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  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Hostafan1 said:
    Someone on Radio 2 has just called to say she's sitting INSIDE her local cafe enjoying a flat white and watching the world go by 
    Well that's what we've all waited over a year to do eh? 
    Maybe she doesn't have any friends to visit?

    Maybe that is exactly the reason she is getting so much pleasure from something as simple as being able to sit in a cafe and watch the world go by.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I never felt comfortable with that hug a stranger thing anyway
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    In a couple of months time people will be slagging off the government for saying they could all have a jolly good party with lots of hugging.
    Its not compulsory. 
    My daughter and her family have been invited to a football ‘do’.  130 people, landlord at the pub says it’s ok because it’s going to be in the field behind the pub. 
    Shes not going and neither is her boy. 
    According to a previous post on here, those cheap tests only tell you if you’ve got COVID, not if you’re a carrier,  so not much good in a crowd. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    steveTu said:
    How much has covid changed people's outlooks? I was talking to me old bro' and sis' about post covid mixing, and although none of us are scared or worried by covid per se, none of us feel that urgent urge to mix in general. We want to see each other - fine - but the way it's been talked about in the media it's as though there's this massive human urge to socialise. Maybe we have a sociopathic gene.

    These days it seems a person isn't "normal" if they aren't a touchy-feely extrovert😒
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I s'pose we can still hug a tree .... or do we have to sanitise it first?  ;)

    Sorry .... 

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





  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I'd rather hug a tree than hug most people :)
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Don't get me wrong, I love people and people are what the world is about - and I hug my immediate family when we meet or part - but - it's not the end of the world if we don't hug. There seems to be this over exaggeration and 'drama' about it all:
    '...I just had to go shopping again...'
    '...I can't live without hugs...'
    '...I queued all night to get back in the gym...'


    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Prince Charles in his gardening attire.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57137057
    Devon.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Hostafan1 said:
    Prince Charles in his gardening attire.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57137057

    Totally unfair.  This is how he normally dresses for gardening.  Prince Charles on how he enjoys trying traditional farming methods at  Highgrove  Daily Mail Online
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    In the days when Sarah Raven featured regularly on GW I always used to wonder at her clothes.  Huge, full skirts and big heavy coats.  How can you dig and plant and weed in all that?  Was she modelling herself on Gertrude Jekyll?

      
    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)."
    Plato
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