Time to go

[ditchcrawler]

1 minute ago, The Happy Nomad said:

Correct, it would need to be some of that stuff produced in the USSR or elsewhere to get anywhere near the 60% minimum required to be effective as a hand sanitiser.

 

https://www.drinkfinder.co.uk/balkan-176-vodka-88-70cl.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjwpfHzBRCiARIsAHHzyZqYsK0-NpYfCrTnbuEmCjA_u6zCuPyLx8H84l_CWivNwOQwqJsXwDUaAig8EALw_wcB

Maybe that's why Russia has hardly any cases so far, or maybe they are just telling porkies

[blackrose]

2 hours ago, Naughty Cal said:

The alcohol gel we had at work has ruined the skin on my hands.

 

They are starting to recover now I am at home and not using it but my hands are still dry from all of the hand washing. Even Liams "working hands" cream isn't helping!!

 

Someone told me that they're making their own hand sanitiser by diluting thin bleach - 1 part bleach to 9 parts water. I'd have thought that must really be bad for your skin? But better than contracting coronovirus I suppose.  

[IanD]

3 minutes ago, The Happy Nomad said:

Correct, it would need to be some of that stuff produced in the USSR or elsewhere to get anywhere near the 60% minimum required to be effective as a hand sanitiser.

 

https://www.drinkfinder.co.uk/balkan-176-vodka-88-70cl.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjwpfHzBRCiARIsAHHzyZqYsK0-NpYfCrTnbuEmCjA_u6zCuPyLx8H84l_CWivNwOQwqJsXwDUaAig8EALw_wcB

You'd have to be a really hardcore spirits drinker to enjoy that, regardless of what the blurb says. With anything close to this strength (I've tried tasting Stroh 80 rum, and 96% alcohol when they used to sell it in the supermarkets in Yugoslavia...) if you react to a mouthful by breathing in sharply -- not unlikely! -- it evaporates, goes into your lungs, and you have a choking fit. Probably a good way to get very drunk very quickly if you survive, and at least it would probably kill any Covid-19 you had...

[Chagall]

13 minutes ago, LadyG said:

Things have changed, road and town really peacefull, all quiet in boatyard after my [not full on] hissy fit this a.m. Very little outdoor interaction

Does that mean you are staying where you are? 

[LadyG]

4 hours ago, doratheexplorer said:

Put a note on your boat explaining that you are in a high risk group

They know, and so are the folks next door, in fact there are at least four or five in that category in the adjacent row five boats

4 minutes ago, Chagall said:

Does that mean you are staying where you are? 

No need to move now ?

Edited March 26, 2020 by LadyG

[Naughty Cal]

19 minutes ago, LadyG said:

Things have changed, road and town really peacefull, all quiet in boatyard after my [not full on] hissy fit this a.m. Very little outdoor interaction

I have just taken Syd around the block for his lunchtime walk and there were far fewer people on the greens than there were yesterday. Perhaps the message is finally getting through to people.

17 minutes ago, The Happy Nomad said:

Correct, it would need to be some of that stuff produced in the USSR or elsewhere to get anywhere near the 60% minimum required to be effective as a hand sanitiser.

 

https://www.drinkfinder.co.uk/balkan-176-vodka-88-70cl.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjwpfHzBRCiARIsAHHzyZqYsK0-NpYfCrTnbuEmCjA_u6zCuPyLx8H84l_CWivNwOQwqJsXwDUaAig8EALw_wcB

Just checked in our booze cupboard and even our proper Russian vodka isn't 60%!

[LadyG]

1 hour ago, Naughty Cal said:

And then having to use a pull handle to get out after you have washed your hands.

use your sleeve or a tissue

17 minutes ago, blackrose said:

 

Someone told me that they're making their own hand sanitiser by diluting thin bleach - 1 part bleach to 9 parts water. I'd have thought that must really be bad for your skin? But better than contracting coronovirus I suppose.  

Milton is about 1:100. Hypochlorite gets a bad name, but given a clean substrate it is good stuff.0n eggcup per five gallons is fairly strong.

I use diluted antibacterial Fairy liquid, dry with paper towel, bin it.

Edited March 26, 2020 by LadyG

[Jennifer McM]

14 minutes ago, Naughty Cal said:

I have just taken Syd around the block for his lunchtime walk and there were far fewer people on the greens than there were yesterday. Perhaps the message is finally getting through to people.

We're moored facing a busy bridge, it's got traffic lights controlling the traffic. The traffic has slowed down now to say one vehicle every 4 changes of the lights. Stagecoach still appears to be running every 20 mins, and to my eyes the buses look empty. Yesterday the bridge was definitely busier with traffic yet sparse from what's normal. 

 

Three boats have passed today, one was Rick on fuel boat Auriga, a CRT boat with a grab on it, and a historic non-commercial boat. 

 

Blow me down, just while typing this an ABC hire boat has just past. 

 

We're on the Coventry. 

 

 

Edited March 26, 2020 by Jennifer McM

[LadyG]

4 hours ago, Naughty Cal said:

Bins are one of the things that everyone touches.

 

Be sure to wear gloves and wash your hands after using them.

I've been doing that for two weeks!

It's a big biffa type bin,

Edited March 26, 2020 by LadyG

[Alan de Enfield]

1 hour ago, Richard10002 said:

It seems that Vodka is only about 40% alcohol, so no use even if you use it neat....

But, if you use twice as much would that make it 80% ?

[TheBiscuits]

1 minute ago, Alan de Enfield said:

But, if you use twice as much would that make it 80% ?

No I think if you add another 40% you get 56% because it's 40% + (40% of 40% = 16%)

 

 

 

 

 

( I don't really think this!)

[Alan de Enfield]

3 minutes ago, TheBiscuits said:

No I think if you add another 40% you get 56% because it's 40% + (40% of 40% = 16%)

 

Damm …….   that is so obvious. I should have realised that you need to use 3x the amount to get above the magic 60%

 

[ditchcrawler]

44 minutes ago, LadyG said:

I've been doing that for two weeks!

It's a big biffa type bin,

Only 2 weeks, I thought you had been self isolating since January when you saw it coming

[WotEver]

https://youtu.be/OxOJ7hh3H-I

[Momac]

8 hours ago, LadyG said:

You wait for another customer arriving, he will let you out.

While keeping 2metres separation?

[LadyG]

6 hours ago, ditchcrawler said:

Only 2 weeks, I thought you had been self isolating since January when you saw it coming

Yes, ramping it up now it's nearer. I just have not been out socialising since Boxing day. Previous year I was in bed most of Jan after xmas, public transport, kiddies, hugs and kisses.

1 hour ago, MartynG said:

While keeping 2metres separation?

Risk assesment.

[David Mack]

12 hours ago, WotEver said:

https://youtu.be/OxOJ7hh3H-I

 

And from the same stable:

https://youtu.be/-Ue5F57dZMU

[LadyG]

On 26/03/2020 at 12:54, LadyG said:

They know, and so are the folks next door, in fact there are at least four or five in that category in the adjacent row five boats

No need to move now ?

Back to square 1.

I'm going to ask CRT for a mooring, 

[Naughty Cal]

I don' think you are ever going to get the same amount of social isolation being on a boat as you are in a house. You are just closer to people, especially in a marina environment if the boats adjacent are occupied.

 

Even on a towpath mooring you will have people walking by. There is not much you can do about that.

[churchward]

15 minutes ago, LadyG said:

Back to square 1.

I'm going to ask CRT for a mooring, 

It is your floating home you need to feel as safe as possible in it. Do whatever you need to do to achieve that.

[LadyG]

26 minutes ago, Naughty Cal said:

I don' think you are ever going to get the same amount of social isolation being on a boat as you are in a house. You are just closer to people, especially in a marina environment if the boats adjacent are occupied.

 

Even on a towpath mooring you will have people walking by. There is not much you can do about that.

I like a bit of chat and so on, but I am beyond exasperation with these idiots. It is as busy here as on any other day, no attempt at "staying at home", eg my next door neghbour has been out in a car at least twice, and wandering about countless times, dogs running free, gates not locked, and called a @'' bitch by some one who tried to intimidate me by driving right up to me, then complaining I was less than 2m

[Naughty Cal]

If the people are more than 2m from your boa then I am not sure that there is much that you can do. That is the government advice.

 

Getting a CRT mooring which is unlikely at this time is no guarantee that you will be in any better position. Most of them on that stretch of water are towpath moorings which will have people walking past your boat. Nothing you can do about that either.

 

It might be your home but you chose a home that is liable to being in close proximity to other people unfortunately. 

[Momac]

4 hours ago, LadyG said:

I like a bit of chat and so on, but I am beyond exasperation with these idiots. It is as busy here as on any other day, no attempt at "staying at home", eg my next door neghbour has been out in a car at least twice, and wandering about countless times, dogs running free, gates not locked, and called a @'' bitch by some one who tried to intimidate me by driving right up to me, then complaining I was less than 2m

You seem to be in place where the average IQ is very low.

[Chagall]

4 hours ago, LadyG said:

I like a bit of chat and so on, but I am beyond exasperation with these idiots. It is as busy here as on any other day, no attempt at "staying at home", eg my next door neghbour has been out in a car at least twice, and wandering about countless times, dogs running free, gates not locked, and called a @'' bitch by some one who tried to intimidate me by driving right up to me, then complaining I was less than 2m

Driving at you, gates not locked, dogs running free, are you perhaps outside a little too often yourself? The advice is to stay inside your home, if others aren't taking it there is nothing you can do but you can choose your moments to take your own exercise or empty the loo. You said you have only stayed inside for one day and couldnt stand it, its narrow, it's limiting, take the time of less freedom to learn how to adapt to it. If you really cant, then go towpath but you may find another set of problems that are even worse.

[LadyG]

11 minutes ago, MartynG said:

You seem to be in place where the average IQ is very low.

That is correct, I've never heard so much language in my life, just a very strange place.

5 minutes ago, Chagall said:

Driving at you, gates not locked, dogs running free, are you perhaps outside a little too often yourself? The advice is to stay inside your home, if others aren't taking it there is nothing you can do but you can choose your moments to take your own exercise or empty the loo. You said you have only stayed inside for one day and couldnt stand it, its narrow, it's limiting, take the time of less freedom to learn how to adapt to it. If you really cant, then go towpath but you may find another set of problems that are even worse.

No, I am inside except to go to bin, which is next to gate, I was painting front doors, yesterday bin  and fill water and shopping on bike.

Edited March 27, 2020 by LadyG