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Unread post by **Manoverboard** » 29 Mar 2021, 12:52

I think one would have to isolate in a Hotel on the basis that the Hotels utilised for Covid will presumable not be available for booking by the general public.

Unread post by **oldbluefox** » 29 Mar 2021, 14:28

Reports coming out say the ship blocking the Suez canal has finally been freed. If true it must have gone better than they thought earlier today.

Unread post by **Stephen** » 29 Mar 2021, 15:17

I bet someone's going to be in for a hefty bill.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-56567985

Unread post by **towny44** » 29 Mar 2021, 16:18

oldbluefox wrote: 29 Mar 2021, 14:28
Reports coming out say the ship blocking the Suez canal has finally been freed. If true it must have gone better than they thought earlier today.

latest report says the wind has now blown it back across the channel.

Unread post by **Quizzical Bob** » 29 Mar 2021, 17:05

towny44 wrote: 29 Mar 2021, 16:18

oldbluefox wrote: 29 Mar 2021, 14:28
Reports coming out say the ship blocking the Suez canal has finally been freed. If true it must have gone better than they thought earlier today.
latest report says the wind has now blown it back across the channel.

Now passing from the Little Bitter Lake into the Great Bitter Lake at 9.5kts.

Unread post by **screwy** » 29 Mar 2021, 17:25

Is it just me or does anyone else think Beth Rigby is not as abrasive since she got caught.

Unread post by **oldbluefox** » 29 Mar 2021, 17:38

screwy wrote: 29 Mar 2021, 17:25
Is it just me or does anyone else think Beth Rigby is not as abrasive since she got caught.

She certainly seemed a good deal more subdued than she has been.

We still get the silly questions though....
Can you guarantee that we will not have a third lockdown? Errr! Common sense says no I can't. Next!!!

Unread post by **Frank Manning** » 29 Mar 2021, 17:41

Words fail me at the crass stupidity of the media questions to BoJo this evening. Has he asked too much of the public? Stupid woman You all know I don't like BoJo, but for goodness sake its a pandemic and people are still dying. BoJo is trying to follow the science. I suppose if you exist on a diet of pizzas and netflix you haven't realised yet that anything is going on in the world. Stupid media, ask something intelligent. I am amazed Chris Whitty hasn't said "how many more times must I tell a media hack this......?" Some silly person has just asked BoJo can he categorically rule out another lock down. Oh dear.

On a lighter note, those very large container ships present a massive sail to the wind, and become very hard to control at low speed. I have steered a ship at sea quite a few times, and the bloomin' things sometimes seem seem to have a mind of their own. The wind has a significant effect, the canal is quite narrow in places and I would not be surprised if some kind of size/ weather restrictions were introduced from time to time. It will be interesting to hear the outcome of any enquiry.

Unread post by **towny44** » 29 Mar 2021, 21:54

oldbluefox wrote: 29 Mar 2021, 17:38

screwy wrote: 29 Mar 2021, 17:25
Is it just me or does anyone else think Beth Rigby is not as abrasive since she got caught.
She certainly seemed a good deal more subdued than she has been.

We still get the silly questions though....
Can you guarantee that we will not have a third lockdown? Errr! Common sense says no I can't. Next!!!

She is so boring, I want crisp precise questions, not a long drawn out question that by the end I have totally forgotten where she started.

Unread post by **Stephen** » 30 Mar 2021, 08:04

Boris looks like he’s lost quite a bit of weight.

Unread post by **towny44** » 30 Mar 2021, 09:15

Stephen wrote: 30 Mar 2021, 08:04
Boris looks like he’s lost quite a bit of weight.

He is missing loads of snacks waiting for Beth Rigby to finish her soliloquies.

Unread post by **Mervyn and Trish** » 30 Mar 2021, 10:45

I see that the latest vaccine likely to be approved is to produced in the UK, at a plant in Barnard Castle.

So now we know. Dom wasn't breaking the rules. He was negotiating a new contract.

Unread post by **Manoverboard** » 30 Mar 2021, 10:48

We are awaiting our second jab but have been informed, via the surgery website, that we will be having the AZ jab as before and in the same location as the first ... ten weeks after the first which is anytime now

Unread post by **Mervyn and Trish** » 30 Mar 2021, 10:52

Manoverboard wrote: 30 Mar 2021, 10:48
We are awaiting our second jab but have been informed, via the surgery website, that we will be having the AZ jab as before and in the same location as the first ... ten weeks after the first which is anytime now

Our surgery has told us we should get ours late April, that will be about 10 weeks. Also AZ.

Unread post by **Stephen** » 30 Mar 2021, 11:56

You will get the same vaccine as your first one.

Unread post by **Stephen** » 30 Mar 2021, 11:58

I should think so to.

Police 'acted appropriately' at Sarah Everard vigil https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56574557

Unread post by **oldbluefox** » 30 Mar 2021, 12:39

Stephen wrote: 30 Mar 2021, 11:58
I should think so to.

Police 'acted appropriately' at Sarah Everard vigil https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56574557

Their wokinesses won't be happy.

Unread post by **david63** » 30 Mar 2021, 12:54

Not altogether unexpected - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-n ... e-56575135. I wonder how many more such instances there have been that have not hit the news yet?

My guess is that the next phase of lockdown will go ahead as planned but either one or both of the the next two will get pushed back as a "wake up call" that it is not all over and people have to behave.

Unread post by **Stephen** » 30 Mar 2021, 12:56

The amount of litter the scum bags left behind as well. Disgraceful.

And as usual the police are slow to act. It was hardly a gathering of a few people.

Unread post by **towny44** » 30 Mar 2021, 13:00

We have ours booked for mid April at the original venue.
I tried 119 to see if I could change it to the JS Stadium, which has a flat and level access more suitable for a wheel chair than the steep incline in Halifax, but they could not guarantee the venue and I would have to cancel and lose the original ones before I could rebook. Not a very flexible operation

Unread post by **Kendhni** » 30 Mar 2021, 13:15

It looks like that from Monday Spain will require facemasks to be worn on beaches.

Unread post by **oldbluefox** » 30 Mar 2021, 14:17

david63 wrote: 30 Mar 2021, 12:54
Not altogether unexpected - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-n ... e-56575135. I wonder how many more such instances there have been that have not hit the news yet?

My guess is that the next phase of lockdown will go ahead as planned but either one or both of the the next two will get pushed back as a "wake up call" that it is not all over and people have to behave.

Any ideas on the age group?

Unread post by **david63** » 30 Mar 2021, 14:37

oldbluefox wrote: 30 Mar 2021, 14:17
Any ideas on the age group?

Old enough to know the rules - from the video I would say mostly older teenagers.

Unread post by **Manoverboard** » 30 Mar 2021, 15:03

Just got back from a lovely Country roads drive ... didn't see a soul but there again we were in the Deverills rather than on the coast road.

Unread post by **Mervyn and Trish** » 30 Mar 2021, 18:03

oldbluefox wrote: 30 Mar 2021, 12:39

Stephen wrote: 30 Mar 2021, 11:58
I should think so to.

Police 'acted appropriately' at Sarah Everard vigil https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56574557
Their wokinesses won't be happy.

Will Ed Davey now resign? And the others who pre-judged the issue having not seen the full evidence?

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