Comments on: ‘Marathon Plus’ Completion http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2022/02/11/marathon-plus-completion/ Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life… Sun, 31 May 2026 09:13:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2022/02/11/marathon-plus-completion/comment-page-1/#comment-65892 CherryPie Mon, 14 Feb 2022 03:06:46 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=24353#comment-65892 I am a little cautious too, but I have always known how to behave to minimise contracting or sharing a virus. I am OK with visiting restaurants and staying in hotels in the UK. The restaurants and hotels I choose visit/stay have taken precautions, with distancing and other measures to be as safe as they can be. Before Covid-19 I would not be happy with random strangers pushing me along in a queue. I am even less happy with them now! I am a little cautious too, but I have always known how to behave to minimise contracting or sharing a virus.

I am OK with visiting restaurants and staying in hotels in the UK. The restaurants and hotels I choose visit/stay have taken precautions, with distancing and other measures to be as safe as they can be.

Before Covid-19 I would not be happy with random strangers pushing me along in a queue. I am even less happy with them now!

]]> By: Chrysalis http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2022/02/11/marathon-plus-completion/comment-page-1/#comment-65891 Chrysalis Sun, 13 Feb 2022 15:22:16 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=24353#comment-65891 Congratulations on your 30-mile marathon challenge! I knew you could do it! And for a great cause, too - go you! :) Oh, Good Lord - people :/ That's the thing I don't get - okay, it's fine if you don't believe vaccines or masks will protect you (I guess) - but please be aware that other people believe differently and should have a choice, too, and maybe we wouldn't like people getting all up in our faces anyway, COVID or not - so how about respecting their personal boundaries and space? It's just good manners, good common sense, and proof of their awareness that there are other people in the room and world besides themselves. Maybe Mark and I are overly cautious, but because we live in one of those states that is an especially angry shade of red, particularly anti-vax and mask-waring, we personally made a choice still not to eat inside restaurants, at present - not because the restaurant themselves aren't taking proper precautions, because you never know what people will do, in this day in age. But, I digress - back to your post - how beautiful, those snowdrops are! I don't think they grow here, in Kentucky, or at least I've never seen them. The only thing that may bloom here, at this time, are maybe crocus or daffodils, but that's only if it's a warmer, mild winter - which it definitely is not, this year ;) Love you ... Congratulations on your 30-mile marathon challenge! I knew you could do it! And for a great cause, too – go you! :)

Oh, Good Lord – people :/

That’s the thing I don’t get – okay, it’s fine if you don’t believe vaccines or masks will protect you (I guess) – but please be aware that other people believe differently and should have a choice, too, and maybe we wouldn’t like people getting all up in our faces anyway, COVID or not – so how about respecting their personal boundaries and space? It’s just good manners, good common sense, and proof of their awareness that there are other people in the room and world besides themselves.

Maybe Mark and I are overly cautious, but because we live in one of those states that is an especially angry shade of red, particularly anti-vax and mask-waring, we personally made a choice still not to eat inside restaurants, at present – not because the restaurant themselves aren’t taking proper precautions, because you never know what people will do, in this day in age.

But, I digress – back to your post – how beautiful, those snowdrops are! I don’t think they grow here, in Kentucky, or at least I’ve never seen them. The only thing that may bloom here, at this time, are maybe crocus or daffodils, but that’s only if it’s a warmer, mild winter – which it definitely is not, this year ;)

Love you …

]]> By: CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2022/02/11/marathon-plus-completion/comment-page-1/#comment-65890 CherryPie Sun, 13 Feb 2022 00:53:55 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=24353#comment-65890 I don't understand it either. I am perfectly OK with hugging family, friends and even strangers who I have had a random meaningful connection with. But people standing intimately close to me in a queue, crowding me out in a supermarket or cramping me in at a public attraction annoy me. It is difficult for me to stay calm and whilst wearing a facemask over the last couple of years I couldn't even deploy my 'Paddington Bear Stare'! I don’t understand it either. I am perfectly OK with hugging family, friends and even strangers who I have had a random meaningful connection with.

But people standing intimately close to me in a queue, crowding me out in a supermarket or cramping me in at a public attraction annoy me. It is difficult for me to stay calm and whilst wearing a facemask over the last couple of years I couldn’t even deploy my ‘Paddington Bear Stare’!

]]> By: Nikki - Notes of Life http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2022/02/11/marathon-plus-completion/comment-page-1/#comment-65889 Nikki - Notes of Life Sat, 12 Feb 2022 13:51:38 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=24353#comment-65889 Well done! It's been ages since I've been to Attingham Park. I really should go again sometime. I hate it when people have no concept of personal boundries. A while back I was in a queue at Coed-y-Dinas in Welshpool and the woman behind me was so close to me I'm sure the front of her shoes were touching the back of mine. Even me turning and glaring at her or stepping back slightly didn't seem to give her any hints. I have no idea why people do it! Well done! It’s been ages since I’ve been to Attingham Park. I really should go again sometime.

I hate it when people have no concept of personal boundries. A while back I was in a queue at Coed-y-Dinas in Welshpool and the woman behind me was so close to me I’m sure the front of her shoes were touching the back of mine. Even me turning and glaring at her or stepping back slightly didn’t seem to give her any hints. I have no idea why people do it!

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