Passing the time

[Coop]

If you happen to find yourself with a spare bit of time on your hands- especially at the weekends or you may find yourself thinking " I'll never get on the hills again"

I reccomend
1 . Watch Edie - great film
2. Read The Munro Society Journal-2020 - I'm reading it a few pages each day, and some stories are so inspiring. ( haven't got to yours yet Sgurr )

To all our NHS workers, carers and key workers out there- keep up the fantastic work and cheers, its appreciated. Take care

Any other recommendations folks

[mynthdd2]

reading WalkHighlands?

[Mal Grey]

Thanks for the links.

reading WalkHighlands?

This seems to be my plan, along with Song of the Paddle. Working from home, but its too much isolation being stuck in a flat alone for 23 out of 24 hours. And as my job is normally "on the road", its a real difficult adjustment. Nothing to moan about compared with many people on the front line though, so sucking it up and distracting myself with regular breaks to look at reports, blogs, post a few of my own and try to come up with other threads to keep us all vaguely entertained.

It does seem quite quiet on here as well, I guess some folk who aren't able to walk much are not posting too. For me, its having the opposite effect!

Here's a link to the Hall of Fame for Webtogs and therefore some of the best reports on WH;

https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=14958

[Giant Stoneater]

Some good reading here,Angry Corrie

http://theangrycorrie.epizy.com/?i=1

[RyanfaeScotland]

Has anyone tried out Zoom yet as a way of dealing with the isolation? It's a free video conferencing app and is fairly straightforward to use. Download it, host a meeting, send the invite to folk and they click on it to join. You can have a video conversation with up to 100 people! Quite a few of my friends are using it and have managed to have a few drinks together, one of them even getting 11 friends on it at once for a session from their homes (she says it turned out quite chaotic but in a good way!)

Check it out here https://zoom.us/ and if you want to give it a go but aren't tech savy or just get stuck then fire me a PM me and I'll help get you up and running.

[Sgurr]

2. Read The Munro Society Journal-2020 - I'm reading it a few pages each day, and some stories are so inspiring. ( haven't got to yours yet Sgurr )

WHY NOT, you should read in the order most likely to be zapped by the bug first. And what's the point of avatars if everyone is going to decode them?

Some good reading here,Angry Corrie

http://theangrycorrie.epizy.com/?i=1

Have a heap of it, but this obviates the need to go and search in husband's "study" to cries of "What are you doing!" and "There is a system, but only I understand it!"

[Sgurr]

Forgot to give suggestions for passing the time

(1) I post BBC Weather Watcher pictures hoping they will be picked for the forecast
(2) I could read all the books grandson left from when he lived with us doing a degree. I could get a remote one in English and History(Though so far all that has happened is I wake from nightmares where they come to strip me of the degree I have already got shouting 'This is no use in the 21st Century)
(3). Walk round town taking photos of the shops to post on facebook, so all the locals can play "What appears next?" and the expats can moan over how "Brewdog" has replaced "Granny Victoria's drapery" or something.
(4) We found a cycle repair shop. We haven't had our bikes out since we were 76 (google:tahaval and realsquiz) so now they are mended we will just cycle in a stately fashion around all the deserted streets
(5) BBC4 PM programme has been asking for "Covid Chronicles" 400 words. I am convinced if I keep on sending them they will at last recognise my authorial voice. Anyway, it keeps me busy.
That's quite enough. Thank goodness husband took over the cooking of the main meal when he retired before me
'.

[Graeme D]

Has anyone tried out Zoom yet as a way of dealing with the isolation? It's a free video conferencing app and is fairly straightforward to use. Download it, host a meeting, send the invite to folk and they click on it to join. You can have a video conversation with up to 100 people! Quite a few of my friends are using it and have managed to have a few drinks together, one of them even getting 11 friends on it at once for a session from their homes (she says it turned out quite chaotic but in a good way!)

Check it out here https://zoom.us/ and if you want to give it a go but aren't tech savy or just get stuck then fire me a PM me and I'll help get you up and running.

Yes, it's very user friendly which is just as well as it might be how the next WH Meet is being held!

[Paul Webster]

Just another suggestion on the video meetups.

An open source option:
https://meet.jit.si/

This one just lets you name a meeting, then share the link. No software involved at all if done on a laptop (does need an app on phones)

No accounts needed, no login, no data sharing, no time limits or anything else.

[DavidShepherd]

Has anyone tried out Zoom yet as a way of dealing with the isolation? It's a free video conferencing app and is fairly straightforward to use. Download it, host a meeting, send the invite to folk and they click on it to join. You can have a video conversation with up to 100 people! Quite a few of my friends are using it and have managed to have a few drinks together, one of them even getting 11 friends on it at once for a session from their homes (she says it turned out quite chaotic but in a good way!)

Check it out here https://zoom.us/ and if you want to give it a go but aren't tech savy or just get stuck then fire me a PM me and I'll help get you up and running.

Yes, it's very user friendly which is just as well as it might be how the next WH Meet is being held!

FYI the meetings are 40 minutes max unless you pay for them.

[madprof]

They seem to be extending this for free right now. At least it was happening on Friday.

[Graeme D]

They seem to be extending this for free right now. At least it was happening on Friday.

Yes, on Monday morning too when we had a department meeting.

[apollo0815]

From an IT specialist point of view, Zoom is a bit unsafe.

[Marty_JG]

From an IT specialist point of view, Zoom is a bit unsafe.

By "unsafe" we mean some bampot can gatecrash your party & put willy picks up everywhere.

But it can be fixed:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/27/21197090/zoombombing-zoom-stop-how-to-porn-trolls-video-chat-screen-sharing

[RyanfaeScotland]

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