Look at these by Italian brewery BrewFist:
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Nice
I donāt drink beer myself, but the labels are cool looking, and Iād certainly love to display them in my Man Cave/Movie Room.
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These are greatā¦thanks for sharingā¦
I donāt always drink beer, but when I do, Iāll have a Tuco, eh blondie?
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STAY WELL, FOLKSā¦
Being half-way through this second Coronavirus lock-down, I thought it timely to wish everyone on āSWDBā the best of health, happy viewing, and a bright outlook, despite the Governmentās mixed-messages.
Unlike the first lock-down, Iām hoping that people are finding it slightly easierā¦? What do I know???
Anyway, my sincerest, and warmest best wishes to all āSWDBā membersā¦ stay well, guys and gals.
I am known to enjoy a beer or two, so it would be rude not to sample the lot.
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING to everyone in SW Land!!!
Hope you all have a fabulous day and enjoy the time with loved ones, and of course a wonderful feast of whatever type of foods you enjoy.
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So, I felt a bit hot/cold Tuesday night; lights seemed a bit too bright, sounds sounded a bit too loud, and anything touching my skin felt irritating. Tiniest of coughs, nothing serious, but enough to make me think, right, get a test. Got a test yesterday morning, got the results back maybe 2Ā½ hours ago: Positive. So, with my symptoms first making an appearance on Tuesday, I think weāre supposed to consider that āDay 1ā. So, shall we call this āIāve got coronavirus: Day 3ā? A tragi-comedy in (hopefully) no more than ten government-approved isolatory parts? Okay then.
Iāve Got Coronavirus: Day 3
Symptoms havenāt changed much since Tuesday night. My feelings of feverishness all got worse yesterday evening but they went away altogether last night, although they were back to a lesser degree by this morning. At this moment in time, Iām feeling a bit shakey as though Iāve been feverish, but donāt feel feverish right now, at all. The cough persists but it really is very slight at the moment. Like, five or six little coughs per hour? If we werenāt living in the age of COVID-19 I wouldnāt give a cough this small the slightest consideration at this point. Felt a bit achey earlier but no more than I tend to when Iām a bit under the weather, you know. Breathing is fine for now - touch wood - and I feel pretty strong.
Worries? Well, Iām 48, diabetic and overweight. So Iām not young but Iām not old either. I have type 2 diabetes but my levels are so low Iām like someone who doesnāt have it. Iām overweight by 2st for my frame so, although thatās not good, it could be a lot worse. I dunno, maybe itās that weāre on day three since I noticed my symptoms and Iāve still not been hit that hard (yet: touches wood again) or maybe itās just that I know my own body, but I just donāt feel as though Iām in serious trouble within myself.
My big fear as things stand is with my family, and successfully isolating from them. Iāve got a 16yr old boy about whom Iām not too worried because of the way in which this virus seems to be going easy on the kids, but Iāve also got a wife who is overweight (sheās ten years younger than me though so that might lay in her favour), and an 18month old girl. Again, babies seem to getting hit a lot less hard than other age groups but, still. Itās a worry. Now, weāre in a small(ish) two-bed maisonette. The boy in one room, the baby in our bedroom in a cot, and the wife and I on a mattress downstairs in the front room (every time we came up to bed it disturbed the baby and, once she knew we were up there, sheād keep getting up. So, in order to give her - and us - a full nightās sleep, weāve retreated to the front room). Iām about to start dismantling the cot to bring it downstairs soās I can isolate myself up in the main bedroom on an air mattress but our house - which always felt perfectly-sized for our small family - now feels way too small to keep this f#cking thing away from my wife and my baby.
Called my 81 year-old mum, she inevitably freaked out despite my telling her in my cheeriest voice that Iām feeling fine (which I really am right now). Called my sister-in-law and she inevitably freaked out too, but she blubs and howls at the John Lewis adverts like sheās been shot so, you know. But weāre probably going to need her and her partner - my best friend - to do our shopping, and probably that of my mum too (we were doing her shopping for her).
So, thatās that. Weāll see what tomorrow brings, I guess.
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Get well and hang in there Asa, Iāll be keeping a good thought for you and your family. Glad you decided to get the test asap when you knew you werenāt feeling well.
My parents and a close friend of mine have had there share of health concerns this year, luckily weāve all been spared COVID, and are keeping to the rules, but weāve known folks whoāve had it and they have gotten better so we kind of know what it is.
Try to keep a happy thought, and youāll get through this, I know it.
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Sending my very best to both yourself, and your lovely family, Asa. You are the first Iāve heard of, personally, that has got this dreaded āpain in the arseā illness.
Please try and stay strong, amigo, for yourself, and those close to you. With your indomitable spirit, Iām sure that things will turn out okayā¦
Get well soon, buddyā¦
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All the best and a speedy recovery! (Itās probably no consolation now, but since March, three of my friends and a few more distant acquaintances have had this damned disease, and they have all come through it very well.)
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Cheers, gents. Means a lot, sincerely.
Anyway:
Iāve got coronavirus: Day 4
Symptoms: Almost nothing. No feeling of feverishness - as relatively mild as my fever ever felt - and nothing at all of that nature for about 48 hours now. Iām coughing between 2 and 6 times per hour. Not a coughing fit mind you, just: Cough! like that. Is my throat sore? Possibly, but that may be where Iāve been breathing in my sleep through my mouth. And itās so slight I might even just be imagining it, as though Iām anticipating the next sign of this illness. As though Iām mentally feeling that there must be something more here, surely? Truth is, Iām feeling fine.
Big worry of the day: My wifeās and sonās results came back and they have it too. My wife having it feels far more concerning to me than me having it, doubtless in part because I know my own body and know exactly how Iām doing. She doesnāt have any symptoms so far, though (Iām still not too concerned about my son having it, purely because heās a teen. I mean Iām more concerned now I know he definitely has it than beforehand, but he has no symptoms, heās as strong as an ox in terms of his general health and heās in a pretty safe group, all things considered). In practical terms this obviously eases the worry of isolating in my house. That said, weāve still got to care for an 18month old who will surely pick it up from us now, if she hasnāt already. Weāre going to stay masked up around her, maintain our hand washing regimens and wipe down everything we touch but itās difficult.
Best part of today: Now my wifeās got it too, no more sleeping/existing in a separate room on a bloody airbed for me. I know I only did it for one day but, still. Worst part of today: The approx. 400,000 emails from NHS track and trace, including at least a couple warning my 18month old girl of her legal obligation to self-isolate for the next 14 days. At least one kept directing me to a questionnaire about my movements over the last week which kept timing out and resetting itself quicker than I could fill it in, like the worldās shittest āEscape the Roomā game.
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Hang in there Asa, youāre doing great, keeping to your regiment is the best thing to do. From what youāve said, it sounds like you and your family are asymptomatic or have very mild cases, which is a good sign. The masks around your baby is a great idea too, sheās the priority right now and youāre doing great with her. Keeping positive thoughts for you all here in New Jersey.
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Hang in there amigo. Itās no joke having the 'vid ā¦ wishing you and your loved ones all the best and a speedy recovery
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Iāve got coronavirus: Day 5
Symptoms: Iām bunged up and sneezing, but fine in myself. The sore throat that keeps threatening still hasnāt really materialised. The cough has vanished today. Fever hasnāt returned. Wife has had a headache most of the morning but that may well be from the ongoing battle between my mum and the NHS trace people who seem to be engaged in a game of āWho Can Text/Call Us The Most Times For No Discernible Additional Reasonā. My son felt pretty hot and feverish this morning and he was looking rough but heās brightened right up.
Iām halfway through my ten-day isolation period.
Big worry of the day: My son. Hadnāt heard anything from him by 11am so I thought Iād go up to check on him and he looked like that blond guy in Dawn of the Dead when he was reanimating into a zombie. I asked him how he felt and he said his head was hurting. He felt worryingly hot. I got his window open (bloody teenagers donāt like fresh air, do they?), got him a damp flannel for his head, a big glass of squash and some paracetamol. Had myself a bit of a meltdown downstairs with the wife, worrying about him, but although he didnāt look much better by 11.30am when I took him more juice, by lunchtime when I took him some scrambled eggies and more juice heād started to perk up. By 12.30pm he was asking me to fetch him crisps, choccies and the first three seriesā of Peep Show on DVD. By half past one he was bored up in his room and ready to join us. Temperature right back down, nose stuck back in his phone like a teenager. Good.
Been a quiet, waiting-around sort of a day. Waiting for my boy to perk up, waiting for something more COVID-like to happen to me. Currently waiting for our family to show up to nip out to the shops for us. My main symptom today has been sneezing (our baby is sneezing too; like me though, sheās otherwise fine in herself). Is sneezing a particularly COVIDy thing? I wasnāt sure that it was. The stress of waiting for something dramatic to happen, and nothing dramatic happening, is kind-ofā¦ well, stressful. The only thing we havenāt had to wait for is for the NHS track/trace people to text or call us. Thirty-five texts today, and four phonecalls. Still theyāve stopped emailing us which is a start, I suppose.
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I havenāt got kids myself, but I do have a goddaughter thatās still going to school, and I do worry for her, though she takes every precaution herself. Canāt imagine the worry you were feeling though, but that he improved throughout the day is a good sign in itself. Sometimes I think itās scarier when itās a waiting game, especially when youāre not experiencing the associating symptoms of this pain of a sickness. Just keep thinking positive, youāve got good support all around you.
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Iāve got coronavirus: Day 6
Symptoms: A bungled-up nose and sneezing, the same as yesterday, but more so in both instances. A good few double-sneezes; donāt think Iāve ever done those before. I still feel fine in myself though and, of course, sneezing isnāt generally regarded as a symptom of COVID-19 at all. Breathing fine and clear, no fatigue. Coughing a little bit this morning upon waking but thatās gone again, and the feverās still not made a comeback. My eyes felt a bit sore this morning if I moved them to the edges of my periphery up, down, left or right but, like the cough, thatās tapered off as the day has progressed. Wife has felt a little bit dizzy most of the day but it hasnāt been an issue for her. Son has been absolutely fine, no symptoms whatsoever. Babyās head has felt warm all day but sheās not demonstrating any illness. Sheās not off of her food and, as I write this, sheās happily pinging around the room chuckling cryptically to herself in that way that 18month olds do. Weāve given her a couple of doses of Calpol in any event.
Big worry of the day: Boredom. All being well, I can return to the land of the living on Friday which, until today, felt positive to me. Today, thatās kind-of felt like a long ways off. Without a baby in our life I reckon Iād be well into an enforced period of lockdown. Iāve got a 55-hour non-stop ā80s Weekenderā movie marathon all cued up for just such an eventuality. But the rigorous routine of a baby means that I canāt attempt it. Popping out of the house, even briefly, for this or that is often our way of breaking the monotony of our days and now we canāt do that so weāre mostly just sat here.
Told the NHS trace people to stop hassling us today. Politely, like, but definitely. Woman on the phone was sympathetic and sounded like sheād heard this particular spiel about not cross-referencing members of a single household a thousand times already. She said sheād try to get our names taken off of some list or another but she said they still have to contact us to monitor our progress (I donāt really mind that tbh, itās the ceaseless asking us for the same details over and over and over and over). That was at about 11.30am and, in fairness, they havenāt contacted us since.
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Incidentally, has this site gone ādarkā-themed for everyone else too, or have I inadvertently pressed some setting on my tablet?
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It may be a typical symtom of covid-19, or ?