General Chat

Our local Superstore has reduced its price for bottled water by 10p.

Dermot,
That's ridiculous.

What is wrong with normal TAP WATER.

We are lucky in that our water company does sample houses regularly (including ours) to maintain standards.

Having said that I only drink bottled water due to bowel disease - not a definitive instruction but advised, so I do :-D

We have our supply filtered

I don't drink cold water :-D

Big thank you to RTR for taking our minds off the coronavirus ang giving us something else to worry about :-|

If you listen to all the nonsense spouted at us you would not eat, drink or breath for fear of snuffing it. Lets face it if those things don't get you we will all die of shortage of breath eventually :-D

Pinched from another site...


Not specifically BAOR related but I think worth saying.

We're seeing a lot of advice on COVID-19 but almost all of it is from anonymous sources. The following is specifically attributed to a named and respected scientist, Professor Graham Medley, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM.

He said in an interview with BBC Newsnight last night when asked if there was a "simple message" he could give the public.

His response was: "Most people have a fear of acquiring the virus, but I think a good way of doing it is to imagine that you do have the virus, and change your behaviour so that you're not transmitting it.

"Don't think about changing your behaviour so you won't get it. Think about changing your behaviour so you don't give it to somebody else."

In the interview, Prof Medley also discussed how herd immunity can help protect the population, and how vulnerable people can be protected.

When I started my last job one of my colleagues who had been a physicist for many years warned me to run the tap for five or so minutes before I drank the water or filled the kettle because the pipes were still the ancient lead variety.

Everyone in that small community was in the same boat and none of us was overly worried. Personally, I felt secure enough by following that sensible instruction.

CV19 is a different kettle of fish, I feel. It can be hidden within the person standing next to you so your health can be compromised without you ever knowing it.

Well, after saying yesterday all public schools would close for 3 weeks after today, Uni and Colleges are also closing for now and doing work online where possible. This before we've had cases in any of them....makes sense being proactive.
In the grocery stores, I can confirm no one likes canned sweet corn it's the only canned veg left :-) I was there for my normal twice-weekly shop...I'm feeding 5 adults 2 of whom have hollow legs we get through a lot of food...so worse case we'll eat less and lose some weight.

As for tap water our water is more than good enough to drink unless you have old lead pipes which most of us don't. We do have a filter which is more likely to be an issue if you don't change it regularly enough than just drinking from the tap....the filter is part of the fridge I wouldn't have it otherwise.

I shall be carrying on drinking tap water.

My son rang me yesterday to say the supermarket was out of painkillers ( no surprise) but also chocolate and Kroninberg. How will we cope :-D

I absolutely love Twitter at the moment - Piers Morgan (yes him) railing against Boris and Lord Sugar telling him to shove off :-D :-D :-D

Everyone knows Piers and the vile Burley know better than experts - they are whipping up discontent bordering on hysteria and they really ought to shut up. They are in the privileged position of being able to pass on advice to the masses and instead they just abuse their highly paid jobs.

Piers Morgan is a foul mouthed Bigot and Moron who knows nothing about nothing

Don't you mean nothing about everything? Or is that someone else?

:-D :-D :-D :-D Yes that too.you got that right in one

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sooooooooooooo ..................

daughter is having to return early from Florida IF she can get tickets for Tuesday.

DisneyWorld is closing on Monday ....... I question why not NOW?

Other attractions will be closed.

Husband and son have already been told to quarantine themselves as soon as they get back to Canada, she has yet to find out what she has to do.

She calls it her Disney curse ......... we had to cancel taking her to Disneyland in California way back when when there was a major gas crisis down there, with long lineups at gas stations and many shootings.

Now this.

I am with you Sylvia as far as delayed closing is concerned.

Boris has also said 'from next weekend' about closure of gatherings. Why not now? It makes more sense to do so without delay to avoid further risk of spread. I feel the same about schools as he stated 'not now' and I have heard from a couple of sources that they will be closed two weeks before normal Easter holidays - which is next weekend! In the meantime, the spread will continue.

Sylvia, my bestie and her OH are on a Caribbean cruise at the moment. I have texted her twice and got no reply so I am keeping my fingers crossed that they are OK. I have seen no reports to the contrary.

Joy ................

I'll keep my fingers crossed for your bestie and her husband.

Canadian government announced today that no cruise ship carrying more than 500 passengers will be allowed to enter a Canadian port until July. Ferries are also affected.

Cyprus is restricting travel to here and it looks like UK flights may stop or be greatly reduced - Jet2 have already said they won't bring out anymore tourists for the time being and will just repatriate those already here.

Easy Jet are saying they won't charge people if they want to change flights.