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I retired nearly 7 years ago at the age of 55, I absolutely love being retired. I didn't hate work but I didn't love it either. I started planning when I was about 40 to try and retire at 55, with a combination of luck and judgement I managed to do so. I find my day just fly by and often...

Fingers has returned to the fold and is back here posting again what more could you want?

Good to see that the Oxford vaccine trial is going to recommence. "The independent review process has concluded and following the recommendations of both the independent safety review committee and the UK regulator, the MHRA, the trials will recommence in the UK. We cannot disclose medical...

That's a shame but not to worry I think President Macron may soon be in touch with you. He has heard of your great affection for the French people, and also how much you admire teenagers. He is looking for easy going and laid back people such as yourself to teach fourteen year olds in Paris...

Lets hope the Oxford Vaccine did not cause this. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-54082192 It does however show the importance of carrying out the vaccine trials following the correct protocols and not trying to speed them up by cutting corners. I would like to think people such as Putin and...

This is a good article about CV and London, many of the points mentioned have been discussed on this forum. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/06/as-other-cities-go-into-lockdown-why-isnt-london-having-a-second-wave

It wasn't soundwave was it?;)

I think it's two or maybe getting on for 3 weeks now since Scotlands schools re-opened. I would not be surprised if that is contributing to the increase in virus infections. This makes me think we might be seeing the same kind of thing late September or early October...

Read this on another forum today, think I have read it before but still made me laugh. When we were kids we didn't have a stove or central heating. When it was cold we all used to huddle round a candle, and when it was really, really cold we used to light it!

Do you think though that your formal education enabled you to learn so much in your first five years of work. Perhaps without that education you would not have been able to learn so much. I tend to see formal education a little bit like fitness training that an athlete might do, but instead...

Here is another good article from David Spiegelhalter, he has a good way of passing on statistical information. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/31/politicians-covid-19-statistics-statisticians

Looking at these 7 day rolling average graphs at the bottom of this article from the BBC, it shows France and Spain are now at similar levels to earlier this year. The virus is mainly spreading in young people hence hospitalisation and death rates are still very low, but older people are likely...

I was reading an article the other day on Uber, who have never made any profit. Their business plan is based on predatory pricing and so force out most other competitors and then switch over to driverless cars and make a fortune. Unfortunately for them, driverless cars have taken far longer...

I was listening to a phone in about working from home on LBC the other morning. A chap phoned in who had been told he was likely to lose his job. He was an office manager, his office based in outer London. The entire company had been working from home since lockdown. The bosses had informed...

If someone catches the virus and like most people who get it make a complete recovery the evidence seems to suggest (one or two exceptions are starting to emerge) that they have some immunity. I have always assumed that this then would indicate that a vaccine would also have a good chance of...

It is clear to see on this graph that the 7 day rolling average has been going up since July. It can also been seen that the increase is nothing like what happened in March and April. My concern is though, that schools, collages, Universities and work places are not yet in full swing. Death...

Truth has never really mattered to Farage, and the Tory party has seen how successful lying can be. I really hope Trump does not get a second term, if he does then every lying, cheating, narcissistic politician in the world is going to think if he can get away with it so can I.

Looking at how badly this Government has handled almost everything since it won the last election then I have no idea how it is going to cope with some of the problems highlighted in this piece by Polly Toynbee...

I would be extremely surprised if you have to take your bike back to a dealer every time you travel at say 20 miles an hour using your own pedal power. Remember the motor switches off at 15.5 mph, so the software would know this and so it would not matter what speed you are travelling at as the...

I was reading in Bike magazine today about a French (sorry Barry) tech firm NAWA that is developing super capacitors that will reduce the weight of electric motorcycles and increase their range. It sounds a little bit too good to be true, but I was wondering if anyone else has come across the...