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Anyone else seeing more suburban wild life since "Stay at home" started?

Around where I live the council has left the playing fields un-mowed and hedges un-cut. There have been less people walking their dogs, or just walking / jogging on the fields and some parts have turned into seas of wild-flowers, mostly Daisies but w...

Isolating.

A quick question...do you think the public in general have followed the isolation rules? Do you know people who have not followed the rules? Have you kept to the rules yourselves?

Covid-19.

Reading and listening to the news reports about the spread of the virus, the common denominator seems to be travel? Surely if travel was halted until the incidences of the virus have "died down", the spread to other countries wouldn't happen?

The contact-tracing app?

What's the point of it? If you've not got any symptoms, you're told to stay off it? If you have symptoms you shouldn't be out anyway?

Ebay adverts - Trolls and 94 seconds voiceovers??!!

Hi all!It’s really bugging me...does anyone know who does the voiceovers for the new eBay adverts with the trolls and 94 seconds? I keep thinking it sounds like Hugh Dennis but I’m sure it’s not...anyone know?Thanks!

Will she make 100?

The Queen is 94 today. She's knocking on now and has been Queen for 68 years. Amazing? Will she make it to 100? She still seems bright and perky with all her marble so she could well see three figures?

More Empty Shelves??

I went to the local Lidl today. I could understand the empty spaces where S. African grapes, some salad from the Southern hemisphere or tropical fruit should be. But why has medium sliced bread disappeared, or one and two pint bottles of milk? Even s...

Applause for the rest

Yes, the NHS deserves all the applause it gets, but lets not forget the others In particular, our wonderful posties and couriers, who keep our purchases coming and boost morale. Supermarket and other food shop staff who keep us fed Probably a lot of ...

Osprey cams

It's that time of year for Osprey watching.There's a new live webcam at Poole Harbour where the female, CJ7, has been nest building and is waiting for her man.To watch, the link is here and there is also info on the website about the translocation pr...

SpaceX Starlink Satellites

A few opportunities to see the lines of the many SpaceX satellites this week, including tonight.Go to Findstarlink.com and enter your lat and long.For down south it's about 10.34pm but could apparently be half an hour earlier, look from West to NE, s...

Going to the supermarket ?.BE AWARE !.

It appears that the v can stay alive for quite a while on certain surfaces so i am quite shocked that many supermarkets etc do not quite understand this. I went to 3 top name supermarkets this morning and all 3 had the same system in place. Usually a...

Just witnessed something unbelievable

If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes I would never have believed it. My neighbours cat just took a stroll across my lawn, got to the flower beds, did her business, then dug a hole and buried it !

Make this a hit?

Well, how about it?:- 

Happy birthday Cee Dee xx

Happy birthday, have a lovely day.xx  

Happy Easter

Wherever you're in lockdown Great weather eh? Looks like we had all our April showers with the March windsWhat are you lot doing?Astro and marge gimme some of them chocs you are hiding

BBC repeats online

BBC online player is showing repeats of various programmes, but why are they never in order? Father Brown started off OK with Series One, episodes 1, 2 and 3.It then jumped to Series Eight With Eggheads, they missed an episode outWent smoothly to epi...

New Update

A REMINDER ON HOSPITAL VISITING POLICY The Department of Health in Northern Ireland said on Thursday that visiting in hospitals has ended as part of plans to deal with the Covid-19 surge.You won't be able see your family member or friends, except in ...

Recycling Centres, garden centres

After closing recycling centres .....I wondered when the fly tipping would start Places are starting to look like a Spanish cliff (no offence to Spain I just remember a botany trip round Southern Spain in the 90s and every time I look at a view from ...

Porkies, Power and Propaganda

Hmmm, what is Beijing up to?https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-coronavirus-pandemic-is-the-breakthrough-xi-jinping-has-been-waiting-for-and-hes-making-his-move/A longish read, but thought provoking?

Hello all 😛Had to share this

Just read this and it made me laugh out loud so thought I'd share it. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/mar/30/astrophysicist-gets-magnets-stuck-up-nose-while-inventing-coronavirus-device

Would you use this app?

BBC News - Coronavirus: UK considers virus-tracing app to ease lockdownhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52095331I would.Or do you think it's too invasive of your privacy?

No Panic

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/business-51823128/coronavirus-don-t-panic-be-community-minded-says-loo-roll-boss that's a relief

any one else Panic buying right now ..

The end of days.

To those who think otherwise...... Science has discovered clear evidence of what will happen to the Solar system and the Earth. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-50665998

Re: Social Distancing

Hmm not sure how this would work. Just had a phone call from the builders saying materials being delivered tomorrow and i will need to sign for them...and asked them IF we went into total lockdown say tomorrow will they still come on Wednesday?..... ...

Iv'e never had much time for politicians but......

I have began to realise that it must be an incredibly difficult job to be a PM ,trying to balance things and keep things going but at the same time trying to keep people safe. So very difficult and so very complicated.Makes my life seem so simple now...