Isolation things to do and done

Agreed on both counts. I think a lot more economic activity could take place with social distancing maintained. Agricultural and animal businesses are having to stay open and all the ones we use have worked out ways to ensure social distancing. Mostly they ask you to telephone your order through and pay (or it's on account) when ordering and then have it ready for you to collect. If it is heavy stuff, they ask you to stay in your vehicle and they load it. 

All this lockdown is doing is putting even more power into the hands of the supermarkets and the online retailers. It was Mrs PG's birthday at the weekend. I normally get flowers from a local florist. But they've had to shut. But I can still buy flowers at the supermarket or from flowers by post. How daft. 
 

The way I've always played golf the social distancing would only be an issue on the tee.

This is a total piss take. Incredible how quickly people turn from appreciating a measure designed for survival, to taking the piss. A lot of places that were not in danger of going buts just seem to have put most staff on furlough which is bad enough, if they now can take other jobs on then its a total con and yes - it will cost us all. Like insurance fraud, we all lose, there is no "free money"...

It's really starting to annoy me.  I've got 20 people who I gave work to in my Warrington depot who were given the option to furlough as their home site is shutting down and 12 of them have said they would take it and leave immediately, 3 have given us until the end of the week and only 5 have said they would continue.   We're offering overtime as well, so furlough is more like a 30% pay cut, but they'd rather sit at home.  Also, I committed to taking 30 drivers from another operation and the response I got back was they would take 3 weeks on furlough over Easter then come and work for us.  Errrr....no, get stuffed.

I'm still as busy as ever, but if I was furloughed I'd do some volunteering, as I couldn't sit at home and get paid for doing nothing.  

Also annoying, is that despite being really busy, I've had to give up 2 weeks holiday.  I know it would be worse, as if I looked after operations that have been closed I'd have a 30% pay cut (we're topping up furlough to that level), but it doesn't make sense for any reason I can think of other than there being too many people wanting holiday at the end of the year, but you're allowed to carry it forward up to 2 years.

Just goes to show there is plenty of the standard crap around. Hope you feel right soon.

There were emergency laws passed a week or so ago with the guidelines included.

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Exactly. The death rate will be running at a three to four week lag behind the infection rate.

The rules seem to be interpreted as “if it’s fun, it’s banned”. There are some big beaches near where I live. Lots of people enjoy walking their dogs there. Social distancing is really easy because of the size of the beaches. But the police were out there stopping dog walkers over the weekend, I guess forcing them to take walks on pavements near their homes. Seems nuts to me. We went for a bike ride along the canal on Sunday, took some cheese, bread and wine for a picnic. It was a lovely few hours and  we followed social distancing rules, but I’m sure the fun police would have seen it differently. 

That's not the dogs' fault - blame the 'parents'!

Apparently some joggers and walkers just flout the 2 metre distance and do what they want. Not taking it seriously will make or break this thing.

I also thought to myself that I wouldn't adhere to rules barring outdoor exercise.

Green MP Caroline Lucas has said that golf courses should be opened to the public to allow them to exercise in a green space. So they close the courses because they don't want three dozen golfers on them but are OK with a couple of hundred walkers? 

From my recent experience, runners are really bad at this - they just gasp past you practically brushing elbows. A lot of them, particularly the faster, fitter ones, seem to have precisely the same approach to manners and personal space on pavements and paths as moped delivery guys do on the road.

I've often thought that you need to be slightly obsessive to run like that and the obsessive aren't generally good at tailoring their ways and habits to suit others.

Our lane is a marked cycle route. Cyclists who will not stop for traffic behind them on the narrow road really boil our piss. They either keep going for ages until they deign to pull over and then look at you as if you have no right to be there (actually we live here); or indicate that you should come past and then get really annoyed that you do not. Which you are actually doing to help them - because with the trailer you are towing or the horse lorry you are driving you will simply put them in the hedge.