Last night I posted on Facebook asking
if anyone fancied doing a quiz on Zoom… there seemed to be quite a bit of
interest so I created a Facebook event, and this morning enough people had
signed up to make the event plausible. I spent a little while this morning
coming up with some questions. Having started off by blagging some ready-made
pub quizzes I then tweaked and changed the questions so that I (for one)
would have had a hope of getting a few right.
I then posted up today’s album choice. ”More
Filth Dirt Cheap” was Ivor Biggun’s second album. Filled with puerile,
childish smutty innuendo it still makes me chuckle forty years later.
We got the leads on to the dogs, and
went for our daily government-sanctioned walk. We went through South Ashford where
the first fruit of my loin had put out a bowl of water for the dogs, and we
left them some shopping and some Easter eggs. From there we walked round to
Singleton Lake and out through to where once there used to be something of an
unkempt jungle. Now there is a rather pretty area of woodland with waterfalls (fish
ladders?). Ideally we might have picnic-ed there… ideally we wouldn’t be in
lock-down.
We came home past Singleton lake where (like
everywhere) fishing is now banned.
Isn’t that silly? When you go fishing
you sit on your own away from everyone else. Ideal social distancing, but (like
pretty much everything in this lock-down) it wasn’t thought through.
As we walked round the lake we saw a
couple of rather large pike basking in the shallows. Maybe an afternoon’s pike
fishing there once the lock-down is lifted?
We came home, and with absolutely
nothing else to do we sat in the garden. I read more of Alexei Sayle’s
biography on my Kindle whilst drinking Czech dark lager and Dorset plum ale
before falling asleep in the glorious sunshine.
I eventually woke; "er indoors TM"
boiled up a rather good bit of dinner and then I sparked up the lap-top for the
“Zoom” quiz. I was rather pleased to see we had nine teams taking part;
a manageable number. I thought it went rather well for only the second time I’d
used the software. The questions were rather tricky; some of them were rather
obscure. But it wasn’t so much about the quiz as it was about getting to see
friends. At least I can go to work every day. There are a *lot* of
people who’ve not seen anyone outside their household for weeks.
I wonder if this on-line video quiz
thingy might become a regular event all the time we are in lock-down. After
all, it isn’t as though anyone has anything else to be doing at the moment…
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