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Someone has already picked up on the point that the main contingency planning also included such as the inner cabinet and senior members of the opposition, though quite how that might be organised these days boggles my mind. At one time the plans used to involve such as Croydon and Hendon airfields and ‘easy’ access routes from central London. I trust those points have been given some attention as neither are exactly prime operational airfields any more. Other more operationally practical options do exist though access routes to them are none of my concern.
As to who leaked, there are plenty of mischief makers who would relish the chance to stir the pot over what should be and hopefully is routine planing management. As ED said, all sorts of scenarios are usually considered if only to have a range of possible reaction methods pre-considered for when the totally unexpected happens. When the sh1t hits the fan it is better to order a specific plan that can be followed and subsequently modified than to sit round worrying and wondering; that is when the wheels really come off.
My then dentist was banging the drum that dental care reduces heart problems a good deal longer ago than 10 years, nearer 20. While he is still within the same practice he took his services private and has a number of NHS dentists, several were Jewish who came and went on to further their studies, but the one I now have is a female Asian. All have stressed the need to restrict the build up of plaque as far as possible to maintain general as well as dental health. Bob, I agree with the analysis of that Polish dentist there have been some shocking cases of money making by dentists, though the fashion for such as veneers has helped the venial rob the gullible.
If the contingency plans have not been updated for a very long time then someone needs to be fired. They should be updated on a more or less constant basis, since contact numbers, routes, people and options change almost on if not actually on a daily basis.
Hopefully they will not follow Macron’s model for dealing with unrest. Use plastic bullets, but aim high to blind and disfigure thus creating martyrs.
Bob, loads of good stuff on YouTube/Netflix/Amazon Prime. IIRC you have Netflix via a family member. Amazon Prime video is very good but can be a pain to find exactly what you’re after.
That is what I found with many of these on demand outlets, my urge to watch gets overtaken before my search gets anywhere. I did see a few Amazon things about 15 months ago when I was stuck in the house but since then, nothing.
As for the SKY ‘drug’, the name of the pusher, Murdock was enough to keep me away from that addiction, his gang’s desire for all the money they could leach was too much for me.
I never could find those options on my machine, but via the search box, bottom left of the screen I traced media streaming options directly and opted to make the change ‘as administrator’ and all was well. It had been turned off though to be honest, I have previously been streaming from my PVRs in the recent past.
Yes Bob, I know you have been through the mill and come out with a basket full of issues none of which have really been resolved only held in their own little boxes. It is almost insulting to pass moment on how you are doing but, as you say for you there is no better, let alone good alternative. I guess that what you said is right, the best way to make light of things is to laugh at our misfortunes, even though they have an unfortunate habit of breeding with or without dark corner of the mind to hid their activities. Good luck and keep fighting the gremlins as you roll forward.
Steve, I call the sofa delivery a result!
Eight years is a long time to be battling, I can understand you getting battle fatigue, but I am very glad you are hanging in there. some of the horror story cases I have met saw people just up and leave. One with a nasty, messy divorce now unfolding, a really unpleasant situation, yet the woman in question was really nice and easy to talk to. Michele had her first run in 26 years ago but that was a cut and run job with only follow up checks and all were negative until the present very different ‘event’, so sometimes thing go well. Since we are going to so many different hospitals the groups we see are constantly changing, but I can see how it would drag you down if you met the same faces, but with increasing numbers of empty chairs. due to poor outcomes.
Bob, Steve, I have tended to ignore this thread and only peeped in by chance this morning and what a cold and nasty morning it is.
I was sorry to hear that you Steve were still spending long hours in hospital waiting rooms while the other half was getting what you must all hope will be encouraging news of progress. Waiting rooms can be pretty hard cold places and it is easy to get too much of them in a short time.
As for Bob, I know that those ‘internal exams’ are not too pleasant and the though of another one in a few weeks time would fill anyone with something other than raptures of pleasure. Most times it is interesting to know what is going on, but far more interesting, dare I say vital to know how the pain(s) can be stopped. The report that it is ‘nothing serious’ is not the vital part, relief is the far more vital need. I can only wish you well.
After driving nearly a 1,000 miles this month with daily radiotherapy sessions plus other doctor visits for my wife neither of us are feeling a post activity relief bounce since that bit is done and dusted.
Steve, since you have been on this grinding round for far longer, I marvel at the way you keep on trucking through it all. You never appear to get ground down by the constant pressure plus those of a young family. Do you interact with any of the other patients and their families? I found the contacts I had very helpful, there was nothing down beat about any of them, yet I knew that some of them were scheduled for an earlier exit than others
It did say very clearly that Samsung were producing the screens rather than complete machines. I thought that there were now very few machine builders as such, who built to the order of the ‘names’.
Still it should well be an interesting development though I suspect that the items will have a price to match their appealing display form.
An interesting revue of an interesting subject. It is hard for many to appreciate that some ancient societies had remarkable skill levels developed via the school of hard work and finding what works, works well. Mining and I guess be extension tunnelling is something that has been carried on for thousands of years. I suggest that then as now it was an occupation that featured various levels of specialisation and this might be why the old skills were either passed on, master to subject and frequently lost when the master had no further subject due to death, invasion, illness or lack of interested parties. Skilled ‘masters’ could and did and to some extent still do achieve remarkable accuracy with minimal high tech guidance – I remember a few years back someone introduced a last great whizz bang set up, the accuracy of which was rather less than a far less high tech system. The practitioners of low tech offered to try to recalibrate the high tech but less accurate system to improve its performance.
I should admit that I was not in the most receptive of moods while trying to read the link. I have just returned from an appointment for an injection to sort out a trigger finger problem. Unfortunately the lump at the base of the digit was impenetrably hard frustrating all the doctor’s attempts to get the needle into the required area. So I have to be referred onwards to a superior force and continue with a well below par, painful left hand for the time being.
It is all the more surprising that the US supplies 41% of the income that the Venezuelans get from mismanaging their oil! Though the Americans are increasingly second sourcing their supplies as the capability of the Venezuelan oil industry reduces through the lack of maintenance and staff.
Yes Ed, we had the same in Philadelphia and in Florida, though it was not the cops but the hotel staff and a few other people when we said we had walked to a park, though in Florida the lack of any pedestrian provision was most obvious. It was a contrast to the places we had lived in, though not London. I used to do some antisocial hours work sometimes. Drive up to the gate, show your pass, wait for the gate to open just enough to slide through, then wait for the gate to shut before moving to park. Then watch to local displays of less than wonderful action from many floors up and hope to get out and home safely when all was done. Back then it felt easier to avoid trouble which tended to be a little more focused and less random – a bit like New Jersey appeared to be back then. Just do not mess with the people carrying cases of a certain size and shape and they will not mess with you.
After I had written the above and had a night in bed, I thought about recent experiences. Some 50 years ago I used to know parts of London and even drive about in that now so blighted place. A series of recent visits confirmed how alien the whole place now felt, roads that had once appeared familiar and usable, now felt hostile and unwelcoming. OK, we only ventured into more central parts by train so dealt with the issues on foot not in a vehicle, but the whole place felt foreign with only the road signs and some vehicle number plates suggesting it should have echoes of familiarity. The few people we encountered in the area of Euston Road and Tottenham Court Road made us feel like observers of a war documentary. The people shuffled along laden down with plastic bags apparently containing their worldly goods – and no these were not the homeless lodging in doorways of which we saw none. As far as we could make out they were all going about their daily business, dressed in their normal clothes and certainly not looking as though they had spent the night sleeping rough. There were a few tourists, their American accents confirming they had no need of plastic bags of goods.
I went through some old images of Washington DC taken back in the 1980s and thought that Google street view would be a great way to identify locations in some of the shots. Nothing is anything like what it was back then. Even quite close to the White House derelict and run down areas were often the other side of the street and though some reconstruction was then in evidence I was not prepared for the fact that whole areas of small buildings had been swept away and replaced by a range of new, faceless, multi-storey structures. Perhaps the areas were now safer, it was hard to tell from a screen shot, but it was, once more a place for new visitors to make their own new memories. It is another place for which I have lost any desire to return.
It would be nice to go back to many places we once knew but health problems and the risk of tarnishing old memories is the major risk when much time has passed.
Places have always changed, they look smaller, older, more drab, too spruced up or simply bulldozed – though hopefully not in the case of Persepolis. That was something of a vanity project for the old Shah so it could have been at risk during the years. It was an odd place back then, we always felt that even the stone walls watched us.
I had a hand in baking at least one of the layers and iced the whole thing, three layers, though no flowers or other fancies. The base was cooked in a large cooking pan which we later used as a jam maker come preserving pan, which just fitted into the oven; all that was 44 plus years ago in a land far away. The honeymoon was in Iran in January – before the present management took over thank goodness.
Bob, Sorry, I thought Trump spelt it wrong and wanted to make ‘America grate’ again and again and again!
Lets face it, that is one promise we can all agree he is achieving.
Sometimes the gods of bad fortune are out to get you. Freeview needed yet another damned retune, so I did two out of the three boxes yesterday with no troubles, armed with such success I tried to do the third box this morning. Oh what fun. It decided that we were in a different reception area so set things to select transmissions that we could not receive… Several ‘easy retunes’ failed to convince it of its error and a slash and burn retune was the only answer, but that one lost all of the recording schedules.
The OS is most definitely not Windows, though I am not going out on a limb to guess which it is.
There have been a few updates after 1809 that greatly improved the way that networking functions for me, a series of small improvements happened over several weeks.
Yesterday I had a far from entertaining hour trying to work out why the PC would not recognise a directly connected scanner via some USB ports. I deleted an old entry with an allegedly ‘dodgy driver’ response but it took an age before it reinstalled the darned thing and worked as it should, it must have taken over half an hour to complete its playing about. It was darned hard to find out what was happening as Windows appears far less open about what it is playing about doing and sometimes a lot slower than it used to be.
Funny was that they do have a lot in common, lots of sick people who cannot afford treatment due to their leader’s crass ways though the folks ‘down south’ do have a slight lead in the number of dead and dying. They folks down south are also tending to be on the move a bit at the moment. Could another caravan be formed?
Not happening with me on Firefox, yet.
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