Good Morning Thursday

X posts Jan16 and whywhywhy I really feel for you both. ?? for each of you. x

Jan, what a worry for you. So sorry to hear about your daughter. ????

I bring glad tidings, I have the wedding dress!☺️ DD is delighted and that is all that matters!
I felt as if I was playing hookey out in the real world. ?

Urmstongran I thought you might have been self isolating from GN?
Good to hear how people are coping in Spain without the need for violence! Lessons to be learnt I think xxxx

Well done Marydoll Hope you could model it for us!!! Xxx

Phew Urmstongran pleased to hear from you, I have been popping in to check

Well done Mr.U

I am so pleased you got the dress Marydoll

What a relief to have the dress Marydoll you really are a star

12Michael...you're ignoring government guidelines re keeping at a distance from other people. How utterly ignorant and selfish just because you want to 'feel better getting out and about and mixing with people you know'. Wow! Unbelievable,!

I know GG13 and connor! I was MIA and had no way to let my GN pals know the reason why!

That said, where’s GabriellaG?? No post yesterday either. I hope she is alright. She’s just returned from a flight back from the Caribbean....

Fantastic news about your daughter’s wedding dress Marydoll! Result! I can imagine your daughter’s joy!

X post Gabriella! That was a bit ?‍♀️

Gabriella isn’t it okay for Mick to be out and about if he’s under 70y? That’s what I thought the guidelines meant. Self isolating for the over 70’s?

Oooh Gabriella totally uncalled for on this lovely thread.

Thanks curlywhirly.

Megs36
Oooh! Money ??
No, no jealousy here as I too won £5 but not collected it yet ???

Here's hoping ? that your DH is home soon and feeling better. ?

Possibly Urmstongran but we are all encouraged to keep a distance when out, not at all what Mick us planning to do.

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.

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

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.

Hey!!
I was on St Martins (Isles of Scilly off coast of Cornwall) not St Martin in the Caribbean...????

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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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 !

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.

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.

(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)

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.