Corona Cavern

[nickdub]

I guess this is easier for me as I don't go out much normally, I don't like shopping or groups of people, so I'm used to staying at home. So with a large garden my own house and nice weather I can just jog along doing not very much and taking plenty of time over it eg pootling around re-potting plants, getting more wood sawed up for my log burner ....

As for motivation, with my character I find having a project on the go is a good way to get active. So mending a broken power tool, putting a new handle on a fork or spade, new netting for the soft fruit etc. When I was ill over the winter I started writing a book as I really wasn't feeling well enough to do anything physical. I like painting and drawing too but haven't done any for ages - so many things to do and the biggest hurdle is my own laziness ..... :-)

[SarrissUK]

I haven't seen a single soul today so far - no one walking past outside, can't hear anyone either. It's almost like after armageddon - so, so quiet.

I'm trying to fix my BBC iplayer on my tv that doesn't want to work properly, and in the process have had to reset my tivo box, which means I've lost all my recorded programs

I have a dining table to paint, housework to do, lots of seeds to sow, but somehow not got neither the will nor the energy today. I'm usually quite self-motivated, but today just feels a bit empty.

I'm sure I'll pick up after a few coffees, or kicks up the backside.

What gets you motivated?

[Containergardener]

Nice to be appreciated baldy.


Nice weather morning, having had a week off dog walks as was overdoing the knee a bit . I went today , all fine .
Unfortunately..unspoken rule here is if someones car is jn walk entrance to forest go to another. Today someone came in while we were in with about 9 collies . Why couldnt they go in another. Wernt even friendly , looked at us like we were the problem . Never seen them before . Have a feeling they may be here isolating from elsewhere .
Moan over .
I think a little.more weeding and perhaps clean the pond out a bit .

[Baldy]

Last day of job I've been at for over 20 years. There was an all staff meeting over video discussing how to sort out exams n things for students, I got a round of applause before meeting started.

Which was nice.

Was hoping for an Amazon voucher

Nah, it's nice to feel appreciated and that a big organisation found time to do that with everything else that is going on.

[Containergardener]

^^^^nice memories babru

[Babru]

Time to set sail!

"The phrase �over the yardarm� refers to the practise of officers on sailing ships of waiting until the sun appeared to above a particular yardarm before having their lunch or first alcoholic drink of the day. In summer in the north Atlantic this would be at about 11am. This became the time when the sailors received their first ration of rum, and the officers stuck to this time even when ashore.

https://www.omniglot.com/bloggle/?p=8094

My dad was in the Royal Navy in WW2, and he told me about the daily tot of rum for each sailor. You could take pay in lieu of rum if you chose. I asked my dad if he took the pay, as he wasn't a big drinker, and he also sent most of his pay back home to his widowed mother and younger siblings. What! he said! No way, I took my tot of rum along with the other sailors!

I expect it helped to warm them up a bit, as he was on a minesweeper in the north sea.

Anyway, talk of yard arms and rum is making me thirsty. Rum and coke please! Haven't had one of those since I was in my twenties, so it'll be a trip down memory lane.

[smallblueplanet]

Just been outside for a thank you clap. I know it's picked up by the media but there seems to be a big number of NHS staff losing their lives to coronavirus.

[smallblueplanet]

I'd like to perfect pizza like in an italian restaurant but havnt managed yet. Maybe should try again. Anyone do those?

I always reckon that's more to do with having a very hot (wood-fired!) oven to bake the pizza in than the dough recipe. Be pleased to be put right though.

[Containergardener]

^^^I dont do much making these days with flour but I do like to keep some in .
I'd like to perfect pizza like in an italian restaurant but havnt managed yet. Maybe should try again. Anyone do those?

[greenishfing]

I always keep at least one full bag of plain, self raising and bread flour in the cupboard because I always make our own pastry, bread, yorkshire pud, cakes, etc. It annoys me to think idiots with no idea are just stockpiling flour for no valid reason. But if the idiots want help to use it I am happy to help with recipes. I hope that more people actually cook real food for their families.

[Containergardener]

Because apparently everyone is making their own bread and pasta ..no flour

[veggiechicken]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52212760

[broadway]

Where has all the flour gone? It's crazy, most folk have no idea what to do with it I'm sure! Every website I've visited has sold out of flour...

Perhaps its a subsitute for toilet roll

[smallblueplanet]

...but didn't get flour or yeast.

Where has all the flour gone? It's crazy, most folk have no idea what to do with it I'm sure! Every website I've visited has sold out of flour...

[Containergardener]

Line me one up ..dogs to walk first . A wine and soda ta .

Shopping today was ugh. Asda queue of 40 right round carpark , morrisons and aldi 20-30 folk. Was only going for prescription and some bits for mum and us.
Gave up and went to gretna small shop.
Ok there . Prescription can wait I've enough tablets as ordered early. Think they were shopping for Easter weekend (we forgot about easter) .

Dog walk time.