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Oh b........!  I walked 8 km yesterday and 8 km today.  Guess I'll just have to walk round the village 3 or 4 times then. At least I no longer have to stop and kiss anybody, just a wave of my stick and a bonjour. OTOH, there is nobody in sight, to infect or to be infected by.  It's not as though there is anyone about as I pick my time to walk, knowing that the nearest I get to anybody is just about shouting distance.

Yes, thanks, that's it! But did you watch it and did you enjoy it?

Putting this on here in case anyone else other than you might be interested[:)]  Had to listen hard to the paroles but they are vraiment chouette: [url]https://www.programme-tv.net/programme/culture-infos/11187053-barbara-chansons-pour-une-absente/[/url] Life and Death and Love in between...... at the time of coronavirus.....no less! PS  I am saving the Mozart for an uninterrupted slot

Thanks for all your replies, guys.  I haven't as yet managed to read all your links but I will do so systematically, one by one[:)] At last we are moving to the element in the conversation about the political and ideological perspectives that I was hoping for.   I wish the circumstances weren't so dire but otherwise, I would have been pleased that at last all the talk isn't about there being no society only indivduals (Thatcherism) and nor about the "trickle down" benefits of rank greed. At last we are getting mention of the collective instead of about individualism. For the time being at least, small mindedness is on the back burner and the "common good" is on every politician's lips.   Never mind surviving coronavirus, there is the survival of life on planet earth in the bigger picture, isn't there? I just hope that when this horror is over, we will have learned from "other people", with the emphasis on "other" as in "outsiders" and those we are in danger of somehow classing as "inferior" to ourselves.  If a kinder, less materialistic and less selfish way of living comes about, then we would have learned at least one, if not the most important, lesson of all. Off now to "beat the bounds", expression learned from OH in the last few days[:)]  Keep safe and well everybody and, for goodness sake, keep your distance! 

I'm throwing down the gauntlet and doing my bit to start a brawl[:D] Firstly, I want to say that I shall be eternally grateful that it's not Jeremy Corbyn or the Labour Party calling all the shots in this crisis. Imagine if it were Labour talking about restricting public movement, paying 80% of employed people's salaries, revoking National Health Insurance, talking about "reverse" income tax, stopping school exams, etc etc.  The Daily Mail and the Daily Torygraph would have such an outpouring of scorn and invective that they would be drowning themselves in self-righteousness. Now, all of a sudden left wing and socialist policies are the "only way" to get us through this?  Nanny State?  YES, all these things have their place...who'd have believed it! Grecian, where are you to fight my corner?  Come on and join in right, left and middle of the roaders!  Exercise your mental muscles, supposed to be good for you! Life, as we know it, might be a hell of a long time away and we need to keep the Forum going!

Was looking around the internet for some basic pilates exercises to do as my RV with a pilates teacher could not go ahead. What would we do without youtube?  There is a youtuber showing off some moves and her perfectly toned body requesting that you watch and "likez" her contribution. Academie Française, fume all you want but I did smile at likez[:)] After all, in a dung heap, even a plastic bead gleams like a jewel.

about how recent measures in France could stop the spread of coronavirus[I]  OK, not about France particularly but the measures here will make complete sense if you read this carefully!  Here is the article in today's Guardian that will do the explaining but I cannot give a live link because, for all nomoss's patient explanation to me on how it's done, I have forgotten how to do a long link.....gggrrr! What we scientists have discovered about how each age group spreads Covid-19 Petra Klepac Do read carefully the first few paragraphs about how infection is spread and the explanation of the value of "R".  The reasoning behind the rest of the article then falls into place and you'd know why the present "lockdown" is the best reponse that countries everywhere can make to the coronavirus.

I had the same conversation with my doctor today.  I pointed out to him that the French also ate whatever:  pig's trotters, all sorts of abats, gésiers and andouilletes. Funny thing was, one of my requests to him was for an anti-nausea pill[:D]

[quote user="Loiseau"]...and, here in the UK, those spring highlights the Boat Race and the Grand National have both been cancelled.[/quote]? Roland Garros tennis décalé until September. And you know we laughed about tobacconists being allowed to be opened?  Well it seems that cavistes are too[B] Not that I can take advantage of either; don't smoke and seldom drink[geek]

Bon courage, nomoss!  I think this might just be the survival instinct after the unexpectedness and shock of last night's announcement.  When people have filled their trolleys a couple of times, they will likely settle down to more routine practices. In my area, I have noticed (after having had it pointed out by a check out person) that the shops are always quieter towards the end of the month because people have run out of money.  So, if you could hang on a week or so, the shops might well be quieter.

Well, I'm going to use the same form, just tick another box and change the date when I next go out for something else. Just to be clear, can I go out walking (at a distance from my OH if he comes along) without having to borrow a dog?  I'm only HALF joking......!

Thank you, Norman, how very helpful that is to me.  Have been busy all morning and now realised that I'd better have the form before my RV to the toubib. Now sorted, mille mercis [kiss]

Is he sure that was his wife he was talking to?

I've stopped watching NLITS completely; can no longer tolerate the dreadful voice over woman[+o(]

Don't be gross, Wooly, but you did make me laugh at that[:D] But watch you don't get knocked off your feet by one of those oversized ones.....

If there were no toilet paper to be had, I'd like one of those "muslim" toilets, where there are 2 raised tiles to squat on and a tap with attached hose next to the toilet pan. Wonder whether people really have toilets like that in their homes or are they only to be found in motorway services?

Betty, great to have you back! I noticed last week, when I went to OH's table tennis club that people were doing "feet bumps", outside of one foot to outside of the other person's foot and then repeat with other foot. I thought it was just young lads messing about together and laughing.  Blow me, when I went on my Friday walk, everyone was doing the same, having ignored the offer of my elbow to bump! How are people greeting each other where you live?

From last night: [url] http://programme-tv.leparisien.fr/autre-programme/vian-par-debout-sur-le-zinc[/url] I only saw a bit of it but it looked amusing and I liked the spontaneity and freshness of the performance. More my usual fare tonight and this one might please Norman though I didn't like all of it and the church was very "echoey" [url]https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/091196-000-A/hilary-hahn-interprete-bach/[/url]

[quote user="chessie"] Keep safe everyone; spring's here, summer's on its way - and in 4 or 5 months time we'll wonder why we all (or some) became so paranoid and panicky.   Didn't our grand-parents use cut-up squares of newspaper instead of toilet roll for years and years !!!!!!!   Sometimes the old ways.........!! Regards to everyone - we'll all be fine. Chessie  [/quote] Our grandparents might have used cut-up squares of newspaper but did they have a French fosse? [:P]

[quote user="Gardian"]The Sunday papers turned up OK, although they’re pretty thin. The general store that sells everything from pot plants to elastic bands clearly feels that the shutdown doesn’t apply to them, and the same for one of the bars!  [/quote] The shutdown takes effect from midnight tonight!  So it's a case of eat, drink and be merry because tomorrow and for an indefinite period in the future, you may feel too ill/disinclined/peed off to do otherwise[I]

Did anyone hear Eduard Philippe talking about shutting down everything other than ....a list of establishments providing essential services including....tobacconists!!! I thought my hearing was really getting worse and I had to listen again on a later news bulletin! Still, I suppose you can't make people stay in their homes without tobacco as they might go completely mad and perhaps start a revolution à la française?

Kill 2 birds with 1 stone, rub it on his stomach?

I have a story similar to yours, id.  I had to renew my passport at about the same time as my license  whilst I was still living in the uk. When my new passport came, I somehow managed to throw it in the bin (at least that's what I concluded I'd done with it!) In sheer panic, I wrote to the passport office and said my old passport was "lost in the post by the DVLA"!  Yes, I know, lying through my teeth but, as you know, I wasn't born in the UK and I didn't want a lot of hassle being called up to wherever and questioned. So all I needed to do was to get new photos and pay the fee again.  I could have justified my status because I had other means of proving my right to live in the UK but I didn't want the complications. Even now and under similar circumstances, I'd do the same again.  It was just to avoid the bureaucracy, not that I wasn't "legal".

Now I'm confused!  Don't we always get adverts on this very site offering driving licenses, passports, university degrees, etc?[6]

No ericd, maybe we need a better pressure cleaner[:-))]  Also, we can't jet it too fiercely as there is a concrete aggregate, small pebbles buried in concrete, making patterns on the terrasses and the pebbles can simply wash off....gggrrrr