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I have changed the settings to allow comments this time, just don't expect any reciprocation any time soon.....if at all.

Favourite stretchy white top which is a bit too dingy now with age to go public
Favourite old blue pullover, so soft after years of use it is like wearing a cobweb
My old painting slax - a bit of a splashy painter, me, so they had to be retired from public life. Two weeks and counting, they are a tiny bit tighter despite the daily exercise routine
Slip-on trainers - one very short step above slippers
No makeup
No shower today - washing my hands every single time I touch anything outside my house, in this dry country, I am saving water elsewhere

Yeah I know, wow. The queue can form to the right. No shoving, in fact 2 metres apart please.

I hate living in lockdown but you only have to look at the difference in figures to see it IS worth it. On March 11 I starting tracking the countries where I know people, on a spreadsheet. Spain had around 2000 cases. The USA had around 1000.

Yes we have terrifying figures despite the lockdown but - instead of having double as many as the USA, we have half.

But I am not a pretty sight. anyone else prepared to share their isolation look ...

Edited to add this photo

I noticed a few active members have become less active. Probably due to the global lockdown. Hopefully everyone is okay...

rizlared, attempted to get back to Philippines where he owns a house and was sent back to Dubai via UK.

HarbalEsquire, usually active must be preoccupied with things elsewhere.

Dongg, quiet for a few days was last seen negotiating a contract to sell N95 masks to the NYPD.

BadlyDrawn, went off the market last month. It's time to shave, shower, sharpen some pencils and get back here. Actually, I suspect his hiatus is moderator invoked. Sorry.

Seriously, with a pandemic going on, I sincerely hope everyone is doing well.

Jon Taffer (Of 'Bar Rescue') gives insight on how restaurants can survive the current pandemic and what type of shifts they'll have to make in their business model after.

....rolling on set.... ACTION! There are some benefits of the current virus situation. Some responded thoughtfully to a previous blog on the topic, along with the few hate filled, TD-HD Syndrome afflicted grizzly old porn wank-persons. Here are two more, shamelessly pinched from two CS beauties. But do I ever digress? And more hip, I couldn't be. I'm pretty close to eating as do 90 % of the world do anyway. The so called developing world diets, which avoid much of the bad stuff, may be experiencing a renaissance.. The good---Veggies, grains, fruit and fish when rarely picked/caught, and almost no red or other meats---the bad. It's how I stay so young, active, brilliant and irresistable. Market hoarding apparently has forced a few changes. Perhaps bringing on more dry and canned beas, and (hopefully, locally or even home grown) plant foods), among others. So many health and global economy/environment benefits so produced, not to mention animal welfare, that it would be wonderful if it really could happen so. OK, wankers, got the helmet and flack vests on. Blurt and rant away.

I'm noticeably left-handed. Thankfully, I wasn't hampered growing up left-handed and it's not that I cannot do things with my right hand. My preference is to be left-handed. For the record, I take offense to being called a
'South-Paw' and cannot understand the logic. Perhaps, someone was facing West when they coined that phrase.

I got along in most school sports being left-handed... but they always wanted to assign me on first base, probably because the only left-handed glove owned by the school was for a first baseman.
Archery was fun as the cheap bows were ambidextrous. It's when you progress to a compound bow that you need a left-handed model.

Guitar was a challenge at first. Around 1965, my dad took me to a pawn shop and we paid $17 for a Spanish guitar. It was right handed and I tried... but, I switched the strings to be left-handed and felt natural in doing so. The teacher at the local music store said all the strength was in my left hand, so that's the hand that needed to be in the neck. I should be playing right handed. I gave him the same advice and told him he was playing backwards as his stronger hand should be on the neck. He needed to be playing left-handed. Well, that killed any plans of taking guitar lessons at that music store!

My mother was a seamstress and owned her own shop. More often than not, I was required to work there after school. Her scissors had molded handles that were difficult to hold 'upside-down' so I was forced to cut right handed. Also, she had an industrial steam iron with a hose that connect to a boiler unit. This unit was designed only to be used with the right hand.



When making templates, I'll use my left hand to draw or trace lines. If I'm cutting with a razor knife, I'm left-handed but if the template is to be scissor cut, I'll use my right hand.

I do know of a left-handed guy who learned to play guitar right-handed and he made a comment that he wished he had started out left-handed as playing 'opposite' to what really felt natural had reduced his musical creativity.

Interesting thought. On the other hand... it was only a theory!


Thanks for reading my blog...

As in many foods there has been and always will be fillers, the same as most languages,

Much of what we have learned of ancient Rome came from their coins. Their coins documented a lot about ancient Rome's existence.

If the U.S. takes a crap, it is a good thing they documented a lot on our coins too. Good job.

When the chips are down, when the crisis strikes, some of us will be heroes, some of us will put self and loved ones first, some will dance for attention and some will trample the old and the very young to get to perceived safety.

Heroes tend to be very quiet about it - after heavy snow, will dig out an elderly neighbour's path: in a crisis will take food over: in a transport strike will find out who may need deliveries or help. Heroic acts can be hard to list since they are so often under the radar.

Charity begins at home - those who will make sure they and theirs (all theirs - even the not much liked) are okay before looking outside to more public acts

The attention seekers will be very vocal especially at blaming everyone they think caused the crisis, and not perhaps as useful as they think they are but think they are very useful indeed. In fairness they can be heroic - if the audience is there.

The utterly selfish are I'm alright, Jack, you can push the boat out. Right now they're the ones with the mountains of loo paper, sanitizer, and enough hoarded to last 3 months, who took everything on the shelf and shouted abuse at anyone protesting or asking for just one of what was piled to excess in their trolleys. The hated ones.

Example on a plane - Every plane's safety briefing stresses that when the masks drop down, put your own on first, THEN help even your own children. Sensible and practical. So on my plane - the heroes will leave their seats to help someone struggling with their mask and even buddy-breathe until help comes - most of us will sit tight trying to not get in the way - the attention-getters will be shouting that they'll sue the airline - and the utterly selfish won't wake the person sleeping next to them but instead take their mask since two is obviously better than one.


I may have missed some types.