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Yup! Greenfield site just down the road to get n-hundred houses on it – when everybody is dead set against it. Except, of course, those few in local council who are responsible for giving building permissions. Suspect they also have to wear Quatermass overcoats with big pockets to take all those anonymous brown paper envelopes.
I find that surprising. Seems to me that taking the vaccine carries far less risk than the chance of catching the damn thing. Am told by Those Who Know About These Things that the same issue affected the smallpox vaccine.
You are absolutely right, rox. The whole purpose of the hard shoulder is to act as a safety measure; for vehicles with an emergency or for emergency vehicles to reach an incident. Taking it away simply makes motorways more dangerous. Really do not understand why they’re doing this.
Well, given that many of the doc’s and boffins working on the vaccines are fresh out of college/uni:
So wise so young, they say, do ne’er live long.
Quite good looking for a sort of crossover. Pity they didn’t make it a proper two-door – I reckon those wonky little rears would be tricky to negotiate. With a 0-60 of 11 or so secs, the smaller-engined one doesn’t really seserve the Sport tag. Sounds like it might handle well, though.
Totally agree, Georgie. Why give it first to those most at risk and less likely to sue if it goes wrong. Couldn’t be to check for undiscovered side-effects before giving it to “normal” people, could it? No, surely not.
I reckon Georgie’s Inverse Law of Vulnerability Plan, detailed above, with old crumblies coming last is a better idea.
Speaking as the family Cook, I think you’re quoting from my Tale. But I do agree, indeed: The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
News on the virus developments seems very encouraging. Hope initial findings stay good. A 90% success rate is outstanding (Oxford one, I believe). Bit worried about the Pfizer one. BBC news said it had to be kept at minus 70 degrees C until moments before being administered. That will go wrong. Too many buttons to press incorrectly, too many incompetents to do the pushing.
BBC reckoned (early yesterday) that rises were down to Biden removing Donny Orange from power. It said the market were more optimistic that one of the world’s largest economies is not longer being screwed up by an overgrown adolescent using Twitter on his Tw@fone. Virus news helping I should think.
And talking of Ms Minchin, did you see the frock she was wearing this morning? Well, there’s loud and then there’s LOUD. The frock was the latter but Minchin is one of those really annoying women (annoying to other women) who can wear absolutely anything and look good.
Bit grey, Bit wet. Carole says it’ll get brighter. Hmm… Hope it stays dry-ish long enough for a chap to cut the lawn, well, not cut actually, just hoover up the holly leaves so that Tilly stops spearing her paws on them. Being a Staffie she never complains, just limps a bit and leaves red paw prints everywhere.
@Georgie Hope you’re feeling a bit better and the fire axe has gone.
@joss Well, doctor I have found a way of coping with the aliens: into conservatory, on to Trevor the Treadmill and listen to some serious, powerful music; nothing popular like Emmy Lou Harris or Beatles. Got to be something like Elgar’s cello concerto or Howard Goodall’s requiem – eccentric, powerful and LOUD.Thanks, chaps. Have bookmarked ’em. I think I only need a simple thingey like Wordpad. But times change and it is good to have the others in reserve. Still applying myself to making sure everything I want to work actually does. And I certainly WILL ask if I need even more help. Thanks for your patience – I realise that many of my issues are really basic newbie things.
Have to agree with WMCforum. Prior to her coronavirus “research” Ms Harcombe presented herself as an expert on diet and obesity. Her “fad” diet book was widely criticised by real medical professionals. Her quote of: “If you do extra exercise, it will be counterproductive because you will get hungry” pretty much sums it up.
What’s more her books, diets and pronouncements receive regular glowing praise from the Daily Mail and she also writes for the Mail. Need I say more..?
Bit of everything here. Cloudy, sunny, wet and wetter. Not cold though. Perhaps that’s why the beach roads are as crowded/parked up as the height of summer’s heat wave. Many hundreds of people using Lockdown ability to travel in order to “take exercise”, in this case an exhausting sit around picnic tables and the like. I, of course, could probably be nicked for taking the long-way-round route back from the butchers.
@Georgie Deepest sympathies. Fire axe been known here too. Not for a while though’
@joss I feel like I’ve been abducted – by a mutated algorithm from the Microsoft Galaxy which tries to make me do indecipherable pointless things for no apparent reason.At least we won’t have to suffer Government by Tweet. I’m sure he will still tap away into Twitter but at least he won’t be forming world-changing policy like a 14-year-old schoolkid who wants to impress his/her mates. At least, I hope not – he might still find a way to hold on to power. Declare war on China? Nuke Philadelphia? Don’t put anything past Donny Orange!
Joss – please take your time. I shall be ages catching up with all you’ve given me already. Will go to places you recommend. Also try to find out which version of Win 10 is on here. Will be in touch…
+Right then. At last a chance to say something without a pot-roast brisket demanding my attention. Much to say. This will be long post. So…
Good things: dead easy to set up once I had shut up the annoying doxy blathering. Had it running in about two hours. If memory serves, the Samsung took about two days. Very quick when switched on. Takes a matter of seconds before you get a screen capable of doing something. Old one took two minutes or more. Similarly on shut down; seconds as opposed to minutes and lots of things to click. Also allows me to chose when I want updates done rather than just taking over and shutting me out for two hours or more.
Bad things: Microsoft/Windows control-freak circuits seem unaddressed. I had to agree to let Windows access, inspect and even delete my Gmail. If I didn’t agree it would not finish setting up and letting me use it. Have now stopped it doing that and am wondering what nasties it’ll chuck at me for doing so. I do not want the Cloud storage thingey. Some of my documents will probably contain contain bank stuff and passwords and I do not trust it. So dug through many screens of settings until I find “unlink this machine”. I did this. Following day, cloud is back again. Windows does not tell you that unlink means for just a limited period. Back to screens again until get to another thing, name escapes me, which takes the whole Cloud access away. This seems to work.
Above point illustrates the whole Windows/Microsoft lack of ease-of-use. It is so not intuitive. Especially when it means you won’t be buying something from them. I need a simple word processor (can I use that description anymore?). Only want it to write letters, print recipes etc. Samsung had a basic version of MS Word which I could use free. Seems fair when I’m paying a fair bit for MS software. Not so on this thing. Want me to pay for the whole, mega-supercharged, go-faster Word and a lot of other stuff the functions of which defeat me. Punted around a bit on the machine and found Wordpad which appears to be free and does the job.
Still difficult to know what things the machine will do. For example, despite owning the Samsung for 10-15 years I only last year discovered the big list of stuff you get when hitting the start button. It initially reveals a list of some ten or so things. NOW I know that you can scroll down this to reveal many more. Scroll bar is hidden, invisible, unless you pull across slowly with cursor until it lights. Basic error, I know, but if a thing is invisible how do you know to look for it. Similarly, at startup, pretty picture plops on screen with a few msgs from Windows. Nowhere does it tell you to click once on screen to make anything happen. Took me a while to get this.
Anyhoo, it works. I can send emails and post stuff here and order supermarket stuff. Happy bunny. Must now go and do veggies to accompany Brisket. Thanks again for all help. Gods know what I’d have ended up with without your advice. Cheers!
One might say that this plan shows at least part of the way forward – little-by-little. Individual schemes like this do very little in the overall scheme of things. But add them all up and you could end up with a significant bit of energy supply; folks with solar panels supplying the grid, wind-generation (once dismissed as trivial, now significant), , geothermal etc. And I speak as a great believer in nuclear power. At least I would be if we could find a way of doing it by people and a system which is not incompetent, corrupt and driven by the need to do everything cheaply and not safely. There remains the hope for fusion in the long term.
Trump? Crimes? What about bribing and threatening a vast number of people so he could turn most of Scotland’s protected pblic-access countryside into golf courses where you’ll be shot if you “trespass”?
As you may have guessed, I actually did a set of new mek comments. In first post which suffered a mutated algorithm and entered singularity never to be seen again. Back soon.
Okay then. That seems to have worked at last. The thing had signed me out. Now put that right. Back soon with comments on new machine and the whole Windows thing.
Still no thunderstorm. But this chap, below, is heading our way. Judging by proportions and movement, estimate it at 20,000ft ish at top. Big things ain’t they?
Hasn’t flattened into “anvil” flat-top yet so will get bigger.
Weather? Variable is only description. Hot and clear this morning (shorts and T-shirt); cold and wet p.m. (heavy chinos and woolly). No whizzbang thunderstorms though, yet. Has summer REALLY finished?
