Morning Everybody - Hope all is well? - What have we got on, how are we all doing?

[townfanjon]

@Ric2013 , no person or government on earth knows what to do , every country is in the same boat , there is no answer to it , we all just have to work through it , be patient , look after each other and “ stay safe “ .

On another note where in Italy are you ? , I have been going to ask you for ages lol

 

[Ric2013]

To be honest, I don't think we'll ever know how well countries come off, until we see the excess deaths for this period compared with other years. When you look at the stats, the problem is that every country has its own way of testing and reporting so I'm reluctant to accept at face value that, say, Taiwan has only 37 cases per million and only 7 deaths in total. Even if true, the fact that Taiwan recently had SARS means compliance and understanding in the general population is likely to be very good.

I'll PM my location.

 

[Lou]

Morning everyone! Its snowing!!!

 

[king of pipes]

Well chaps you all know my situation covid 19 this second time round has really hit my family hard my brother is still suffering the effects of long covid, all his close family have been infected but have got over it reasonably well, my elderly mother she's 80 this year is absolutely shot to bits mentally she's frightened of everything shakes from head to toe and is severely depressed, I am supporting her the best way I can we have appointments in place for a specialist mental accessment and she's now on antidepressants but 2 weeks in and she's not much better, I took her to get her first covid phizer jab yesterday a visit to the opticians, doctors and dentist just to try and make her life a little easier you just have to deal with it the best way you can.
I have kept well as I am almost sure I had covid last December before all this came out it took weeks to get over the symptoms and load of test came to the conclusion it was a virus. No way Sherlock
Work has still trickled in but customers are very wary of having you in and I take all the precautions I can to avoid contact, i had a customer pass away this week from cancer and my close friends mums funeral so a crap week their life's were definitely shortened by covid and the restrictions in place for the specialist treatments they needed to keep them alive . Keep well and look after your loved ones chaps kop

 

[Murdoch]

Morning everyone! Its snowing!!!

its not down here -

 

[townfanjon]

Well chaps you all know my situation covid 19 this second time round has really hit my family hard my brother is still suffering the effects of long covid, all his close family have been infected but have got over it reasonably well, my elderly mother she's 80 this year is absolutely shot to bits mentally she's frightened of everything shakes from head to toe and is severely depressed, I am supporting her the best way I can we have appointments in place for a specialist mental accessment and she's now on antidepressants but 2 weeks in and she's not much better, I took her to get her first covid phizer jab yesterday a visit to the opticians, doctors and dentist just to try and make her life a little easier you just have to deal with it the best way you can.
I have kept well as I am almost sure I had covid last December before all this came out it took weeks to get over the symptoms and load of test came to the conclusion it was a virus. No way Sherlock
Work has still trickled in but customers are very wary of having you in and I take all the precautions I can to avoid contact, i had a customer pass away this week from cancer and my close friends mums funeral so a crap week their life's were definitely shortened by covid and the restrictions in place for the specialist treatments they needed to keep them alive . Keep well and look after your loved ones chaps kop

Bloody hell pal , your poor mum . Continue what you are doing you cant do anymore, hopefully the vaccine may help her mentally . Sorry I couldn’t press the “like” button on a post like this .

 

[Ric2013]

its not down here -

Several feet of it on the buildings here in the Italian Alps. People would pay you if you wanted to take it off their roofs - they get worried about the weight once there's more than 6 feet of it settled. I'm not worried, but you can have mine for free - and easy access through a Velux.

 

[Dan]

Morning all. Hope you're all doing alright.

My downstairs loo is blocked, not sure why. Took the loo out, bought some drain rods that attach to jet wash and can get about 10ft down but then it stops, not sure if that's where the block is or whether it's a bend. Wont unblock though. Got covered last night so had three showers and bleached everything around the loo, and threw out my clothes and shoes and even my watch strap lol

Going get Dynorod out or something.

 

[Aquarius]

Probably in the manhole - did you check here? (Quite possibly frozen - had that before now).

 

[Dan]

Probably in the manhole - did you check here? (Quite possibly frozen - had that before now).

Yeah there was a little backup in one of the manholes but cleared that out and the level in the stack pipe didn't drop. There are three manholes on our property though and the other two seem clear. To be honest 2 and a half hours is about my maximum I'm allocating to shyte lol so it's somebody elses problem now I'll just pay the bill.

I'm sure at one point I saw some kids bedroom wallpaper come flying past me, "Cars" that talking red car one. Lightning McQueen I think he's called. Trying to work out which neighbour might have a kid into that but there's no way I'm knocking on with it, can't even find it now it must have gone back down at some point or got swept up at the end in the dark.

Our other loo is fine luckily so we're not stuck or anything.

I have the actual loo outside and it keeps going below zero, do you think I should bring it in? I don't want any moisture in the ceramic freeze and crack it - is that a thing? Or are they pretty sturdy? You'd think I'd know being a tiler and coming from Stoke on Trent a 'potter'. Might find a rug throw over it or something to take the worst off it perhaps.