a kid and I’d forgotten how much fun it is.
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Post by Alex on May 17, 2020 16:47:01 GMT
6 miles on the bike is long-ish for me. At 60 and not having been on the bike at all for 3 or 4 years prior to the current pandemic restrictions, and living in an area with plenty of traffic and few cycle lanes, I'm not going to start off by overdoing things It's a good start Chris and hopefully the fresh air will be good for your mental health as well as your physical health. Theres quite a bit of woodland and country parks around where you live in Camberley and Frimley so hopefully plenty of routes that keep you away from the traffic.
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Post by racingteatray on May 17, 2020 22:31:39 GMT
We also took advantage of the new rules to get in the car today and go somewhere other than simply the supermarket. We had a yearning for quiet and green, so since I know the area around Guildford well (I studied at the College of Law there for two years), we nipped down the A3 then turned off at Clandon Park, down to Shere (following a rather splendid primrose yellow V12 E-type 2+2) and then along those high-banked, steep and wooded back roads towards Ewhurst, stopping around 3.30pm for a lovely tranquil walk through the Hurtwood up Pitch Hill, where we got a splendid view down across the South Downs and saw wild deer bouncing away from us through the trees. There were some other walkers and mountain bikers around, but really not very many. Then we drove on through Ewhurst, Cranleigh, Goldalming and Guildford, as my wife had never been there before, before heading back to London.
It was unbelievably nice to just get out of our little corner of London and just see something else, and also go and walk through birdsong-filled, sun-dappled woods, splashed with daubs of bright purple rhododendron
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Post by LandieMark on May 17, 2020 22:37:10 GMT
It has been Wacky Races all weekend in the village. I don't mind people going for a drive, but it boils my piss when convoys of fart can Corsas nail it flat out up the hill past the house. I almost want the farmer to come around the corner with his 6 bale front loader.
I took the opportunity to remove the comforting odour of cows from the Land Rover as it was my last day on the farm yesterday.
I've also put a provisional bodywork order in with YRM for the 110 and messaged the guy who does the Cummins conversion kits for his pricelist.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on May 18, 2020 7:42:10 GMT
It was unbelievably nice to just get out of our little corner of London and just see something else, and also go and walk through birdsong-filled, sun-dappled woods, splashed with daubs of bright purple rhododendron Channelling your inner Wordsworth there!
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Post by chipbutty on May 18, 2020 8:16:34 GMT
Not the best picture - but I bought some of the Turtle Wax Hybrid Ceramic coating and after the first post wash, it's impressive (very easy to apply, beads nicely). The black wheels on my car are a weapons grade pain in the arse (even after very carefully washing, they are swirl marked to buggery) - it's the first thing I would change (either another set or have these refinished in silver).
I also painted all of the garden fencing (there was fookin' miles of it) , but that's not as pretty to look at.
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Post by ChrisM on May 18, 2020 8:34:02 GMT
^ Looks on close inspection to be an odd reflection but at first glance, it appeared to me that you have a small James Bond DB5-style pop-up bullet protector for the rear screen
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Post by racingteatray on May 18, 2020 9:25:07 GMT
It was unbelievably nice to just get out of our little corner of London and just see something else, and also go and walk through birdsong-filled, sun-dappled woods, splashed with daubs of bright purple rhododendron Channelling your inner Wordsworth there! That's the effect of them there "birdsong-filled, sun-dappled woods"....brings out one's poetic side!
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Post by Big Blue on May 18, 2020 9:37:47 GMT
Then we drove on through Ewhurst, Cranleigh, Goldalming and Guildford, as my wife had never been there before, before heading back to London. Well, gold it might be in autumn My previous neck of the woods; boys live in Godalming, one went to school in Cranleigh. It's a very nice part of the world.
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Post by michael on May 18, 2020 10:25:31 GMT
I had a weekend of illegality. I visited my parents for the first time in six weeks, parked the car on the drive and sat on the tailgate with my coffee (brought from home) and they sat at the door. I made an offer on the place before I left to ensure I complied with the law, sadly declined. It's been particularly hard on my father as he has advanced MS and can't leave the house easily at all so he simply hasn't seen anybody but my mother for months - I can hardly tolerate her for more then twenty minutes so god knows how he manages. I drove back on the motorway giving the car a chance to clear its lungs in the process, we both needed it.
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Post by Tim on May 18, 2020 10:36:41 GMT
Naughty boy!!
I visited my Mum for the 2nd time in a week but sat outside. I'm still retrieving things I put in her garage before I moved house, not sure if that's an acceptable reason? Anyway I can get there almost entirely on single-ish track roads so unlikely to see anyone from authority!
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Post by chipbutty on May 18, 2020 11:17:45 GMT
A weekend of illegality. I visited my parents for the first time in six weeks, parked the car on the drive and sat on the tailgate with my coffee (brought from home) and they sat at the door. I made an offer on the place before I left to ensure I complied with the law, sadly declined. It's been particularly hard on my father as he has advanced MS
I think the rules even pre-relaxation allowed for this - you are a checking up on elderly/vulnerable relatives and didn't break any distancing rules.
You also burnt some fuel - thereby giving the trees some lovely c02 and creating a more urgent need for additional diesel supplies in the near future. I am sure Rishi is very much looking forward to receiving his 80% share of the money you handover when filling up.
When I filled up last week at the local Shell garage, they had cadbury's caramel eggs on special - so, with zero thought to my health, I selflessly stepped on the sugary landmine to replenish the coffers by purchasing 3 of the delicious little buggers.
Just put my OBE in the post.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2020 11:43:40 GMT
I'm off to see me dad tomorrow and will be entering the house when I do. I have new locks to fit to the doors to keep my miscreant youngest brother from entering whenever he fancies. I'll be meeting my middle brother in the bank, too, as I need some money from our joint account to cover some bills.
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Post by Alex on May 18, 2020 12:34:19 GMT
I had a weekend of illegality. I visited my parents for the first time in six weeks, parked the car on the drive and sat on the tailgate with my coffee (brought from home) and they sat at the door. I made an offer on the place before I left to ensure I complied with the law, sadly declined. It's been particularly hard on my father as he has advanced MS and can't leave the house easily at all so he simply hasn't seen anybody but my mother for months - I can hardly tolerate her for more then twenty minutes so god knows how he manages. I drove back on the motorway giving the car a chance to clear its lungs in the process, we both needed it. Tbh Michael it's pretty legal compared to the number of our neighbours who have had elderly relatives visit THEM this weekend with most being invited in.
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Post by racingteatray on May 18, 2020 13:20:51 GMT
At least you can without being harangued.
Were my mother to still live in her old house, which was not just large but also nicely secluded with neither garden nor driveway visible from the road, and no nosy or difficult neighbours, then we'd be tempted to go and stay for a few days.
However, she downsized to a modern house in the middle of a new-build edge-of-village estate about six years ago and you have no privacy on those estates. No-one can come and go without everyone knowing. Normally we see this as a good thing with an aging parent, as it means if anything happens to anyone, lots of people immediately rush to help. Now it's not, because whilst most of the neighbours are pleasant, one of them, whose back garden fence borders the far side of my mother's driveway, is an absolute nightmare and a full-blown lockdown stickler.
My brother-in-law went around to drop off some shopping and was standing by his car pulled into the drive, talking to my mother who was at her garden gate on the other side of the car. Crazy neighbour man comes rushing out of his house yelling at them that they were breaching lockdown rules yadda yadda yadda... He later bothered to print off the government's social distancing rules and shoved them through my mother's letterbox. Mum was horrified, although she then quickly discovered he'd done the same to pretty much all the other neighbours at one point or other. Her neighbour on the other side, a retired senior policeman, told her to just ignore the nutter...
But in summary, annoyingly, since the nutter's upstairs windows overlook Mum's house, garden and driveway, there's frankly no way we can do a visit until it's actually fully permitted.
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Post by michael on May 18, 2020 13:25:56 GMT
That's the benefit of where they live now, private driveway, electric gates and the house, or the front of it at least, can't be seen. It was nice to see them, my mother has clearly been bored as the garden looked incredible especially as she'd paid off the 'gardener' (neighbours son who cuts the grass and anything else that gets in the way).
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Post by Tim on May 18, 2020 13:53:45 GMT
My brother-in-law went around to drop off some shopping and was standing by his car pulled into the drive, talking to my mother who was at her garden gate on the other side of the car. Crazy neighbour man comes rushing out of his house yelling at them that they were breaching lockdown rules yadda yadda yadda... He later bothered to print off the government's social distancing rules and shoved them through my mother's letterbox. I hope she didn't touch the paper for a number of days or, at the very least, washed her hands thoroughly after reading the note
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2020 13:57:53 GMT
Michael, you have clearly been a bad boy, sometimes it has to be done especially seeing as you kept to the spirit AND intent of the law. Bloody well done , Sir.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on May 18, 2020 14:11:37 GMT
On Wednesday we travelled up to Northumberland to visit the MIL. The intention was to sit at opposite ends of the garden but it was a bit chilly so we both ended up sitting in the conservatory while MIL sat at the other end of the adjoining room. I do feel wracked with guilt.
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Post by racingteatray on May 18, 2020 14:19:32 GMT
The other advantage of going for a walk near Guildford, that only struck me once we were there, is that my car's number-plates say "Vines of Guildford" on them, as do the dealer stickers in the front and rear windscreens that I've never bothered removing. So, given it's a reasonably recent car, to the nosy, we could have passed for local.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on May 18, 2020 14:33:19 GMT
Mine say "Arnold Clark" so I could be from the locality of any one of 200 branches - better than James Bond's Aston's revolving numberplates when you think about it.
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Post by chipbutty on May 18, 2020 14:39:35 GMT
One element of social distancing that has not really been addressed (or more importantly, acknowledged) is… what about all the single people ?
Even if we ignore all the prof Ferguson’s of the world ( “Open relationship “ practitioners and dirt bags) – is it even remotely reasonable and realistic to expect single people to live like Monks and Nuns for at least 12 months (or however long this will continue).
Based on the small sample of single people I know, they are still going on dates and hiding their sausages with their new friends. This will surely have a significant impact on the overall effectiveness of any distancing measures ?
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