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📢 CURMUDGEONS' CORNER XVI 📢

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  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    We wear our masks whenever we go into a shop, restaurant etc. Even put them on in the town centre on Saturday, very narrow pavements and people coming too close for comfort.
    I’ve got so used to wearing one, that I had to remind myself to take it off just now. I’d buttered my toast and about to pick up my coffee ( breakfast out again! ) when I realised I still had my mask on. Could have got messy.
  • Ergates said:
    We wear our masks whenever we go into a shop, restaurant etc. Even put them on in the town centre on Saturday, very narrow pavements and people coming too close for comfort.
    I’ve got so used to wearing one, that I had to remind myself to take it off just now. I’d buttered my toast and about to pick up my coffee ( breakfast out again! ) when I realised I still had my mask on. Could have got messy.
    I do that 🤣

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





  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    I’m relieved to hear that, Dove! In my defence, I did wear masks at work for over 30 years so I sometimes feel a bit naked without one.
  • @Ergates Perhaps you should always have 2 masks with you when you are out ?  A proper one and another with a mouth "flap" for your toast, etc.  That way, you won't feel naked but you will be able to eat your breakfast  :D
    On a more serious note, mask wearing does seem to be hit and miss these days- whilst shops here ask that they be worn at all times in store, they don't appear to be querying non mask wearing customers. 
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Another LED light bulb bites the dust after less than two years. 20000 hours my arse :|
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Another LED light bulb bites the dust after less than two years. 20000 hours my arse :|
    It's not just me then! I find certain locations worse I think it's heat build up,  but not sure what can be done about it.  The shower room ones seem to fail particularly quickly,  probably because they are sealed in. 
    AB Still learning

  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    Don’t want to resurrect the doctor’s receptionist topic, but couldn’t resist this!



  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    And another.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Have just been to see my GP for a health certificate for dancing.  He asked about my knee infiltrations and I had to tell him the rheumatologist is not a nice man nor very clever - told me arthritic joints only hurt when being used!!  GP agreed he's atrocious but his practice partner is apparently no better so I now have a referral to an orthopedist to discuss when I can have a new knee.

    Result!

    No receptionist cos of Covid.  Appointments made online and he does type as he goes but looked at me too when asking questions. 
    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
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Another LED light bulb bites the dust after less than two years. 20000 hours my arse :|
    It's not just me then! I find certain locations worse I think it's heat build up,  but not sure what can be done about it.  The shower room ones seem to fail particularly quickly,  probably because they are sealed in. 

    Keep the receipts, date the box and take it back if you can prove it's failed to meet the guarantee.  The big problem will be proving it hasn't been left on 24/7.
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