Covid-19 lockdown check-in

[Iormlund]

Looks like we'll be back at work on Monday. Still not officially confirmed, though.

The new office layouts look decent. All non-plant staffers are to WFH indefinitely, their desks and the meeting rooms will be used so everyone can seat at a minimum distance of a couple meters. In the shop floor we're staggering breaks and distancing staff as much as possible. Transportation may be a problem, but there should be more buses for less staff (low demand).

Our trim plant will provide masks for everyone. We've been printing face-shields for those who have to move around other people. There should be gel and soap in abundance (we'll see).
Last time I was there there were also disposable gloves to use under work gloves, but I don't quite get the usefulness since you can just as easily touch your face with those. I simply wash my hands thoroughly each time I take my work gloves off (thankfully those are full of grease/oil so you soon lose the reflex of touching your face).

[merithyn]

Making our own yeast.  Been meaning to do it for years.

How??? From apples?

[mongers]

Making our own yeast.  Been meaning to do it for years.

How??? From apples?

I fear the reply will be TMI.   

[crazy canuck]

Making our own yeast.  Been meaning to do it for years.

How??? From apples?

I fear the reply will be TMI.   

Could be.

@Meri,  right now just going the sourdough starter route using my mother-in-law's old recipe.  Was thinking of trying raisins and honey after the sourdough is well established.

Didn't think of apples-will look that up.

[The Larch]

Don't forget the seven men (aged 40-60) and three women (aged 23-25) who were on a private jet that got turned back from France.

Never got that juicy piece of news, background?

[Liep]

I'm not saying I prefer the lockdown, but the commons outside Copenhagen is blissfully quiet without the air traffic noise that usually comes in two minute intervals.

[mongers]

I'm not saying I prefer the lockdown, but the commons outside Copenhagen is blissfully quiet without the air traffic noise that usually comes in two minute intervals.

Yeah, it's weird; I was in the forest the and I even stopped to take a photo a planes prominent contrails in the evening sky, so unusual was it now.

[Iormlund]

Yeah, it's weird; I was in the forest the and I even stopped to take a photo a planes prominent contrails in the evening sky, so unusual was it now.

Was the 28 days later theme sounding in your head?

[FunkMonk]

My hair has gotten pretty bushy and frankly uncomfortable. My wife is going to cut my hair this weekend. Pray for me.

[merithyn]

Could be.

@Meri,  right now just going the sourdough starter route using my mother-in-law's old recipe.  Was thinking of trying raisins and honey after the sourdough is well established.

Didn't think of apples-will look that up.

What's your sour dough recipe? Mine was 1 cup flour, 1 cup water, 1 teaspoon yeast, 1 teaspoon honey.

It's working so far.

[Duque de Bragança]

Don't forget the seven men (aged 40-60) and three women (aged 23-25) who were on a private jet that got turned back from France.

Never got that juicy piece of news, background?

I missed it too. Was two week ago. They wanted to have some party in the Côte d'Azur but got rejected on landing at Marseille-Marignane airport. Some helicopters were waiting to transport them to luxury villa in Cannes. Tough luck! 
9 went back to London, the last one rented a small private plane to go to Berlin.

[crazy canuck]

Could be.

@Meri,  right now just going the sourdough starter route using my mother-in-law's old recipe.  Was thinking of trying raisins and honey after the sourdough is well established.

Didn't think of apples-will look that up.

What's your sour dough recipe? Mine was 1 cup flour, 1 cup water, 1 teaspoon yeast, 1 teaspoon honey.

It's working so far.

Pretty much the same, there is a bit of an odd sequence about how much to discard before feeding.  Not sure it makes a difference but my mother in law thought it did.

[Iormlund]

My hair has gotten pretty bushy and frankly uncomfortable. My wife is going to cut my hair this weekend. Pray for me.

I finally trimmed it all down to a couple millimeters to see if I could pull the Bruce Willis look when I eventually lose the hair. The guy in the mirror looks weird. 

[Threviel]

Could be.

@Meri,  right now just going the sourdough starter route using my mother-in-law's old recipe.  Was thinking of trying raisins and honey after the sourdough is well established.

Didn't think of apples-will look that up.

What's your sour dough recipe? Mine was 1 cup flour, 1 cup water, 1 teaspoon yeast, 1 teaspoon honey.

It's working so far.

Won't that just make a yeast dough that you can bake with?

I do my sour doughs with flour and water, mix 50ish 50ish, put in a cupboard above the fridge and feed it with water and flour, keeping the consistency, once in a while. After a few days it starts to bubble. I sometimes grate an apple into it from the beginning.

Then I forget to feed it in the fridge

[merithyn]

Could be.

@Meri,  right now just going the sourdough starter route using my mother-in-law's old recipe.  Was thinking of trying raisins and honey after the sourdough is well established.

Didn't think of apples-will look that up.

What's your sour dough recipe? Mine was 1 cup flour, 1 cup water, 1 teaspoon yeast, 1 teaspoon honey.

It's working so far.

Pretty much the same, there is a bit of an odd sequence about how much to discard before feeding.  Not sure it makes a difference but my mother in law thought it did.

That's about building the sourness, I think. I just keep using it and letting it sour in between, so I don't bother with that part.