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Post by tyrednexited on Mar 19, 2020 22:53:31 GMT
And No, my avatar is not my real face, before anybody asks 🤣 ...jeez, you're the only one I'd got down for that.... |
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Post by Rob on Mar 20, 2020 1:21:54 GMT
A slightly older EIII?  And in my Avator I'm the one holding the camera. |
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Post by Humph on Mar 20, 2020 8:53:27 GMT
 I can't get that avatar thing to work so this will just have to do. Close enough... 😎 |
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Post by Humph on Mar 20, 2020 9:00:21 GMT
Anyway, where's Bruce Willis in all this?
Exactly the sort of international crisis he'd deal with while wearing a vest.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2020 9:21:04 GMT
How do you reduce the "size" of a photo on an ipad then? Was going to put mine on the avatar but it won't let me because it has too many thingies My quick and dirty way is to email it to myself and select one of the reduced-size options. My avatar is already a photograph. Gah, I was going to make that joke. Beat me to it.  |
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Post by tyrednexited on Mar 20, 2020 10:36:55 GMT
 I can't get that avatar thing to work so this will just have to do. Close enough... 😎 ....that's well and truly knocked my mental image on the head.....   |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2020 10:40:23 GMT
Well he has the yellow boots we've always suspected...could be.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2020 14:55:55 GMT
Weekend beers have arrived, free local delivery from Loddon Brewery if you're in need, WDB.   |
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Post by tyrednexited on Mar 20, 2020 19:18:07 GMT
<<< Here today, gone tomorrow.
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Post by EspadaIII on Mar 21, 2020 5:33:01 GMT
World has gone very grey.....
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Post by Humph on Mar 21, 2020 10:08:40 GMT
Look I know it's for all the right reasons etc. But one of my biggest disappointments ( so far ) is the closing of leisure centres and swimming pools.
The reason I swim so much is not just for the hell of it, but as part of an ongoing therapy for an old, but pretty serious back injury. I used to be a keen horse rider and one day had an appalling fall which resulted in a compression fracture of my spine. I recovered with reasonable mobility in due course, but the only excercise I've found that can keep it untangled and the pain at bay, is regular swimming. I just know that one of the first things to go into "lockdown" will be my back. 😬
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Post by EspadaIII on Mar 21, 2020 11:32:29 GMT
That's a shame because a swimming pool complex may well be a breeding ground for bacteria etc, but the chlorine should viruses pretty easily. I remember the old 'Bath's near my father's depot where I learnt to swim about 50 years ago. It had phenolic soap in the showers. You were pretty clean when you got in the pool and sterile when you got out.....
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Post by WDB on Mar 21, 2020 17:01:37 GMT
I suspect the problem isn’t so much the pool as the changing rooms. Very hard to get in and out without leaving a trail on the hard surfaces.
At my gym on Thursday there were more elves than users, and one elf was assiduously disinfecting each piece of cardio kit as soon as anyone had finished with it. But there were no elves in the changing room.
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Post by dixinormus on Mar 22, 2020 5:20:26 GMT
Won’t they close the gym any day now?
I’m still shocked and saddened that Spain has closed the beaches. People need exercise and fresh air, and it’s not difficult to maintain social distancing on a huge stretch of seafront! Surely less risky than sharing a supermarket.
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Post by Humph on Mar 22, 2020 8:43:29 GMT
Lots of the privately owned MTB trail centres closed. I get why they might shut the visitor centres, but when on the trails you can often go for miles without seeing anyone. They're claiming it's because they don't want to put any additional strain on the emergency services in the event of injuries.
Forestry Commission owned trails still open for now though. Which is ironic because they tend to be a lot busier with walkers etc.
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