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Woke up to see a light dusting of snow/hail. I'm not going out (yet) to assess how cold it is. Not helped by the chill feeling of tories gaining support...

Sorry, another link: UCL team’s claim that herd immunity set to be achieved in UK disputed Many scientists critical of University College London Covid-19 forecast as ‘over-confident and over-optimistic’...

Ain't just a few of us rather upset by the excessive BBC HRH coverage: BBC flooded with complaints over Prince Philip coverage Corporation opened dedicated complaints form on its website to deal with high volume of comments Within six hours of Prince Philip’s death being announced the BBC had...

A natural reaction by people, but one which could have been ameliorated by providing much better advice: A&E ‘swamped’ with patients seeking help for mild Covid jab side-effects Emergency departments report surge in cases of headaches linked to AstraZeneca jab amid concerns of blood clots

In my very small circle of regular personal contacts: One currently has a brain tumour. One has a disorder that is usually said to have an incidence of about one in half a million. And she has a very odd form of it - so even rarer. I have an oddity about my feet which, superficially, has an...

I just grabbed an official figure: Deaths with COVID-19 on the death certificate Weekly 799 — Abstract information: Weekly number of deaths where COVID-19 is mentioned as a cause on the death certificate, registered during the week ending Friday, 26 March 2021. Total 149,968...

149,968 Covid-19 deaths - and even during national emergency announcements, there was not the same blanket coverage. Think I might need to order some DVDs (or sign-up to some subscription channels - will they still work?) in case the widow queen dies.

The failure of the monarchy regarding things like proroguing of parliament has shown that, even if you in some ways support them, they do not protect the country. I have said not one word against wall-to-wall HRH on, for example, one radio and one television channel. Extend that, one of each...

I suppose it is marginally better than martial music, non-stop, on all channels with a requirement that you listen to it for every waking hour.

Just decided to listen to the radio for a few minutes.... BBC radios 1, 1 extra, 2, 3, 4, 4 extra, 5, 5 extra, Asian, 6, World Service, Wales – and others – are wall-to-wall HRH. Many exactly the same broadcast.

ITV is also scheduling lots of related programming. Pretty bad when you have to start thinking "Thank goodness for Dave"...

He wouldn't need to say that to me! Do we taste like chicken to crocodiles?

There is a (fairly) local project down the road to restore former seagrass "meadows": https://www.pembrokeshirecoastalforum.org.uk/seagrassoceanrescue/

Not necessarily. There is much concern that fluoride can affect thyroid function. Good thyroid function is a prerequisite for good and healthy teeth. But we do not have a rationality which would see fluoride-free toothpaste sold in areas with high fluoride water supply. And (arguably) vice versa.

Not so - there are many toothpastes without added fluoride.

Most of us are still in the pre-fluoride generation - it is only added in a modest number of locations in England - none in Wales. And I have never lived anywhere with significant fluoride already in the water, nor added.

Agreed that it is almost totally insigificant now. Especially as we have a wide range of various wattages and things like IR sensor lights which would only come on when needed.

One of the few pluses is that the price differential is bigger. They need higher capacity batteries for equivalent range and that adds to the cost proportionately more than simply a slightly more powerful engine/bigger tank as in oil-powered vehicles. I've often wished that I could buy a very...

Multiply by the number of houses - it did seem to be fairly common practice at one time. Death by falling down the stairs would have saved a fortune. And been quite impressive when she moved to a bungalow. :)

Most dental anaesthetics injections include adrenalin. This helps stop the anaesthetic moving away from the site of the injection. However, some people cannot take the adrenalin (e.g. those who are hypothyroid) and, in them, the non-adrenalin products disperse more quickly.