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  1. Wicky

    The Negative (IMHO) Trend Towards Built-in Pannier Racks

    https://www.toolstation.com/eclipse-junior-hacksaw/p30695
  2. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    While we're all grounded for an undetermined period, may I recommend this series of videos and virtually ride pillion with a jolly young Dutch geologist 'Itchy Boots on her Royal Enfield adventures around the world (stops in Peru where she's now got locked down)...
  3. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51981653 I wonder if should get pally with my MP :D Within the Houses of Parliament there are 19 restaurants and cafeterias, nine bars and one coffee bar which must cater for the hundreds of MPs and peers and all the permanent staff, security, other pass-holders...
  4. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1258084/London-news-coronavirus-Northwick-Park-Hospital-harrow-icu-bed-covid-19 Northwick Park Hospital in northwest London has confirmed it has reached “critical care capacity” as the number of patients with COVID-19 increases in the capital. The hospital has...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I'm sure they're wonderful - There's just not enough for everybody, even healthcare workers don't have enough. Disposable ones are used for 4 hours before they need replacing. In Asia they were already popular due to the air pollution there, and even they ran short in the outbreak region in a...
  6. Wicky

    Freezing lithium battery

    Ebay seller 'Mayak' from Russia - he'll even mark it as a gift to avoid customs hassle.
  7. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

  8. Wicky

    Freezing lithium battery

    One answer to keep batteries warm & cosy in freezing conditions is look on online /ebay / amazon for RHU heater units (and lead lined shorts) - good ones produce heat continuously for several decades... Each Lwrhu capsule produces 1 watt of heat. The LWRHU units are mechanically attached...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Challenge for politicians (and us all) is keeping the patient (country) alive and functioning 6–9 months (poss. longer) while on lockdown undergoing treatment... Restriction to continue ‘most of a year’ Policies to limit the spread of coronavirus would need to be in place for "at least most of...
  10. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

  11. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

  12. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Mexicans have a great sense of humour https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/31/donald-trump-mexico-toilet-paper-antonio-battaglia
  13. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Daily Mail stoking reader roll rage Boris Johnson stockpiles loo roll for his Number 10 'bunker' Stacks of toilet rolls were among the items being sent into Downing Street - as the rest of the country struggles to get their hands on a packet
  14. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Confirmed Just been to local coop and natted with an A&E sister I used to work with, the log jam when testing patients is with the laboratory taking days to process. So hopefully capacity will be scaled up for faster & wider testing. Also they are waiting expectantly for antibody test to find...
  15. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Same for teachers - they could have kept schools open longer if it wasn't for amount of staff self-isolating for 7–14 days and not getting tested to confirm if their symptoms were in fact Corvid19 . There must be a shortage of tests, or means of processing them that is blunting efficiency in...
  16. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    What Boris isn't frankly telling us... https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf 16 March 2020, Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce...
  17. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    https://www.wired.com/story/why-the-coronavirus-hit-italy-so-hard/ The reason why Italy is suffering so badly, write University of Oxford researchers in a new paper in the journal Demographic Science, may be twofold: The country has the second-oldest population on earth, and its young tend to...
  18. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Schools now closing Friday - apart for kids of essential workers Expect all of BJ's foundlings to be dropped off on 10 Downing St's doorstep monday morning...
  19. Wicky

    Brexit, for once some facts.