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Post by bunkerfan on Apr 17, 2020 8:39:23 GMT
OUR HEROCaptain Tom Moore originally aimed to raise just £1,000 for NHS Charities Together by completing 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday. He has now raised more than £18m for the NHS.
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Post by ash on Apr 18, 2020 18:08:26 GMT
There's a few people near me who still don't get it despite having it pointed out to them The problem is some people are confused between the term Household and Family. I've no idea why it very simple!
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Post by Equus on Apr 20, 2020 12:05:14 GMT
There's a few people near me who still don't get it despite having it pointed out to them The problem is some people are confused between the term Household and Family. I've no idea why it very simple! Yes! It's frustrating! One of my "friends" are seeing other people. They get together to make music... Why? I talked to him about it, but he just wont stop... My wonderful girlfriend Camilla... (The love of my life) has a "friend" who does the same. My eksgirlfriend insists on seeing my oldest daughter, though they could meet on Skype... My youngest daughters "friend" invites people into the apartment that they share... She can't stop her... She has left the apartment, and is now living together with her boyfriend, who is a responsible... I see young people close together in a park nearby... but many Danes are taking this very seriously... As of now there have been 355 casualties in Denmark... and that seams like a miracle, but today the danish society is opening slowly up... Will it explode because of this decision? People are beginning to take it more lightly... They just don't get it... The danish economy is going down, down, down... but we have responsible leadership. Unlike Boris Johnson... Donald Trump, and the Swedish government, but it can still spiral out of control... The prime minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen has warned the danish people, that everybody must minimize all unnecessary risks, and if we don't, she will have to close it all down again... I hope that everybody is well, and doing everything you possibly can to help stop this terrible virus... It's a long way to Tipperary! Be strong! May God protect us all!
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Post by Equus on Apr 20, 2020 12:11:34 GMT
Keep on fighting! Don't give up! Don't give in! If we give up, the virus will win!
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Post by stegreenall on Apr 20, 2020 21:52:03 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 21, 2020 6:20:24 GMT
Thanks Steve for posting the interview, much appreciated and a big welcome to the JT Forum
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 21, 2020 6:27:58 GMT
'Massive NHS thank you' rainbow banner in Cornish townAmy Gladwell BBC News Online A giant rainbow banner has appeared in the centre of a Cornish town in tribute to NHS and key workers. The 5m (16ft) long sign has been put up in the clock gardens in Perranporth to say a "massive thank you" to the "amazing" staff.
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Post by JTull 007 on Apr 21, 2020 11:00:33 GMT
Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Shut It Down 2020
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Post by jackinthegreen on Apr 21, 2020 11:36:32 GMT
Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Shut It Down 2020 Love that......really great guitars
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2020 12:53:07 GMT
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Post by bunkerfan on Apr 25, 2020 13:00:21 GMT
Just look who's at no 1 in the charts You'll Never Walk Alone - Captain Tom Moore, Michael Ball & The NHS Voices of Care Choir
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 28, 2020 7:00:08 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 28, 2020 13:25:54 GMT
Ian Anderson for Man/Kind #CovidKindness Campaign 3,481 views•Apr 23, 2020 Man/Kind Project
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 29, 2020 6:51:40 GMT
Ian Anderson for Man/Kind #CovidKindness Campaign3,481 views•Apr 23, 2020 Man/Kind Project www.thewrap.com/Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson Lends His Voice to Help LA’s Homeless in the Pandemic (Guest Blog)A new project proves that social distancing does not mean being socially distantRichard Stellar | April 28, 2020 @ 1:32 PM Last Updated: April 28, 2020 @ 5:40 PM If you remember the elusively bedraggled homeless character of the ’70s that inspired one of the greatest rock anthems of all time, you have probably reached my age. Congratulations. Back then Jethro Tull’s “Aqualung” conjured up more desperate isolationism than Eleanor Rigby, and cast a tattered shadow that nearly obscured Black Sabbath’s ode to the apocalypse, “Iron Man.” “Aqualung” was the embodiment of the homeless back in the ’70s: crazy, disconnected, obscene. According to Jethro Tull founder and flautist/frontman Ian Anderson, “Aqualung” was “a guilt-ridden song of confusion about our reaction of guilt, distaste, awkwardness and confusion, all these things that we feel when we’re confronted with the reality of the homeless.” Had we known then what we know now about the homeless, “Aqualung” may have foretold today’s homeless situation — a crisis that inspired me to found the nonprofit organization The Man/Kind Project in 2016. It’s no wonder that I reached out to the co-writer of “Aqualung” to enlist his help to provide care to the homeless during the COVID-19 pandemic? “Good luck with that,” a member of my board of directors told me. “You’d have more luck prying Hendrix’s Stratocaster from his cold dead fingers.” Well, not according to a recently released video from The Man/Kind Project that leverages Anderson’s music and voice to raise funds for #CovidKindness care bags for the homeless, the elderly and others whose lives have been derailed by the pandemic. Within an hour of pitching Ian via his son James, we had a recorded voiceover of another Anderson tune, “Crash Barrier Waltzer,” that has gone viral and attracted major players in the entertainment business to our cause. Ian would be proud that his work has resurfaced in the guise of a kinder, gentler version song that speaks of pour souls with “no bed, no bread nor butter.” It’s a heart-wrenching ode to empathy where power chords are replaced by lilting strings and woodwinds. “In a crisis, it’s tempting to build a wall around your family and just hang on,” said writer-director Billy Ray, praising any effort “to look outward, to help more people, to expand the scope of this magnificent operation even though doing so is truly perilous and dangerous.” Billy may have been referring to the part of the video where we are literally in the street, masked and gloved like characters relegated to the cutting room floor of a Tarantino grindhouse film, tending to the homeless. We go to where they are, and don’t force them to wait on lines for sustenance. The empty streets ridding them of the opportunity for hand-outs from passers-by. Even Hollywood’s Rabbi, David Baron, offered words of inspiration: “During this stressful time, stepping outside of yourself and helping others is actually a resilience mechanism that helps the giver as much or more than the recipient.” The smiles and “God bless you’s” that we get from our homeless brothers and sisters is payment in full. Now they are the focus of a campaign of care. People like Ray, Rabbi Baron, songwriter Mike Stoller and harpist Corky Hale, TV actor and activist Anne-Marie Johnson and producer-philanthropist Peter Samuelson have reminded us that social distancing does not mean being socially distant.
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Post by bunkerfan on Apr 29, 2020 11:35:58 GMT
Progfathers first attempt at a lockdown video, performing Jethro Tull's classic 'Living In The Past'.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2020 3:42:19 GMT
A person dressed as a 17th century plague doctor has been alarming residents in one U.K. town, by stalking around his local neighbourhood complete with haunting black cloak and beaked mask. In images posted online by Jade Gosbell, 21, and first reported by the Press Association, the person can be seen crossing a recreational area, dressed in the full garb of the famous doctors whose outfits became a symbol of death. The sightings of the person in Hellesdon, a suburb of Norwich, have led police in the area to seek the walker out. They want to give them some choice “words of advice,” they say. Residents have taken to a local Facebook page to express fears that their kids would be frightened by the person’s appearance. One person posted, the BBC reports: “Scared the life out of my missus. Terrifying for kids.” “Just casually… strolling around the village in a plague costume? That’s just not normal is it, do it indoors it’s bloody terrifying for poor little kids,” another wrote. Gosbell told the Press Association of her recent sighting: “It was like 20 degrees, he was wearing a full black suit, it just looked ridiculous. It’s clearly for attention or something like that, because normal people just wouldn’t do that.” In the 17th century, some doctors became famous for treating bubonic plague victims of all social status while dressed in the cloak, hat and beaked mask. They even carried a small stick to ward off their would-be infectors, should they get too close. Clearly not one to cut corners on detail, the costumed person in Norwich, too, carries such a prodder. National Geographic reports that the costumes are credited to the physician Charles de Lorme, a 17th century doctor to royalty and well-to-do patrons that included King Louis XIII. De Lorme wrote of the costumes — which included scents held within the nose cone to counteract the terrible smells associated with the plague — that it had a “nose half a foot long, shaped like a beak, filled with perfume with only two holes, one on each side near the nostrils, but that can suffice to breathe and to carry along with the air one breathes the impression of the drugs enclosed further along in the beak.” Much of this historical detail, though, is likely to be lost on the residents of Hellesdon, who will simply see a menacing, black-clad figure approaching across the fields. Gosbell told the Press Association: “I was sitting there and I was getting angry myself as my mum has a phobia of masks. “I know that even in daylight if she was to go round the corner and bump into him she would be so scared. “Kids would be frightened, my mum would be frightened, however some people really don’t think it’s that deep, they just think that he’s having a laugh, he’s just trying to find something to do with himself during isolation and lockdown.”
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Post by bunkerfan on Apr 30, 2020 19:24:15 GMT
My 8pm Cowbell and drum tribute on week 5 of lockdown.
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Post by jackinthegreen on Apr 30, 2020 21:17:45 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2020 2:09:44 GMT
Parents name their newborn baby "Sanitiser."
A newborn baby has the perfect name to encapsulate the coronavirus pandemic.
In a similar vein to other virus-themed baby names, like "Corona" and "Lockdown," a couple has named their baby "Sanitiser."
The baby was born at a private hospital in Uttar Pradesh, India, on Sunday, the Deccan Herald reports. The father, Omveer Singh, says their baby's name is their "contribution" to the fight against COVID-19.
"Everyone is fighting against this virus, from our prime minister to ordinary people. [Sanitiser] is our contribution," Singh told the local publication.
"My wife and I are highly impressed by the effective measures taken by both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to battle the novel coronavirus," he told India Today Television.
"We have named our baby 'Sanitiser' because it is being used by everyone at present to deter the spread of germs on our hands."
The latest in coronavirus-themed names comes after twin babies were named "Corona" and "Covid" in India.
The bouncing bundles of viral joy arrived on March 27 at B.R. Ambedkar Memorial Hospital in Raipur, central India, according to media reports.
"I was blessed with the twins — a boy and a girl — in the early hours on March 27," mother Preeti Verma told the Press Trust of India news agency. "We have named them Covid and Corona for now."
Vinay Verma rushed his pregnant wife to hospital on a motorcycle just before midnight on March 26 for the birth, Preeti told India’s Express News Service.
She said it was a tense journey as they passed through several checkpoints under India’s coronavirus lockdown measures.
As of Tuesday morning, India had more than 18,900 confirmed cases of the virus, including more than 600 deaths.
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Post by maddogfagin on May 1, 2020 6:22:04 GMT
My 8pm Cowbell and drum tribute on week 5 of lockdown. Nothing like some cowbell now and again - good one John
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2020 6:47:03 GMT
Nothing like some cowbell now and again - good one John
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Post by maddogfagin on May 2, 2020 6:44:59 GMT
Photographed by Laura Jenkins. Seen by many people in Cornwall and Devon - natures way of thanking the NHS and all support workers ?
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Post by ash on May 2, 2020 14:21:41 GMT
My 8pm Cowbell and drum tribute on week 5 of lockdown. Excellent !
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Post by ash on May 2, 2020 14:29:54 GMT
Just over the Bridge going into Abingdon Oxfordshire I sapped this No not the free parking
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Post by bunkerfan on May 2, 2020 19:01:03 GMT
My 8pm Cowbell and drum tribute on week 5 of lockdown. Excellent ! Thanks ash. Now if you lived next door we could do a flute and drum duet next Thursday
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Post by ash on May 3, 2020 12:38:33 GMT
Excellent ! Thanks ash. Now if you lived next door we could do a flute and drum duet next Thursday We sure could! Boris dancing would be my pick.
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Post by steelmonkey on May 4, 2020 5:03:36 GMT
The mental illness surge has definitely hit my area. People are cracking like eggs: hopelessness, drug and alcohol relapse, suicidal teens with exacerbated social media drama that can't get resolved the next day at school but instead festers and rots. I'm working 60 hour weeks and running out of magic wands...glad my 15 year old is in the minority and has not yet snapped. My area will remain on full scale lockdown till 5-31...our Governor erring on the side of safety, science, lives over economy and good campaign posters in his 2032 run for president. This whole pandemic has exposed some pretty embarrassing flaws in how the world does and does not work. I trust some good will come of it but it will be too late for the too many victims.
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Post by maddogfagin on May 4, 2020 6:19:02 GMT
The mental illness surge has definitely hit my area. People are cracking like eggs: hopelessness, drug and alcohol relapse, suicidal teens with exacerbated social media drama that can't get resolved the next day at school but instead festers and rots. I'm working 60 hour weeks and running out of magic wands...glad my 15 year old is in the minority and has not yet snapped. My area will remain on full scale lockdown till 5-31...our Governor erring on the side of safety, science, lives over economy and good campaign posters in his 2032 run for president. This whole pandemic has exposed some pretty embarrassing flaws in how the world does and does not work. I trust some good will come of it but it will be too late for the too many victims. Countries must work together to find a vaccine to cure this horrible illness and not to use any cure as political propaganda. Somehow I fear this won't be the case but for a majority of countries the common good will prevail. Stay safe Bernie.
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Post by bunkerfan on May 4, 2020 6:30:15 GMT
Thanks ash. Now if you lived next door we could do a flute and drum duet next Thursday We sure could! Boris dancing would be my pick. Oh yes! Perfect
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Post by bunkerfan on May 4, 2020 6:53:00 GMT
The mental illness surge has definitely hit my area. People are cracking like eggs: hopelessness, drug and alcohol relapse, suicidal teens with exacerbated social media drama that can't get resolved the next day at school but instead festers and rots. I'm working 60 hour weeks and running out of magic wands...glad my 15 year old is in the minority and has not yet snapped. My area will remain on full scale lockdown till 5-31...our Governor erring on the side of safety, science, lives over economy and good campaign posters in his 2032 run for president. This whole pandemic has exposed some pretty embarrassing flaws in how the world does and does not work. I trust some good will come of it but it will be too late for the too many victims. Working 60 hours a week must be exhausting so please take extra care Bernie.
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