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Post by londonpostie on May 8, 2020 19:57:16 GMT
@forrest If I were you I'd get ready for more of that - it's been a long, long time for young, single people in the city ..
In related news I'm half way through Normal People on the iPlayer and what a piece of work it is! Young love, and all the trimmings - not for me, I'd usually think. I have to think more about what it is that's so captivating ... also, I only twigged last night why the lead girl, or rather the posture and hair of the lead girl seemed familiar, turns out she was the daughter in the January revival of Albion at the Alemida!
So, young lust on the streets (Old Gloucester Street, at least), and on the iPlayer, and Spring is most def in the air. When the locks loosen next week goodness only knows ....
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Post by Dawnstar on May 8, 2020 21:21:14 GMT
The new extra high fence has so far managed to keep the new hens (fox frenzy happened to most of the last) in and from testing the age old question of why the chicken crossed the road which the previous lot had experimented with a lot. Did they find an answer? |
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2020 2:29:15 GMT
testing the age old question of why the chicken crossed the road Did they find an answer? "We're descended from dinosaurs, m—f—s. We outnumber you three to one. You don't get to ask the questions." |
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2020 8:06:08 GMT
The writers really should have had @thematthew come riding past the National on his cow while the young man was flirting with Forrest, leaving them both befuddled and perhaps a bit fearful. Where is their creativity this season? |
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Post by Latecomer on May 9, 2020 10:02:45 GMT
The writers really should have had @thematthew come riding past the National on his cow while the young man was flirting with Forrest , leaving them both befuddled and perhaps a bit fearful. Where is their creativity this season? We should have the pig and the chickens and Peggs in there somewhere too..... |
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Post by Forrest on May 9, 2020 11:18:58 GMT
@forrest If I were you I'd get ready for more of that - it's been a long, long time for young, single people in the city .. In related news I'm half way through Normal People on the iPlayer and what a piece of work it is! Young love, and all the trimmings - not for me, I'd usually think. I have to think more about what it is that's so captivating ... also, I only twigged last night why the lead girl, or rather the posture and hair of the lead girl seemed familiar, turns out she was the daughter in the January revival of Albion at the Alemida! So, young lust on the streets (Old Gloucester Street, at least), and on the iPlayer, and Spring is most def in the air. When the locks loosen next week goodness only knows .... The writers really should have had @thematthew come riding past the National on his cow while the young man was flirting with Forrest , leaving them both befuddled and perhaps a bit fearful. Where is their creativity this season? Hahahahahaha. I think someone should definitely pitch this for the stage! Does anyone have Thorne's contact? ;) The addition of the cow - and the pigs, as suggested by Latecomer - would see it instantly grow from a one-dimensional sappy love story that never was, into a proper borderline horror to attract all audiences with the potential to fill the Olivier. What's there not to like?! Re: 'Normal People' - I started watching it, and I love it too - it's a show I really wish someone had made when I was as old as the characters, but it's lovely from a more grown up perspective as well. (I was also surprised to see Daisy Edgar-Jones in it - she looked so familiar, but it took me a while to realise it was the girl from 'Albion'!) It is wonderfully written and directed, and the leading actors are terrific. The only thing I can hold agains it is that it in no way speaks about what its title implies: they both could not be further away from being normal people. She is the school's supposed ugly duckling which transforms into a swan (she is beautiful!) and is also rich and brilliant. He is the school's most popular guy. Twitter exploded with people saying how much they reflected/reminded them of their own youth, but I admittedly cannot relate: I think their story is more that what I wanted to be/have in my youth. Don't know. But it's a lovely series nevertheless. |
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Post by peggs on May 9, 2020 11:19:52 GMT
I believe several possible answers presented themselves,
There was a wood with very exciting new things to eat on the other side of the road
Surprising people by suddenly jumping out at them is amusing
Pretending you can't find your way back to your home and encouraging passers by to try and catch you to help you and then running away is even more amusing
To see who wins in an encounter between car and chicken (resulted in chicken with splinted leg but clearly considered it was worth trying round two).
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2020 11:26:33 GMT
The writers really should have had @thematthew come riding past the National on his cow while the young man was flirting with Forrest , leaving them both befuddled and perhaps a bit fearful. Where is their creativity this season? Hahahahahaha. I think someone should definitely pitch this for the stage! Does anyone have Thorne's contact?  The addition of the cow - and the pigs, as suggested by Latecomer - would see it instantly grow from a one-dimensional sappy love story that never was, into a proper borderline horror to attract all audiences with the potential to fill the Olivier. What's there not to like?! It needs to have real live animals, of course. That always works well. What could possibly go wrong? |
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2020 11:37:09 GMT
With all these media stories of animals roaming cities, perhaps this is a post-pandemic remake of Into the Woods, but now it is Into the City. I wonder who has the magic beans?
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Post by TallPaul on May 9, 2020 13:36:13 GMT
I am, at this very moment, queueing outside Aldi. There are, no word of a lie, three horses in the car park - a grey one, a chestnut one and a spotty one! 🐴
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Post by peggs on May 9, 2020 13:55:37 GMT
I am, at this very moment, queueing outside Aldi. There are, no word of a lie, three horses in the car park - a grey one, a chestnut one and a spotty one! 🐴 How are they going to hold their shopping? Where do they keep their money? So many questions. If we're going live animal action suggest incorporate one year old niece for animal control, she has the most highly developed look of utter contempt and orders everything around with an imperious shout and arm wave regardless of whether it's bigger than her. Often to be found carrying long stick so will effectively self distance everyone else by poking them. |
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Post by TallPaul on May 9, 2020 14:34:15 GMT
Horses put their shopping in their saddle bags, obvs. And they don't need money, they pay by con-tack-less! 🤣
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Post by showgirl on May 9, 2020 15:03:17 GMT
Having had a long, hot walk I came here to relax and unwind, only to find that GAMES (grr!) are bidding to take over the General Chat section. I've already stopped looking at Musicals and Plays because to me it's pointless while there are none (I know others feel otherwise; that's simply my view); now I might have to give up on the board altogether for the duration.
Seriously, while we're all entitled to our personal preferences, is there no-one who shares my loathing of games, puzzles, quizzes etc? Managers where I volunteer are forever telling us that they've arranged a "fun" quiz for us with a small prize as an incentive. No, it is not fun, it's infantilising and I will always do my best anyway; I don't need to be offered a supposed incentive.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 9, 2020 15:17:04 GMT
To see who wins in an encounter between car and chicken (resulted in chicken with splinted leg but clearly considered it was worth trying round two). Given the relative sizes & speeds of cars & chickens, I'd say the chicken came out of it fairly well with only a damaged leg! |
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2020 16:25:04 GMT
Managers where I volunteer are forever telling us that they've arranged a "fun" quiz for us with a small prize as an incentive. Argh. Management-created team-building or morale-building events are the worst. It never seems to occur to them that the very fact that it's something imposed from above as a duty sucks all the enjoyment out of it. For me the fact that it's company-imposed means that it's (a) work, and (b) work that's outside my skill set and so extremely stressful. |
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Post by peggs on May 9, 2020 17:18:12 GMT
To see who wins in an encounter between car and chicken (resulted in chicken with splinted leg but clearly considered it was worth trying round two). Given the relative sizes & speeds of cars & chickens, I'd say the chicken came out of it fairly well with only a damaged leg! Indeed, must have had a close shave so my sister improvised a chicken splint. The chickens are learning to run fast though as I'm sorry to say the smallest children consider chasing chicken as prime entertainment. Chickens have fought back by pecking small child foolish enough to wander in holding a biscuit. |
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Post by peggs on May 9, 2020 17:23:18 GMT
For several work zoom calls management has I think in a desperate attempt to think of something to say to me, (I'm only none management on call so has no garden office etc to show off) passed comment on the SRB nt poster behind me on the wall. 😠 I wasn't laughing the first time and even less so the second.
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Post by Someone in a tree on May 9, 2020 19:22:09 GMT
Over these last few days I have tidied and rearranged various cupboards. Sorting out a lot of my partners belongings, made space for his ashes as we don't know when they can be scattered in England and Scotland. Plus I've also arranged pictures of us on various holidays into a book that will be printed and posted over the next week. It feels good to sort and tidy. Something I couldn't of faced a month ago. If anyone is looking for a good website on bereavement I can totally recommend www.whatsyourgrief.com |
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Post by peggs on May 9, 2020 19:53:39 GMT
Glad this was a positive step for you @someone_in_a_tree
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Post by londonpostie on May 10, 2020 8:26:53 GMT
Possibly the last day of this altered reality so I was out on the bike before 7 this morning and got back a little after 9. Westminster, the Palace, Hyde Park, West End and all the trimmings, Covent Garden, Waterloo and points south.
Looking at the advertising on the theatre buildings for productions that will never return ... paper blowing across deserted streets, it's still so eerily like 28 Days Later. It just all stopped and the people left.
I suspect that might change by about 2pm this afternoon as the return to abnormal gets properly under way .. a fascinating morning though. Even took a little video for the memories.
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Post by theatreian on May 10, 2020 10:31:50 GMT
It feels good to sort and tidy. Glad that you feel ok to take another step forward. The grief process is so complicated and individual. I am sure your words and website recommendation will be useful to so many at this time. We just need to talk to each other and not feel guilty about any feelings or worries we may have. |
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Post by talkingheads on May 10, 2020 12:22:59 GMT
Well regardless of the useless dangerous advice Boris gives out tonight I'm staying home for at least another month so I did a big shop. I'll take his advice to 'Stay Alert' to the BS he's peddling.
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Post by longinthetooth on May 10, 2020 12:26:11 GMT
'Stay Alert' is the sort of advice you are given when being warned of pickpockets in the area.
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Post by xanady on May 10, 2020 13:49:44 GMT
The ‘Stay Alert’ message has been absolutely ridiculed all over social media...JK Rowling’s comment that it makes Covid sound like its wearing a fake moustache and specs and trying to sneak up on you made me laugh...for those of us who remember the old 70’s public information films such as Charley Says,Clunk Click and the terrifying Dark And Lonely Waters ad,the current govt campaigns ring a bell.We used to get a regular dose of them on everything from staying away from electricity sub-stations to not fishing near overhead power-lines to the dangers of polishing up your hall floor and then putting a rug on it...I kid you not!Most of them were the stuff of nightmares!
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2020 14:26:07 GMT
"Stay alert" makes me picture people looking around like meerkats who have heard an unexpected noise.
Having said that, I thought the "stay at home" message was stupid as well because it created the impression that your home is endowed with a magical field of protection from harm that will keep you safe, and it led to things like my neighbours having family round every weekend which was apparently OK because they're at home. I think the message all along should have been "You can do whatever the hell you like so long as it doesn't bring you into contact with other people".
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