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Thought this was a bit of positivity - hope it is self fulfilling! Maybe it combines Bee's mask and Brit cups of tea - as that played a role in an earlier story!
"In an inspired Asterix story from 2017, Asterix and Obelix's main rival in a chariot race is a marked Roman driver named Coronavirus. Thankfully the Gaulish heroes defeat their Roman opponent."
We will take all the positivity we can.
If course they did! Love Asterix*
I was doing a bit of investigation last night about available supplies of toilet roll on Amazon last night and saw a pack named Corona!
Do you think they've always existed or has some savvy loo roll exec rebranded them to sell more rolls?!!
I did also do a test on getting vitamin supplies yesterday as people had been concerned of stocks in the shop . I can happily say that I could get all my usual brands again from the dreaded A and they were delivered today. My friend actually needed loo rolls and hand sanitizer and she too got her order , again in a day , so all is not lost yet xx
Until they closed for the season, a local hotel was putting a bottle of Corona beer in the room as the welcome toast - prefer wine myself ...
Good to see the Dark humour is catching to though
There are so many ticks in Maine.... folks will be having lots of Corona and Lyme this summer~!
Boom boom..... 🦊
Might not make sense to you Grammy... We had a puppet fox that used to say boom boom at a joke.
I appreciate that you are trying to educate this American...I got a 'cuppa' and now I have boom boom~!!!🦊~Boom boom~!
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I truly laughed out loud....I found another video with Basil Brush and political commentary on Trump (it was great)...I was going to post it and right at the end there were a few words I didn't think would go with a cuppa~!!💗 I surely would have offended someone...well Basil would have.
Glad you like it.
My favourite TV celebrity in the 1970's , I remember being absolutely gutted during the power cuts during the strikes because they didn't put the electric back on in time for me to watch Basil Brush , one of my earliest memories.
You can blame my dad for that... Miner.
He was not very pc and used to get away with a lot considering the times but he was very funny.Ybb
Are you thinking he was real???
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Oh no isnt he real? Did you have to spoil the image? You will be telli g neq the wombles dont exist next!!
I meant my dad!!!
Oops thought you were on about basil brush!! So i am safe in believing in him again?
Absolutely... Boom boom
Well that's a relief. I told my mother i was moving to london to live with the wombles. Sounds cute but i was 18 and i dont think she ever worked out if i was joking or not!! She was drunk at the time!@
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I watch some videos that just hilarious! I love that he let it all rip!
Yes I have been doing my own online surveys and different shops. Although when I "pretend" ordered hand sanitiser the delivery was April 3 to 23nd.
My chum must have bought it all up!
Pleased to see another thread is being 'chin up'. xx
First MIL was called
Corona!
My Sharona going round my head now. 🎶🎵🎶🎵
Oh , thanks for that mate , there's some things other than Coronavirus that you should keep to yourself , unbearable but catchy tunes being one of them , arghh , get out of my head !!!😋😂😂😂
It's been going around in mine for a while now. I wonder how many choruses for 20 seconds. It would be more cheerful for hand washing.
For handwashing , I'm currently singing the Wombles , " Underground , Overground" not that many of us can go wombling free at the moment😋
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I reckon the pmr walk is exactly like a Wombles!! YBB
Gloria Gaynor has done a video of “I will survive” whilst washing her hands.
I just count to 25!
I thought you are supposed to be patriotic and sing the national anthem ...
I think that was just the Government's cunning plan to try and make everybody learn it!😋😂😂
There’s more than one....😉
Yes I have one in Welsh too!
It's dirge! I need something more uplifting. You expats can sing it if you want😏
For uplifting you can’t really beat the French one! 🇫🇷
The Welsh for me..
Yes it’s good too - very rousing - but I feel it can only be sung properly by the Welsh. 🏴
Oh god yes... I do have Welsh ancestry and a Welsh name supposedly. But I tear up at 2 or three anthems at say the six nations but switch off for gstq. It is the dirge as much as the words. Was it Billy conolly who said it should be the archers theme.
Yep. I’m with you on that. It didn’t help of course that it was enforced on the Scottish Rugby team for many years despite it containing the verse about crushing rebellious Scots! Flower of Scotland maybe isn’t the most brilliant anthem ever but at least it’s not insulting!
I worked in France for a while so I can give the Marseillaise a good shot and I enjoy the Italian one too.
Ooh yes , I still get all tingly when I watch Escape to Victory
But I'm not french!
Fair enough! You're right though - it really is a dirge!
And you're right, the french one is much better.
Nothing beats this one: youtube.com/watch?v=6Mh3c0h...
I'm not sure, it brings to mind rows and rows of immaculate soldiers, not relaxing
But it's about pride in a beautiful country, not about war or domination. I've heard better versions sounding less martial. Also I always thought God Save the Queen (King) was a royal hymn, not actually, officially, the national anthem of England, which doesn't have a national anthem.
I think that it’s officially the British national anthem and that England doesn’t actually have one of its own but not being English I could be wrong.......
The British National Anthem and the English National Anthem are the same thing ,
" God Save the Queen " it's not just Royal . There are ongoing discussions in Parliament , since 2016 , about choosing a separate English Anthem as all the other member countries of the UK now use their own at official events. 'Jerusalem' among others is part of the short list.
I’m with you on this!
Le Marseillaise makes me think of war, beheadings. The American one is no better with its images of a flag fluttering riddled with bullet holes, and GStQ is about domination of people by a person who rules by divine right. O Canada is about a beautiful land, too, but dreadful lyrics and not great music.
There aren't many good ones really. Now isn't a good time for nationalism, we all need to stand together at times like this.
Can't remember which one I heard at the Commonwealth Games but it was about six minutes long , we timed it , no worries about not getting those hands clean using that , more likely to wear your Pred weakened skin away!😋
Just asked the OH , it was actually at the World Cup and it was Uruguay.
You're right I wouldn't have any skin left!
But no Scats , we can't do that , it's against the rules, unless we stand 2 metres apart , nudge, nudge, wink, wink Boom!boom!😋😂😂😂
No nudging!
It was a virtual one , I think they're the only we can all have at the moment. I'm making the most of all my virtual nudges , winks , hugs and kisses xx😋😋😘
Our local library hosts a community tea on Friday mornings and I made a point of going today as things keep getting cancelled (we are being proactive as no known cases locally yet) and a young woman wanted to give me a hug. When I said no she said "air hug" which involves spreading your arms wide but no more. It beats Jazz Hands as a suggested substitute for handshaking!
My OH and daughter went away again for the weekend ( pretty sure these travels to public places are a plot to do me in ) as they left , and at night before bed, we are doing the ' Nudge, Nudge , Wink , Wink' and now we have made itcontact free .
We stand in front of each other doing the double air kiss to the ceiling , nudge elbows out towards the sides ( in a cheeky fashion no touching ) , then two winks .
Then for some reason everyone giggles like school girls but instead of touching our faces we are Oddly grabbing our knees!! Don't know why that became the default setting for keeping our hands off our faces but we seem to be having fun .
All my daughter's friends are adopting it , plus the dancers added in a point of the toes , they have started doing at the OHs school , to be honest it makes a good version of a PMR stretch if you have sat down to long . I might just keep it up for good .
Namaste 🙏 works.
It's definitely rousing , I like it , it could wake me up in the morning
How about the ' Birdie Song ' or would that be more appropriate for Bird Flu?!!
Maybe a risk of cross contamination with all the hand movements and I don't think I'm up to wiggling my bum but I'm having fun picturing you , your OH and you son doing it . Especially if you're choose to do the arm linking dance on the way to get the towel😋😂😂😂
I'm not wiggling this hip until it's fixed!
Tell the OH to wiggle his on your behalf , it will be a good bit of exercise for him , or at least give you a giggle 😘
I'd collapse from shock! Some things just aren't made to be wiggled!
There is no way on this earth you would ever get scats OH to dance or link arms let alone wiggle his bum to any music and if such an event is likely to happen i am camping in her garden to make sure i dont miss it.YBB
Don't forget to film it for the rest of Us
Will do. Even scats will need a video in case she thinks she dreamt it!!
If he does I think the laws of nature will have to be changed. She doesn't know what she's asking!
Shes not met him!!!!
My son has just suggested we all look at Washyourlyrics.com. It gives you the words but the music is missing.
Oh! Just went on that site. Did Maggie May (Rod Stewart) and Perfect Day (Lou Reed). Better than a national anthem I think. Pass on my thanks to your son! I’d seen some of these on Twitter but didn’t know where they came from until now...
The song I tried must have been a mystery to the program as it gave me a passage from Finnegans Wake 😲
I tried yellow submarine and it didn't like that either, but it worked for others. Another way to amuse ourselves.
The song I tried was Farewell to Nova Scotia, aka The Nova Scotia Song, couldn't get it at all, even tried a couple of different singers. But because of its rhythm it would be a great handwashing tune.
Enjoy
youtube.com/watch?v=5Vau3xl...
That's a shame. It would make a good tune, I hope you can sing it for yourself.
I was looking for the little program to give me the timing! But it's quite a catchy tune, will just have to do it for myself.
Btw while talking about timing I recently heard that although we, and many older or frailer people, can't do that high intensity exercise which saves so much time we can get some benefits. When we are out for a walk, walk as fast as we can for four minutes. Then have four minutes walking at normal pace, and do this several times. I shall have to get a stop watch or something because I completely forget about thirty seconds in.... Apparently it doesn't matte how fast or not our own fastest time is, it's the effort which benefits us.
That's good news. I can't walk more than the odd step at the moment. The physio I was given for myopathy was too much for my one remaining hip, which means I'm now waiting to have that replaced as well. With a pandemic I may be waiting some time yet.☹
Are there some seated exercises you can do to retain some muscle tone while you wait?
I've got a mini exercise bike but that soon gets painful too. I'll have to build up my arm muscles instead.
Well that is more what I had in mind, although maybe there are things you can do for your core muscles.
When I was not able to put weight on a broken leg I used to do isometric exercises. The doctor said that would help me retain some muscle tone. Mind you I didn't have PMR yet.
That's an idea, I have been very static recently I could do with some exercise. I will check to see if there are any I can do, thanks for the suggestion.
I thought it sounded familiar but had to look it up.....
scotslanguage.com/articles/...
It was collected by a woman famous in these parts, whom I actually met a few times. She went out and collected songs and stories all over Nova Scotia. At first she transcribed the melodies, often with a friend who was apparently a wizard at doing this, later with a "portable" tape recorder which was moved by wheelbarrow! That would be the recording mentioned in the article you sent. Her home was on the street where we lived until last year, and while she was still there, a very aged lady, she invited us in for tea, and when our first child was born insisted we must come and bring the baby so she could see her. She never married but had an abundance of nieces and nephews, a couple of whom I've met in completely different contexts. Now her former home is a museum. 
The wikipedia article about Helen Creighton is quite interesting.
What an interesting woman and it’s great you actually met her. What a great link you have to the past. I enjoyed the Wikipedia article.
I have just been sent a link to the Helen Creighton Folklore Society FB page where they have that diagram of handwashing to the tune of Farewell to Nova Scotia!!!
I went on the FB page to have a look at it and, small world, you’ve had Mairi Campbell playing there. I saw her in Edinburgh and again in Inverness year before last.
At the bandstand in Harrogate when I was a kid everyone used to stand for the national anthem at the end.... My dad used to be shouting "sit down" at the four of us. It was mortifying but somehow it stuck. 😉
My dad and your dad would have come to blows. He would make us stand up even if we were watching the Proms on the TV.
😂🤣😂 He was like the flash when the TV played it last thing...i thought if he didn't get there in time the TV would be out of the window or on to the open fire. So if you were closer you did it fast on a Saturday night. I never heard the second note at home.
As if any of us were still up at home with him we'd all try and sneak out in the credits of the last thing on so he couldn't make us stand up for the queen before going to bed which he did every night. Funny old stick!
That made me laugh out loud. Where's Asterix now that we need him?
First appointment at the a Endocrinologist 
I'm not the only person to feel like this!!
Struggling to get a definite diagnosis
re-starting preds after a break
Positive A&E visit
