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Thanks, Denyer! Tell you what: way back in March, me, a few of my work colleagues and my bestie all went down with a temperature, cough and breathlesness and were pretty much done in for weeks. Our doctors told each of us it was a bad viral infection, and we got antibiotics and sick notes. Absence w...

Okayyyyy.... results time. According to the test, I don’t have Covid-19, but my youngest son, now 21, does. Cue all sorts of messages, telephone calls, questions about mental health in lockdown and advice about major symptoms. Called my doctor in case I have bronchitis, then. Nope, he told me I have...

Clay wrote: ↑Wed Oct 07, 2020 5:17 pm How long will it be until you get the result?

Feel well.

Thanks, mate; I’m no worse today, but dizzy and my ribs are ouch. Results due Thursday afternoon or Friday morning...

Taken a test this afternoon... Aching, dry cough, breathless if not resting. Very tired. Started, I suppose, late Saturday, but hit me hard on Monday and I hung on, hoping it would be a short, sharp cold. We shall see... So many people now donning a mask to enter a bus, building or other public spac...

Ventilation's good but they still have a responsibility to heat to minimum temperatures so it's still an HSE matter if the environment's unsuitable. Yep, I’ve mentioned this... I’m H&S trained, but not one of the official reps where I now work nor am I in their union, so it’s going to be intere...

@Tantrum: The reason? Our air con is not really a proper one - it’s like a super reverse air vent, really. It brings in air from outside, whatever the temperature, and redistributes it through four ceiling vents containing fans. It does cool hot air, but makes cold air, well, colder. Every day this ...

UK update: masks - social distancing - fines for non-compliance. I don’t know whether to laugh or weep or just keep my fingers crossed. Personally, I’m hoping not to perish of hypothermia at work. There’s just a handful of us in, spread well apart, and shivering like whippets. We must keep our air c...

Sades wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 6:27 amCan I retire from the human race and pick a new one? People (other than the ones that haven't) have more or less just been disappointing so far.

What Sades said...

Bottom line for me is: try to get this bunch of the (deleted expletive) entitled to obey anything they’re told. Should the government have moved faster? Yes. Would it have made a difference? Possibly... i salute NZ, since getting humans to comply with anything official is worse than herding cats. No...

What Denyer said... I’m not blaming the government, if I’m honest, for more than mixed messages given out as the Titanic is sinking; reacting to an impossible situation and finding out a few more lifeboats would’ve been nice. I’m just so angry with the self-centred bunch of oiks who carry on as if t...

For a retro book, the modern digital colouring looked off to me. I think if it had the old 'flat' colouring you used to get in the '80s and early '90s, it would have looked much more the part for the era it was trying to represent. Since I have the series in digital format, I’m happy with the colou...

Just done some serious catching up and my bank account is weeping... Grabbed a lot of TF stuff on ComiXology and got stuck in... MTMTE and Lost Light are clever, tongue-in-cheek and generally well-crafted. Loved the moment Megs was pushed to say Optimus’ iconic line and the quantum stuffs going quan...

Denyer wrote: ↑Tue Aug 11, 2020 5:25 pm Apparently there's some scientific basis to the likelihood that one circulating virus will elbow another out in a population.

Elbow, not push. Very appropriate for the times...

We pretty much escaped the major wave of horror here in Leicester/shire, but ended up being placed in two extra weeks of lockdown when cases suddenly rose. It ended up highlighting the clothing industry sweatshops everyone knew did not exist (since about 1981, if I recall right from my Unemployment ...

Netflix Seige Autobot Mirage and Decepticon Mirage. My first acquisitions since forever, so I'm damned well posting here. Former from Amazon and the latter, at rip-off price, from eBay, because my local Smyths Toystore had none and the website would not redirect any by post from such Primus-forsaken...

It was the lips. Seriously. The lips. LIke Megatron was actually Overlord wearing the ol' bucket. I keep remembering the lips. It's terifying. Other than that: yeah, tolerable. Voices okay, within tolerable limits. The big McGuffin and additional McGuffins everywhere. Then the sudden reveal that the...

Obviously, it all went quiet, because they knew I wasn’t paying attention.

Well, then: here’s hoping the next movies and series in the franchise bring joy, wonder and fun

“A person dressed like a chemist then appears and scoops some out into some scales (old ones, done in pounds and ounces) and gives you them in a paper bag and you pay in shillings and pence.”

Ye gods, that’s expensive. I used to pay 3d for a bag of sweets out of the jar that’d last all week!

Licorice? Licorice? Errrgh yuck! Piers Anthony got it spot, having Smash Ogre eat his way out of his all-time nightmare: licorice horse poop. I have to confess, though, that since I got my hands (briefly) on real chocolate - the real deal - the handmade stuff - I don't like anything else. I sincerel...

Hi, Sades - good catch, grrl! Like the beading. What're you going to do with it?

Hi - Heinrad! You're crazy, I'm crazy, we're all crazy