The Corona Virus

[sinkov]

Honestly sinkov, I have no idea whether to laugh or cry. The Isle of Man is now fully open for business the ferry is running - next stop Douglas!

My brother-in-law lives in France BT, he tells me virtually all restrictions are off and he's eating in his favourite local restaurant tonight. Meanwhile in the Ribble Valley one of my favourite restaurants, the Ashetton Arms at Downham, has announced it won't be re-opening, the morons running the country have seen it off, and a few others in East Lancs belonging to the same group as well.

And for what ? Nightingale hospitals the length and breadth of the country standing empty, just 1 person in 1,700 with the virus, we truly live in a lunatic asylum.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Sorry to hear about the Ashetton Arms at Downham sinkov. We were there at Christmas and it was really bloody excellent fayre.

[barrie_burn]

Sorry to hear about the Ashetton Arms at Downham sinkov. We were there at Christmas and it was really bloody excellent fayre.

I loved the place.Every time I was up there we used to visit.I'm as sad as I was when the Pendle View closed.

[sinkov]

There is some good news BT, the briefings have been terminated, thank god for that. The obnoxious, preening, lefty activists masquerading as journalists have been put back in their boxes, they won't be missed or lamented in this part of the Ribble Valley anyway, not one little bit.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

There is some good news BT, the briefings have been terminated, thank god for that. The obnoxious, preening, lefty activists masquerading as journalists have been put back in their boxes, they won't be missed or lamented in this part of the Ribble Valley anyway, not one little bit.

It was an exercise in futility all round sinkov. Hancock, Williamson and Raab were making total Richards of themselves on a daily basis and were clearly so far out of their depth I considered ringing the RNLA for a lifeboat on more than one occasion.

[Supersub6]

It was an exercise in futility all round sinkov. Hancock, Williamson and Raab were making total Richards of themselves on a daily basis and were clearly so far out of their depth I considered ringing the RNLA for a lifeboat on more than one occasion.

BT --I suggest that you try RNLI if you require a lifeboat. I can supply you with a RNLA which is an amplifier that I used when playing bass and is known as a Really Nice Levelling Amplifier. I would not want you to drown!

[sinkov]

It was an exercise in futility all round sinkov. Hancock, Williamson and Raab were making total Richards of themselves on a daily basis and were clearly so far out of their depth I considered ringing the RNLA for a lifeboat on more than one occasion.

It did provide the occasional highlight BT, one such occasion was when one lass from SkyNews, who I didn't know, decided to ask a sensible, searching, relevant question for once, instead of the tedious whining, carping, 'gotcha' rubbish. She asked Professor Van Tam why it was that two months after lockdown we were still getting x number of people contracting the virus every day, (I forget the exact number, but it was a big one, many thousands). I almost fell off the settee in surprise, just the sort of question I was despairing would ever be asked. The good professor, bless him, took it squarely on the chin. He shrugged his shoulders and said "I don't know". I suspect he knew the answer well enough, it was because the lockdown was an irrelevance, it was making no difference whatsoever, as the figures consistently proved, but the poor lad couldn't say that could he.

But the real highlight was after the Rose Garden presser with Dom. The Lefty media thought they had him, their No 1 enemy, the man behind Brexit, the man behind Gove's education reforms, the man responsible for the ban on government ministers appearing on Today or Newsnight, the man responsible for moving the Lobby briefings out of the Commons, the man behind the campaign to end the BBC licence fee, oh how they hate him, they hate him and despise him, but now they had him, up against the wall, hands around his neck, squeezing the life out of the little ****.

Or so they thought, as the meeting wore on it became more and more obvious that he wasn't going to resign, and Boris wasn't going to sack him. He was going to survive, he was going to continue taunting and teasing them, faces were like thunder in the press pack and when it was all over there was Laura from the BBC, her face contorted with rage, or was it just the camera angle, I could swear she was stamping her feet as she spoke, next up was Beth, she looked like she'd seen a ghost, her bottom lip was actually quivering, I thought she was going to cry, Pesto was visibly deflating on screen, I thought he might vanish altogether. It was wonderful television, worth the annual Sky sub for that hour alone.

[sinkov]

It's quite ironic, Ricky and Ralf's Very Northern Road Trip started on the Beeb this week, and there they were, in the very first episode, sat outside the Ashetton Arms with that glorious view of Pendle in the background. It's in too wonderful a spot to stay closed for long, surely someone will buy it and it'll be open again soon.

[Supersub6]

sinkov---post 704 is great reading!

[sinkov]

sinkov---post 704 is great reading!

Thank you Sub, that's very kind, I don't charge either, I see it as a public service.