RAIN its lovely the first rain for weeks and its even warm rain !! . im informed that grandson is coming to live here for a while , hes been locked up since March they have no garden and his stepdad and he are planning to kill each other . Doubtless the neighbours will be ringing somebody to report us , but his school isnt opening , his parents are off back to work so what else can we do ? We have a huge garden , masses of veg to plant out and he can try his hand at bricklaying another useful life skill i can teach him ...lol
Not quite sure what the latest load of cobblers devised by the government is supposed to acheive other than extending the plan for herd immunity , they have stopped the grocery delivery scheme for a lot of the vulnerable to try to force them out of lockdown i dont have the breath to waste about folks flocking to the seaside or stores where distancing is a myth . I think we are the watch and wait point of the virus , sunshine kills an awful lot of things and it will hopefully drop the figures right down . But with the endemic lying from our government how the hell do you tell ? You dont get more distanced than South Lincolnshire , but most people know of someone whos died .
I cant see a whole lot of people returning to the big high street retailers so many will go under , BIL family are all now jobless , they worked in the hospitality industry and there employer is one of the dead , they have received no help from the state as there furlough paperwork didnt get completed and they cant apply for Universal Credit because of this, its sort of left them in Limbo. They had an eviction notice and a visit from the Council Tax Bandits the other day. Once upon a time you could fill in a nil income form and it stopped the matter going forward tll benefits were resolved , but once again its something that has been done away with quietly by the current government . Once grandads estate is sorted Mr BH intends to give his share to his brother to help them out , its not a big amount but every little helps . There are none of the thousand of land work jobs available here till harvest time , which is another month at least but his BIL may be going back to work in the next few weeks despite his asthma being terrible at the moment . We shall see
So yes is continuing on as boring as ever
Just over a week ago, I went to the high street for the very first time in 10 weeks. I dont know quite what I was expecting, but I was shocked just how quiet it was. I needed Wilco for Berties treats as there the only ones he likes! There was about 6 people in front of me and the shop was empty. I could count the open shops on two hands. I think a lot more businesses could have used the time to adapt to social distancing and carried on trading. For example Argos. The nearest one is now 30 miles away in a Sainsbury and there has been arguments about Sainsbury shoppers having to queue with Argos shoppers! I hope you BiL gets some help soon. I'm sure your grandson will be a great help in your garden.
ReplyDeletewe have a little Sainsburys local thats an Argos pick up point about 5 miles away , everybody keeps moaning about them queuing for that
DeleteHi hun, One of my girlies works for Next and she is worried that she might be laid off.Her hubbie works in hospitality, Miller and Carter and he doesn't know if/when they will reopen. Hubbies nephews wife works at Basildon Hospital and they had 5 die last week from covid 19. We are visiting our girlies on Friday, the first time since the begining of March, but we will mantain the social distancing in the garden.It is worrying times :( *hugs* Goldensunflowerx
ReplyDeleteeverything is very up in the air at the moment , other son works in security but he got Covid at the beginning in February and it layed him up for 2 months , still a bit breathless but getting their and he only had the mild version he didnt tell us till yesterday because he didnt want to worry us
DeleteFarmers are crying out for fruit pickers - we've been advertising for them for weeks, we've got ours now but our fellow farmers are still struggling to get pickers. There are land jobs if your BIL looks. Lots of farmers provide accommodation for them as we do. We've got people who are glad to find the work and income even if it means being away from home and most of them travel back to see family on their 2 days off every week. There's work for those who want to work.
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