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HELLO FORKERS - March 2020 šŸ’Ø

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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Well done you, @Fairygirl.
    Have spent a couple of hours on the phone, discussing various bits of the NHS response to COVID, I am sure I shouldn't say this, but it felt good to feel useful, but I am doing no more than phone calls and luckily mobile phones don't work here, so they can't speak to me when I am in the garden.
    "What do you mean, you were gardening at 22.00?"
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    punkdoc said:
    Well done you, @Fairygirl.
    Have spent a couple of hours on the phone, discussing various bits of the NHS response to COVID, I am sure I shouldn't say this, but it felt good to feel useful, but I am doing no more than phone calls and luckily mobile phones don't work here, so they can't speak to me when I am in the garden.
    "What do you mean, you were gardening at 22.00?"
    I'm normally in bed at 22.00. I'd be livid if anyone called me then. ( unless it's my daughter telling me our Grandson has arrived , which he hasn't yet )
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Every time I see you’ve posted I wonder if it’s about the new arrival šŸ¾Ā 

    Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FritillaryFritillary Posts: 498
    Middle daughter and family are having to self isolate as her children have coughs. Her husband has had to look after the children all day as she has said that she has had her head down all day, trying to get all the online maths resources set up for schools before they close. She said her brain is zonked.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Very exciting @Hostafan1. Are you all geared up to be cooing and ahh-ingĀ  ;)
    I hope everything is ok, bearing in mind the current situation.
    I used to garden at 10pm too, when the girls were little. It was a chance to get plenty done while they were asleepĀ  :)
    I'm not always in bed at that time now, but I'm often asleep.... ;)
    Older fairylet was fine today, but was informing me of the phone call a manager got. A rude woman who thought she should get preferential treatment over others re delivered goods. When it was explained to her that the home deliveries had increased due to the current problems, and the [small] delays were to make it fairer for the increased demand, she said she didn't care about anyone else. Let's just say, the word 'entitled' springs to mind. I don't know how the manager restrained herself.Ā 
    I live near a place called Newton Mearns, and years ago, when I told a friend I called these types the Gucci Women, she said she calls them theĀ  Mearns B*tches. How appropriate, and frankly, far too polite.
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I'll be glad when he arrives, safe and sound. My daughter lives in London and things are somewhat tense there at the moment.Ā 
    Mercifully her fiancƩ is working from home so he's there if she needs him.
    Devon.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Hello Pat yes thank you fine at the moment, hope you are also well, I know you had some problems last year
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    I've got 'do not disturb' set on my phone from 10pm to 7am. You can ring me if you want I'll not hear it. I can set it up to only ring for specific incoming numbers - I used to have my Dad's as the exception - but these days, there isn't anyone that might call who can't wait til morning.
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    ā€œIt's still magic even if you know how it's done.ā€Ā 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited March 2020
    I have the same @raisingirl ... mine’s set for 9pm - 8am ... we do have a landline and family have that number in case there was a real emergency ... but to be honest, now I’m an orphan šŸ˜‰ and both my offspring are in their forties and the stepchildren are grownup too, I don’t think there’s anyone who would haveĀ a justifiable reason to wake me 😔 šŸ˜†Ā 

    Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • WonkyWombleWonkyWomble Posts: 4,541
    Unless it was to get you off the sofa and go to bed Dove!Ā  ;) night allĀ  :)
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