Lockdown Nov 20, what are you doing ?

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weeksy wrote: ↑Wed Nov 04, 2020 3:17 pm knock me up a scarf for winter.

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Dodgy knees wrote: ↑Wed Nov 04, 2020 5:08 pm
weeksy wrote: ↑Wed Nov 04, 2020 3:17 pm knock me up a scarf for winter.

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I'm another who'll be doing the same as the last one: Loitering about the house and footling about in the sheds.

Not that we're locked down here, the islands are tier 1, so we're as free as one can be in this modern world.
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I'm a retired old fogey and selfishly spoiling young people's lives by not having died yet. Although I have no known health problems, because of my age, apparently I'm in imminent danger of death if I do catch the virus. In an attempt to stave off the virus for as long as possible, I'm doing as before. That's a visit to the supermarket once a fortnight. I don't go to pubs, restaurants, sports centres, cinemas, etc so won't miss them.
Because this year has been passing very quickly and I don't have much time left, I'm trying to fill the time doing anything, and not staring at the telly all day. I've worked growing vegetables, doing motorcycle maintenance, making jams and chutney, altering some of my clothes to reduce them to fit, trying to revise my foreign languages and having a much needed tidy up with a clear out.
I admit to being a 'boring sod' so my chosen activities will be judged by others as mundane but if they keep my brain cell and body working, I'm happy and I may live another day.
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Bike Breaker wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 8:15 am I'm a retired old fogey and selfishly spoiling young people's lives by not having died yet. Although I have no known health problems, because of my age, apparently I'm in imminent danger of death if I do catch the virus. In an attempt to stave off the virus for as long as possible, I'm doing as before. That's a visit to the supermarket once a fortnight. I don't go to pubs, restaurants, sports centres, cinemas, etc so won't miss them.
Because this year has been passing very quickly and I don't have much time left, I'm trying to fill the time doing anything, and not staring at the telly all day. I've worked growing vegetables, doing motorcycle maintenance, making jams and chutney, altering some of my clothes to reduce them to fit, trying to revise my foreign languages and having a much needed tidy up with a clear out.
I admit to being a 'boring sod' so my chosen activities will be judged by others as mundane but if they keep my brain cell and body working, I'm happy and I may live another day.
I suppose you also have to consider quality of life too though.

My parents are in their mid 80's and my old man is in the super high risk category.

They have not really been out of the house since march. They are super paranoid of seeing any of their children inc me, i think i have talked to them through the window 2 times since march.

It's all good that they are keeping safe but i think my old man is loosing the plot. He still has a lot of energy and likes to be doing things but can't.

At some point you need to consider quality of life, do you carry on being locked down forever or do you make the decision to take a few risks to enjoy what you can with the life you have now?

IMO this is not going away anytime soon, if ever, so isolation and the downsides it brings could be your new everyday life for the foreseeable future!
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Greenman wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 8:27 am
Bike Breaker wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 8:15 am I'm a retired old fogey and selfishly spoiling young people's lives by not having died yet. Although I have no known health problems, because of my age, apparently I'm in imminent danger of death if I do catch the virus. In an attempt to stave off the virus for as long as possible, I'm doing as before. That's a visit to the supermarket once a fortnight. I don't go to pubs, restaurants, sports centres, cinemas, etc so won't miss them.
Because this year has been passing very quickly and I don't have much time left, I'm trying to fill the time doing anything, and not staring at the telly all day. I've worked growing vegetables, doing motorcycle maintenance, making jams and chutney, altering some of my clothes to reduce them to fit, trying to revise my foreign languages and having a much needed tidy up with a clear out.
I admit to being a 'boring sod' so my chosen activities will be judged by others as mundane but if they keep my brain cell and body working, I'm happy and I may live another day.
I suppose you also have to consider quality of life too though.

My parents are in their mid 80's and my old man is in the super high risk category.

They have not really been out of the house since march. They are super paranoid of seeing any of their children inc me, i think i have talked to them through the window 2 times since march.

It's all good that they are keeping safe but i think my old man is loosing the plot. He still has a lot of energy and likes to be doing things but can't.

At some point you need to consider quality of life, do you carry on being locked down forever or do you make the decision to take a few risks to enjoy what you can with the life you have now?

IMO this is not going away anytime soon, if ever, so isolation and the downsides it brings could be your new everyday life for the foreseeable future!
It is hard, but you have to say not seeing someone for ages is better than never seeing them again. I got the extremely vulnerable email yesterday and it does take the joy out of the day. This year I have been filmed by the BBC more times than I've been in a supermarket, and it looks like Im not going to be doing either of those again this year, but what else can you do? If the locked in need a bit of excitement all you need to do is ask the people protesting the lock down what exactly their plans are for the vulnerable people apart from just excluding them from their great plan.. soon gets the blood moving.
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Greenman wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 8:27 amAt some point you need to consider quality of life, do you carry on being locked down forever or do you make the decision to take a few risks to enjoy what you can with the life you have now?
Everyone has a different view of what is a good quality of life. I've never needed to meet many people or meet a few very often. I've never needed to be much of a risk-taker, unless you count riding old motocycles with negligible braking, and I think it would be foolish to start doing stuff I don't enjoy. I go out if I want to and, because MrBB has heart problems, I'm careful but not paranoid, about catching the virus, although the risk in Hull now is much greater than early in the year. Since the end of September, the rate of infection has quickly risen from being at the lower end of the scale to the top.
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my mates just got a new Triple 765 R, so ill have a ride with him, want to get some MTB done, and also get some road miles in as well. I am going to fully embrace it again.
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formula400 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 11:03 am my mates just got a new Triple 765 R, so ill have a ride with him, want to get some MTB done, and also get some road miles in as well. I am going to fully embrace it again.
Lockdown means stay at home.
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Yorick wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 11:19 am
formula400 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 11:03 am my mates just got a new Triple 765 R, so ill have a ride with him, want to get some MTB done, and also get some road miles in as well. I am going to fully embrace it again.
Lockdown means stay at home.
Exercise outside is perfectly acceptable.
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Yorick wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 11:19 am
formula400 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 11:03 am my mates just got a new Triple 765 R, so ill have a ride with him, want to get some MTB done, and also get some road miles in as well. I am going to fully embrace it again.
Lockdown means stay at home.
Schools, uni's and most work places/factories all working as per usual.
Few shops shut but can order online.
No official shielding, but feel free to do it off your own back and rely on statatury sick pay.
What lock-down?
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weeksy wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 11:53 am
Yorick wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 11:19 am
formula400 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 11:03 am my mates just got a new Triple 765 R, so ill have a ride with him, want to get some MTB done, and also get some road miles in as well. I am going to fully embrace it again.
Lockdown means stay at home.
Exercise outside is perfectly acceptable.
Riding with his mate on the 765 isn't perfectly acceptable.
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Yorick wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 11:58 am
weeksy wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 11:53 am
Yorick wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 11:19 am

Lockdown means stay at home.
Exercise outside is perfectly acceptable.
Riding with his mate on the 765 isn't perfectly acceptable.
I'd agree yes. For me, that's not within the rules...

It could be 'bent' if someone wanted by using it to go to the Supermarket.... But for me, bending the rules isn't playing ball.
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Dropped Mrs M at a school on the ZH2 as the X-Trail was on the naughty step at the garage with seized rear callipers and a shot front wishbone. Took a circuitous route to the LBS to order a new SRAM made from expensive cheese rear cassette for the naughty Levo. Collected Mrs M and then went to the garage to pick up the naughty X-Trail where the mechanics presented us with one snapped and one manky calliper slider.

Now I will wash the ZH2 as its filthy and then go out one the SS to reacquaint myself with the misery and sense of smug puritanical satisfaction that riding a SS generatesπŸ˜‚πŸ˜πŸ˜‚
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MingtheMerciless wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 12:48 pm Dropped Mrs M at a school on the ZH2 as the X-Trail was on the naughty step at the garage with seized rear callipers and a shot front wishbone. Took a circuitous route to the LBS to order a new SRAM made from expensive cheese rear cassette for the naughty Levo. Collected Mrs M and then went to the garage to pick up the naughty X-Trail where the mechanics presented us with one snapped and one manky calliper slider.

Now I will wash the ZH2 as its filthy and then go out one the SS to reacquaint myself with the misery and sense of smug puritanical satisfaction that riding a SS generatesπŸ˜‚πŸ˜πŸ˜‚
Translation for us thickies ? :mrgreen:
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Yorick wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 1:23 pm
MingtheMerciless wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 12:48 pm Dropped Mrs M at a school on the ZH2 as the X-Trail was on the naughty step at the garage with seized rear callipers and a shot front wishbone. Took a circuitous route to the LBS to order a new SRAM made from expensive cheese rear cassette for the naughty Levo. Collected Mrs M and then went to the garage to pick up the naughty X-Trail where the mechanics presented us with one snapped and one manky calliper slider.

Now I will wash the ZH2 as its filthy and then go out one the SS to reacquaint myself with the misery and sense of smug puritanical satisfaction that riding a SS generatesπŸ˜‚πŸ˜πŸ˜‚
Translation for us thickies ? :mrgreen:
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Ha ha sorry, LBS = Local Bike Shop (in best Royston Vasey traditions). SRAM are an American parts manufacturer that are incredibly hit n miss on parts quality/durability.

Levo is a Specialized E bike with motors and batteries made in a specially 1970’s time warped Italian Factory.

And SS is a single speed (One geared, normally the wrong one) bicycle.
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riding with a mate might not be in the rules, but its mental exercise.
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Yorick wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 11:58 am
weeksy wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 11:53 am Exercise outside is perfectly acceptable.
Riding with his mate on the 765 isn't perfectly acceptable.
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Yorick wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 11:58 am
weeksy wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 11:53 am
Yorick wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 11:19 am

Lockdown means stay at home.
Exercise outside is perfectly acceptable.
Riding with his mate on the 765 isn't perfectly acceptable.

thing is, nothing is really perfectly acceptable, closing hospitality has not worked, but lets do it again, face masks can't really be working, as we are back to the start.

anyways ill be out side, away from others.
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