Brexit, for once some facts.

[Woosh]

The government is now set to allow more & more foreign labour back into the country.

not only that, they don't pay any taxes on 'cabotage' done here.
No wonder our haulage companies call the government's latest initiative 'sabotage'.
The EU allows our drivers just one cabotage per entry and exit.

 

[Jesus H Christ]

Completely off topic... But just to note how much sailing world has changed..
Its just been Weymouth speed week. (I didn't go because little wind was forecast)
For normal windsurfing most need a minimum of 13 kts or so to get planing.. And that means massive boards and massive sails.
They had max of 10 kts and foiling boards managed 24 kts...
When I started water based speed sailing record was 17 kts and needed perhaps 30kts to do it.(out right record now 60+ mph or so, depends which craft you accept?)
Don't think many other sports have witnessed such massive developments.
The new Americas Cup boats have now all been launched for next event.. The new New Zealand boat is aledgedly at another level.??
(Google AC75 if interested)

I saw a bloke on a battery powered surf board in the Hale Estuary / Porth Kidney sands yesterday. The body of the board looked to be about 300 mm out of the water with just a slender fin going below the surface. I assume there is a submerged foil and motor on the end of the fin. He was motoring along with just a gentle whine from the motor. Looks like fun.

 

[oyster]

A private lab screws up:

Covid PCR tests: at least 43,000 in UK may have had false negatives
Health Security Agency suspends operations at privately run lab in Wolverhampton

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/15/public-urged-to-retake-covid-tests-after-false-negatives-in-berkshire

Team – Dante Labs

www.dantelabs.com

 

[guerney]

How did your appointment go?

I guess no-one arranged a blood test before the appointment so that you'd have the results available at the appropriate time?

I got a young trainee Consultant, who said he's due to become Consultant next year - they can't access GP records, so he took a load of notes while I tried to recall all of my symptoms... but by then my mind had gone completely blank because of my conversation with a very very elderly frail old man in a wheelchair in the waiting room. He said he was extremely wealthy and owned 48 cars, including the racing version of the Aston Martin DB2, which his mountain-climbing wife used to drive at 257mph during track days before she died, that he invented the credit card but not the magnetic strip (he didn't seem to know of how the guy who invented the magnetic strip, got it to stick), how he'd owned the first Mini Cooper Police car... after it had been issued for the first time in the country to female Police officers in Liverpool, then got it modified by lowering the roof (by the engineer he employs to look after his 48 cars), how Chinese translators were routinely killed after being used for negotiations between his company and Chinese companies (to keep secrets), and how when he found put about this (through his very ugly translator Helga, who was ugly because her dress caught on a bus and she was dragged into the path of a tank, which rearranged her face in radical ways), he'd find ways to get them out of the country, when he was believed by the interpreters, and how grateful they were when he did. He might have been a bit nuts - said his name was "Hanson" - one of the Illuminati regulars on this thread might know him? Blood tests and another visit in 8 weeks. I might get the test done the day before, so that I can pick this young trainee Consultant chap's brains while the tests are being processed - he's quite a chatty source of info. He was immensely rotund.

 

[guerney]

Have you been rubbing onion on the soles of your feet?......Did it work?

No, but I now do have 4kg of onions. Thing is, I'm slow jogging again which helps a bit, so I'd never know if the onions worked, if I both slow jogged while leaving a waft of cheese and onion in my wake...

 

[oyster]

I got a young trainee Consultant, who said he's due to become Consultant next year - they can't access GP records, so he took a load of notes while I tried to recall all of my symptoms... but by then my mind had gone completely blank because of my conversation with a very very elderly frail old man in a wheelchair in the waiting room. He said he was extremely wealthy and owned 48 cars, including the racing version of the Aston Martin DB2, which his mountain-climbing wife used to drive at 257mph during track days before she died, that he invented the credit card but not the magnetic strip (he didn't seem to know of how the guy who invented the magnetic strip, got it to stick), how he'd owned the first Mini Cooper Police car... after it had been issued for the first time in the country to female Police officers in Liverpool, then got it modified by lowering the roof (by the engineer he employs to look after his 48 cars), how Chinese translators were routinely killed after being used for negotiations between his company and Chinese companies (to keep secrets), and how when he found put about this (through his very ugly translator Helga, who was ugly because her dress caught on a bus and she was dragged into the path of a tank, which rearranged her face in radical ways), he'd find ways to get them out of the country, when he was believed by the interpreters, and how grateful they were when he did. He might have been a bit nuts - said his name was "Hanson" - one of the Illuminati regulars on this thread might know him? Blood tests and another visit in 8 weeks. I might get the test done the day before, so that I can pick this young trainee Consultant chap's brains while the tests are being processed - he's quite a chatty source of info. He was immensely rotund.

Write it all down in a simple list before your next appointment! It's the only way even for those who have excellent focus, memory, etc.

Comes across as being towards the Walter Mitty end of the scale - but who knows?

 

[Jesus H Christ]

not only that, they don't pay any taxes on 'cabotage' done here.
No wonder our haulage companies call the government's latest initiative 'sabotage'.
The EU allows our drivers just one cabotage per entry and exit.

There is a theory that the whole driver shortage / no petrol / empty shelves situation is a contrived policy by hauliers to force the government to allow cheap labour back in. That way they can continue to pay low wages and treat staff like $h!t

 

[oyster]

There is a theory that the whole driver shortage / no petrol / empty shelves situation is a contrived policy by hauliers to force the government to allow cheap labour back in. That way they can continue to pay low wages and treat staff like $h!t

Something odd is happening. After weeks of moderately empty shelves in all the food shops I go to, fairly suddenly, there is much less empty space. (And not just due to moving things round.) Not as it used to be, but considerably better. It felt as if someone found the key to the warehouse.

More or less coincided with Tesco announcing their increased profits.

 

[guerney]

I saw a bloke on a battery powered surf board in the Hale Estuary / Porth Kidney sands yesterday. The body of the board looked to be about 300 mm out of the water with just a slender fin going below the surface. I assume there is a submerged foil and motor on the end of the fin. He was motoring along with just a gentle whine from the motor. Looks like fun.

Yes, I'd like to try one of those - of course the design mitigates the troublesome bow wave of larger bows, high speed can be achieved with low power motors.

 

[guerney]

Guerney
Just been watching video about slow jogging.
Would have to be a very strange pedelec for rider to not be able to exert that level of exercise.
You mention somewhere about jogging being able to push out put level up above that on pedelec.
The whole point of pedelec is to be able to exert any level of exercise, from a minimum level I, d guess similar to slow jogging all the way to a level Bradley Wiggins might exert in a training session.
My old MTB route was 14 miles and around a thousand feet climbed (all off road).
Putting same effort in I now do 26 miles and with around double the climbs.
Why are you assuming more effort is expended in first over latter? That's a function of rider and not the bike. Yes, if feeling lazy you can make bike do most work but a 150 watt rider output is 150watt rider output irrespective of bike you are on.
In essence with same effort you go further, higher and faster on pedelec.
Get the bike mended.

Minimal effort is what I'm about - for jogging; "Minimal effort" is slow jogging... and ebiking, minimal effort is exactly the way I ghost cycle, because of how I've configured my Bafang to behave (80% keep current, 100% assistance at all times on level 9). That slow jogging made me fitter, is my fault entirely. In my experience, minimal effort slow jogging, takes more effort than minimal effort ebiking... which is why I'm less fit than I was last year (after a year's ebiking, with no jogging). A new controller is being winged across the world even as I type...

 

[guerney]

I had to smile at that! most of my ancestors met their end by being lynched for various misunderstanding about animal husbandy and ownership , and property right too.
Irn Bru had nothing to do with it!

I shudder to think what my ancestors may have got up to and died of ... I for one, am thankful that "Genetic memory" stops and stops completely, at a vague fear of spiders and snakes (and only for some).

 

[flecc]

Narrow boat is rather later, metallic, somewhat slower and terrible on sea..

A lesson the Royal Navy took a long time to learn.
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[Zlatan]

I saw a bloke on a battery powered surf board in the Hale Estuary / Porth Kidney sands yesterday. The body of the board looked to be about 300 mm out of the water with just a slender fin going below the surface. I assume there is a submerged foil and motor on the end of the fin. He was motoring along with just a gentle whine from the motor. Looks like fun.

I, ve got one on order... Exact same thing... On slow boat from China though.
They are called efoils. Technology along similar lines to ebikes. The foil being so much more efficient than a planing surface means you can cut down on power and so prolong range/time on water... Foiling is much kinder on knees... I, ll post some pics when it arrives... (mid November).. Just got to learn to use it then...

 

[Zlatan]

Minimal effort is what I'm about - for jogging; "Minimal effort" is slow jogging... and ebiking, minimal effort is exactly the way I ghost cycle, because of how I've configured my Bafang to behave (80% keep current, 90% assistance at all times on level 9). That slow jogging made me fitter, is my fault entirely. In my experience, minimal effort slow jogging, takes more effort than minimal effort ebiking... which is why I'm less fit than I was last year (after a year's ebiking, with no jogging). A new controller is being winged across the world even as I type...

Don't get me wrong, I, m not knocking slow jogging at all. Its obviously a fantastic method for losing weight, keeping fit, etc etc.. I try to cut down on every activity likely to aggregate knees in slightest... To save them for ruination from windsurfing...
I need the motivation of emtb... Think I, d sit at home and stagnate were it not for ebike... It gets me out when I feel lazy but once going invariably do lots more than I, d planned..
Ebike, one of my best ever purchases. Probably best.

 

[oldgroaner]

Apparently the voting intentions according to YouGov are still 41% for the Conservatives

In entirely unrelated news and purely coincidental

Nothing to see here move along!

 

[oldgroaner]

Don't get me wrong, I, m not knocking slow jogging at all. Its obviously a fantastic method for losing weight, keeping fit, etc etc.. I try to cut down on every activity likely to aggregate knees in slightest... To save them for ruination from windsurfing...
I need the motivation of emtb... Think I, d sit at home and stagnate were it not for ebike... It gets me out when I feel lazy but once going invariably do lots more than I, d planned..
Ebike, one of my best ever purchases. Probably best.

Quite simply with all the road works and traffic snarl up's not to mention dire parking, the fastest way to go anywhere in Hull is on an Ebike

 

[oldgroaner]

I saw a bloke on a battery powered surf board in the Hale Estuary / Porth Kidney sands yesterday. The body of the board looked to be about 300 mm out of the water with just a slender fin going below the surface. I assume there is a submerged foil and motor on the end of the fin. He was motoring along with just a gentle whine from the motor. Looks like fun.

I would just love to try this, but there is a snag, will one carry a big enough battery to power the 2kw dry suit I would need to wear to survive?

 

[Danidl]

Don't get me wrong, I, m not knocking slow jogging at all. Its obviously a fantastic method for losing weight, keeping fit, etc etc.. I try to cut down on every activity likely to aggregate knees in slightest... To save them for ruination from windsurfing...
I need the motivation of emtb... Think I, d sit at home and stagnate were it not for ebike... It gets me out when I feel lazy but once going invariably do lots more than I, d planned..
Ebike, one of my best ever purchases. Probably best.

I have a weird symptom... When I walk or exert myself my jaws ache!. .. . I suspect it is heart related ,..as does my GP so even the 5k or 7000 /8000 daily walk, brings it on ..whereas the ebike being more gentle keeps it at bay.

 

[Danidl]

I would just love to try this, but there is a snag, will one carry a big enough battery to power the 2kw dry suit I would need to wear to survive?

Nonsense.. 150W would keep you toasty. . I got a new jacket from Regatta with heating coils in it, at the start if the summer .. I am looking forward to the weather being cold enough.to use a battery pack . It is designed for one of those mobile phone charger blocks..

 

[Zlatan]

I have a weird symptom... When I walk or exert myself my jaws ache!. .. . I suspect it is heart related ,..as does my GP so even the 5k or 7000 /8000 daily walk, brings it on ..whereas the ebike being more gentle keeps it at bay.

Funny you should mention that. I had a bad AF attack whilst sailing a few months ago, came in to eat, (I find it staves off the muscle tiredness whilst in AF) and I could hardly chew. My jaw muscles were absolutely worn out..??? Put it down to fatigue but could be heart related.???