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That is sort if what we have ... The Workhouses of old and the mental hospitals of now are the communal kitchens

I like the coin slot zebra crossing ..good metaphor.

Woosh... . You are rapidly moving goalposts here. The rich always had options , the poor less so. The rich could courier parcels and letters anywhere any place any time ... It was the innovation of the Penny Black, so that a letter sent between two adjacent streets in London subsidised the...

Note this is not intended as an endorsement of JC or any other politician, but to agree with the sentiment of full access for continuing participation in a democracy

Meet the new boss , same as the old boss. At some stage someone in the UK will have to say to the DUP ... "We are no longer pandering to you ..." You do realise that this is all about elections in NI this year.? The likihood is that SF will be the single largest party and therefore gets to...

lets see how this pans out .... see my previous post that both myself and my wife are unwelcome guinea pigs. my son certainly has covid at present . We have 3 positive LFTs for from Sunday last to confirm this as well as the other tell tale signs ... coughing , rigours etc . He...

Your three postings in a row illustrates to me the huge difficulty in popularising cutting edge research. What anyone might reasonably take from these are the following. 1. Omnicron is not dangerous, 2.taking a booster vaccine is a waste of time. 3.Omnicron attacks and kills off Delta . None...

There are hundreds of them... They are part of a bardic tradition going back a couple of thousand years, but the ones which survive are typically those known in the 1400 s . . Tourlough O Carolan , was a blind harper at the end of that era.. Actually from this neck of the woods ...

The stories of what constitutes National anthems is as much a work of social science and revisionism as musicianship... . The German one is based on a Haydn cello concerto .. called the Kaiser .. and It is actually a nicer piece of Music. , the Egyptians took the Verdi March, and the British...

Anyway Day 5 and all is well. We tried LFTs this morning and both myself and my wife failed ... We just don't do well under examination pressure.

.. Its the original and still the best. My understanding is that it came from one of those music halls or plays

Lord grant that Marshal Wade, May by thy mighty aid, Victory bring . May he sedition hush, And like a torrent rush, Rebellious Scots to crush, God Save the King."

.. And the Scots don't like the third verse either...

Recently ... Probably a week .

A PCR is the bigger more expensive gold standard , takes longer is more accurate than LFT . PCR is second only to a full sequencing . The LFT is the cheapest option . The problem is that one might have NO Symptoms , and still be a full blown infected person ... up to 30% of people are in...

fully agree with you flecc. If one had a number of LFTs available .. and we now have a few in the house, i would keep them in abeyance until one really felt ill. Our evidence with my son, is that even if one feels bad, the amount of antibodies initially is insufficient to trigger the...

I think a lot of people get into ebikes because of recognising potential heart conditions ... But me , I was just lazy ..or so I thought!.

Nobody in my household has has any Covid before now. Both I and my wife have had the 3 jabs ..in my case all Pfizer, my wife 2AZ and a Pfizer . Our daugher 2 AZ and a Moderna ,about 3 days ago. Only my son, who lives and works in Dublin, but was on a bit of leave, had the positive LFT and only...

All good so far .

Tachycardia.. can be very distressing