Coronavirus Lockdown - Day 26

To help pass the time in these strange days, I have started to bake. I baked a small loaf at the end of last week, which was eaten very quickly, so today I baked another loaf and tried my hand at Focaccia.

They have both turned out surprisingly well as I hope you can see from the photo below.

Home baked bread and Focaccia.

I followed a recipe from Gennaro Contaldo which is shown on the BBC Food website.

How long my attempts at cooking and baking last, we shall have to see but I certainly aim to carry on with it for a short while and may try my hand at cakes later in the week.

I will finish with  a plea for you to comment on this post. I am sitting here wondering if I am wasting my time doing this or if anyone is actually reading it! Even if its only a thumbs up (or down) it would be immensely appreciated.

Many thanks. 

Coronavirus Lockdown - Day 24

A week after receiving my letter from the NHS telling me that I was a vulnerable person and should be shielded and get preference for deliveries I am still waiting for the supermarkets to accept that. Fortunately I have many friends willing and happy to shop for me.

Anyway, enough negativity, lets get a few cartoons to hopefully brighten your day!

Finally, if you are actually reading this, do me a favour and leave a comment of some sort so that I know that I am not going mad and am talking to myself. Please is there anyone out there or am I all alone?

Coronavirus Lockdown - Day 19

Coronavirus recovery! I posted on Friday that a good friend had been taken to hospital with coronavirus. I am glad to report that he has now been sent home, feeling much better. The only symptoms he now has is that he has gone off the taste of alcohol, whether it is beer or whiskey and his appetite is not too good.

I am still waiting for the Government to notify the supermarkets that I am on the most vulnerable list so I can get home delivery. But to be fair we are in the middle of the Easter holiday period and they do have rather a large number to send out. In the meantime we have some very good friends who will do shopping for us if necessary, so we will not starve.

I will finish for now with the following notice that I saw today:-

Coronavirus Lockdown - Day 18

Heard today that a good friend had been taken into hospital with coronavirus.

His wife told us while he was freezing cold this morning, she said he felt very hot. He’s been sleeping a lot the last couple of days and has not been eating or drinking much, so she phoned for an ambulance. When it arrived they said he had a high temperature, high blood pressure and was dehydrated. He’s now in the hospital on a drip, and it has been confirmed he has COVID 19! 

Our deepest thoughts are with him and his family.

As he is one of my friends responsible for sending me some of the jokes that I have posted, I'm sure he will not mind me sharing these with you! 

Coronavirus Lockdown - Day 15

Tuesday evening and must admit I had a little shock this afternoon when I received a text message from the NHS Coronavirus Service stating that I am at high risk of developing serious illness if I catch coronavirus and that I should remain at home for 12 weeks! Also I should keep away from anyone else living in the household. I am living with my partner and we are advised to use separate beds, I should eat on my own, use my own towels, my own bathroom and keep out of the kitchen.

I do have a mild lung condition (uip) but my lung function tests have always been good and my consultant has even increased the time between the tests from 6 months to a year. I had initially wondered if this would be a problem but thought I would have heard well before now, if that was the case.

I am not sure just how far we shall go in maintaining our distance as we have been living normally in Lockdown for over 2 weeks now and have both been adhering to Social Distancing on the odd occasions we go out. 

Looking on the bright side, we should now be able to get home delivery from the major supermarkets who have been concentrating on the most vulnerable customers, of which I am now one, as well as being on the old side - 71 to be precise!

Nevertheless, I shall continue annoying friends and readers alike by posting cartoons/memes that amuse me. Here are three for tonight. I certainly can relate to the first one!

Coronavirus Lockdown - Day 14

Had the weekend off from posting - so many other things to do :-) Had our first meeting on Zoom yesterday with children and grandchildren - good to see and hear them. 

Finished the Karchering today so now having a well earned rest! Nothing else has really changed. It was a sunny weekend and there were plenty of idiots ignoring the governments instructions not to go out other than for essential shopping and exercise and to keep social distancing (two meters apart). 

The stupidest and most selfish person in the news over the weekend though, must be Scotland’s chief medical officer, Catherine Calderwood, who has quit after facing intense criticism for breaking her own rules to twice visit her second home during the coronavirus outbreak.

Despite being the voice of the Scottish government’s public information campaign urging people to avoid all non-essential travel, it has been revealed that the Calderwoods and their three children had spent Friday night at their holiday home, taking walks with their dog to a local beach.  Furthermore she and her husband had also visited the previous weekend.

I think the above story leads very nicely into the following:-

Coronavirus Lockdown - Day 11

Now halfway through day 11 on our coronavirus lockdown.

For those of you following these posts regularly (who am I kidding?) you will notice that I didn't post yesterday. That was basically because I just couldn't be arsed!! We didn't do much yesterday apart from a little tidying up in the house.

Today though I have been quite active, by starting to Karcher the rear terrace. For those of you who do not know, Karcher is a brand name for a high pressure cleaner, if you need one you can buy them from Amazon!

Its Friday today and I'm really looking forward to the weekend - oh, hang on, its going to be exactly the same as the week was, except that I shall be having a few Gin and Tonics on Sunday evening with a few Virtual friends. 

A reasonable night on TV to look forward to, particularly one of my favourite programmes "Have I got News For You" 

I will again leave you with a couple - three actually - of memes/cartoons that I have come across today,

Thats it for today, so just stay safe, take care and remember to SELF ISOLATE!!

Coronavirus Lockdown - Day 9

So here we are again, reporting on all that has happened on our 9th day of lockdown.

The short answer is not much.

This morning we defrosted then re-arranged the chest freezer in the garage - finding stuff we had forgotten was there, throwing away stuff that had obviously been there for years and deciding what we were going to have for dinner ( my partner insists it is supper ) for the next couple of days.

The news continues to be depressing. Wimbledon and the Edinburgh Festival are two more events that have bitten the dust. A woman has been fined £660 for breaching coronavirus restrictions after she refused to tell police who she was and why she was on the platform at a railway station and in the US they are now forecasting deaths to be somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000.

I have also been annoying my friends by continually posting jokes/memes/cartoons/videos on various WhatsAp groups I am a member of! I will end by posting this one for your entertainment?

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After 10 Days in Quarantine.

A couple more funnies to help keep your spirits up!

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Coronavirus Lockdown - Day 8

It was on Monday 23rd March that Boris Johnson announced that all UK residents must stay at home to protect the NHS amid the growing threat of coronavirus. He said that we should only leave our homes for the following reasons:-

- Shopping for basic necessities
- One form of exercise a day - either alone or with members of your household
- Medical need or to provide care help vulnerable person
- Travel to work - but only if necessary and you cannot work from home

Since then I have been out most days for a walk, taking care to keep a "social distance" from other walkers and been to the shops a couple of times for essentials - particularly wine and whisky! I have also managed to obtain one delivery from a local supermarket and a friends daughter has done some shopping for us (although my partner and I feel perfectly well, and "young at heart" we are considered to be vulnerable as we are both over 70).

To help relieve the boredom of being stuck indoors most of the time I have decided to start posting to this blog again both as a record of how things are going, and more importantly to help spread a little happiness by posting some of the many jokes, memes etc which I hope will make you smile and keep you mind off the terrible plight we are all in.

So I will end this post with the following thought - 
Lash salons closed
Hair salons closed
Tanning salons closed
Waxing salons closed..

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