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New Normal...Old Normal.

It's taken a year and seven months but we here finally seem to be back to normal, not a new normal just the old normal, all be it with masks in shops and public transport etc, in "normal" every 10 weeks or so some of us locally gather for a party, this came about after the 3 bars in the village closed some years back and a couple from the UK, who own a holiday home here, missed meeting up in the bar as part of their regular holidays here, so they decided to hold a party at their house on a Sunday during their stay, until yesterday the last time this happened was in early summer of last year, it was during the lull between waves where travel restrictions were lifted for a while, however it was only us Brits willing to take a chance at that time and the Spanish contingent declined, so it was a fairly small affair. Yesterday we all met together for the first time since March 2020.

A lot of our region reached level zero this week, that's an end of all local restrictions, mask law being national, our part of the region is due to get to level zero this week, Covid only formed a small part of the conversation yesterday, being our first chance to catch up on what's happened during the last year and a half, nobody there was in any doubt what made the return to normal possible, vaccination, nobody had heard of anyone they knew dying from being vaccinated though we all knew someone who'd died from Covid, one doesn't need to be a rocket scientist to look at the data graph for Spain and see where the vaccine effect kicked in, Spain has now vaccinated 90% of all available adults.

Nobody knows what the future holds, but so far nobody here has become magnetic, we all still had the same number of arms and legs, though after a few drinks some still seem unable to use them, so no change there doh laugh , nobody is showing any signs of becoming a crocodile, and those vaccinated very early in the UK have zero ill effects from having vaccine, most I spoke to, like me, had zero effects from having the vaccine though I have heard some people feel unwell for a few days afterwards.

So for now, here at least, Covid seems to be a closed book.
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Do I care if they live or die?

In my opinion, anti vaxers and Covid conspiracy theorists are just like suicide bombers, their aim is to promote their crackpot theories and take as many non believers with them as possible. Below is a link to a newspaper article that appears today in The Daily Mail, an interview with a REAL doctor, not some fraud being sued by the institute he claims to work for for falsely claiming he works there, this a proper doctor at the sharp end of Covid ICU unit, his interview has no political affiliations, there is no mention of right or left, just the reality of what anti vaxers are doing to his patients. My hope is someone on here who may have been swayed by the garbage I've seen on these blogs of late will read it and think twice.
So do I care if they live or die, well as far as most conspiracy theorists go we can all have a good laugh at the drivel they come up with, but in this case it's actually costing lives ( please read the article), so no I don't care, I have a feeling the world would be a better place without them.

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The Isolation Blog

A place for those of us in lockdown (currently Spain but coming to a place near you soon) to share what's happening or indeed what's not happening, have a winge, report on what's happening "outside" etc. It could also be used for updating who has supplies of toilet rolls in stock professor laugh
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Virus news - Italy closed till at least April 3rd.

Italy has stopped all non essential movement, suspended tax , mortgage and household bill payments, the country is effectively shut down, more details to follow.
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What do you do when your doctor tells you you have 2 maybe 3 days to live.

I've been a member of CS for over 7 years now. Been blogging on & off most of that time, have made some good friends on here, but seems even some of them don't believe a word I say moping That's a bit cutting as I've never knowingly told a lie either here or in the real world, but I made a comment on Usha's blog & even some of the regulars don't believe what I said was true wow Makes mental note to review my friends judgement writing

So back to the original OP what do you do, well that fits into three categories, the first being exactly what you're told to do, then secondly you don't rent any long movies professor Thirdly you don't choose this week to give up smoking, I mean what's it going to do, kill you laugh I've always had a passion for fast cars so sort of envisioned the end would be say a 400 year old oak tree with my head buried in it, not something the size of an atom mumbling Problem with things that small they breed faster than rabbits & before you know it there's billions of the little buggers eating you alive help I'm a little short on detail as one of the side effect of an infection in your head is total deafness, I did manage to catch the doctor saying I was lucky, hmmm well to me lucky would have been not getting it in the first place, but by Saturday, I'd been taking painkillers for weeks which I realised weren't doing my any favours so cut right back, and it was then I realised how serious it was & decided to go to a private clinic, she told me I probably wouldn't have made it till Monday wow

My thanks to my neighbour & Biff who've been driving me to the clinic, I can't drive myself as the council have been out putting bends in all the roads that weren't there last week, plus I'm now banned by the doctor due to one of the pile of tablets I have take day & night is a narcotic yawn

So you can choose to believe this blog or not, but i will tell you the lab that did bloods works on my sample today did question whether they came from someone still alive rolling on the floor laughing
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You wouldn't do it to a dog!

Nobody in there right mind would starve a dog or cat to death by cutting off it's food supply, but now by law it's fine to do it to a human being wow

"LEGAL permission will no longer be required to end life-prolonging care for patients in a permanent vegetative state, the UK Supreme Court has ruled today"

"The ruling will effect up to 24,000 patients with permanent vegetative state (PVS) and minimally conscious state (MCS), meaning they can now be effectively starved and dehydrated to death if the medical staff and relatives agree that this is in their “best interests"

Is it just me or is this just wrong on so many levels dunno



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Return to sender

Seems whilst we've been talking about the return of the ISIS bride this is just the tip of the iceberg wow a tweet from President Trump -
“the caliphate is ready to fall. The United States is asking Britain, France, Germany and other European allies to take back over 800 ISIS fighters that we captured in Syria and put them on trial. “The alternative is not a good one in that we will be forced to release them.”

He then went on to say “The U.S. does not want to watch as these ISIS fighters permeate Europe, which is where they are expected to go. We do so much, and spend so much - Time for others to step up and do the job that they are so capable of doing. We are pulling back after 100% caliphate victory!”

In the west we've got used to putting our rubbish in bins & leaving it to someone else to deal with, looks like we're about to get it back professor
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Baba Vanga 2019 predictions.

For 2019 Baba Vanga (link below) predicts - Pres. Trump will become ill, Putin will survive another assignation attempt, Asia will be hit by a giant tsunami wow In the blogs section I'm constantly reading about what's about to happen, so what are your predictions for 2019 dunno Will Trump be impeached, will WW111 break out, will the UK leave the EU dunno It'll be interesting to see this time next year who's on the ball & who's living in cloud cuckoo land laugh

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Wanted - Dimwit incapable of learning anything.

One of the most common phrases I see on profiles is " No Baggage" confused Ok we none of us want a person so laden down with baggage they can't move doh especially where this involves a dead person, you can't compete with the dead professor they never make mistakes or say the wrong thing, but really, no baggage means someone who's learnt nothing from previous relationships dunno I can only speak for myself but I certainly carry some, but it's pretty light weight stuff, so when I see certain words, phrases or actions I can run with it laugh
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Not what it seems, or is it ?

"A 10-MONTH-old baby girl has died in Spain after her grandfather left her in the back of his car for eight hours"

Bit of a roller coaster this article, man leaves granddaughter, 10 months old, in the back of a car in Spain, in summer, hanging is too good for him professor but read on, he went for a coffee & forgot he'd left her there, so poor man has trouble with memory comfort not his fault professor But hold on, cars here heat up in less than a minute to maybe 50c+, who would leave a dog, let alone a child in a car under those conditions very mad I can't think of a single place in Spain where kids are not welcomed with open arms, was it he couldn't be bothered to take her mumbling

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He's the only one that fits the bill.

Reading through profiles of women on my home page I see most have demands us lessor mortals could never meet, doh non smoker, must like dancing & travel, own hair & teeth uh oh love of animals & grandchildren, good sense of humour, financially independent etc etc, the list goes on, having given it some thought I've realised they're all looking for the same man doh the only one that fits all the criteria professor






rolling on the floor laughing
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The fightback starts here.

This is really a continuation of a blog I posted in December 2013, (no doubt still available on Amazon,everything else seems to be these days) laugh In it we discussed the demise of Windows XP crying various options were put forward by bloggers, I of course swung straight into action dancing and thought about it for 4 years uh oh ok so I like to take my time, there are some things that shouldn't be rushed laugh

So I've missed the excitement of Windows 7, 8, 8.1 & now we have 10, do tell us what you think of 10 professor not that it'll make a jot of difference to me as I've gone alternative grin

In the past year we've heard from Pres Trump on how he intends to put America first, great if you happen to be an American but most of us aren't, American corporations have taken a similar stance, just this week an American site I use has advised me the cost of an ad this year is to go up 60% wow mumbling very mad that's outrageous but totally expected, the plan seems to me to be, buy up the opposition, achieve world domination, then hit em with the cost boxing I'll have to pay the 60% extra because they now own all the sites in that field & I have no choice but to use them sigh

So how are you Windows 10 (or spyware as it's known on the net) users feeling dunno confident the cost you've already paid is all you're going to pay, or are you seeing the rumours of it becoming a subscription based product and becoming concerned, or maybe you'll only have to pay extra if you want it do something, who knows.

For me the solution was easier than I'd anticipated, that dread of stepping into the unknown with a new operating system, but what's to think about, it's free, easyish to install, you can have dual boot & keep Windows just in case you don't like it, it's secure so you don't have spend extra each year on security products you only need because Windows has more holes than my socks, used by just about every major server in the world and is as easy to use as any Windows product, so what is to think about dunno

Of course for every rule there's an exception, whilst extracting the most bucks from everyone on the planet seems to be the norm for most American Corps, there are exceptions, CS being the only one I can think of at the moment banana
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