Unless there's a spike they'll have eased a bit more and, as you'd be coming form ireland, I expect it will be OK for you to go and stay with them n theory but whether or not that's good in practice is another matter. Maybe by then there'll be better testing and tracing.
As for Possum, she will probably never live near here for her career so I won't be expecting weekly or even monthly visits but that's OK as we have phones and emails and so on - when we have internet. It's just that she's a stressy exam type and has the added pressure of presenting her project and her thesis this year. Covid-19 means she's been completely on her own in an apartment for nearly 3 months now as her Belgian flatmate just went home on day 1 so she's had no company or human contact.
When I left home and moved to London aged 21 I only went home to my mum twice a year and, as a busy career woman herself, she always had a list of jobs for me to do and that got worse when OH came along so visits became shorter and less frequent. Ended up having to have words about our own need for downtime at weekends and hols and having fun. She's never done "fun". Life is too short apparently.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I’ve had Kate Bush Running up that hill for a couple of days,
She's lucky she can go and visit one just now..... I don't know when we'll be able to do that. Such is life. They will still be there when we're allowed to travel more than few miles I doubt my two would bother visiting me. The odd text probably. I'm saying that, but oldest is unlikely to be able to live on her own, unless she can find someone willing to cope with her. Just how it is. Worse problems to have I have done very little apart from faffing in the shed. Too hot again. I need to cut the front grass, but it may have to wait until tomorrow, and just do it in the morning when it's a bit damp. Glad the guys have done a good job @Liriodendron. You're really making progress.
@WonkyWomble and I were just wondering about @punkdoc, @Fairygirl ... and saying we really hope it’s not too long before he’s back with us ... and Moira too of course ((hugs to both))
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Interesting reading your parent/child relationship positions. Right now Charlie and I are very close and very touchy feely as it were, hugs all the time, more often than not he sleeps with me (steals the b***y duvet too) yet I do feel the changes beginning to happen. I am not clued up on YouTube "seriously mummy" and his daddy is saying that really a very near 13 year old shouldn't be sleeping with mummy. He's obviously arriving at that view from an historic adolescent male perspective. I adored my mum and dad, but unfortunately both died quite young ( road accident and lung cancer) so I didn't really have an adult relationship with either of them. Charlie has discussed building me a little bungalow at the bottom of the garden for when I am old....I did try to explain that it is actually my house and maybe the bungalow would be for him.
Off to watch the rocket launch now. Note to self , no more staff/meetings chez moi, too stressful making sure everything is perfect.
Best wishes to @punkdoc and of course everyone else.
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
Lovely view, @AuntyRach - trees are great for de-stressing
Travel restrictions are very likely still to be in place here by the end of the month, @Obelixx. Since 18th May our permitted radius of travel has been extended to 5km (unless your essential shop or vital work is further away than that). There may be a further relaxation on June 8th but that depends what's happening to the infection rate. There's a fortnight's mandatory isolation for anyone arriving in Ireland from abroad, too...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Sorry @Liriodendron. I'd assumed Ireland to UK would be OK as there have been flights from Dublin to London with no quarantine and no distancing either, to the extent that Aer Lingus passengers have filmed it and passed their videos to the Beeb.
It's amazing how much muck comes off a somewhat neglected teak table. Took me a while to stop vibrating too. Just need to go over the legs and feet again with a finer grade of sandpaper and then I can feed it lots of teak oil which I hope it will appreciate. After that it's staying on the terrace. Don't want to do this again.
OH has had his weekly Whatsapp chat with his siblings. Lots of sports chat, inevitably, but also some concern from t'other pair about how the soaps are going to film their next episodes and deal with Covid-19. Really. We don't watch any soaps and sports happen when I'm not in the room. I'll watch SCD avidly but even so it's like any other sport - better to do it than watch it.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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As for Possum, she will probably never live near here for her career so I won't be expecting weekly or even monthly visits but that's OK as we have phones and emails and so on - when we have internet. It's just that she's a stressy exam type and has the added pressure of presenting her project and her thesis this year. Covid-19 means she's been completely on her own in an apartment for nearly 3 months now as her Belgian flatmate just went home on day 1 so she's had no company or human contact.
When I left home and moved to London aged 21 I only went home to my mum twice a year and, as a busy career woman herself, she always had a list of jobs for me to do and that got worse when OH came along so visits became shorter and less frequent. Ended up having to have words about our own need for downtime at weekends and hols and having fun. She's never done "fun". Life is too short apparently.
I don't know when we'll be able to do that. Such is life. They will still be there when we're allowed to travel more than few miles
I doubt my two would bother visiting me. The odd text probably.
I'm saying that, but oldest is unlikely to be able to live on her own, unless she can find someone willing to cope with her. Just how it is. Worse problems to have
I have done very little apart from faffing in the shed. Too hot again. I need to cut the front grass, but it may have to wait until tomorrow, and just do it in the morning when it's a bit damp.
Glad the guys have done a good job @Liriodendron. You're really making progress.
Wonder how @punkdoc is doing....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
View upwards from my deckchair.
Interesting reading your parent/child relationship positions. Right now Charlie and I are very close and very touchy feely as it were, hugs all the time, more often than not he sleeps with me (steals the b***y duvet too) yet I do feel the changes beginning to happen. I am not clued up on YouTube "seriously mummy" and his daddy is saying that really a very near 13 year old shouldn't be sleeping with mummy. He's obviously arriving at that view from an historic adolescent male perspective. I adored my mum and dad, but unfortunately both died quite young ( road accident and lung cancer) so I didn't really have an adult relationship with either of them. Charlie has discussed building me a little bungalow at the bottom of the garden for when I am old....I did try to explain that it is actually my house and maybe the bungalow would be for him.
Off to watch the rocket launch now. Note to self , no more staff/meetings chez moi, too stressful making sure everything is perfect.
Best wishes to @punkdoc and of course everyone else.
Travel restrictions are very likely still to be in place here by the end of the month, @Obelixx. Since 18th May our permitted radius of travel has been extended to 5km (unless your essential shop or vital work is further away than that). There may be a further relaxation on June 8th but that depends what's happening to the infection rate. There's a fortnight's mandatory isolation for anyone arriving in Ireland from abroad, too...
As Prof Brian Cox would say: “amazing”.
It's amazing how much muck comes off a somewhat neglected teak table. Took me a while to stop vibrating too. Just need to go over the legs and feet again with a finer grade of sandpaper and then I can feed it lots of teak oil which I hope it will appreciate. After that it's staying on the terrace. Don't want to do this again.
OH has had his weekly Whatsapp chat with his siblings. Lots of sports chat, inevitably, but also some concern from t'other pair about how the soaps are going to film their next episodes and deal with Covid-19. Really. We don't watch any soaps and sports happen when I'm not in the room. I'll watch SCD avidly but even so it's like any other sport - better to do it than watch it.