The Argus Singers versus Covid-19 - First of many posts (I hope)

18/3/2020

In order to keep some kind of social contact going I thought we could post news items, updates on how we are doing, quizzes, recipes, and hints and tips on how to keep healthy and sane in these testing times.
If you send me items by email (or other means) I'll post them here and then collate them into a weekly newsletter to send to choir members (by email - or post if not on email).
Helen
P.S. This is a private page for choir members only - and as such you can add comments to posts.
If I find there is problem with the privacy setting and we start getting spurious comments reach I'll change the settings.

5 Comments

Judith Cole

19/3/2020 01:08:27 pm

I think this is a great idea of Helen's and i thank her for setting it up so we can all chat, exchange news or anything else to keep us entertained and occupied during this difficult time. Please everyone join in.

Some of you know already my news, but many dont, it is that our daughter Deborah is expected a baby 2nd September so by the time we meet again in September (hopefully) i'll be a Grandma. Deborah used to come to The Argus Singers creche when she was a baby! Where have the 33years gone? We're thrilled but obviously a bit anxious due to the virus. Keep well everyone and tell us your news or how you're filling in your time. Love Judith Cole

Sharon Murray

20/3/2020 01:23:36 pm

Ok then, here we go:
Who was Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis?

Judith C

20/3/2020 01:41:53 pm

Just off the top of my head ha ha...........

Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis was a Hungarian physician and scientist, now known as an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures. Described as the "saviour of mothers" Semmelweis discovered that the incidence of puerperal fever (also known as "childbed fever") could be drastically cut by the use of hand disinfection in obstetrical clinics. Puerperal fever was common in mid-19th-century hospitals and often fatal. Semmelweis proposed the practice of washing hands with chlorinated lime solutions in 1847 while working in Vienna General Hospital's First Obstetrical Clinic, where doctors' wards had three times the mortality of midwives' wards. He published a book of his findings in Etiology, Concept and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever.

Despite various publications of results where hand washing reduced mortality to below 1%, Semmelweis's observations conflicted with the established scientific and medical opinions of the time and his ideas were rejected by the medical community. Semmelweis could offer no acceptable scientific explanation for his findings, and some doctors were offended at the suggestion that they should wash their hands and mocked him for it. In 1865, the increasingly outspoken Semmelweis supposedly suffered a nervous breakdown and was treacherously committed to an asylum by his colleague. He died a mere 14 days later, at the age of 47, after being beaten by the guards, from a gangrenous wound on his right hand which might have been caused by the beating. Semmelweis's practice earned widespread acceptance only years after his death, when Louis Pasteur confirmed the germ theory, and Joseph Lister, acting on the French microbiologist's research, practised and operated using hygienic methods, with great success.

Judith

22/3/2020 02:11:38 pm

Hellooooo. It would be lovely to chat to more of our Argus Singers friends on this page as there's only Sharon & I so far, and you see Sharon just lives around the corner from me so if i open my back door and shout loud enough then she could hear me, but not all you others and I promise i wont be able to answer Sharon's next question!!
Hope everyone is staying well and please tell us how you are passing the time.

Sharon

22/3/2020 04:12:46 pm

30. things to do to amuse yourself at home

1. Watch a program on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, etc.

2. Read a new book. Half of the fun of reading a new book is finding it. eReaders are a great resource for browsing scores of contemporary titles, as well as free classics, such as Tales of the Brothers Grimm.

3. Reread an old book.

4. Watch YouTube animal videos.

5. Exercise (It’s free and it’s good for you).

6. Turn to Pinterest for D.I.Y. and inspired upcycling ideas.

7. Play your favourite music and get up and dance. Tom Cruise did it in Risky Business.

8. Write reviews for your Amazon purchases. It’s oddly addictive to do and helps your fellow buyers.

9. Write a poem. Turn to the internet for how to write haikus, limericks, ballads and more.

10. Draw, if you are artistically inclined.

11. Take some photographs around the house or of the world outside your window using either a stand-alone camera, or the one built into your phone.

12. Skype or Face Time with someone you don’t normally see.

13.Start an Instagram or Twitter for your pet.

14. Try out a new cocktail recipe with ingredients around the house.

15. Bake some biscuits.

16. Create your own nut butter, be it almond, peanut, or walnut. Get creative!

17. Create your own pesto with a fresh green (basil, spinach, rocket, etc.), olive oil, your nut of choice, fresh parmesan, and salt and pepper.

18. Make a collage with magazines and newspapers sitting around the house. Frame and hang it for cheap, D.I.Y. wall art.

19. If you know an instrument, play it.

20. Go window shopping online. It’s like window shopping at the mall, but the multiple checkout steps are a deterrent for actually buying anything.

21. Make a sock puppet with an old sock and odds and ends around the house.

22. Brew and enjoy a cup of coffee or tea. Take time to savour the beverage, and pick out flavour notes.

23. Run diagnostic, clean up, and maintenance tasks on your computer, such as running an antivirus software and making sure your computer is completely up to date.

24. Collect clothing and nonperishable food items you no longer want for donation. This idea is double duty: You are giving to those in need and de-cluttering your home. (Probably best to wait a while before actually doing anything with them).

25. Take online quizzes on websites like Buzzfeed.com.

26. Explore your phone or tablet’s app store and make use of free apps.

27. Create a blog on a website such as blogger.com or wordpress.com.

28. Organize a cluttered area of your house, such as your wardrobe or your junk drawers. It’s cathartic and sometimes fun going through your belongings and paring down to only those that you need and use.

29. Learn how to get the most out of your phone. If you have internet access there are zillions of videos. Just google your phone model.

30. Start (if you haven't already) a diary. These are momentous times we are going through. Hopefully we can look back on them and learn something.

This is a solid list to get you started. Entertaining yourself sometimes takes loads of creativity. Next time you are bored, take a look around your space and find something you haven’t used for a while, or something that needs to be organized and get to work. And with a plethora of free and cheap entertainment options on the internet, there is no end to the ways to entertain yourself at home.

Post your suggestions here!

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