This could be useful;-)

Does anybody know how to do this, please. Have been trying friend's phone for past 24 hours and permanently engaged. Once managed to get a 'ring back' notice which I did. I've tried 151 but unable to access unless I contact my 'service provider'. Also tried the 0800 number I found on google, rang it and it gave every option but to report a fault.
She's with BT Broadband, I know, but laptop wasn't working a week ago. She's had BT round when the line wasn't working about 10 days ago, who said the person who had installed her care-line phone hadn't done it correctly but said they had fixed it. Phone started playing up again and when she rang them (originally she was a priority), BT said they would get back to her and never did. I'm particularly worried as she was taken to hospital last weekend, I rang the hospital then, who said she would be going home the next day, left it a day and haven't been able to contact her since due to the phone. She was having carers.
In Norfolk so a distance away

If this is progress, then count me out. All I want to know is how to report a fault on a landline, please.

Buy this "Miracle Mineral Solution" and kill yourself. Surely no one will buy that product.



https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-church-ordered-to-stop-selling-bleach-based-covid-19-cure-11975002

Did you know Coronavirus is an anagram of Carnivorous

Picture of a carnivorous bat

http://www.foeeurope.org/peasants-day-feeding-in-pandemic-170420?fbclid=IwAR19iUVhxL3s3pv-VaMkBKCyHKKVh_ZKlmgg2xqYur3hnZ1ReVhBoZMHZuk

https://youtu.be/c32wI4bDazc

The first of six aircraft full of Romanian farm workers have arrived in the UK to pick our fruit and vegetable harvest.
Proving that leaving the EU because it would stop the foreigners taking our jobs was a load of tosh. They were taking the jobs because nobody in this country will do them.
OK, there were about 100 British that applied for work but that's nowhere near enough.
I won't be surprised now if we don't have just as many overseas workers as when we were in the EU. Maybe more from outside Europe.

I see now they are not saying 'essential' shopping, just shopping; does that mean different types of shops will be open now. ?

There is quite a big debate at the moment on the wearing of masks so I just wondered who On here wears Masks and who doesn’t at the moment & would you be happy if it was compulsory to wear one when the lockdown is finished?
Do you believe masks help or not?

This research study is looking for more people to sign up. They are particularly interested in older people (especially 80+). It is coming up with all kinds of useful, predictive data. Please think about downloading the App. It is free. After registering, which involves answering a few questions about your age, general health etc, you log in daily and say whether you have any Covid-19 symptoms. They need to know even if you have no symptoms. It takes only seconds. I have been impressed by the study. Please think about contributing.

https://www.ft.com/content/c0b7a2a1-e91e-44ef-9a96-55250cbbbaff

What a lovely Video

https://vm.tiktok.com/W5pxYc/

Moved me to tears

Saw this

Just a little reminder clap or bash a pan or two... show your appreciation.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

https://vm.tiktok.com/Wfm2XD/

It's time for you to all be agony aunts or uncles. This is an actual letter written to the I paper. Lets see how you would advise her.

I am 45, married with a 10 year old son. I know everyone is going through this but I am absolutely sick of my husband. We both work long hours full time so usually the childminder takes our son to school and picks him up at hometime. and we have a full time cleaner to keep on top of chores.

Now all the childcare, cleaning and washing has to be done by someone. And it seems to be me. It is driving me mad and I am constantly having to nag him.

Last week I caught him in the garden with a beer when he was supposed to be doing what the gardener would usually be doing. I hit the roof.

We are both worried about our jobs. I am emotionally exhaused and if I lose my job we won't be able to manage on one salary. How can I get him to help me?

That figure was on the big screen behind Jane Hill at the top of the hour on the BBC News channel. As she was reading the headlines she had to look at it twice and stuttered as she said it.

The BBC made a major boob as the ticker running at the bottom of the screens says 13,800 dead. Does make you think that 35000 could be the true figure with care home and community deaths added on.

What a true gent and lovely man.. hearing his interview on bbc this morning was very moving .. the tributes to him.. Michael ball singing and the words he used re coping with the situation we are in now with the virus and lockdown.. his words ‘the sun will shine again and the clouds will go ‘. He has so far raised over 12 million pounds.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/headlines/52306266/coronavirus-captain-tom-moore-finishes-100th-lap-in-nhs-fundraiser

I just signed the petition "Protect renters during coronavirus!" and wanted to ask if you could add your name too.

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/suspend-all-rent-payments-no-coronavirus-evictions?bucket=email-blast-18_3_2020_lru_wider_optin&share=df393ecd-cdf3-4770-9a44-733039ac961e&utm_campaign=blast2020-03-18

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Amy Schumer had a baby boy. She named it Gene Atell Fisher. Then she realised it sounded like genital. So she changed the name to Gene David Fisher.

This may give you some inspiration.

Six week series starts this Thursday 16th April on Channel 4 at 8.00pm.

Every week Grayson will host the show from his studio - taking the country with him as he creates new art works. Grayson will talk to other famous artists, creatives and celebrity guests about how they are spending their time in isolation and host masterclasses to help teach us all how to create art.

The first episode concentrates on portraits.

https://www.channel4.com/press/news/graysons-art-club

There’s a number of products that have been found to contain either bits of plastic or metal that supermarkets are urgently asking customers to return. From Certain chocolate through to pickles and hash browns & more.

Link attached with details https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/tesco-asda-sainsburys-lidl-waitrose-21865137

Has now raised over £4m
Captain Tom Moore is 99 years old. He is walking 100 lengths of his garden before his 100th birthday to raise money for the NHS.
His first target was £1000 but then he was on tv and that target was reached in hours. So a new target set was £500k. Way past that now.
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/tomswalkforthenhs

If you haven’t heard of Simon Brodkin’s footballer persona Jason Bent here he is talking about premier footballers proposed wage cut and how you can help

https://youtu.be/nrrP2nCrDfE

In Derbyshire a couple having a drink in their own back garden were reported to police for breaking lockdown rules.

In Bedfordshire a nurse came home from a 12 shift to find a note saying she was a disgrace for breaking lockdown rules and had been reported.

After checking peoples shopping bags and monitoring non-essential aisles in Tesco; now they have been stopping nurses going to work at Addenbrookes hospital saying their lanyard and NHS id is not proof they are essential workers.

https://youtu.be/Ai0MVYzGC4w

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Just had a phone call from some Preservation something or other. The guy went on about Coronavirus and started saying how a lot of masks are not good and we should only use a certain type. It was all so gabbled that I didn't even get the last sentence and with that he rang off. Anyone know what it was all about?

Old footballer

Just read this.

While people are at home, some are working on DIY projects.
Has anyone noticed fly-tipping has started?
I saw this yesterday. It has been reported.

Reading this very open & honest account of working with the very ill Covid 19 patients will hopefully make anyone not following the U.K. lockdown realise how bad it can get & is getting in the UK...how many more lives lost before the people sunbathing in parks.. playing sport... going out to shops more than necessary or any other outings, visiting family friends etc before those people realise that this awful killer virus doesn’t care who its victims are & the fact they suffer so badly from the awful affects of it till they eventually die alone or if lucky just the ICU nurse by their side.

Stay safe.. Stay at Home.

Part one( part two in comments)
This was posted by my
Facebook friend In USA who’s relative is a nurse who wrote this who has left her family to go and help the dying people in NYC as the numbers are so high.

This is getting disturbingly high now and still not being counted in official figures.
In the last week there have been 1000 corona related deaths in care home. Was mentioned as part of a rambling report on BBC news after BBC1 had gone off air.
Today on Breakfast, Charlie Stayt was interviewing Nasir Afzal. He is the former DPP for the NorthWest. His brother had tested postive for Corona virus but as there were no hospital beds was told to rest at home. On the Wednesday morning he just didn't wake up.
When the Muslim Burial Service man arrived he told Nasir that he couldn't move the body yet because they had another 14 to pick up.

It is with great sadness that I have to mention the loss of a few local businesses. The bra manufacturer has gone bust; the specialist in submarines has gone under; the manufacturer of food blenders has gone into liquidation; a dog kennel has had to call in the retrievers; the suppliers of paper for Origami enthusiasts has folded; the Heinz factory has been canned as they couldn’t ketchup with orders; the tarmac laying company has reached the end of the road; the bread company has run out of dough; the clock making company has had to wind down and gone cuckoo; the Chinese has been taken away; the shoe shop owner has had to put his foot down and given his staff the boot and, finally, the laundrette has been taken to the cleaners!

Can I delete them? If so, how?

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I had a phone call this morning which was obviously from a spammer. A female voice said that my internet would be disconnected in four hours time due to a faulty router. She said I should press one to be connected to my internet service provider’s technical support line who would fix the problem for me.

I wasn’t busy and I thought that I if I kept them occupied for a while at least they wouldn’t be using the time to con someone else.

So I pressed one. I was connected to a guy who went through all sorts of technobabble to tell me that my router was faulty and that he needed to access my computer to fix the problem.

I said that this was very worrying, I’m 75 years old (I’m not) and that my son (I only have daughters) had given me a computer about six months ago, rambling on about how he worked in a local bank and was very successful, and of course about how they don’t make things to be as durable as in the old days and how the computer was so important to me with the COVID-19 restrictions as I couldn’t get to the bank or supermarket so I relied on on-line banking and on line shopping to survive.

I could almost imagine the pound signs lighting up in his eyes.

Before I could use the computer of course I had to find my glasses and they were upstairs as I’d been reading in bed last night. More rambling on about how my eyes aren’t as good as they used to be. It’s amazing how much time you can kill by talking about any old rubbish that springs to mind.

I then killed several more minutes as I noisily climbed the stairs with heavy footsteps and lots of laboured breathing, plus comments about how I wished I had a stair lift.

Then I spent several minutes noisily rummaging around in a drawer before “finding” my glasses followed by a long noisy walk downstairs to the computer.

I “switched” my computer on (in reality a desk fan) and waited ages for it to “boot up” making comments about how it was an old computer and how it was slow to “give itself the boot”.

Then of course I had to put in the password – Three attempts at very slowly hitting keys on my keyboard before admitting that I couldn’t remember it.

Of course I said that the password is written on a piece of paper stuck to the fridge, so more heavy footsteps and laboured breathing as I slowly went to the kitchen and back to get the password.

When I got back I was obviously very out of breath and I complained that I hadn’t done so much walking for ages wasn’t feeling well. I commented that I wasn’t as active since my heart attack. (building up the image of some frail elderly man who wasn’t very healthy).

Then more slow typing and eventually my phantom computer let me in.

He then asked me to go to a website to download a remote access programme so that he could control my computer to fix the “problem” with my router.

I started typing something but then said that I really don’t feel well, groaned, let out an ARRRGGGHHH! sound and made a lot of noise as I supposedly fell off my chair and onto the ground. Then silence.

The guy didn’t seem to know what to do. He kept saying are you all right and then eventually hung up.

Maybe I’m cruel letting him think he’d killed someone, but I’d kept him hanging on for the best part of half an hour which meant that he wasn’t conning vulnerable people into letting him have access to their computers and bank details.

In the last two days I've read three news reports about rural northern police going OTT enforcing the lockdown rules.

1. South Yorkshire police threaten to fine a man standing in his own garden.

2. Cambridgeshire police announce they are going to search people shopping bags or trollies for non-essential items.
3. Cambridgeshire police again. Now sending officers into Tesco to make sure nobody is browsing in the non-essential aisles
Meanwhile the Met have yet to issue a single fine as they are too busy dealing with actual criminals.

I think I want one!

A member posted this on my local page so thought would share it to others not local to her.
https://medium.com/@jurgenthoelen/belgian-dutch-study-why-in-times-of-covid-19-you-can-not-walk-run-bike-close-to-each-other-a5df19c77d08

Just heard BT is down. Had difficulty with phone and now Laptop cutting out.

I asked myself what is good about it. At least the sun is trying to get through and heard we are creating a few more millionaires (covid) please note --not brexit this time--. Never quite understood how it works regarding the social sites. Who pays who as when we use them we do not pay.

I try and find stuff to do but can’t keep interested in it as know I’m just doing it to kill time... my motivation has gone and I’m just now sat in silence as can’t be bothered with tv and am now drowned in LBC 24/7 Covid talk...how do others keep interest in things.. there’s only so much me time a person can take.

You may find this useful. Citizen Science project reporting on infection rates by local authority area. covid.joinzoe.com/

Lovely sunny day, hope you all o.k.Had to change from computer to laptop so I am playing a searching game. How to and where is what. -----clicking window and fullstop does not give me emojis. Any one knows how to?

How many are still finding the lockdown stressful and lonely if on ones own and how many are fairly relaxed about it and enjoying a bit if down time away from work or making the most of family time for those living with family.
I asked this because the older lady I know who lives on their own normally with her dog said last week she was quite happy and relaxed and wasn’t feeling concerned about the lockdown at all. She just goes out to walk the dog once a day away from people and I drop the shopping once a week.
How are you coping now we’re in week 3?

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.thesun.co.uk/news/11339926/carer-note-killer-treating-vulnerable-coronavirus/amp/

It’s disgusting that people think it’s okay to target somebody who is only going about their job to help a vulnerable elderly person in their home to keep well and healthy... Provide their meals and in some cases personal care as well. Tocome back to the car and find this on it. So if you read the article a few other instances happened with other carers.

I have noticed on the rare occasion I have been out shopping or to care for my uncle that the driving of the few cars that are on the roads to be rather wreck less... driving far too fast on the roads..& ignoring the flashing speed signs saying slow down.. A couple of drivers behind me obviously was getting fed up of me trying to keep to the speed limit so first chance they took off to the other side of the road and zoomed past.. also I’ve been tailgated numerous time’s.
And today I read on Facebook that a local lady who owns a cat rescue centre that her own beloved cat that she had for many years has been run down and killed at 10 am this morning..Which shouldn’t of happened at the moment especially during lockdown where there are so few cars and a lot of the roads of 20 miles an hour anyway. And I don’t think she lives on a busy road anyway by the look of the photos that she puts up of her road.
Why do people suddenly think because the road is empty that the law doesn’t matter & they can drive at a ridiculously fast speed...whether the road is busy or not busy you still have to drive at the speed of the road... it doesn’t suddenly change if no other cars. Very sad to hear she lost her cat it was only a few weeks ago she lost her husband too.

For anyone who has a regular repeat prescription, I've been told there's you can get them delivered free via the Co-op app. I don't have regular prescriptions so haven't actually looked at it but might be useful for some people.