Dear Hares,
We stopped walking on March 3rd, and resumed on May 12. We follow strictly the Governement recommendations on social distancing etc.
The current rules are here:
"Depuis le 29 mai, les restaurants, cafés, bars et lieux à manifestations sportives ou culturelles comme les théâtres, centres culturels, salles de concert, les cinémas et les lieux de culte peuvent accueillir à nouveau du public.
Les rassemblements jusqu’à vingt personnes sont admis aussi bien à l’intérieur qu’à l’extérieur. Il est toutefois fortement recommandé de respecter scrupuleusement les gestes barrière.
Vous pouvez organiser ou participer à des événements publics de plus de vingt personnes à l’intérieur ou en plein air (manifestations culturelles ou sportives, congrès etc.), sous condition d’appliquer ces deux règles-ci :
- Les personnes sont assises à des places qui leur ont été désignées,
- Soit il y a deux mètres de distance entre les personnes, soit elles portent le masque."
So it seems that we are permitted to walk together in a group of more than twenty so long as we either respect social distancing or wear a mask.
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Our Postmaster, Ian
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On a different subject, here are a few ideas on how to relieve the boredom of the coming months, in no particular order:
Learn & play bridge (www.bridgebase.com) (You don't need a partner, you can pick one up on the website)
Read classical books for free, courtesy of Project Gutenberg. (www.gutenberg.org)
And of course the National Library is still open (www.a-z.lu) for e-books
Help add books to the Gutenberg Library by proofreading.
Help add audiobooks to the Librivox Library, or download free audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)
Join Transcribathon (https://transcribathon.eu/) to transcribe and help preserve historical documents
Finally learn Luxembourgish, for example here (https://quattropole.org/en/e_learning)
Catch up on Luxembourgish cinema (http://www.vod.lu/fr/)
Take some courses
Maybe get that Open University qualification?
Or become a subscriber or editor for Wikipedia?
Or why not help mapmaking by contributing to Openstreetmap
Let me have your suggestions of ways to pass the time however weird and I'll add them to the list.
Mike Mann offers suggestions on keeping fit
Injuries: for those of you suffering from (sports-related) injuries, I can recommend the YouTube videos of 'bob and brad'. This 'double-act' is entertaining, positive and very professional.
As an example, a search of 'bob and brad achilles tendon' came up with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqAlt1k_-gs
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The Government is cooperating with Letzshop to offer a special home delivery service for "vulnerable people", into which category I suspect we can all be shoehorned.
Go to corona.letzshop.lu to make your order of a limited but adequate (if you can cook) list of ingredients you can buy.
Farmers' Market / Label terroir:
https://labelterroir.lu/shop-label-terroir
Co-labor produces and sells organic products (and helps reintegrate
people into the workforce)
https://www.co-labor.lu/shop.php?p=home&lang=en
Eifeler Frischdienst comes through Neudorf on Friday mornings.
The Scouts will come on demand to do your shopping for you
Lots of stuff on letzshop.lu, including teas from Tee Gschwendner, who come highly recommended by Domo.
Robert suggest that we could open an account with "la Provencal"
www.provencale.lu who are now catering from private customers. I was put off by this line:
"To be able to buy at La Provençale, you must have opened a customer account beforehand. To do this, show up in person at our store reception with identification to fill out an account creation form. The store is open Monday to Friday from 5am to 5pm, Saturday from 5am to 11:30am.", while Ron informs us that there is a minimum spend of 200€
For the thirsty, Roland suggests:
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National Theatre plays, every Thursday at 8pm. The direct link to the National Theatre website is here
Watch "Met Opera on Demand"
Watch classic films, eg, "The Hitchhiker"free on https://archive.org
I was delighted to find that they also offer "Hamish and Dougal", Hancock's Half-Hour, Lux Radio Theatre etc...I even found an ISO for Windows XP...
Fans of Fleabag may be interested in watching Phoebe Waller-Bridge's one woman show. It's available online from today:
https://ondemand.sohotheatre.com/
Luxembourg Theatres offer you the chance to see some plays that were perormed in Luxembourg theatres.
The Digital Concert Hall of the Berlin Philharmonic offers great concerts
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Learn & play bridge (www.bridgebase.com) (You don't need a partner, you can pick one up on the website)
Keep fit; lots of suggestions on-line
Read classical books for free, courtesy of Project Gutenberg. (www.gutenberg.org)
And of course the National Library is still open (www.a-z.lu) for e-books
Help add books to the Gutenberg Library by proofreading.
Help add audiobooks to the Librivox Library, or download free audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)
Join Transcribathon (https://transcribathon.eu/) to transcribe and help preserve historical documents
Finally learn Luxembourgish, for example here (https://quattropole.org/en/e_learning)
Catch up on Luxembourgish cinema (http://www.vod.lu/fr/)
Take some courses
Maybe get that Open University qualification?
Or become a subscriber or editor for Wikipedia?
Or why not help mapmaking by contributing to Openstreetmap
Let me have your suggestions of ways to pass the time however weird and I'll add them to the list.