Bright here, but an very heavy frost.
Tenters still Hitched
Carinthia.xx
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Grey here
Lying still in fellowship with an Fishy
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I am shamed. I got there with three minutes to spare, in spite of having allowed forty minutes for a seven-minute journey after defrosting the car (there were emergency roadworks in the narrow bit, so they had to have contraflow traffic-lights), and I got as far as being lain down and given earplugs and the rest of it, and then when they put the pads in place to hold my head rigid I panicked. Horrible feeling, like fainting only more so because it didnāt stop: I couldnāt breathe, and I could feel my heart going strangely. They were very nice about it, and said they would arrange for me to have one of the new sort, in a London hospital, but what a damn shameā¦ They have added a note about it to my (ever-larger) file at the hospital, and I assume that goes into my general notes as well. But I was fine last time! Waaah.
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Oh poor Fishy
I find the wretched devices panic inducing too and yes I have had to press the button to alert them to imminent panic attack on my part
So have a gentle hug a bacon butty and a minnow end or three
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Iām not surprised that you panicked, after the stress of that journey, & the machines are noisy & panic-inducing at the best of times.
Perhaps not a great idea to go on your own.
Medicinals & rest
Carinthia.xx
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I donāt think youāre allowed someone to hold your hand, alas.
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Pore Fishy.
Soo xx
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Of course not, Fishy, but driving oneself can be very stressful, & effing roadworks appear to spring up without warning.
Knowing that someone is outside waiting for you can be very comforting
Bacon Sandwich time, methinks
Carinthia.xx
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Good thought!
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I changed my mind, as I had an cheese/garlic flatbread wot needed using, so I chopped up an thickish slice of bacon annan Martyr onto that.
15 minutes in the little oven, & it was lovely.
Carinthia.xx
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I was at my lung doctor today and he is pleased with my progress after my lung function test last week
Good news is that he has a private ward and I am to call him first and he can admit me bypassing ye olde plague pit
This is a great relief
Especially as the govt here is talking of living with covidā¦
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We are all going to have to get used to living with Covid, Twellsy. That particular genie is well & truly out of the bottleā¦
Carinthia.xx
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We know that dear one but while cases are rising so fast it seems a bit previous to be relaxing vigilance and removing restrictions
However we called at a good offie en route home so I can toast the cellar in Doom Bar of happy memory
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Maybe, but some of us are better equipped to deal with it than others.
That said, I have a suspicion that any relaxing of restrictions will be somewhat limited. As long as Iāve been aware of his existence (since 2004) MicheĆ”l Martinās goal seems to have been the (re-)imposition of Puritanism. If he had his way weād have Prohibition.
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Joe I treasure the thought that he is not going to live forever
I donāt suit sackcloth!
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But no ashes, of course. The smoking ban was his very own Big Idea. Now heās pushed through a minimum price per unit alcohol. On āhealth groundsā, of course. Nothing to do with revenue. ( (Funny how indirect taxation keeps going up, isnāt it? Almost if someone wants to target those below the tax threshold.)
What was that? No of course 2008 is irrelevant. As is the ongoing cost of covid.
On which point the Greens have just decided that we should all take out loans to make our houses more energy-efficient. Average cost is estimated to range from ā¬14,000 to ā¬66,000. Oh - and weāll all have to drive electric cars. (If weāre allowed cars at all, that is. Ćamonn Ryan, Green Party leader and, frighteningly, both Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications and Minister for Transport, is on record claiming that āa village of 300 people needs just 30 cars to operateā. Youād never guess heās lived his entire life in Dublin, would you?)
Pissed off? Moi?
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āMaybe, but some of us are better equipped to deal with it than othersā
Quite, Joe
Donāt get me started on electric carsā¦
Carinthia.xx
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Joe
I wonder how he would cope B with agricultural traffic
Two tractors and a car per farm is a bare minimum
And how does a 3 foot think cottage get green energy a fordably?
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Oh, let me start!
There are a number of problems with electric cars:
a large number of people will have no means to charge them, since they live in flats or houses without dedicated parking spaces and wonāt be able to be sure of parking close enough for a lead to stretch to the car even if it were not a trip-hazard and liable to be destroyed by angry pedestrians
they take a long time to charge per mile travelled
they are expensive and the batteries do not have a particularly long life
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over to you
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