https://youtu.be/6U5RDhAtr4Y

It may be an American video but the thoughts and words within it apply exactly the same. I was quite tearful
watching it.

https://youtu.be/xGKFVMgjrPc

https://youtu.be/M4jR_9-YPK8

https://youtu.be/lRA590HGLT8

Are you finding it difficult to get your milk from Supermarket? I did in the last two weeks and asked myself why, because farmers are throwing milk down the drain.Why can the milk deliveries not be diverted from usual outlets which are closed at the moment and sold in Supermarkets?
If it is a question of price all the supermarket has to do is tell the check-out to enter a code manually, write on a piece of paper what the price is and stick above milk.
The potato growers are moaning as well but can understand as many people might have changed to eating rice/noodles. Can not blame people. A lot of potatoes are deceased, have not a nice flavour and do go off very quickly. At one time used to buy a big sack of potatoes and they lasted right through winter. Now one buys a small bag and some of them are rotten within 1/2 weeks.Lastly heard that the salmon farmers are in trouble. Well it is not every bodies cup of tea or are the prices to high?

Just tried to carry on with 'Blood' and no internet connection. Was fine last night and have it elsewhere. Pushed the wires to tv with no joy. I can't even find any network connections in settings - do I need to go back to first installation and start again, please, anyone know? Have switched router on and off. Thanks

If you should be holidaying in Spain soon here is a little consolation prize.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvTOmNSmbdw Sorry this is all I can do for the moment.

Apologies, after pushing "free rice" to form a group I did not have much time to participate. Wanted to spend a little time tonight, but instead have been searching for nearly 2 hours to locate group. Would appreciate link. Thank you

Bought a Warburtons seeded batch loaf today and on the clear plastic wrapper it says "please recycle me". Didn't think flimsy plastic can be recycled.

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Came across this song and liked the singer's voice and melody. Have the feeling I heard it from some film but can not recall. Maybe it was played in a different tempo or I am mixing it up with some thing else as I am tone deaf.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQZWj37K-2E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjHIErmTzuE&feature=youtu.be

Ooops

Just bought and started using a tub of Country Life margarine with offer 2 for 1 entry to English Heritage wondering if we are ever able to use the coupon. Reading instruction solved the problem. Valid between 20. December 2018 and 31. March 2020.

If anybody is using oil ---fill up now ---- have never seen oil prices that cheap.

Received today from neighbourhood alert.

Criminals are exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic to defraud people.

Below are some of the most common scams to be aware of:

EMAIL, TEXT AND PHONE CALL SCAMS:
•An unexpected email from the government offering you money.
•The 'infection list' scam mimicking the World Health Organisation (WHO) claiming to provide a list or map of local infections.
•An email from HM Government asking for donations for the NHS.
•An HMRC email stating you are ‘eligible to receive a tax refund’.
•Sale of fake COVID-19 swabbing tests, supplements, and anti-virus kits.
•A text message asking you to pay a fine as it says you have been ‘recorded as leaving your home on three occasions’ during the lockdown.
•A phone call stating ‘government guidelines now require everyone to wear a mask outside the house, press 1 to purchase your mask’.

DOORSTEP CRIME
•Cleansing services that offer to clean drives and doorways to kill bacteria or offering to 'decontaminate' the inside of your home.
•Bogus healthcare workers offering to take your temperature or provide 'home-testing' for the virus.
•Criminals offering to do your shopping. They take the money and do not return.

ADVICE AND SUPPORT:
Always question unsolicited calls, texts or emails requesting your personal or financial information (name, address, bank details). To verify the company contact them directly using a known email or phone number. For advice on cybercrime, or to report suspicious emails, visit www.ncsc.gov.uk/cyberaware Anyone who has been a victim of fraud or cybercrime can report it online at www.actionfraud.police.uk or call 0300 123 2040

Message Sent By
Graeme Barbour (Police, Digital Communications Officer, Hampshire)

Just saw this video on tik Tok and I instantly thought the lady was to blame as she walked out in to the road without checking for anything coming from her left and as we all know as car drivers motorbikes tend to appear from nowhere as they pass us on the right. But lots saying it was his fault. What do others think?

https://vm.tiktok.com/vVeEXT/

I did yesterday and have to say it was very odd talking to them on some video calling app.. brilliant that they do it as I didn’t want to go to the surgery. But during a normal phone call he asked to talk on video so he could see my eye I was like omg I need to brush my hair..put some lipstick on ..LOL
Thankfully setting up the app gave me enough time to look presentable thank goodness
Has anyone else been offered this service or have you dared to venture to the actual dr surgery during this lockdown period or are you deliberately avoiding drs & hospitals like so many are ?

Quite shocking as it brings our death rate up to 26 097 higher than Spain and France and only a thousand or so off Italy. So 3rd highest country death wise. Why better practices in care homes weren’t better put in place early on I don’t know. Considering the elderly in the community were ordered to stay indoors for 12 weeks to protect them but the people in the care home by the looks of it a-lot were just left to get ill & die in the homes.
Although the USA with 60 000 deaths & over 1 million infected says quite a lot I think about how slack they have been in dealing with it.

Take care

Does anyone know what this is. It looks like a military cap badge, if so which regiment? It is a silver colour and measures 7cm x 5cm.

Where do you stand with this ?

This was always a concern

https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/apr/28/nhs-worker-david-gomoh-stabbed-death-before-father-funeral-london

Company in charge of 500 million government PPE stockpile is now owned by a US company. (I suppose I've adjusted my expectations):

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/22/revealed-private-firm-running-uk-ppe-stockpile-was-sold-in-middle-of-pandemic

at least it is for me and might not be every bodies cup of tea.I wonder if we will be able to do it soon? I like watching the people really enjoying themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOE0ISnLXR4

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Before the coronavirus saga when one returned an item the refund email arrived a few hours later and showed on ones statement not more than a day later. Now they tell you one has to wait for up to 10 days. What has changed?Had to phone them 22. April spending a few hours listening to music. No email notification arrived. Phoned again 23. "with music" and lady did say she do it now. As it was a substitute and "not price matched" I did query why they always send the more expensive item. She got quite shirty and said she refunded me and banged the phone down. In fact the did not refund me all and they still owe me money. Have not received an email refund notification as of today.
I am not letting this rest and looked everywhere for their email address. Does anyone know how best and most effective to get in touch with Sainsburys? (have still to asked for rest of money owing to me)

By the way we are only talking about the meagre sum of ----£696.30 --- as some idiot instead of 6 items clocked up 66.

I am drowning in paperwork - used to be good at clearing but getting progressively worse. Question is how long do I need to keep bank statements, tax returns, credit card statements, utility bills, car/house insurance, sold shares, etc., etc. I see I have kept copy of a self-assessment tax return in 2010, must be useless by now?

I already play Words with Friends with a few friends online and UNO that I play with my grandchildren but does anyone know of other games available.
Maybe card games?

I really enjoyed this mini series. Excellent acting. Did anyone else watch it?

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1273869/kim-jong-un-dead-north-korea-kim-jong-un-health-latest-kim-jong-un-dead-reports

https://www.facebook.com/greg.kneale/videos/10159780208054899/?t=3

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Remember this

https://vm.tiktok.com/73qu7K/

Even clothes can do it

Just had an email telling me my car tax payment failed due to insufficient funds, log in here to use a credit card.
Sent them a rude reply.

Tony Hawkes song

https://youtu.be/8eDOrlIq7TQ

Enjoy

45,627 knife crime offences recorded in the year to December 2019 (excluding Greater Manchester Police because of IT issues). An increase of 7% on 2018 and the highest since statistics were first collected in 2010-11.

Robberies up 12% to 83,930, the fourth consecutive annual increase.

670 cases of murder and manslaughter (excluding Greater Manchester).

One in 14 offences led to court proceedings, less than half the rate five years ago.
The reason for the decline is given as a lack of co-operation by victims, possibly because they don't believe anything will happen.

Overall trends in crime remain broadly stable, according to the ONS, with the Crime Survey for England and Wales - which includes offences that are not reported to police - suggesting there was a fall of 5% compared with 2018.

The figures do not include the period immediately before and during the lockdown, but statistics released by the National Police Chiefs' Council last week showed that serious assaults had fallen by 27% and robberies by 37%; it's thought knife crime will have followed a similar pattern.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52395986

Fraud rose by 9%, driven by a rise in bank and credit account fraud.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51221054

It would be interesting to know how unreported crimes are included.
It seems crime does pay.

😂

https://rochdaleherald.co.uk/2020/04/17/treasury-seek-oap/

https://inews.co.uk/news/consumer/coronavirus-shopping-uk-latest-women-abandon-lipstick-razors-cosmetics-claims-2542482?itm_source=parsely-api

https://twitter.com/DHSCgovuk/status/1253243462431854595?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

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A 26 part series of The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross started on Monday. 7.00pm – to 7.30pm each evening on BBC4.

Did I miss the answer to this?
The

In case you have lost track of time

I understand a few of you got some excellent advise from some members but forgot who it was.
We had some radiators staying cold in some parts also the thermostats on some rads were not working.
I had the thermostats renewed and as a neighbour recommended to have self venting valves on radiators I asked this to be done. However heating engineer said they were no good and he would put big self venting valves in the roof. I can not climb into the roof but understand he put two in.
In the meantime we had the shutdown so work will be completed in the future namely he recommended to have a magnet in roof to clean out system.1. What do you think about the magnet?
In the meantime the radiators are worse then before. Hissing and one can hear the water gurgling very loud. The oil boiler is in the garage and the pump can be heard like a steam engine, very frightening. Have been going around to air the radiators but there is so much air in them I never get to the point were the water comes to the top as my back is starting to hurt with bending over.
Would be grateful for your advise. Will give him a ring but like to hear first what some of you think. Thank you.

A friend sent me this little video that made me smile - the music is infectious in the best possible way

https://youtu.be/d_vhDo3_cNI

As a family we have always read the Daily Mail . Dad's choice as head of the household even though he was always staunch Labour and lived in Labour council areas of Plumstead, Woolwich and Eltham. Years ago we had the Daily Sketch.

Now I'm thinking of a change of daily paper as the Mail is quite xenophobic.
I quitel like the I and the Observer on Sunday.