Spring into Spring

[Northern Lass]

Spring is sprung the grass is riz I wonder where the guests is!

And clocks go forward on the 28th March

and we can start to see folk on 29 march outside....party party!

Who would have thought a year ago all this would have happened.

And talk of a 3rd wave in europe!

How are you all coping?

[Frodo]

Dreading the potential third wave but can see it happening. I moved to Manchester in July to be near my daughter and her family and still haven't been able to get out and about to socialize and make new friends. I haven't been into the city centre yet and it's somewhere I like to visit. I'm also waiting to get a new kitchen but can't progress while shops are shut. All very frustrating.

[Rob]

I tested positive for Covid 3 weeks ago lost my sense of taste. No i haven't everything tastes vile.The smell of cooking made me billious i haven't touched alcohol for weeks. Yesterday i fell down the stairs ! Fell down? i stumbled 3 steps from the bottom and landed on my back on the bottom step. Agony !! We have a curfew from 9pm till 5am but other than that i'm ok ! My wife comes home tomorrow after being in Davos,Switzerland for 6 weeks !

[mallosa]

I suppose you could say, you've had a bit of a rough time eh Rob? It's a good job you're a tough cookie

[Northern Lass]

I suppose you could say, you've had a bit of a rough time eh Rob? It's a good job you're a tough cookie

I am concerned about him losing his sense of taste!

but then again after that black leather coat in the piccys...guess he lost that a long time ago eh! Mally

[Northern Lass]

Dreading the potential third wave but can see it happening. I moved to Manchester in July to be near my daughter and her family and still haven't been able to get out and about to socialize and make new friends. I haven't been into the city centre yet and it's somewhere I like to visit. I'm also waiting to get a new kitchen but can't progress while shops are shut. All very frustrating.

Manchester eh!
used to know it well years ago...bet it has all changed now.

With all the pubs being shut no one can go anywhere
we can't see people other than now 1 person outdoors...but it is too cold!

Everyone will go beserk on 29 march outdoors.....but they can't come inside to use the loo!!

[gardener]

I tested positive for Covid 3 weeks ago lost my sense of taste. No i haven't everything tastes vile.The smell of cooking made me billious i haven't touched alcohol for weeks. Yesterday i fell down the stairs ! Fell down? i stumbled 3 steps from the bottom and landed on my back on the bottom step. Agony !! We have a curfew from 9pm till 5am but other than that i'm ok ! My wife comes home tomorrow after being in Davos,Switzerland for 6 weeks !

That all sounds horrible Rob. Hope your wife arrives safely and cheers you up.

I hardly like to write that things are fine here at the moment. Anyone arriving from abroad has to be tested at the airport and then again five days later. In between they have to quarantine and are only allowed out to take an isolated walk. The quarantine bit is interpreted differently by some people, but when my daughter came home for her grandmother's funeral she rented an airbnb and stayed there for the first five days. She plans on coming again next weekend, with boyfriend and they'll rent a summer house somewhere I think. She lives in Sweden so reckons coming here makes her less likely to catch it, even with the travel risk.

Meanwhile we have the volcanic eruption to entertain us! I hated the endless earthquakes that preceded it, made me feel sea sick, and now it is erupting in place just too far away to tempt me there. Plenty of people going to gawp though, despite warnings of toxic gas and potential new fissures. Oh well!

[mallosa]

I suppose you could say, you've had a bit of a rough time eh Rob? It's a good job you're a tough cookie

I am concerned about him losing his sense of taste!

but then again after that black leather coat in the piccys...guess he lost that a long time ago eh! Mally

There's nothing like kickin' a man when he's down eh Jan?

[Rob]

My wife is back but talking of backs mines killing me ! Just one spot and if i make the wrong move. Mustn't cough or sneeze !! Thank God my taste is back !!

[gardener]

I think this thread jinxed me! I am now in quarantine pending a test later today. I played netball last Monday and one player tested positive yesterday, ditto her husband and one daughter. She a teacher so 80 kids plus some staff in quarantine from her; her daughter put another 100 kids and 12 staff in quarantine at a different school; and her husband plays professional football here so two football teams in quarantine as well. Wonder how they got it though.

[Northern Lass]

Wolvie and I had the jabs few weeks ago at the Black Country museum!
Very well organised and felt so surreal military like.


A year ago today...and we are just about to have lockdown opened up a bit on mon 29 March
but...with a dark cloud on the horizon ...I think if we have to have another wave and another full lockdown
...well will we all abide?

[gardener]

I tested negative thank goodness, but more cases among school kids so they have gone strict on us again - not a lockdown but no swimming pools or gyms etc

[Rob]

The clocks go forward saturday and the Curfew from 31March has been altered from 2100 hrs to 2200 hrs until 0500hrs.

[peterd]

I suppose you could say, you've had a bit of a rough time eh Rob? It's a good job you're a tough cookie

I am concerned about him losing his sense of taste!

but then again after that black leather coat in the piccys...guess he lost that a long time ago eh! Mally

no sympathy here rob

[peterd]

I tested negative thank goodness, but more cases among school kids so they have gone strict on us again - not a lockdown but no swimming pools or gyms etc

glad your ok, how far you from that lava outpour?