Looking on the bright side!
Pross
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It's not like me to try to be positive but given some appear to be intent on locking themselves in a dark room listening to The Smiths for the next month or so waiting for the bloke to come around with his cart shouting 'bring out your dead' I thought I'd try to look at the positives (unfortunate turn of phrase) to come out of the current situation whether serious or more light hearted.
The obvious one for me is that it will hopefully provide a temporary respite in CO2 emissions from travel and with luck people might get used to working differently in the future resulting is less travel in the longer term. I'm probably being overly-optimistic on this one but seeing empty supermarket shelves might make people rethink how they shop with more local shopping and less food wastage. Isolation will hopefully make us more appreciative of how good our lives normally are and also give us more empathy for those who spend most of their lives isolated.
On a lighter note, there's going to be a period where there'll be no Eastenders on TV and there's no Eurovision Song Contest this year plus no-one is talking about Brexit anymore.
The obvious one for me is that it will hopefully provide a temporary respite in CO2 emissions from travel and with luck people might get used to working differently in the future resulting is less travel in the longer term. I'm probably being overly-optimistic on this one but seeing empty supermarket shelves might make people rethink how they shop with more local shopping and less food wastage. Isolation will hopefully make us more appreciative of how good our lives normally are and also give us more empathy for those who spend most of their lives isolated.
On a lighter note, there's going to be a period where there'll be no Eastenders on TV and there's no Eurovision Song Contest this year plus no-one is talking about Brexit anymore.
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People washing their hands after going for a poo/scratching their censored .
Roll out of technology that should have been done years ago like GP consultations by phone/video.
- My kid is no longer stressing about exams
- Not sure if its just me hallucinating but the stuff on the box in the evenings seems to be marginally better? (Could be because its relatively more interesting now).
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition
Sometimes it's tough being a will writer.
I hope after the other side of this people will be a bit more considerate. We are all in this together.
If that doesn't make your foot tap, you're clinically dead.
Clear water in Venice and clear skies in LA.
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition
If you've not read it, 'Wilding' is an interesting book, about how one big farming estate's managed return to a 'wild' state rapidly led to the return of massive numbers of flora and fauna thought lost from the countryside. Nature's there, and will repopulate, given the chance, it seems.
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition
At the risk of sounding like some weirdo, although I love my gadgets as much as anyone, we've got so used to all the stuff we've had over the past 50 years, we, as a society, have forgotten that all we really need for happiness is a roof over our heads, warmth, food in our bellies, health, and friends & family.
And a bike. Obvs.
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition
You need a large screen tv, recliner chair, beer fridge, fully equipped pain cave and so on and so forth.
Wasn’t there a thread somewhere about reducing consumerism and our obsession with gadgets?
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition
Gosh, you're really going all posh on us. Unless, of course, you're counting the shed as being a roof over your head, and warm. Then you can have it instead of a house.