Grimor

Stuck at home like many, so I made my daughter the actor and my wife the grip and script supervisor  What have you all been up to during these strange times?
 

So, radio stations all across Europe had a show of support and solidarity by all simultaneously playing "You'll Never Walk Alone" at 08:45 this morning.
What a lovely gesture and sentiment and as a native of Liverpool and Liverpool FC fan this song has a very special meaning to me personally for multiple reasons.
After the events of yesterday, I can't say the irony isn't lost on me though !
"You'll Be Arrested If You Don't Walk Alone And Quite Possibly Even If You Are Walking Alone (without a dog)" would have been more apt this morning  
https://www.nme.com/news/music/coronavirus-radio-stations-play-youll-never-walk-alone-at-same-time-in-show-of-solidarity-2632363

Tell me more.
I've got a bit more spare time on my hands now since the walking ban!

My workbench looks similar, way more chaotic. (I'm trying to send data to a BLE device to hack an electric bike) 

LOL!! 
I will pay your bail to get you out of jail.
or better yet, tell them you know me!
You have been lucky that he is the self-styled warrior of isolation and not a real policeman self-styled warrior (which of these there are also, although luckily less)

For anyone in a country that isn't locked down, you'll love Day 6.
Out on a brief exercise walk with my other half this evening (which we have been doing 3 times a day around our little empty housing complex ) we fell foul of the newly introduced additional restriction today of not walking with anyone else.
On the surface it does seem a bit of a mad one for couples who are living together in isolation anyway but due to us being in isolation we didn't get informed about it directly as we would have been by the administrators of the community.
So, if we'd known about it, we'd have complied.
Simple as that and no problem to us because due to our Japan trip we've been practising COVID-19 awareness before it became fashionable
But hey, even though we didn't know about it, ignorance is no defence so hands up and we'd take what was coming from the Police....
Except this wasn't the Police it was another resident conducting some sort of paramilitary neighbourhood watch scheme.
After shouting at us about whether the security company who patrol the estate had told us about the new restrictions we said no and remarked, as you do, that it seemed daft considering we lived together but were shrugging and turning round to go home.
And then it escalated beyond all reason.
I have a bit of a thing where if I'm in the wrong then I have no problem with being told.
You can even re-iterate what I've done wrong and I'll go along with it.
But its the third time that pushes my buttons.
You know the third one don't you?
The one when someone is talking to you like you are a child or an idiot?
Anyway, I politely(ish) informed him that I understood it the first time and the second time and there was no need to fucking repeat it again.
Of course the farce of this is that due to isolation, this whole exchange was being shouted across a road at each other  
Anyway, he gets it into his head that I'm an arrogant prick (I'll plead the 5th on that) because I'm utterly non-plussed by his attempts to intimidate me.
That wasn't because of some sort of hardman deal just that it was such an unlikely turn of events that I wasn't really reacting beyond thinking he was a complete tit.
As I crossed to the middle of the empty road to re-iterate that I wasn't going to be receptive to any of the threats or abuse, he reveals the concealed Nikon DSLR to try and takes a sly pictures of us, presumably to try and "non singular walking" shame us on Facebook.
Recognising that it was an utterly futile exercise to engage any further, we started to head back the 300 metres to our apartment when the frothing lunatic appears (breaking his own isolation no less) claiming that we must stop where we are to await arrest by the Police and he will personally ensure we are both fined €600 each.
He had undoubtedly completely and utterly lost his mind so I told the other half to start walking back to the apartment.
I started walking towards him to try give him some pause about whether he needed to dial this down because this particular arrogant prick wasn't buying it and also to put a bigger gap between him and my missus in case he did act on it. 
(Spoiler alert, I wasn't fully buying it but had put down a hefty deposit on it because I could see he had become unhinged, was twice my size but I'd jumped off the diving board at this point  )
Plus, there was no way I was going to turn my back on him at this point !
Anyway, he whips out the phone this time to video me and then says I have to remain where I am because now he was going to arrest me  
I think I may have laughed at this point which sent his rage-o-meter off the charts and he was bellowing me at a distance of about 40cm.
Oh dear.
The self styled Isolation Warrior of Murcia had saved his community from the threat of two of its residents walking together and was now firing his frothy rage fuelled spittle all over one of them.
Of course, I pointed this irony out to the camera on the video he was still recording of me and it was abruptly stopped to be replaced with more threats of physical violence at an SPL level that even AC/DC might deem to be a bit on the high side.
I backed away from him slowly at this point and then turned and walked back slowly to make sure that my missus was back in the apartment in case he came after me again.
Even walking slowly was an act of arrogance apparently which got his motor running again.
So I sit here patiently awaiting the arrival of the Guardia Civil to take all my toilet roll money (I hope @Grimor can put in a word for me with the authorities in case they cart me away) or perhaps this lunatic might just settle for sending his dog around to perform a canine arrest on me.
Of all the insults he brought forth on me, I think the worst one was him taking pictures of me with such a shitty zoom kit lens on that Nikon.
From the moment I saw that, he had no chance of taking the high ground  
Oh and for context, this confrontation was between two middle aged British men in Spain proving that, even when we are in full lockdown isolation , we can always find new ways to lower the tone.
 

So.....
About the original point of this thread then.
Has anyone got up to anything interesting yet whilst in isolation that they can share with the group?
Yesterday I posted this live scene from my workbench and I'm pleased to share with you all the outcome of what was going on in it.

With having that ability to concentrate fully on a project that only fully being in isolation can bring, I have completed eating both bars of chocolate.

We in Spain are doing the same. Exactly as bad as Italy, only 10 days behind.

My "Amelie" tribute selfie

In the office.

Same situation here in Madrid. Both my wife and I are freelancers and everything has just stopped, no work at all for the foreseeable future (I reckon late April/early May at the earliest). Trying to get a few clients who haven't paid recent jobs to cough up what they can. My wife is thinking she my have to lay off her employee. Grim.
It's a total lock down, a very weird situation. You get up in the morning, it's a lovely spring day and think, "A walk in the park would be nice"...and then you remember! We are lucky as we live on the top floor of our building with a 15m2 terrace with plants, bbq etc. I'd hate to imagine what it's be like cooped up in a little flat for 15 days.
Having a nine month old baby keeps us occupied mind!
Other activities we have to keep us occupied are set up the Ikea hydroponics system we have lying around and try to grow some lettuce, learn how to ferment vegetables and make bread on Youtube, a bit more gardening, try to watch a film, repeat...we are already on day 4 here (only went out for some food and medicines)...tick tock

We could organize a group video chat and meet in person. It would be fun and safe in these confining times!

My vote goes for "Advanced urban combat tactics for toilet paper purchasing" 🤣

My vote goes for "Advanced urban combat tactics for toilet paper purchasing" 🤣

I've bought so much of it that when the lockdown is lifted I'll be having to do some urban combat tactics for laxative purchasing to make sure I get the stockpile down !

My vote goes for "Advanced urban combat tactics for toilet paper purchasing" 🤣

My "Amelie" tribute selfie

My "Amelie" tribute selfie

Unfortunately, one of the reported cases is two streets away !
I might drive up to Vera as it looks like that isn't in lockdown and if there is anything that will scare this virus away its the sight of me and a bunch of other fat Brits playing beach volleyball in the nude.

My "Amelie" tribute selfie

Now you have 2 good things: Murcia is one of the regions with the fewest reported cases in all of Spain. In addition to leaving the UK you have won a much more handsome Prime Minister !!

My "Amelie" tribute selfie

Here in Italy we are in an almost total lockdown. Shops closed, pubs closed, schools closed, church service reduced, public events canceled, sporting events canceled, public transport reduced and so on. And this until April at least. We even need a valid reason to go outside in case the police ask (and they do), with valid reasons being work, health problems, purchase of food, visiting a sick relative, going back home and things like these. I have never seen my country so empty. You really do see not many people around, which by Italian standars is quite strange. You can also see people going around with a mask, which has never been a habit here, and people not giving a hug and a kiss when meeting each other, which instead has always being a common Italian habit.
I also think that this virus is still a flu, even though quite a strong one. And being a flu (that is low mortality, high diffusion), I guess the number of people being infected is way more than the number found with the test. The test doesn't give you a real number of total cases, just the number you found and a rough estimate on the population. Probably there are many people who got infected but never got sick, and others that, even if sick , were just having minor symptoms, like the ones normally associated to a flu or a cold. Otherwise it's hard to explain such an explosion of cases in the past 10 days.
Other European countries are just 2 weeks behind us and should lock everything down now, not in two more weeks. Spain is having a surge in cases now, 3000 already with a population half the Italian one in a country twice as big. This virus is not so dangerous by itself if you are not already weak  for other reasons (age, cancer, hearth problems, diabetes, etc.) but it can have a strong impact on the healthcare system.

Recently, I modified an old projector to scan super 8 frame by frame. I had the support of one of the most charismatic members of this community. It was a fun project!
 

Whoah there, I thought it was only me that was assisting with this project.
Who the hell is this other character who was helping you ?