Who’s going to work today?

[Guest Gimlet]

If a rat eats enough granola eventually its teeth will fall out and it will die of diabetes. 

If I get rats they will be eating Jordans natural muesli with no added salt and sugar. They could become super rats. I must be careful. 

[Matthew Storrs]

10 hours ago, Big J said:

Thanks for that Beau.

 

As much as we're enjoying having the little darlings around all day, every day, I might have a conversation with the school this week about possibly returning them at some point. In all honesty, I think they'd appreciate some return to routine.

We got a letter from our school- my wife is NHS so key worker but I’m not so obviously children (child in our case) weren’t expected to be at school. Seems fair to me otherwise when you look at key workers list I reckon almost everyone’s other half would be considered one! ? 

[peatff]

10 hours ago, AJStrees said:

I just don't particularly want the plague to start over again. Or the fire of London. 

The buildings are not made of wood any more so the fire is not going to spread like the original.

[Khriss]

Bit of a shame that k

[AJStrees]

2 hours ago, peatff said:

The buildings are not made of wood any more so the fire is not going to spread like the original.

That is a good point. I hadn't thought about that. Glass and steel are less likely to burn until it gets to become a very hot fire.

 

But what about all the polyester in the clothes shops? 

[AJStrees]

4 hours ago, EdwardC said:

Nah. It was a rat with pretensions of being middle class. Middle class rats eat granola with goji berries and quinoa with semi-skimmed. Upper class rats eat the same but add almond milk.

Yes that's a good point. But is it unsweetened organic almond milk or sweetened and would it not be bought at Waitrose rather than Tesco's or Asda. 

[Mick Dempsey]

Well, I got an email from an association of landscapers CNAPT (the French love their acronyms) saying that we CAN go to work.

Phoned up the landscape/maintenance company that run 30 odd staff, they said they’d restarted Tuesday. Saw a tree guy working on the way home.

 

So we’re going back to it, 2 blokes, 2 vans, no contact with clients etc.

 

I can’t sit here for another fortnight whilst everyone else is keeping going.

 

 

Edited March 27, 2020 by Mick Dempsey

[trigger_andy]

1 minute ago, Mick Dempsey said:

I can’t sit here for another fortnight whilst everyone else is keeping going.

For sure! As long as we're following the guidelines from each respective country I say crack on! 

[delabodge]

On 24/03/2020 at 08:49, andy perkins said:

big thanks to your wife mine is going through cemo at the moment

Sorry to hear this Andy,my wife comes home absolutely knackered having worked in a isolation unit for over six hours in full kit, in a understaffed unit,(7.45-4-00pm job) with minimum resources, on a quarter of a train drivers wage,who have just striked for a bigger wage, (53k -£67k?)my wife is never late for work, never shirks her duties and has never had a day off sick, she takes pride in what she does and will work later to make sure she gets chemo orders out Even if  she clocked off how ever late it takes,and she’s far from being the only one in the nhs, me sitting at home ,makes me feel very guilty, but come 8pm tonight, I will pass her a glass of wine, and stand on my doorstep and applaud her and everyone else at the forefront of this crazy panademic,in the meantime, I will hold off on domestic tree work,until,it’s safe to do so.

[trigger_andy]

1 minute ago, delabodge said:

Sorry to hear this Andy,my wife comes home absolutely knackered having worked in a isolation unit for over six hours in full kit, in a understaffed unit,(7.45-4-00pm job) with minimum resources, on a quarter of a train drivers wage,who have just striked for a bigger wage, (53k -£67k?)my wife is never late for work, never shirks her duties and has never had a day off sick, she takes pride in what she does and will work later to make sure she gets chemo orders out Even if  she clocked off how ever late it takes,and she’s far from being the only one in the nhs, me sitting at home ,makes me feel very guilty, but come 8pm tonight, I will pass her a glass of wine, and stand on my doorstep and applaud her and everyone else at the forefront of this crazy panademic,in the meantime, I will hold off on domestic tree work,until,it’s safe to do so.

Can you pass on my thanks, please?

 

Shes doing an amazing and often thankless job and they deserve so much respect. The Americans often thank passing Armed Forces Personnel with a 'thank you for your service' right now (as always) the NHS workers deserve the same level of respect and gratitude from us. 

 

I think with 400,000 people volunteering to assist in this pandemic shows how much the UK truly appreciated the work they do.