The very minor pluses of Covid19

[Jon]

Yes, I've been googling garlic soup recipes for that very reason. Plus it's virucidal.

[Patrick Thistle]

That;s what happens when the producers can't pack the audience with gammon and Tory shills.

Or the National Front

[Snake Plissken]

Same thing.

[Furtho]

I'm working from home and have developed a routine of going for a walk at the end of the afternoon. There are quite a few people doing the same thing, apart from the odd cyclist or jogger there's not really a problem with maintaining social distance, and what's especially striking is that people are nodding at each other, smiling and sometimes even saying Hello. It's as if MK has suddenly moved 100 miles further north.

[treibeis]

But pineapple isn't the opposite of Jaffa. It's just not jaffa.

ad hoc's right. It's not an oxymoron. It what you youngsters claim is an "oxymoron" when, in fact, it's just "wrong".

[Amor de Cosmos]

We have/had a curved garden "feature" of river rocks in our front yard. It's been an ever increasing pain in the arse since we moved here. The weeds eventually grow through the gardening felt and surround the pebbles making them a really bugger to uproot. This Spring I decided to turn the whole shebang into a flower bed, but first I have to get rid of the rocks. Ugh! It's taken almost a week to get almost half of it done. Today it began to rain which is supposed to last into next week, so I'm on an enforced break. It feels good though, and gets me lots of 'real guy' cred from the neighbours. (I know they had their doubts.)

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

I'm working from home and have developed a routine of going for a walk at the end of the afternoon. There are quite a few people doing the same thing, apart from the odd cyclist or jogger there's not really a problem with maintaining social distance, and what's especially striking is that people are nodding at each other, smiling and sometimes even saying Hello. It's as if MK has suddenly moved 100 miles further north.

Lot of that round this way. I try to at least nod or smile when I pass people when I'm out running, and did so even before this situation. I'm trying to vary my routine but end up running first thing 3-4 a week, which means I'm starting to see the same people at the same points whenever I'm out and I've progressed to an exchange of hearty "good morning!"s with most of the regulars.

[HORN]

Prior to this kerfuffle I'd taken part in 2 10KM runs (Rochdale 1992, Rochdale 1993) and that was that apart from a few gentle Parkruns last year.

I have run three 10KMs this month.

[Third rate Leszno]

The last 2 years, there's been a fella parking his helicopter in a field off the Liverpool to Southport road and putting a sign up advertising pleasure flights. He seems to have a licence to do this 10-12 days a year and starts up at Easter. The problem is, on more than half his flights, he banks round within a couple of hundred yards of our house at fairly low altitude, and it's bloody noisy - you certainly can't hear the telly while he's passing.

Anyway - Easter has come and gone, and the low-flying cunt is nowhere to be seen.

[DCI Harry Batt]

Fingers crossed he's gone bust and his helicopter has been repossessed.

[tracteurgarcon]

I know people keep joking about nature returning during the lockdown but whilst I was putting the bins out, my dog just snuck out and chased a badger up the street.

Bearing in mind we live about half a mile from Loughborough town centre and I haven't seen a live badger in years (plenty of dead ones on the roads around Loughborough) this was a bit of a shock.

[Southport Zeb]

I've stocked up on plenty of cheap helicopter fuel, so I reckon I'm going to be able to do a load of extra pleasure flights over Formby next year

[DCI Harry Batt]

Someone claimed there was a badger on the streets of Peckham today.

[San Bernardhinault]

Sadly, Morrissey discarded that lyric.

[Billy Casper]

I've just booked a cheap helicopter flight in the Liverpool/Southport area. We're going to fly during the evening, so hopefully people will be off the streets and relaxing at home.

[Moonlight Shadow]

I've stocked up on plenty of cheap helicopter fuel, so I reckon I'm going to be able to do a load of extra pleasure flights over Formby next year

Well, if you have room for two more.....

[Third rate Leszno]

Sod it, count me in too - might as well see what my garden looks like from the air.

[jwdd27]

The UK has gone 28 days without using coal for power generation, setting a new record (well, "since 1882") Expected to keep going with activity still low and better weather coming.
Coal powered electricity down 92% since 2015, which also not bad going (yeah, I know, nuclear, but still).

Also, no pedestrians in New York City have been killed by vehicles for 58 days, which is a new record (although records only began in 1983).
New York's Transport Commissioner is called Polly Trottenberg, which is also excellent.

[Gangster Octopus]

Kowalski's posts.

[Antepli Ejderha]

Kowalski's posts.

Yes, seeing him return and posting excellent stuff regularly as well as him reminiscing about Whitmore Reans has been great.

Good spot Gangster Octopus

[Foot of Astaire's]

I was due to go to Wimbledon this year for a first ever visit. 2 tickets for court number 1 and the outer courts on the 2nd Monday. Obviously, I knew it was cancelled but I'd forgotten about the refund. Getting 250 quid dropped back in my account was a lovely surprise.

[Sporting]

I was due to go to Wimbledon this year for a first ever visit. 2 tickets for court number 1 and the outer courts on the 2nd Monday. Obviously, I knew it was cancelled but I'd forgotten about the refund. Getting 250 quid dropped back in my account was a lovely surprise.

If only ryanair and co were so cooperative.

[Foot of Astaire's]

If only ryanair and co were so cooperative.

I feel your pain there pal. We gave up on a refund with them for flights to Norway and took the vouchers instead. It was less hassle and hopefully we'll get the chance to use them.

[Paul S]

At midnight tonight we will have gone two whole months without using coal to generate electricity, smashing the previous record of 18 days 6 hours and 10 minutes.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

I had my car MOT'd this morning and I've driven 4,000 fewer miles last year than the one before. That's entirely attributable to working from home, and must have had some benefit to the ecology and that.