Ireland’s plan

[TheOstrich]

Nobody has mentioned the mental effect it has …..

Yes, and we could do without some idiot from the Bank of England plastered all over the BBC News Headlines today telling us that this is the worst, awfullest economic crash since the South Sea Bubble.
As if we - you and I - can do anything about it.
Quite honestly, the best part of the TV remote is the Off button.

I'll join you in that cuppa, Saundra.

[Kaz]

Put a stiff brandy in mine, I'm about up to *here* with the incessant gloom

[saundra]

!y point is while we are in isolation we can't spend anyway but we will when we can escape to the shop pubs and holiday

[Suff]

To be glass half full saundra, we have to expect that the shops and pubs will still be there when the lock down is over.

Today my company recieved its bounce back loan. It is going to sit in the account until it is needed, most likely to cover the first two months of costs to get me back into work and funds flowing again.

Today Mrs S is doing her level best to make me wish that I had been stuck in lock down in Australia whilst she was here in France.

Personally I would have absolutely loved to get 2 months of total isolation where I only had to talk to others when I wanted to accept the connection

But that is just me...

[Workingman]

Put a stiff brandy in mine, I'm about up to *here* with the incessant gloom

I have posted some positives on here. I even started a positive thread, though nobody replied.

It's not all doom and gloom, but you do have to look pretty hard to find those rare uplifting stories. Please, don't give up.

[cromwell]

We could do without some idiot from the Bank of England plastered all over the BBC News Headlines today telling us that this is the worst, awfullest economic crash since the South Sea Bubble.
As if we - you and I - can do anything about it.
Quite honestly, the best part of the TV remote is the Off button.

I have thought for years that the powers that be don't want bright, empowered, positive people. They want a scared dependent mass.
Anyway Os, I've not been watching the tv news for weeks and I can positively recommend the approach. No clever dicky jornalists saying "Minister, aren't you going to apologise for.. (fill in the blank), no doom laden guesses presented as facts, no absolute tsunami of corona virus this that and the other.
I've been watching reruns of Only Fools and \Horses, Hi De HI, Find it fix it flog it, Come dine with me and Escape to the Chateau as well as Poirot and Midsomer murders.
I don't miss the mainstream news, not one bit.

[Suff]

Welcome to the club cromwell. If you have a freeview box (or two), there really isn't that much you need broadcast TV for. I prefer my news in written form because I then don't have to listen to regurgitated BS before getting onto the next news item. Last time I looked freeview boxes could record 4 simultaneous programs and show a 5th. Sadly Freesat is not so capable.

I read the counters direct and am spreadsheet aware so I also don't need statistics driven dodgy analysis either.

This allows me to be free to think about things at a broader level and read news I am interested in. Like 80% of the 200 million pieces of NHS PPE being out of date in January.

Now there is a story the press should be talking about and maybe it will lead to a more positive outcome in the end. Like more money in the budget for treatment going forward.

Other less positive things like the travellers who came illegally to our town last week, are currently tearing down the trees in the festival area because they can't get wood and the fact that our mayor is being stonewalled in getting them out, goes totally unreported.

[Workingman]

Here's another who gave up on broadcast news weeks ago, esp the 24 hour versions, and like Suff I prefer the written word. Thanks to the Internet there are plenty of world wide publications to choose from and also UK local papers that often have some more positive and uplifting stories to tell.

The TV has Freeview built in - watch one, record one, but I also have a Roku stick plugged in and Netflix so I am pretty much covered if I want to just soak up something. Having said that I am more a 'link' addict wit h the papers. I'll read an article, follow one of its links, read that, follow another link ... next thing I know it's time for tea.

It's like YouTube. I'll star off with Madness and go into a 50+ mix, then another and another. I find artists that I had never heard of and some fantaasic tunes, also never heard before, and the next thing I know I am on a Mozart channel!