Well, it looks like we are about to be quarantined. Businesses have been ordered to close doors and send the people home. It sucks, but it is the only way to stop the pandemic. Or so they say.
Truth be told I am a little bit scared. Not as much for fear to the disease (I am not at any particular risk, truth be told; nor do my children) but for the economic effects. I have a little shop and I fear it won't survive the pandemic. :'(
Where are you located?
Same here,
at least the government has ordered mail and delivery service to work, as the shipment of goods. Still there is a lot of fear in the air. We hope neither lives nor economy will be destroyed. Anyway I stocked on paints, I have plenty of lead and plastic, two wargames on the design bench, a book to finish, a couple of articles, and two issues of S&T are on my way, plus some books and some H&R tanks, and Aventine minis. Only negative spot is that three of the Aventines are for a friend in Tokyo and I will not be able to post them soon... trip to the post office is out of question and also unlawful.
By the way in Italy quarantine is in effect until April 3.
On the other hand I e-spoke with friends in China, and they cope with it longer than us, but they are slowly recovering.
Good luck to you, and everyone else.
It is scary, and a) having a good imagination and b) having read/watched/played far too much post-apocalypse stuff does not help.
...Plenty of cans of beans in the food cupboard at least. Maybe that can work as a substitute. ::)We look forward to seeing the results.
Thanks! Good luck to you too.Good luck with your health and finances.
We are all in new territory here, nobody really knows which strategy will work best, we can only trust our governments and follow instructions.
The wisdom and talent on show at LAF is always a great source of inspiration to me and will help a lot with the isolation!
However...... who would have thought our partially self isolating hobby (it's social too but I'm trying to block that for now! :D ) would have slotted so perfectly into place? By the time we come out of this I expect to have done a serious amount of painting! 8)That's right! If any of us come of this without a fully painted army it will be a failure of the community! :-[ ;D lol
That's right! If any of us come of this without a fully painted army it will be a failure of the community! :-[ ;D lol
I'm hopeful for things post the pandemic but I can't go into that too much as it may start to bump into forum rules. Suffice to say that maybe it will wake people up a little bit to their communities again, both locally, nationally and perhaps even internationally.
I feel for you, and for the thousands of other small businesses gasping for breath everywhere.
Come on man, we are a community and these are unprecedented times. The ability to show a bit of support for one another, confined completely within one thread, shouldn’t be stretching your “leniency”. What are you, some kind of Mega City Judge? I understand the forum rules and why they’re there but there exists such a thing as nuance at certain times.
I am autistic and usually spend much of the day alone while the kids are at school; even a trip out to the shops can be mentally exhausting. So my mental capacity for hobby time is rapidly dwindling...once the kids are in bed it seems to be taking me at least an hour to settle down and chill enough to do anything, if at all.
In this particular case, I just fail to see how HRH's affliction with the virus is relevant to our interest, as compared to Antonio's very real and pressing plight which is well within the scope of this thread.
Just keep it confined to the forum and within reasonable parametres.
In this particular case, I just fail to see how HRH's affliction with the virus is relevant to our interest, as compared to Antonio's very real and pressing plight which is well within the scope of this thread.
Just keep it confined to the forum and within reasonable parameters.
I say old chap, in light of current events, a better turn of phrase may have been more appropriate.:o
Good point. I hope the sentiments will be taken at their intended worth, not as clumsily expressed.
I am in a bit of a similar situation (not as bad as you by the ways it sounds). With everyone home I am exhausted by the end of the day. I have been taking the odd paint break in the morning before everyone gets too busy. I have tons of books but I can't focus to read and I have been trying to build up some energy by playing Hearthstone Battlegrounds and tuning everyone out.
I hope you find a way to build up some energy during the day and keep yourself on an even keel
It's have been eight days since the quarantine was declared in Spain. I am mentally exhausted. Not by being confined, that is the lesser of my worries, but for the uncertainty about the economy. I know some people will think I am selfish by being worried for my business in the middle of a pandemic, but the truth is that I am rapidly becoming broke. I have loans that I won't be able to pay -my partner and I were planning on sales to meet our payments-; and those loans were taken using our income and house (my business partner's, as I have no property) as collateral. We already default in March, and April will default too. One of the worst things is that in one of the loans we were five months shy of paying it in full. I can't sleep if I don't take sleeping pills...
The worst part is the impotence. I don't know what to do to make the business viable. I try to work through our website, but sales are stagnated. People fear for their jobs, their income, their future. They are not predisposed to spend money on such luxury items like action figures and toys.
I haven't felt so mentally exhausted since my wife died eleven years ago.
I really feel for you Antonio. I live near Malaga in the campo and it all seems a bit surreal - completely peaceful outside (no planes flying, very few cars passing on the road that's about a kilometre from our house) whilst I know that in a Malaga hospital one of my friends is a nurse at the region's hub hospital for Covid-19 and she's more tired by the day.
What does your shop sell? What's the web address?
To be honest, before this crisis hit I was probably at the most productive I've been hobby wise for a decade. The whole thing has taken the wind out of my sails. I've found it difficult to turn my mind towards wargaming let alone painting, which is my 'first love'. This general apathy/lethargy is probably compounded by the realisation that having to self isolate because of an underlying serious health condition might very well mean that I have to continue to self isolate after everyone else return to normality (in whatever shape that may be) as the virus is unlikely to disappear and there will certainly be more outbreaks as the virus becomes endemic.
I'm going to force myself into action tomorrow! I've written a list out of what I'd like to achieve without being too tough on myself.
It's at moments like this that one becomes very thankful for LAF. One of the few fora left with a real sense of community.
Everyone stay as safe as possible.
Didn't paint a thing for the last 8 days ... only home office, binge viewing and sleeping :(
There is a light at the end of the tunnel folks:
Not unless you get it from a reputable source. That site is for tech startup news and it seems filled with spammy BS posts about Covid cures
Imagine how it is in Madrid, where you are used to the noise of traffic, people and then... silence. It's one of those things that is unimaginable, and yet... Mind that I feel lucky: my younger brother and my daughter got the Covid-19, but with relatively mild symptoms (although my daughter lost her sense of smell and taste for a few days) and they are recovered now. And so far none else in my family has been sick (you read cases like those of that little 16 y.o French girl that died yesterday from the virus and then everything is put in perspective)
My shop is especialized in Action Figures, collectibles mostly. It is not the best of times for businesses like that. As I said: people has other worries. Hopefully, I've managed to negotiate with the Banks a couple of the most pressing payments -they have moved it to June 30th- and I am trying to get a new loan to cover all of the rest and get some assets for the moment the quarantine lifts.
We are living interesting times, my friend. Stay safe.
We're really in trouble in our pokey little seaside resort. Not only do we have to face the plague on venturing out, but now have to run the risk of attack seagulls trying to devour us!!!!I lived in St Leonards for a year about 30 years ago - I seem to remember that was a constant challenge then! I did very much enjoy being able to look out of my window and see the sea, though.:o
We're really in trouble in our pokey little seaside resort. Not only do we have to face the plague on venturing out, but now have to run the risk of attack seagulls trying to devour us!!!!
In all honesty if the lockdown leads to an unplanned cull in the numbers that would not be a bad thing.
Instead of getting to work on the 'work shelf' of Oldhammer goodies, I'm planning how to make a Barbie wardrobe from the scrap bit of balsa wood and dowel I have lying about. I could make coat-hangers from some bits of wire too. I'm not going to lie, I'm actually pretty excited about it.
The Council's sent out a warning that due to their being no tourists to feed 'em, the shitehawks may become very aggressive! In all honesty, at the moment I reckon getting nobbled by a seagull's the least of our problems!!!European Herring Gull, amazing and beautiful birds,they have adapted to a disrupted environment where there are less fish.:o
Hope they appeal to responsible ( ::)) members of the public to come forward, form a posse and shoot 'em all!:)
My grandfather who went through wwii, a civil war, a dictatorship and several financial crisis, always said, health is the most important thing, all the other can be fixed/rebuilt.Sounds like you have a very resilient family CH.
Sounds like you have a very resilient family CH.
Or a grandfather with very bad luck ;)lol lol
I am currently revisiting my GOT and LOTR collections. There's nothing like medieval or fantasy heraldry to concentrate the mind away from the troubles of the world.
I remember that in family dinners we could have a table full of food but if there was no bread he would freak out, we used to laugh with this as kids but latter i realised that most of the people who went through the starvation of the nazi occupation had the same reaction, as bread was their basic food.
Or a grandfather with very bad luck ;)The bad luck of being born in Greece?!?! :o lol
Don't know what Clarkson's on about. There's a solid 1.5 planelengths in that. :P
Some get older and wiser, some just older.
Since our newsagent re-opened I've been mithering the lady assistant for Wargames Illustrated, daily. She's that fed up with me she's now doing the 'chop' signal through the window as I hove over the horizon.
A tad perplexed I had a braynwave and contacted WI, only to glean they've suspended printing during the plague...
Made me feel I'm getting older.:-[