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openspaceman

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  1. Full guidance on staying at home and away from others - GOV.UK WWW.GOV.UK This is the HTML link and I'd say it is still ambiguous. It looks like if you work alone and don't meet people you can or have I missed something?
  2. Good grief David, fingers crossed for a good outcome and yes if daughter is on chemo she is definitely in the vulnerable group and needs shielding.
  3. Starlings and Yaffles seem to hunt for them, I tend to use Nikwax spray or neatsfoot and beeswax if mine gets scuffed
  4. I wish, I haven't seen a live one since it left my garage 2 years ago, I still have half a bag of hedgehog food
  5. The perceived wisdom is that they happily coexist when there is plenty of food but badgers will take them when not. Of course in past times badgers were hunted so their population has grown and hedgehogs haven't learned to cross the road and not curl into a ball when a car approaches.
  6. It's the microscopic nature of the plastic in a tea bag getting into compost that annoys me, I can dispose of a net bag sensibly by putting it in the black bag rubbish but I don't want to put something that is otherwise compostable into the black bag.
  7. There's a couple of points I've been dwelling on, yes it will persist and most will catch it, current effort seems to be to drive the reproducibility below 2, i.e. currently each infected person is infecting two others, such that the number infected is doubling every 3 days. Japan is down to doubling every 20 days. The other thing is that the young doctor who tried to publicise the outbreak in china himself died which worries me. Could it be that our immune system can cope with a small initial infection but constant exposure becomes lethal?
  8. 1969 the first edition had a song called Ruby, I was at Finthen airbase in Germany and first came across homogenised milk, it was flown in from US everyday, the planes went back with black plastic bags for the return trip, the song was banned on the base.
  9. 25 allowed in crematorium chapel but that may change on Monday, service relayed by loudspeaker to those outside. Wake was cancelled Friday I was surprised but my daughter's dog, in my profile picture, will be allowed to travel in the limo and enter the chapel.
  10. I dearly wish you never have to
  11. My younger daughter's funeral and close family will have a cup of tea and scones in the garden after. We will have a proper gathering at a later date.
  12. I recently got a bag of dried food for the dog so no problem there for a few weeks. I was unable to buy bread and eggs in the village, don't need much else. We have a family do which cannot be postponed but my wife was able to get some basics from the local garden centre café as they destock, mostly by doing take away till Monday. As it's reported that 25% of our food comes from takeaways, cafes, pubs etc it would seem sensible for them to maintain their supply chains and do some retail to take the pressure off elsewhere.
  13. Nor I, they used the cylinder over pressure from a port where the decompressor is on many saws now, @adw is the expert on them
  14. I agree with @Rich Rule now as the clumps of needles show up when zoomed in, shape is right and so is upper bark colour
  15. IF the OP hadn't said it was a photo I would have said it was a painting
  16. strap parachute on and wait for push
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  18. not forgetting the arbrex 40 years ago Santar, a mercury based paint, was used for treating beech bark lesions
  19. Yes what happens is the piece the grinding wheel touches gets heated to red heat but then the steel in the rest of the tooth rapidly quenches it so it chills quickly and the crystals thus formed are harder. You can see this on the modern cheap (but good) hand saws where just the teeth look blue, they have been quickly passed through and induction process that has heated the sawtooth tip and then the surrounding air and steel behind the tip have rapidly cooled it again, hence the line of blue teeth.
  20. Good for her it's best for the nipper and a safeguard for her.
  21. Same here, plenty of vegetables but all white bread gone, wholemeal a few loaves.
  22. Just don't frap off any of the basal bark at the same time
  23. I would agree that extreme wealth is one of our societies problems but would love to see how it could be addressed. Governments have been slow to react to predatory american based companies like microsoft and amazon filching untaxable income because we have been sold the idea of free trade by America, the African countries are being devastated by the american controlled IMF forcing them to drop any protection of their nascent industries Yet all along US has discreetly managed to protect its own companies from foreign competition under the guise of national security. They even managed to foist their toxic debt onto our finance sector who were gagging for free trade to have access to their banking, at the expense of much of our wood industries as tariffs on imports were dropped. This has led to the US economy having a much higher differential between rich and poor than europe. And therein lies another topic, Average incomes in US...

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