Nobody About.

[Georgiesmum]

now we are in lockdown still but I walked into our local shop yesterday to get some milk and I was struck how very quite it was.. I barely saw a single person. It felt quite eerie, like ghost town and it was 3pm in the afternoon

[Mamyalynne]

Everywhere does feel quieter yes, less traffic but the birdsong is more audible.

[Georgiesmum]

Yes, I agree Mamya. I loved to hear the birds, I feed them all year round.

agree

[jno]

the only birds I could hear around Soho today were seagulls :-( And it's miles from the sea. I couldn't even hear nightingales in Berkeley Square.

[tomus42]

// I walked into our local shop yesterday to get some milk and I was struck how very quite it was.. I barely saw a single person. It felt quite eerie, like ghost town and it was 3pm in the afternoon //

This sounds like my local shop before lockdown. It's never been any different.

[retrocop]

//the only birds I could hear around Soho today were seagulls//

Crikey.How times have changed. Years ago Soho was awash with Tom's Tits.

[Mamyalynne]

Has Tom let himself go then?

[Jackdaw33]

Tom is police argot for prostitute.

[Mamyalynne]

Aware of that, Tom's tits are the tits of Tom.

[Mamyalynne]

Are you enjoying the quietness GM or do you find it unsettling?

I know some people say it seems to add to the sense of isolation.

[retrocop]

Soho was their mating territory. :-)

[Jackdaw33]

Many years ago when I was 20 I was approached by a tom in Soho who asked me if I was interested in 'foreign produce'. I replied that I only bought British.

[ummmm]

I haven't ventured much past our local shop. The shop itself remains busy enough but it's the only local shop.

Doesn't seem to be many school kids around though.

[retrocop]

Wise decision JD else you may have copped more than a dose of her mind. :-)

[ummmm]

The shop does shut an hour earlier now though. I've been caught out by that a few times.

[Smowball]

Our local Lidl is a 5min walk awake and it is still packed every day,

[retrocop]

JD
A good few years ago I attended my old police station reunion which was Paddington Green. It was held at the Victory Sevices Club Edgeware Road. I left early to catch the Tube at Marble Arch which was 100 metres up the road and was approached by a pretty young girl with a pseudo French accent. She was about 19years. "Are you looking for business?" she asked in a sexy French drawl. "Sure," I said and produced my Warrant Card, "your place or mine?"
She let out a load of expletives which were more Anglo Saxon than Gaul and I darted down the tube before I missed the last rattler. :-)

[retrocop]

All our local supermarkets are reasonably busy and the wine shelves in our large Sainsburys is always devoid of Rioja and Prosecco which we were going to start stocking up on for Christmas. Vina de Sol is missing also. Either there are plenty of customers or the BWS staff are all on Furlough. :-(