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There are just two cases in Lincolnshire.
In Nottingham City, Three. In Nottinghamshire county, Six. Neither Nottingham nor Nottinghamshire can claim to have the lowest number of cases. That’s as of today, a few hours ago.
Villages are separated by distances and even Lincoln has a relatively small population, for a city. There are no large conurbations. I cannot foresee a situation akin to the Black Death, which left villages empty and churches without congregations. These still dot the county. It can be a bit Tribal, but that may be a good thing.
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I'm out.However I would imagine that the Nottingham numbers (lowest in England) may in future be impacted by the Notts Forest owner’s illness.
Ed it’s NOTTINGHAM Forest, NOTTS is only applied to Notts County, which used to be the world’s oldest football League club, until they fell into the National League. Now that title belongs to Forest. (1865) The difference is that County always played like an old club….
Mr Marinakis was with players and staff before he was diagnosed with Covid. Earlier today the squads, all youth and female squad, were tested. All negative.
That’s what I call Good News!😋
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I'm out.Buying it is not illegal, however this is the advice I picked up:
” In the UK it is not legal to distil alcohol without a licence from Revenue and Customs and this includes alcohol for your own consumption. … There are also some who make use of equipment intended for the purification of water or essential oils, but it must be stressed that this is illegal in the UK. ”
How and why are Amazon selling this?
My advice Lee, is if you buy one, keep it quiet if you make your own hooch. I remember my much-missed FIL making his own wine. I asked if it was legal to brew your own alcoholic drink. “It’s legal as long as we don’t drink it!” He made the greatest elderberry and blackcurrant wine, let it stand for months. Blew you away, it was more like a Liqueur.
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I'm out.I bought this in 2018 Les:
A BOGOF purchase, so missus has one too. I keep my 3 bank cards in the rear, shielded pocket and ID such as driving licence and library card in the front, with a Fiver or two. On the rare occasion I need to travel by bus, I stick my Bus Pass in there too. That is, I might, if I could find it. 😫 I have been informing various organisations of our move by email and snail mail, took the bus pass numbers yesterday and put it down somewhere in this spare room/computer room, which is full of boxes, packed and waiting to be packed. This room is a nightmare.
It’s a neat little wallet and is good for most days when all I need is basic ID. I have another large RFID wallet which contains lots of other cards that get little use, mostly online. The small one is great and you cannot tell it’s in my pocket, it shows no sign that it’s there.
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I'm out.If true that children’s immune systems are killing this thing, I hope several medical organisations have taken note and are investigating. That’s hope for the next generation anyway.
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I'm out.I am accepting the annual sub as realistic Lee. It keeps us all together and you do need proper recompense for your efforts, especially if we consider that you dragged this thing out of the wreckage of MM. I haven’t noticed any difference in accessing and using the site, which to me means you got it right.
The only thing I will add is concerning Blacklion. If you pop back BL, we will welcome you. If you’re gone, we’re going to miss your input.
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I'm out.In the latest issue of Flypast magazine, there is a feature on the aircraft that really made Boeing’s name: the first truly high altitude, pressurised airliner. This was Boeing 307 Stratoliner, first in service with Pan American Airways and Transcontinental & Western (now TWA). Based on the YB-17, which became the B-17 Flying Fortress, it was initially a world beater, but the outbreak of WWII cut off access to lucrative European routes and both airlines were restricted by this. When the USA joined the war, the US government cancelled the programme and the military took over all the airliners as Military Transports. Most were used in transatlantic routes, Churchill travelling to and from various theatres and the USA in one example.
That was of course in the days when Boeing bean counters actually listened to their engineers and acted upon their advice.
Also in the same issue is an extract from a video about Sir Frank Whittle and his struggle to bring the attention of Top Brass and politicians to his invention of the Gas turbine and its application in military aircraft. His first idea came about in 1928, but not until May 1941 did the prototype take to the air. Then the RAF Head Shed neglected to make Sir Frank’s 1930 patent Secret, an incredibly stupid oversight which allowed several other nations to access the plans and ideas. Including Nazi Germany. Hans von Ohain was the Heinkel designer of the engine in the Heinkel 178, the world’s first jet aircraft to fly.This man always claimed to be the “co-inventor” with Sir Frank, of the jet engine, which is of course, absolute nonsense. The difference between Sir Frank’s efforts and von Ohain’s, is that the Whittle design, the Gloster E28, received investment from Sir Frank’s friend Rolf Williams (yay! go Williamses!) and a merchant bank, but absolutely nothing from the government and British industrialists.
Had sufficient investment, belief and support been received in the 1930’s, plus a Secret Patent fixed, the RAF may well have had a weapon in the skies that could have knocked down Luftwaffe aircraft in penny numbers, during the Battle of France and the dark days afterwards.
The story bears comparison with the actions of the Labour government after WWII. The Russians had taken all the wrong steps in trying to invent their own gas turbine engine, as the Yanks and (to a smaller extent) British aviation engineers, had
nickedappropriated so much German technical knowledge, experience, aircraft and tooling. Stalin was not at all pleased with his aviation designers and I suspect quite a few were employed further to the East. The Labour government secretly sent a Rolls Royce Nene turbojet engine to the USSR, whereupon the Russian designers immediately used it as a copy for their own engine: rechristened it in Cyrillic and of course, never paid a rouble in Royalties. Those were the actions of a committed bunch of Communist-leaning traitors, IMHO. Something that I suspect would have been applauded by Jeremy Corbyn.This supercilious attitude of course remains embedded in certain British management, some upper echelons of the military and government to this day. It echoes down the years.
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I'm out.I should have added that the boils during my youth were probably the result of being involved with engines from about 8 years old, with my big brother. Started out as cheap labour for him*, wound up learning more than him and in my later years I maintained whatever motor he ran.
*”Pass that spanner. NO that one! Now hold this.”
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I'm out.And when you think being quarantined, to await your fate, is bad enough: –
The victims are people quarantined because of contact with infected others. Just when they probably thought things could not get worse …
I expect an Inquiry will result in the builder/architect/City Planner* facing punishment.
*delete as necessary.
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I'm out.March 7, 2020 at 6:11 pm in reply to: PLEASE READ: SUBSCRIPTION MOVE EARLY HOURS FRIDAY MORNING #41481Maybe because I was away for a while, but I just logged in this evening (Saturday) and it all went without a hitch. Paid the Annual Sub, picked up my details.
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I'm out.Have not returned to this due to Moving arrangements taking up so much time, but just to say I was happy to take the Annual option and hope that I will still be on my perch and making several more recurring payments.🙄😁
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I'm out.Like PM, I cannot use soap or gels, I have had a non-infectious/non-contagious dermatological condition since hitting puberty.* I was diagnosed in circa 1982 by a dermatologist in Nottingham QMC, as suffering from a bug resident in lymph glands which could not be killed. He took samples, checked and sent them off to (iirc) Charing Cross as the centre for tropical disease at that time. Apparently the bug chooses hair follicles as a nice warm growth medium and I have millions of those, being part-Neanderthal.
The derma guy prescribed washing my whole body in Hibiscrub, which is the pink stuff that surgical teams scrub up with. Until I began using it, I had been suffering regular outbreaks of boils and carbuncles, usually started by the work I did in aircraft and motor engineering. A hair follicle would become infected and I had the most gruesome objects erupt from hands and arms, (even my knuckles and backs of my hands are hairy) sometimes causing the temporary loss of use in a limb or hand. From then on, I have never had a bath, only a daily shower, head to toe, as recommended by the Sri Lankan Dermatologist. I have never had another problem and I can get through 5 litres of the stuff about every two or three weeks, as I have to wash my hands with it. I can wash hands in an alcohol- based scrub at, says the GP, but only occasionally as it dries up and cracks my skin.
I have asked my GP about Covid-19 and washing. His advice is that Hibiscrub will work better than any antibacterial gel, and to use alcohol if possible where I don’t have Hibiscrub.
*Yes I can remember it, although it is over 6 decades ago! The memory of all those monster skin eruptions is still with me. It caused me a great deal of embarrassment at times too.
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I'm out.Yes I have that Final issue too.
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I'm out.Thanks guys, better late than never!😁 Been alternating between packing stuff for the move and attempting to inform various organisations about the move. What an unholy nightmare that is. Example:
County Council says they must be informed about any move. I had already informed the District Council, so managed to access County after they threw me out 3 times, then accepted same password I had given 3 times! Informed them by email from their own site, reply was that I have to inform District, not them. Which I had already done. If it wasn’t for the fact that I had worked in a County Council environment, and understood the lack of joined-up thinking, I could have been annoyed.
The next worst body was Plusnet. My degraded hearing means that I really struggle with phone conversations now, much prefer text or email. Tried to find a way to do this and it was seemingly not available, until I found “Accessibility” at the very bottom, in tiny script. I registered myself as having hearing difficulties and managed to get through to them. It also appears that their once really good ‘Chatline’ has gone to pot, it’s been offline every time I tried to use it.
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I'm out.Unless you pay the already expensive (and now super – inflated) price for the masks with valves and filters, the ones that are simply paper or similar material are useless after breathing through them for a short while. That introduces moisture and allows all bacteria, viruses etc to pass through in either direction. And to breed happily in the warm moisture of your breath.
Won’t be a problem for Russia though, Putin has found God and is even going to write Him into the Constitution!
That should keep Covid-19 at bay!
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I'm out.Anyone remember Grenville Grimace?
An argument looking for a place to happen, that bloke.
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I'm out.@bullstuff2 see above 🙂
Yes Lee I was typing my post while you were posting yours mate. I agree with what you say and I will wear masks if necessary to protect others, should I catch this thing. But with my crippled immune system, I don’t think I would survive long anyway.
That’s not being morbid or fatalistic, just practical. I have thought of every day as a bonus since my pancreatic cancer and prostate battles. I follow my dad’s advice: the secret of life is to keep waking up every morning. Like the guy falling from the roof of a high building, as he passes each storey he says “So far, so good!”🙄😆
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I'm out.After a visit to Bletchley Park and TNMOC a few years ago, my senior grandson has an original MM from long, long ago. I have the last issue and an MM mug, donated by another Forumite.
This was taken in 2015 in his mum’s home. There have been so many changes since in that young man’s life: he now has a very good well paid job in IT. He has his own apartment and his system is light years beyond what you see there, with a massive Server array in the second bedroom. Mum’s house has gone from being a 200 year old 2 bed cottage to a large 3 bed family home. But he remains the quiet, hard working lad he always was and i love him to bits.
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I'm out.However good, expensive and effective a mask may be, it does NOT protect the wearer against others. It does the opposite: it protects others from the breath, coughs and sneezes of the wearer. As Richard says, wash hands regularly and avoid crowds. I think the big spread of infections in the UK will come from sports matches. Imagine the effect of just 2 or 3 infected people in some of the big stadiums. They don’t have to be Home supporters, either. If they are away supporters, they will have perhaps travelled by train or coach. The Home fans will travel back to their homes, some by public transport, others in crowds walking the streets. This thing has not even got started.
75,000 old Trafford. 54,000 Anfield. 60,000 Emirates. 55,000 Man City. 62,000 Tottenham. 66,000 West Ham. To name just a few.
That is a lot of potential targets for Covid-19.
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I'm out.Thanks guys, much appreciated.
You would not guess how and where I celebrated my ¾ Century on this vale of tears today.
My daughter, whose daft SOH matches and often exceeds my own, made us an appointment for Afternoon Tea at the Louth Golf Club, which is a bit like Adolf Hitler being invited to take tea with King George VI in 1938 at Buck House.
It was just SWMBO and me for a while, two big plates of tiny sandwiches, lots of different cakes and sticky buns. Then a couple of overstuffed, over perfumed ‘ladies’ came to sit near us. It was OK until I picked up my scone, covered in cream and jam, with my fingers. “One is meant to use the confectionery fork and spoon to eat cake, dear.” My missus’ face expression became agonised and I answered in my best Notts. accent:
“Ah di’nt know that miduck, coz ah’m just a Nottinghamshire peasant. Nah, why dunt yo just eat yer snap in’t way yo eat it an’ ah’ll do t’same.”
Complete silence, overstuffed ladies moved to the restaurant. It was quite a good spread though, but too much cake. SWMBO stuffed the leftovers into her handbag, which is somewhat akin to a small Tardis. Daughter came to see us after we got back and asked with a crafty grin, “Enjoy it dad?” I couldn’t really answer how I would wish, as her present was also a bucket disguised as a coffee mug, with a vinyl record pictured on it and the message “The Old Ones Are Best.”
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