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Keeps amazing me how good some products were - even if they had lots of H&S issues. How did they come up with such a glaze in the first place? Quite a lot of older baths (probably a small percentage but still quite a number) have been refurbed. Typically this seems to consist of sanding down...

Some of the hard plastic tiles, very typically used as original on concrete floors when built, were loaded with asbestos. Safe until broken. Even then, only low risk. But, once found and identified, they needed to be taken up and it was hard finding someone to do that.

Last house had Artex - which used to be made with asbestos. And an asbestos cement boiler flue. And asbestos bits remaining from the original ducted warm air heating. And quite possibly asbestos loaded floor tiles. Thankfully, whilst we answered all questions honestly, the purchasers still went...

That would appear to imply that many baths have lead and antimony on them! Which could, in some circumstances, release into the water?

And theatre staff have footwear which is also somewhat conductive. Typically, from memory, carbon loaded rubber soles.

Let us not foget how incredibly behind the science and, most particularly, many other countries, we were regarding lead in petrol.

White face, black shirt - Gene Vincent.

It gets ever more confusing the closer (ha!) you look. Am I allowed to buy petrol - yes. But do I have to go to the local petrol station and pay 107.9, or can I travel 10 miles in order to pay only 102.9? (Ignore whether I use more petrol doing that. It is for general discussion.) Am I allowed...

The advice given to me was shelter under a tree, and when the rain drips off the leaves, it has probably stopped raining, so go somewhere not under a tree. Surprisingly enough, it works quite well for showers.

Just delivering some shopping to people who are shielding. And wanted to make sure I kept physical distance. There's at least two metres from driving seat to anything in front. (They are about 5m long with around 3m wheelbase.)

Which made me look her up - and found this very timely screenshot:

Many years ago, I used to smoke. I gave up and became almost obsessive about the smell of smoke. Over the months, that faded. But when I became hypothyroid, I started to smell smoke in crazy situations. Places I knew for certain there wasn't any smoke at all. Eventually found that phantosmia is...

Keep providing updated advice until it is the advice we want to see. And what about the transmission over much greater distances that was mentioned yesterday? And on pollutant particles mentioned a few days ago?

Our local butchers is quite substantial - you often see four staff working behind the counter. They have placed a simple trestle table across the door - but just inside. You queue up outside, along the pavement, and only one person goes in. They started a delivery service - free for orders over...

Am I allowed to drive 30 miles to get to a B&Q? And when I get there, can I buy anything they have in stock? Or does at least one item have to be classed as essential?

1001 Excuses. Number 1: The cheque is in the post. The government has changed the way it is counting the number of covid-19 tests carried out in a bid to hit its target of 100,000 tests per day by the end of April, HSJ can reveal. Previously, a test would be counted once the sample had been...

None being used here. We simply make sure both cars are used in some sort of rotation. (No, not getting stuck on the roundabout.) And make sure we choose a route which is slightly longer to ensure a longer running time. Actually bought some petrol a couple of days ago - for the first time since...

Do not pass Go. Absolutely do not even try to collect £200. Revealed: NHS procurement official privately selling PPE NHS launches inquiry after Guardian investigation exposes senior official trading protective gear amid pandemic by Harry Davies and Simon Goodley Fri 1 May 2020 12.16 BST...

They don't appear to have sold many to the UK!

A few days since last I posted these very broadbrush numbers. In which time two Welsh health boards were found not to be properly reporting (now supposedly corrected). Friday 01/05/2020 Country 2018 population Total cases Deaths Deaths / cases % Cases / pop % Death/pop % England...