Self Isolation.

[fsn]

Some good advice in these times ... from a while ago. 

[Big Insect]

Very good
The small bore rifle practice might yet come in handy - a bloke over the back of me is starting to drive me nuts with his music blaring out as he suns himself in the garden.

And it is only day 2!

[toxicpixie]

Very good
The small bore rifle practice might yet come in handy - a bloke over the back of me is starting to drive me nuts with his music blaring out as he suns himself in the garden.

And it is only day 2!

I await next doors teenage daughter opening her window and cranking the volume up to eleven. Makes the garden unusable.

That said her parents are also home ofc and last time they came back and found her with the volume ranked up they had an even louder shouting match and it stopped, so maybe I'm getting pre-annoyed over nothing

Wondering if my fence panel will appear. We have a gaping hole in a fence, which would be fine if a/ the dog escaping wasn't a worry, and b/ we're (well me) am quarantined and if my wee one mixes with the other (much more pleasant) next door kids we're blowing a huge hole in that. Hard to explain to a six year old she can't see her friends, or go in the garden, or if she does they have to stand at opposite ends of the garden and can't kick a ball about/run around/do stuff together

On the plus side the sudden drop in air pollution has left us some lovely weather!

[FierceKitty]

Noisy neighbours with amplification - ugh. SARS, AIDS, corvid-19, and the Black Death together are a piece of angel cake by comparison.

[Techno]

If you lived a bit (a lot) closer Nathan, I could lend you an old amp...and the speakers, to go with it... That you could probably 'pee off' an area of a square mile.

Von would almost certainly kill me, if I wound up my system to 11.....11 ?..... Nah...it would be more like 30....And there wouldn't be any distortion.  .....Probably do some structural damage to the house, though.

Cheers - Phil (I'll just stick with the tiny system I've got sitting on the desk.....It's safer.) 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

You got a licence for that system Phil ? Sounds like it should be a prohibited weapon under the firearms act !

[toxicpixie]

Nice, must be handy for blasting across the road when you have to sheep wrangling Phil

Neighbour-daughter restrained on music. Neighbour-actual has got what sounds like a squadron of lump hammers demolishing the crap he's accumulated in the garden. So... progress?!

[Techno]

Sheep wrangling......BOG OFF !  they weigh more than I do.........I haven't got a chance of shifting them, when they drop dead, anymore.....I have to wait until the foxes, raptors and the corvids have had a good munch.....and then go and pick up what's left.....Last time, I couldn't find any remains at all, after a couple of days.  (That saved a tenner.)

Lump hammers ?....Not sure that that's progress, Nathan.....But I hope it is !

Cheers - Phil 

[toxicpixie]

Sadly it wasn't really progress - my wee one had gone out to have breakfast in the sunshine and a nice play in the quiet, then next door started the demolition work and she had to come back in. They'd also kicked of a very stinky fire to dispose of the carp he was demolishing!

Can you help the carrion collectors along, Phil? Carve off a couple of legs of mutton for the freezer quick

[Big Insect]

You got a licence for that system Phil ? Sounds like it should be a prohibited weapon under the firearms act !

Isn't repeat playing of Witney Houston singing The Bodyguard theme tune ("I Will Always Love You") classified as GBH ... sure I read that somewhere ...mutter, mutter, mutter, growl!

[Techno]

They'd also kicked of a very stinky fire to dispose of the carp he was demolishing!
Can you help the carrion collectors along, Phil? Carve off a couple of legs of mutton for the freezer quick

Did he do any chips, to go with that !......I love predictive texting.

Oh, Nathan....I'd probably need your lump hammer to tenderise our sheep.  ....They're so ancient.

Odd....I'm not a vegetarian....But there's no way I could eat any of our sheep.......(Yet !)

Cheers - Phil

[FierceKitty]

I have never managed to find a cook or a recipe that could render carp worth eating. Even in a country which regards it as a Christmas treat and served me some with a garlic and saffron sauce (normally an assured three Michelin star combination).

[Last Hussar]

Out to Aldi for the 1st time since 1800 last Tuesday. Thanks to Sunjester for the phone calls to make sure I was ok- sorry I'm socially crap on the phone (Look, I've got an actual medical diagnosis that says I'm allowed to be).

Spent £44 in Aldi, but £26 of that was wine, beer and gin. Remembered the bread, forgot toilet rolls and coffee.

[Techno]

Yes.....But you got the important stuff, LH. 

Cheers - Phil

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

I'd say that coffee was a vital item....got plenty, and before it  hit !!

[Last Hussar]

The Gin is Harrisons. Sunjester is going to be annoyed when he opens the drinks cabinet this evening...

[Raider4]

Spent £44 in Aldi, but £26 of that was wine, beer and gin. Remembered the bread, forgot toilet rolls and coffee.

Nice to see that off-licences have added to the list of "essential" businesses . . .

[Steve J]

Just back from Edinburgh to pick up daughter. So little traffic it was hard to believe, but lots of trucks delivering stuff that could not be called critical to the economy etc, like fence panels. Our son received his NHS letter so now he is in total lock down and by default, we are also. My wife is still at work at school so will check whether she can stay at home to minimise risk to him. Bless him he's taking it well but it is hard for him (and us).

[jimduncanuk]

My youngest daughter, who works for the Widows on 'essential business' had her part-time hours (3 days a week) changed to 5 evenings a week in an empty office as she couldn't work during the day as her son needs looked after as they have closed the nursery and grand parents are not allowed to help. She worked yesterday evening but has since had her works building completely closed. So much for essential work.

[toxicpixie]

We've suddenly flipped to so quiet we've cleared our call queue for the first time in two and a half years.