Hello

[GaryM]

Here's a question I'd like to ask. Mnd, and other things I suppose, can come from a faulty gene. So what causes a faulty gene?
Could this virus cause faulty genes or am I going down the wrong track? 🤔

Knock yourself out here, denise

https://kidshealth.org/en/teens/genes-genetic-disorders.html

[denise]

Thanks so if the environment can cause genetic changes then the virus could?

[denise]

No answer 🤔

[GaryM]

No answer 🤔

Not from me, denise. I probably know less than you about genes now. I was just trying to be helpful.

[denise]

It's ok I just thought someone might know.

[denise]

Anyone stockpiling anything interesting? I heard on sky news that lettuce, oranges and lemons are flying off the shelves.

[GaryM]

Anyone stockpiling anything interesting? I heard on sky news that lettuce, oranges and lemons are flying off the shelves.

Might be a rough Christmas for tortoises then. Regarding stockpiling, I've got enough Ensure milk shakes to survive until February. 😉

[denise]

I never thought about tortoises but then they should be hibernating. Well at least you are ok. Do you still eat or just tube it?

[Bowler]

denise Phew for a moment there I thought you were going to mention stockpiling something important like cider 🍺😉

[denise]

We've never had food shortages here. I think UK has become too dependent on the rest of Europe for food.
oh I have a tree full of oranges. I forget they grow in the garden. No lemons though.
🐢🍊🍋

[GaryM]

I never thought about tortoises but then they should be hibernating. Well at least you are ok. Do you still eat or just tube it?

I'm still eating, denise. Just flushing tube at the moment. But I could survive drinking milk shakes.

[Lynne K]

Faulty genes cause MND Denise. We inherit our genes from our parents so they are with us pre-birth. Lynne

[denise]

Christmas we always used to go back to stay with my grandparents. My mum and dad always went out Christmas eve and nan would babysit us. So we knew that if mum and dad are in bed we could sneak downstairs and see what Santa had left us. We could hear them snoring so we made our escape out of the bedroom and down the stairs. Only to meet grandad coming to bed in his long john's. 😄😉🎅⛄

[matthew55]

Sadly we can't all have good memories of Christmas. I remember one year my alcoholic father brought a tramp he found on the way home from the pub and sat him at our Christmas table. Happy Days 🙂x

[denise]

One part of me went omg how horrible. Then another part of me thought what a kind act. Ohhh i think taking the guy a plate of food might have been enough. I would like to ban alcohol but i dont imagine that would ever happen. 😘