Wednesday 24 June 2020

Plague 42

So here we are at 42 which i gather is the answer to everything , somehow i watched Boris yesterday and im just as baffled as i was before i watched him , lots of meaningless graphs and statistics plus why is he so obviously dubbed it was like watching an out of synch foreign movie .
So now we are down to one metre which was pretty much what most people were doing anyway just on the grounds of you cant get 2 metres apart in most buildings these days . So pubs with a beer garden are reopening what if they have no beer gardens just a hut for the smokers because the brewery sold off all the land around them for housing , so a lot of town centre pubs are doomed , but this will be the end of the pub industry as a whole , most people have discovered the joy of alcohol by post during lockdown , plus its much easier to be a closet alcoholic . 
Ive noticed one sad side effect of the lockdown those over 50 are being targeted for redundancy by a great many firms ,along with those with pre existing medical conditions  and the fat .  One friend is having a really bad time she has never been out of work in her life and suddenly the national company she works for has put those over 50 on the redundancy heap , she has worked all through the lockdown 12 hours a day seven days a week  , but bye bye your to big a risk .  im sure our caring leader will shortly raise the pension age yet again to pay for lockdown . Its a bit of a ploy to make the economy look better by forcing the over 50s middle class to use up their assets to make it look better  .On a plus note the younger generation are starting to look a bit more attractive to some employers , nephew has managed to get a farm job collecting eggs and sarcastic son has his name down . All the eastern european employees went home once they realised that herd immunity wasnt a good idea . Plus i get duck eggs now as nobody else wants them , not a fan of them on their own but theyre amazing for cooking .
So where do we go from here? not a clue nothing much changes here , still plodding on . Though the persistant stomach bug everyone seems to be having mystery may be solved  . Its become noticeable that its happening whenever it rains and now we can talk to each other it seems theres most of the village has had the problem .  Collered the jogger who is an engineer for Anglian Water and asked if anything has changed in the water supply because if you go onto bottled water you get better rapidly , it seems theyre using a different make of additive at the moment due to shortages of the normal one . So ive emailed Anglian Water and am waiting for a response .

6 comments:

  1. Very odd about the water - sounds like something from medieval England.
    Suffolk and Essex water down here which is part of Northumberland water and probably owned by the French! No probs that I've heard of.
    The upcoming recession is going to be a big one. Frightening

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    1. Northumbria water is owned by the Chinese... Hubby works for them

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  2. Thankfully we have already taken early retirement. I think this recession is going to hit hard. I will check with Mum/Dad if there water is OK?

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  3. I love the way you tell is as it is kate, well done.
    Briony
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  4. I hope to get a satisfactory response to your email regarding the water. Its scary but mistakes have happened before. There will be no second lockdown or furlough as the economy couldnt withstand it. So it's going to be a bit like a sinking ship, EVERY MAN FOR THEMSELF!! I think the redundancies will start in earnest once companies have to contribute more to the furlough wage. My hubby would welcome redundancy, he has 17 months before his state pension and works 2 days a week. He is vulnerable and been told to remain at home while the others have returned to work.

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