OneGuyFromBarlick

I popped a post on the Coronavirus Topic about how some of us might find it a bit hard to return to ‘normal’ when we are allowed to. It was swamped by other posts and not referred to. 😩. Never mind. I did see it and mentally noted that Australia is on a different, by politics, population and time, ...

It happens Cathy, don't let it bother you! Something that struck me yesterday listening to a lady interviewing another lady about her lockdown experiences and she expressed surprise when the interviewee mentioned wearing her jeans for more than one day without washing them. There is evidently a lar...

There's a move afoot to block any government funds going to people or businesses that have their abode `offshore' to avoid or minimise paying their taxes. Sounds a good idea to me! Tricky though when they do employ persons in the UK. I would have set up a volunteer / secondment website or database ...

It must be the closeness of long shifts on the production line, combined with sharing communal lunch rooms/toilets etc. Meat packing plants - I think you've got the answer there Maz. The virus doesn't make a choice about where it goes, it's not really alive and it can't move, reproduce or even meta...

Politics bit- "The guidance for the gradual return to 'normal' show that they are simply unworkable I'd say. The queue to board a large jet would be 1 km long, and just 15 persons per underground carriage is just fanciful, and as for 'one at a time' in lifts - I don't think it will work. Still - Gr...

Internet likes related, the use of "uptick" in a couple of BBC Covid related posts, one for an increase in hospital admissions in the north east and east of england, the other an increase in on-line enquires into entering the NHS Nurse training and employment programms.

I think you will find that useful. presumably helps eurostar too. For holiday makers maybe less so as many places to visit will be closed, and beaches you will be competing with the french anyway. it is probably aimed at business people working for few days at joint offices and so on, though much wo...

I didnt think VJ day got that much of celebration, but I suppose any reason for a party is useful. Reading today that part of Japan not fighting on was Stalin and Russia doing bit of invading, when Japan had expected some support from Russia. As in WW1 though forces were retained overseas, in Far Ea...

Thinking too of the lack of safe roadspace on say Barlick to Skipton. That old railway route as a cycleway would not be so stupid if the trains are not coming for a few more years Indeed but if there was any will it could have been converted into a proper cycleway 50 years ago when the line was clo...

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Not an enthusiasm of mine but I recognise a great talent.
87? he should have had longer. (But I would say that wouldn't I...)

After an early life of wine , women , song and fast living, followed by a (USA style) turn to religion....,oh, hang on....

This is more science than politics but I believe you can't easily separate the two when politicians are deciding on the action after allegedly taking advice from scientists. I've been pessimistic about the rapid appearance of a vaccine, based on the fact that this virus is related to the common col...

All trunk roads should have had properly segregated cycle lanes, The East Lancashire Road did have separate cycle lanes, and was built pre WWII. From memory they were quite wide but of course (in the 1950's) we didn't use them, preferring the better surface of the main carriageway, and the exciteme...

cycling as a transport means ( please give one to someone and ask them to cycle from the south side of Croydon to Waterloo and see how knackered they get) But if they do it regularly they will get a lot fitter. :extrawink: Thinking too of the lack of safe roadspace on say Barlick to Skipton. That o...

To some degree I find I can't separate covid and politics. The result is I'm tending to hold back from commenting specifically where numbers of sufferers are concerned. Other features like self isolation, = solitary confinement = torture. = no pubic meetings,= no demonstrations,= breakdown of democ...

P , there is the idea, scaremongering or otherwise, that the research into wild viruses might have led to the outbreak due to a failure in the control, unfortunately we cannot tell, nor if it was accident, or design. There is a link I think on the BBC (could have been guardian) on researchers, I thi...

I had forgotten about The Stage, Try The World's Fair too.

Would the theatre/s have given inspiration for the Majestic at a slightly later date?

I forgot just before lockdown I was due blood tests, sometimes these are done at local hospital/clinic and sometimes can be done at doctors surgery. This time at doctors but when I got there there was a trainee nurse in and I was asked if I minded her doing it, figuring that everyone has to learn so...

HI Steve, if OGFB does not keep you busy enough Heatons Men in Sheds has a website and bi-weekly zoom meetings at present (the wood whittling and 3D plastic playing is currently on hold due to social distancing and most are in the to be shielded category) Similar criteria exist for membership (actua...

This is another aspect of the rise of populism. Trump must love it! `Far-right spreads Covid-19 'infodemic' on Facebook' LINK `....what the WHO has called an "infodemic" looks more like a parallel world, complete with social organisation, activism and gift shops. It is one where fringe politics and...

I tend to pull up (others will spray to death) plants like that. Problem is they produce so many seeds that ground can get over-run with them, its a fine line to providing a host to moth or butterfly / hover fiy larvae and having too much rampant greenery. Trying to explain to some folk that an over...

They only need to sort the railways out and re-instate the thousands of bus routes that have been lost through more than a decade of cuts. Easy to say, a lot harder to implement. They could start by Nationalising the railways and chucking a few billion into transport systems outside of London, (not...

This week is the last week of Stanley's View as we know it. I don't intend to stop writing and my intention is to continue with a series of occasional articles but it remains to be seen how I will manage these without the discipline and deadline of a publication date! I'm not getting any younger. I...

In the Southern hemisphere the sun at noon is in the north instead of our experience in the North. That was what was disturbing me even before I had recognised it. What intrigued me was that it was instinct that alerted me to it. Perhaps we have forgotten senses that recognise magnetism. It is thou...

As I said in another thread, certifiable. It would be OK if he was the first recipient though. :extrawink: missed the thread, but what actions can an adminstration take if its leader is demonstrating words, thoughts or actions that most folk would think if not erratic as certainly not of being of s...

A couple of things, is the provision of PPE in private care homes not the responsibility of the care home owner Probably, but if all normal supplies of required and H&S assesed needed to the correct ISO/BS/EU stanard have dried up or ordered to go to NHS does the care provider hand back the individ...