I have not blogged much this month, I am still here and healthy and well as always.
Rose
I hope everyone has a great Christmas, I will be watching Netflix and staying in the warm as it looks cold. I always dreamed as a kid of having more than 4 TV channels, now you have hundreds, and shows on demand, I can honestly say I have not watched the likes of ITV or BBC in years due to this. Then there is Youtube, some classic shows from the 50s/60s/and 70s are on there that don’t get shown on TV anymore. You really can find just about everything.
Sadly still around 3 million are excluded from help since the pandemic began, a figure similar to the population of Wales, decent hardworking taxpayers left with nothing, some having to sell their cars/possessions and even their homes, and are getting into terrible debt. Sadly some industries are a way off coming back, and it can be hard to get another job in this current climate, especially if you age is against you. If you have had the wonderful safety net of the furlough/self employed scheme, or family helping out, spare a thought as to how you would have coped if you had not received that, with no income or a greatly reduced income since March, and if you did get a job in the meantime, it was on a fraction of what you once earned. Then there are businesses in hospitality that keep having to open and close at a moments notice, with little financial help, the list goes on and on.
On a positive note, I am sure next year, after we have got through the worst of the winter Covid and Flu season and more people are vaccinated there will be an end to all this, and better times ahead, I cant wait to be on the beachfront in Spain enjoying an ice cream and hot weather, I am already planning a celebration for when life is back to normal, and trying to focus on that.
Rose
As well as in person sessions, I am also around for webcam/phone chat, with easy ways to pay (I do not take Paypal). I’m free between 10am-3.30pm for webcam, and 10am-10pm for phone chat.
Rose
I am really looking forward to the end of this year, our Annus horribilis
I am still based in Tier 2, as I am in Hampshire.
Please call me for December/January availability and session info.
Rose
Hampshire Mistress
I am around as normal all this month, apart from the 19th/25th and 26th when I wont be working. So feel free to call to arrange an appointment.
Just a reminder that any advance bookings have to be with a 50% deposit, on the day bookings do not require one.
I am doing 1-2 session per day, please only arrange if you can definitely make it, and can be on time, the roads over the last month have been back to as busy normal.
Apologies for last nights post, I made it look like I was only working for 2 days the entire month, what I meant is on those 2 days I had limited availability due to other things going on. December 6th, I am free from 9-11, then free again after 4, and on the 8th, I am free from 9-10, then free again after 4, hopefully that clears things up.
Thanks
Rose
It is my birthday today, I don’t tell many people, but some amazingly remembered, I got a few nice cards (thanks Jamie & Betty), also a lovely note from Betty, which I really appreciate, and some lovely chocolates from Paul A Young, which I will enjoy over the next week. Also a lovely package from Germany with some of my favorites with a lovely book.
I am now going to get something to eat from a local restaurant, watch tv, and relax for the evening.
Rose
Instead of me writing a long blog post on it, see this video here https://twitter.com/tfa4freedom/status/1324012149346369543 It is a fantastic speech in Parliament by Hew Merriman. Another here by Professor Karol Sikora https://twitter.com/Unlocked_UK_/status/1323956035019776000
Then I regularly look here at Professor Carl Heneghan at Oxford https://twitter.com/carlheneghan
I feel like knocking my head against a brick wall right now, am I really living in an episode of Black Mirror or the Twilight Zone, it would be nice to wake up and find out it was all a crazy dream.
Also a great article by Dr Mike Yeadon https://lockdownsceptics.org/2020/11/04/latest-news-183/#a-plea-to-mps-from-mike-yeadon-dont-vote-for-lockdown
Still no help for the 3 million excluded from any form of government magic money tree cash sadly.
Rose
A great week so far, and don’t forget I do online sessions via phone or webcam using software called ICQ (which works like skype) easy payment methods available.
Rose
Surrey Hampshire Mistress
I am around all week, apart from Sunday, when I am free from 9-11, then after 4.
One of my hobbies in the past was collecting old antique books, I loved the beautiful pictures, and loved to read them, I still have many of them to this day. Then I dug some out from the loft that are not books, but diaries, the everyday diaries of a prominent London Barrister which I got from a house clearance many years ago when I was a kid. What struck me was the years they are from, 1918 and 1919, not only World War 1 but the peak Spanish Flu years, something I had not considered before, until this pandemic.
The Spanish flu mainly killed younger people, unlike the corona virus. During the pandemic he went to church, weddings, events, one at St Paul’s Cathedral, no changes were made from what I have read to his day to day life, and it is fascinating reading. Tuberculosis seemed to be more of a worry then from what I could see, there is even a receipt from a sanatorium where you went for treatment for TB which is mint condition as if it had just been printed, of course those days were very different, WW1 killed a great many people, and the money was not there for people to do anything but get on with their lives, with no benefit system or NHS you either worked or starved. It is fascinating to look back on the past, and history was always my favorite subject.
Thinking of WW1 I did see a fantastic film this week “1917” which won 7 BAFTAS, well worth a watch.
Rose