XTreme Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 Tomorrow I can ride again, I can leave the town, but I can't leave Granada province! So tomorrow morning (work permitting) I've got to take the wife to the shops in Baza! Can't go to Albox to get tea bags (we're out of them) because we'd be entering Almeria province. It's a long way from normal.......but it's a step in the right direction! What's changing for you now? Can you ride? Are you restricted to where you can go? Are you going back to work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yen_powell Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 I'm off to non 'working from home' work in the morning. Going to meet my Irish and Hispano/Caribean chaps at one of the storage depots with my trusty tape measure to look at big concrete blocks and posts to see if they will be fine to hold up some large signs for the re-opening of the Recycling Depot to the great unwashed which we will be installing on Tuesday. This is to make all the local people arrive from the same direction and queue like civilised people.............. No fear of that, it will be like The Hunger Games on Steroids. Hopefully the signs will turn up later tomorrow before I leave work so I can check to make sure they don't say something like 'REESICLING DEPOH PLEEZE FOLOE AROES' and make me look like a twat. Then it's a quick dash to the office to print out some setting out drawings for Wednesday and an OS base sheet. I shall hiss at anyone who approaches me and queue for the single toilet between 50 of us. Then off to some roads where I have to design some old bollocks to temporarily make the footpaths wider in a couple of market areas which I got given on Friday afternoon and they want on Monday night. This I will sketch on to the OS base before drawing it up when I get back home in the evening, only then realising my handwriting is rubbish and mostly unreadable. Then It's off to a new building site to measure up a temporary crossing for cranes and shit so I can price it and send them a letter demanding money with menaces. Then shoot over to another road to make sure Parking have put up suspension signs so I can swap some parking bays to the other side of the road on Friday. I have upset Parking last week so there is a chance they will play silly buggers with me as a punishment, or give me a foot way parking ticket again. Then marking out some new islands because we are being allowed to carry out any site work that takes less than 3 days and if I mark it out tomorrow I won't have to get up early on Wednesday when they want to start smashing holes in the road and want to know where all the power supplies are coming from/going in. Then 50 miles back home on lovely twisty country lanes because the weather report is glorious for tomorrow!!!! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted May 17, 2020 Author Share Posted May 17, 2020 No hanging round outside public conveniences then @yen_powell? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Fallsalot Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 Work has been pretty normal for me all through this, and I've been practising social distancing for years so no change there lol just haven't been able to ride the bike seriously thinking of leaving the van home one day this week and taking the bike in just to see how it goes after all the work I've done on it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yen_powell Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 2 minutes ago, XTreme said: No hanging round outside public conveniences then @yen_powell? I might put my panniers on, pop an empty lemonade bottle in and wee discretely into it whilst pretending to lean on the bike. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckster Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 Scotland is still on lockdown but at least I have tea bags. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted May 17, 2020 Author Share Posted May 17, 2020 27 minutes ago, Buckster said: I have tea bags. Any photographic evidence to validate this assertion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted May 17, 2020 Author Share Posted May 17, 2020 The Strom is now ridiculously clean........even by my standards. I'd run out of things to clean by Week 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckster Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 34 minutes ago, XTreme said: Any photographic evidence to validate this assertion? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted May 17, 2020 Author Share Posted May 17, 2020 You need to check this out @Tym........... @Buckster has posted a photo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tym Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 Progress! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boboneleg Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 Mainly I shall be doing f**k all , the same as most days last week . I'm not going back to work yet and my bikes are still sorned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 It was supposed to be an easy morning for me, followed by picking up my shocks at the shop for them spaniards to collect them from my place tomorrow for testing and fixing, with a brief stop by the office for picking up some boxes of samples to be distributed by most of my clients tomorrow. Thing is, my spanish plant is stoping for two weeks and they were meant to have everything on stock for all deliveries for these two weeks, today they realize there is only enough for two or three days. As always, they had a month to plan it and still turn it into a complete fucking shit show, as they say in Spain, un merdero! Now I've been on the laptop and phone stressed as fuck, but the rest is still going to happen. I'm just posting to make myself seem as busy as @yen_powell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted May 18, 2020 Author Share Posted May 18, 2020 That's Catalan @Pedro! Say that here and you'd get stabbed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tym Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 35 minutes ago, XTreme said: That's Catalan @Pedro! Say that here and you'd get stabbed! What is wrong with spaniards, they dont like Bulls, they beat their wives like they beat their dogs, only their horses are treated somewhat humanly, and their women have way to much body hair! Please care to comment! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted May 18, 2020 Author Share Posted May 18, 2020 45 minutes ago, Tym said: What is wrong with spaniards, they dont like Bulls, they beat their wives like they beat their dogs, only their horses are treated somewhat humanly, and their women have way to much body hair! Please care to comment! lol I can only speak about rural Andalucia........and they have a very different mentality to Spaniards in other areas. If something isn't Andaluz......then it's shit! And if it's Catalan then it's shit and somebody should get stabbed, or at the very least, twatted. On the whole their level of education isn't very high, and they're unable to grasp new ways of doing things. It's like the ways of the past are set in stone. What is going on in the outside world goes right over their heads.......I'm sure there's some old people here who don't even know Franco is dead. There is a serious degree of laziness with many.......generally if you want something done speak to a woman. The emphasis on leisure time is top priority......and much of that leisure time will be spent boozing. But with families......not a pub crawl. And unlike Brits they don't get punchy......they're good drunks so to speak. To say they're laid back is an understatement.......their house could be burning and they'd just shrug and say "no pasa na".......in correct Spanish "no pasa nada". They're very noisy and gutteral.......which, coming from Swansea, suits me just fine. In fact my level of noisy and gutteral is way above theirs and they actually look up to that! Don't ask! Sounds pretty grim doesn't it? But I gotta say that if they like you and accept you there's nothing they won't do for you. And ask for nothing in return. This sort of environment doesn't suit everybody. But we've been here since 2005, and lived in a lot of places in Britain before that, and I can tell you there's no other place we'd rather be, and no other people we'd want to live with. And one important thing here! We did not change or try to integrate at all. Reason being that we were temperamentally a perfect fit for Spain in all respects.....in many ways we were more like Spaniards than Brits. It's like I say to Brits who ask me about moving here.......it's not a matter of whether Spain is right for them. It's more a case of are they right for Spain? And in most cases it's no. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muddy Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 I've not been in lockdown per se, since you cannot transmit something you haven't got. So I've been out on the bike whenever I've wanted to and only social distance because otherwise I'd get into a hundred arguments everyday. Does that make me a reckless law breaker? Law breaker maybe (or statute), but not reckless. I'm 63 and can and will think for myself. I've never been one for going to work or meeting others when ripe with a virus, so know myself to be considerate and responsible. And I've worked in the NHS so know the lay of the land and, no, I don't clap for them like a fucking penguin every Thursday on cue. If the local hospitals were overrun I'd not have gone out and exacerbated the crisis, but they weren't. A&E Drs and nurses were literally left twiddling their thumbs for the most part and with so few patients one has to ask how many have died as a result of postponing or avoiding to seek help through fear. I doubt we're ever going to know. Most can't be bothered to question authority and just accept their servitude blindly. I've got the one 2007 paper that the 2 metre social distancing directive came from and it's sketchy bollocks at best, based on a belief and then tested indoors ("A large number of infectious diseases are believed to be transmitted between people via large droplets and by airborne routes"). Even allowing that various governments used that one study to practice the precautionary principle, the fog is lifting, the numbers are now coming in and it's clear the mortality rates are grossly inflated with coincidental deaths. It's time for a revaluation of Professor Ferguson's lockdown model that so many governments adopted. The destructive c#nt has got a history, his models have been disastrously wrong in the past costing us millions, this is going to cost us much more than a recession. Having directives based on such flimsy evidence, then shutting down the country down, anyone would think they want to crash the world economy on purpose, or at least all the little guys. No, it can't be. Rant over 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muddy Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 16 minutes ago, BusBoy said: On the flipside of the coin from our perspective the death rates are much higher than reported. My wife is in social work and specialises in the elderly. Her clientele has been reduced by a massive 30%. Let me repeat that. 1 in 3 are not just catching it but dying from it. So it's very real. I never mentioned it not being real, I wrote that the exceptional measures used to deal with it are based on very little hard science and ultimately going to cause more harm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boboneleg Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 Personally I don't give a flying fuck about the economy, that's all a lot of people ever think about , money. 'Growth' I hear that all the time, why has the economy got to grow all the time. The economy will survive, lives are more important . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muddy Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 3 minutes ago, boboneleg said: Personally I don't give a flying fuck about the economy, that's all a lot of people ever think about , money. 'Growth' I hear that all the time, why has the economy got to grow all the time. The economy will survive, lives are more important . Well neither do I that much, but that's because I'm an old git with the best part of my life over and have everything I need. If I was in my 20s or 30s, with a family to support, the loss of my business or trade and, consequently, likely my house, then I'd be caring a whole lot. My thoughts are with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted May 18, 2020 Author Share Posted May 18, 2020 52 minutes ago, Muddy said: and have everything I need But you don't have a Strom @Muddy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muddy Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 20 minutes ago, XTreme said: But you don't have a Strom @Muddy? Strom schlom, what I don't have is a T700. Nah, I'm resigned to the fact that once I can't get my leg over anymore, I'll be looking for a step through. 2 wheels to the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 When the economy starts putting small businesses out of work people start starving a losing homes. I have a few clients very much afraid and not sleeping because of this, because a few of their clients are a few weeks away from being broke, and by broke I mean not having money to eat and pay for anything. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted May 18, 2020 Author Share Posted May 18, 2020 8 minutes ago, Muddy said: Strom schlom, what I don't have is a T700. Nah, I'm resigned to the fact that once I can't get my leg over anymore, I'll be looking for a step through. 2 wheels to the end. Yeh.....I like them as well! At 66 I'm fortunate that I have no mobility or flexibility issues......in fact I'm probably more flexible than most people half my age. I've had dodgy knees for nearly 30 years now due to sports in my youth......so I've learnt to compensate for them. But you never know......I may well end up back on a Scooter one day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 A nice scooter is a nice thing, but I would think someone with back back would struggle on one on medium to long rides? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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