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Hopalong:
Hi Lollie,
How are you doing?!?
Any chance you would like to start a thread and remind us and catch us up on you?
Hope all is well with you.
Hops
lighter:
Welcome back, lollie: )
Hops:
I feel asleep reading the ER doc article, then woke up and finished it before heading out to the store. BEFORE heading to the store I was waiting for the boy's mom to show.... she was over an hour late. I wasn't set up to have the best shopping experience that day.
I bought a new washing machine at Lowe's today. They let their appliance people take the month off, so we had to wait an hour just to speak to someone. That someone was from another department and worked very hard to take us in order. I noticed at least half the shoppers and most of the workers didn't have any protective gear on. There was one family with 4 children... 10 and under.... NO GEAR.
A neighbor drove me, along with his little trailer, and we took the washer with us, then installed it. SO HEAVY, but got the job done and he took away the old one to scrapper.
It's raining like crazy so I'm glad the washing machine problem is solved. Now... to solve the cook top problem.
Lighter
Lighter
Twoapenny:
I'm glad the washing machine is sorted out now, Lighter, it's no picnic having to hand wash or use the launderette, especially with so much going on.
I'm cross on your behalf that the boy's mum was an hour late. Very thoughtless.
Our supermarkets here only allow one person in to shop, no families, unless single parents and the children are too young to be left at home or in the car. The queue lines are clearly marked into six feet sections to show where you need to stand and all the shops have been made one way. People do ignore, but staff are there to remind them. They are limiting the numbers going in to shops as well, so if they reach their limit then they implement a one in, one out system. They'd have avoided a lot of deaths if they'd put that in place sooner. There is a hilarious picture going round the internet of a cat taking his place in the queue and sitting two metres behind the person in front, and even funnier is a lady who is standing two metres behind the cat. It did make me laugh :)
Can you use the cooker at all at the moment? I hope that problem gets sorted soon and that you're all doing okay (((((((((((Lighter))))))))))))
lighter:
I have a little counter hot plate that works well enough.
It might be as cheap to purchase two new burner units... I really want to replace the grill side of the stove top, rather than replace that one burned-out eye AND buy the new unit. That;s confusing, I know.
My neighbor said he'd help me if I wanted to try to fix on my own. I think we could figure it out with Youtube. He's good with electronics.
Lighter
Twoapenny:
--- Quote from: lighter on April 20, 2020, 07:02:33 AM ---I have a little counter hot plate that works well enough.
It might be as cheap to purchase two new burner units... I really want to replace the grill side of the stove top, rather than replace that one burned-out eye AND buy the new unit. That;s confusing, I know.
My neighbor said he'd help me if I wanted to try to fix on my own. I think we could figure it out with Youtube. He's good with electronics.
Lighter
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It's a pain dealing with those big problems, I find, trying to balance out cost, time, practicality and so on. It's good that your neighbour can help! Hopefully it will be sorted soon.
The Covid related problems here seem to be getting worse rather than better, not least because the Government seem to be making up numbers and facts and hoping people won't notice. They're still not recording care home deaths in the overall numbers so although the 'official' figure is 17,000, 20,000 seems to be more likely and possibly higher than that. It's looking quite possible that son and I will be in fairly permanently until they find a vaccine or cure, or eradicate completely. He has agreed to come for an evening walk wearing a mask so I've ordered those and they should arrive next week. I was thinking that if they open up the cinema and library at some point we could possibly use those if we go as 'first customers of the day' as everything should be clean and we can walk there and back and minimise the risk. The same could be done with the osteopath and acupuncturist if they re-open at some point (I am feeling the effects of not having my regular treatments and it must be the same for son). It's very difficult thinking about ways to balance the risk of getting ill with the risk of goodness only knows what not leaving the house for eighteen months does to you. Just pondering things at the moment, nothing's definite, but having seen the way these people have manhandled the situation (and are now all jumping up and down blaming each other instead of bloody well dealing with it) I have no faith that anything is going to be resolved soon.xx
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