Good Morning Thursday

Sorry for your loss

Brilliant news dragonfly . I feel so relieved for you

I really Can’t see anything “nasty and cruel” saying that Mick never responds NanKate because I don’t think I’ve never seen one myself either ( and I don’t just mean to me ) .

Is these dreadful times I would hope we could show kindness to each other. Your comment GabriellaG54 about Mick was nasty and cruel. There are ways of persuading people to take a different course without using unkind language.

Megs36 I can confirm that Mick does reply to comments and read this thread as I have had replies to prove it. I’m glad he avoided being sucked into the Antipodean web. It happened to me and a couple of other GN members and we were made to feel pretty uncomfortable and unhappy.

So in the spirit of supporting each other through these dreadful times I hope you can consider what you say carefully before making someone who lives alone thoroughly sad.

Great Marydoll.I guess your daughter is pleased.Dragonfly also good to hear.
Finally Gabriella G54, you are right about Mick never responding,
I seem to remember Rufus trying to strike up a rapport with him unsuccessfully.
Take care everyone, difficult to know what advice is good, this has never happened before has it.

Dragonfly are you relieved?

Lovely bit of positive news today Dragonfly

Well done dragonfly so pleased for you x. And if that champagne curlywhirly mentioned isn’t your thing, send it over

Dragonfly, great news. I'm so pleased for you.

Dragonfly yippee!!????brilliant news, treatment finished! You must be so relieved. Now get that bottle of fizz opened (if that's your thing) and celebrate, you deserve it after all you've been through. ???

Very well expressed Feelingmyage.

I doubt that Mick reads our concerns. He certainly doesn't answer them.

I am nothing like Carole Middleton. For one thing, I don't sunbathe and don't tan as my skin is too fair and prone to a smattering of freckles when I was young.
Secondly, my figure is nothing like hers, taller and heavier 5-6.5/14-16.
I wouldn't want offspring like 'Marshmallow' James either and Pippa isn't exactly a looker.
I'm happy as me and have no.intention of travelling abroad for a long long time, if ever again.
I think I'm drifting back into the groove of rubbing the pile of the velvet, the 'wrong' way but flat is bland. ??

That's good news dragonfly. Isn't it?

Good afternoon. My day started badly as I was foolish enough to think the hour Sainsbury were devoting to the elderly would be quiet. I think everyone over 70 was there! Managed to escape after an hour and met some lovely people in the queue.
I saw my consultant oncologist after that who has cancelled my last treatment saying I had done really well to get through 7 treatments. He has also cancelled my radiotherapy as he said it makes little difference and it is more dangerous to come into the hospital every day so it looks like my treatment is finished ?.
I will now go back and read all your posts but thank you to all who have supported me over the last few months.

mick. You open this lovely thread daily and because we “know” you a little bit feel that I can say - are you sure you should be on the buses. Just for a few weeks go for a walk, take the papers or a book and a flask and find somewhere to sit for a change of scene. We don’t want you to be ill. We want you to stay well.

I am late! Been gardening all morning in the sun. Haven’t looked at the news today as it is so scared. marydoll. Well done you. If it is not too trite, May I say the it is the marriage that matters; the right people together going lovingly in the same direction. Maybe a giant party and rewearing of the outfit later and a blessing in the church? gillybob keep going, we are virtually behind/beside you. I am grateful that we are going to the lighter nights, have internet and do not have to queue outside a red phone box with four pennies, often once a week, to make phone calls. Easy to forget the days of much more difficult communication. I have no chocolate so am going to make tablet. ???to all.

(She also said there were only ten people on her usually standing room only bus, so probably Mick will find he has no one to chat to anyway)

Afternoon All

A late and lazy start this morning, I'm dressed in slob gear and I've only just got off chatting on the phone! I really must get some discipline into this self-isolation and distant social contact business!

DD2 works in the centre of Norwich and says people are scurrying to and from work and few are swinging into the coffee shops on their way. She says the only people out on the streets and wandering the shops are elderly.

Oh I totally agree but if we all acted like that the death toll would be much higher than it's posited to be.
Commuters have asked for more trains to be rolled out on certain crammed lines but staff is needed to man them, anyway. BJ has himself today acknowledged that London will be put on lockdown, with the army and police patrolling the streets.
Where the US goes the UK follows, albeit 10 steps behind.

I think it is really awful all these elder lies going shopping, being close together risking catching the virus. Having grey hair gives no protection. Also very selfish doing any outside things if elderly whether fit or not. We all need to be sensible and avoid close contact with anyone as having a hospital bed if we get ill is not guaranteed and if it is would take from a younger person. Too many oldies are a bit gong ho !

Love it Gabriella! Me and geography never did make good bedfellows! I looked it up on Google too and thought ‘wow, Gabriella seems just like Carol Middleton!’ That’s kind of how I imagine you.
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Hey!!
I was on St Martins (Isles of Scilly off coast of Cornwall) not St Martin in the Caribbean...????

We might be ‘encouraged’ to keep our distances Gabriella but have you seen the photographs of bluddy trains in London? They are packed in them during the rush hour like sardines! That can’t be right.

is not us.
Being in a 'certain category' does not mean you can ignore advice.

I think Gabriella says what some of us think.

I read that if over 70’s (maybe that’s not Mick anyway - I don’t know his age) persist in going out & about then it is reckless and indeed selfish behaviour because if they get the virus and end up in hospital needing a ventilator - that denies another person who is younger and working (ie not getting a pension and being in a position of self isolating) who might need one - eg. if say they have a car accident.

I never thought of it that way but it does make sense.