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Having looked again at your post I think that round trip figure from those so called experts is frankly utter rubbish. Very few working people live in Central London and one way commutes average about 4 miles from inner boroughs. I know since I commuted from Streatham into both Waterloo and...

Quite a lot more than the 9 miles each way mentioned by Nev, and since it's continuously increasing with housing costs and shortages making people move out, I doubt your quoted figure is still correct, being always in arrears of the continuous changes. Perhaps you should be worrying about...

Not into London though. The last time I had a commute under 14 miles was when I still lived in inner London over 50 years ago. A very high proportion of commuters into London live in the Home Counties, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Surrey and Kent. Still more commute from...

Still not getting it, we haven't had any such increase in lockdown, quite the opposite as Londoners rebelled against it and still are increasingly doing so. Danidl first said we'll be hit in three weeks time, now says one week. You think we'll quickly get another hit. Just be patient and...

Why do you say that? There's been crowds on the tube throughout, such are the numbers of essential workers, indeed I believe you've commented on that yourself. That, and all the other crowded circumstances we have, is why we've had our peak much earlier in London. Why is no-one in here...

That's simply not true. They did have enough staff and equipment for quite a few cases but just lacked the demand since the usual hospitals coped so well that they had spare capacity and had to appeal for patients with other conditions to return for treatment. It was only after the press...

It would be stupid to try. .

You still aren't getting it, but you should, given your criticisms of how we've been behaving. We haven't really been in a proper lockdown, which is why we've got our first phase over so quickly. I'm betting your "surge" prediction will be very minor indeed and possibly barely evident. .

That doesn't matter what that percentage is, it's too late again. People have gone back to work, lots more functions and facilities are operational again and lockdown is falling apart. Personally I only care about my London region and immediate surrounding area. We're doing well as I...

Not particularly, the difference in average age to the rest of the country is 3.8 years. (35.5 years to 40.3 years) It would need at least a decade of difference to even shift much onto the Covid-19 vulnerable regions of old age and poor health. And anyway, our living conditions and air...

Why all the wondering, all the conjecture? London is doing well, why doesn't matter. Why not just accept it and do as we've been doing here, relax and remember que sera sera. We as a country missed the boat to deal with Covid-19 long ago, it will pass in time just like every other problem...

Benefits are benefits, they are nothing to do with Johnson's policies. As I've consistently posted, we in London have largely been ignoring his policies. They've been impossible to follow in our circumstance of 10.2 million people in a very small area and often living in confined space in...

I've agreed with the rest of your post but disagree with this. You and Danidl would have been more right if we'd acted immediately as South Korea did. We didn't, we left it far too late so we now have to take the hit as we've been doing in London, until a vaccine arrives. We've already done...

Perhaps to a small degree, but we are way short of true herd immunity needing 80% of us to have caught it. I prefer to think that getting it over quickly by letting vulnerability dictate was the right approach, just as we've always done with 'flu epidemics for the bulk of the population, only...

Yet we in London, Heathrow's city, continue to outperform the rest of the country in respect of Covid-19, probably because of such as this, as I've already posted. To protect the NHS the politicians wanted us to keep the infection rate low by isolating, but that was always impossible in our...

Found more information and added it to my post above .

It was easily trained out of her. Another friend had a cat that lived with his border collies and wouldn't stand any nonsense from them. One encounter with that moggie and a claw slit scratched through the tip of her nose and she suddenly became very wary of cats! .

A good dog in the garden does the job well. One German Shepherd a friend owned that I sometimes looked after too was the best for this. She instantly killed the first two cats she spotted in their garden, so had to have that trained out of her since the neighbours weren't too impressed. .

It's non-sequitur in this thread, but Serco are amazingly something of an improvement in this supply area! When the forces ran their own refuelling services the scale of fuel theft was enormous. In just one case where I knew it had been going on the POL sergeant had been using the unit coach...

These have been our UK law since before 6th April 2015. We last had registration of power assist bicycles as motor vehicles in the 1970s. .