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Met Office

 

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Monday’s forecast indicates that an area of low pressure will affect the UK. We have issued Yellow warnings for this but the weather system is NOT a named storm and #StormEllen has currently NOT been named

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Is that because the last one hasn't stopped yet?

 

Storm Ellen is currently stir frying pheasant for my evening meal, I’ll let her know

IME contact probes make more difference than the moisture content, I tried making a 4 wire bridge setup which I believe is what the commercial devices are, using my Agilent 32 channel mux to measure but even that was unreliable. Measurement of some ash which was seasoned many years just a bit of rain splashing into th log store made a huge difference.

 

Some years ago I at a friends house in Hungary, we were eating smoked ham, home killed.

It was lovely and I asked him what wood he used, quick as a flash he replied Europallet ;-)

 

It was oak actually but we had been drinking lots of Pálinka

 

Anyway my burner is currently well stoked and the flue is about 400f while I’m sat watching the rugby, life is good ;-)

 

It's been a mild winter and the logs I was going to burn this winter. spruce and ash dropped in June 2018, will be even drier than last year.

 

I'm thinking of buying some seasoned logs and trying to measure the moisture content by checking the insulation resistance drilling two holes in the log and using a megger to measure the insulation resistance between the two. Only a starting point and we shall see.

It's been a mild winter and the logs I was going to burn this winter. spruce and ash dropped in June 2018, will be even drier than last year.

 

I'm thinking of buying some seasoned logs and trying to measure the moisture content by checking the insulation resistance drilling two holes in the log and using a megger to measure the insulation resistance between the two. Only a starting point and we shall see.

 

I burn smokeless coal cobbles in this weather as it means less trips outside but logs run on this stove quite well, it’s a multi fuel grate which means the riddle burns a bit on logs so I have a half inch boiler plate sitting on it to protect it. Anyway it’s nice and warm now and the glass of red will help reduce the feeling from the rugby ( I must nip to the bottle and check it’s not French )

This is odd, why does news of a "Test" rather than a "cure" cause such excitement?

Project fear?

More people would buy it compared to a cure.

Project fear?

More people would buy it compared to a cure.

Possibly no-one would be offered the cure until they had been tested. Hence, more doses of test than cure (assuming not every test is positive).

Possibly no-one would be offered the cure until they had been tested. Hence, more doses of test than cure (assuming not every test is positive).

I think our natural immune system can cope with CV.

I get free flu jab every year because of my diabetes. I guess they will add CV19 to the flu jab this year.

Few % of the population would need a cure.

I think our natural immune system can cope with CV.

I get free flu jab every year because of my diabetes. I guess they will add CV19 to the flu jab this year.

Few % of the population would need a cure.

If we could identify which subset of the population is most likely to suffer most, and which are most likely to die, then we could target any cure. Trouble seems to be that there are few, if any, hints as to who is most at risk. If we don't know who, we might decide it is best to try to treat everyone with covid-19.

we might decide it is best to try to treat everyone with covid-19.

 

Didn’t some bloke called Darwin say something about that?

isn't it true that there is no cure to viruses, especially the cold and flu viruses?

Millions die every year of them and still no cure.

Huawei probably copied their so called code from our guys who secretly leaked it to them, after they had stolen it from America, who in turn got it through a deliberate leak in Moscow

That came from North Korea.

 

"Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em

And little fleas have smaller fleas

Reverse engineering every item"

Which reminds me...

 

 

isn't it true that there is no cure to viruses, especially the cold and flu viruses?

Millions die every year of them and still no cure.

 

I was always under the impression that there where hundreds of different rhinovirus strains and trying to find a generic fix was impossible ( unlike targeting measles etc ) but maybe there are bigger fish to fry as pretty much everyone healthy gets through a cold by just being miserable and coughing all over me

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I burn smokeless coal cobbles in this weather as it means less trips outside but logs run on this stove quite well, it’s a multi fuel grate which means the riddle burns a bit on logs so I have a half inch boiler plate sitting on it to protect it. Anyway it’s nice and warm now and the glass of red will help reduce the feeling from the rugby ( I must nip to the bottle and check it’s not French )

That was an exciting last five minutes... I kinda hoped Wales would do the business. It would have blunted France's chance of a grand slam... Now if Ireland can do the business tomorrow, the final match in the season will be a cracker.

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That was an exciting last five minutes... I kinda hoped Wales would do the business. It would have blunted France's chance of a grand slam... Now if Ireland can do the business tomorrow, the final match in the season will be a cracker.

It was a good game, I enjoyed it regardless of the outcome.

 

I reckoned after 20 minutes it wasn’t going to be so close but massive effort from a position that most would not have come back from

 

Interesting tomorrow and not sure how it will go.

Which reminds me...

 

 

Another Tom Lehrer fan!

Another Tom Lehrer fan!

Not quite word perfect, and miles from note perfect, but I remember so many of his songs, and even the intros.

 

If only he were still writing.

Who needs Parliament anyway, we have a "Glorious Leader" now, or rather "TWO"

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/22/pentagon-gaffe-reveals-uk-deal-replace-trident-nuclear-weapon?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Ps dismayed after US d

MPs dismayed after US defence officials leak news of nuclear weapons deal before parliament is told

 

Britain has committed itself to buying a new generation of nuclear warheads to replace Trident, which will be based on US technology. The decision was revealed by Pentagon officials who disclosed it before an official announcement has been made by the government.

 

They are simply taking the mickey out of democracy

 

As I said previously the best thing the opposition parties can do is boycott the house of commons, the Conservatives are merely using them as a decoy to hide the fact we have become a dictatorship.

The only way forward is to disengage from the Parliamentary process and leave the Boris regime exposed for what they are.

Trouble seems to be that there are few, if any, hints as to who is most at risk.

 

For fatalities - elderly folk with pre-existing health conditions, COPD lung disease.

 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-51540981

 

Super spreaders can be health workers, shop workers i.e anyone who comes into contact with a lot of folk

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51447143

For fatalities - elderly folk with pre-existing health conditions, COPD lung disease.

 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-51540981

 

Super spreaders can be health workers, shop workers i.e anyone who comes into contact with a lot of folk

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51447143

I have a cunning plan

I'm going to lie about my age!

I have a cunning plan

I'm going to lie about my age!

I think I will do the same but I’m not going back beyond my mid forties cos I don’t want to start a mortgage again.

isn't it true that there is no cure to viruses, especially the cold and flu viruses?

Millions die every year of them and still no cure.

 

There's different viruses - some diseases have almost been errdaicated but then there's a fashion for folk not to take up vaccinations. And cold and flu viruses mutate quicker than new vaccines can be developed. The flu jab is basically a best guess of what previous years flu strains is likely to mutate and spread - and it won't prevent it just lessen the severity somewhat and knock off a couple of days to take to recover.

For fatalities - elderly folk with pre-existing health conditions, COPD lung disease.

 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-51540981

 

Super spreaders can be health workers, shop workers i.e anyone who comes into contact with a lot of folk

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51447143

Looks pretty clear from that...

Looks pretty clear from that...

And when the word gets out a lot of people will start stocking up and withdrawing from public contact, not a very pleasant prospect, the government needs to come out of hiding and do something positive to control the situation, Boris will find the Hiding in the nearest fridge won’t help him

It's been a mild winter and the logs I was going to burn this winter. spruce and ash dropped in June 2018, will be even drier than last year.

 

I'm thinking of buying some seasoned logs and trying to measure the moisture content by checking the insulation resistance drilling two holes in the log and using a megger to measure the insulation resistance between the two. Only a starting point and we shall see.

This is highly subjective, but how about moving to Puglia? One can pick up a small farm a few miles from the beach for 100k euro, its invariably got tons of very dry olive logs lying around, one never have to measure the humidity because its always as low as the italian sunrise is light blue

This is highly subjective, but how about moving to Puglia? One can pick up a small farm a few miles from the beach for 100k euro, its invariably got tons of very dry olive logs lying around, one never have to measure the humidity because its always as low as the italian sunrise is light blue

 

The weather is more cycling friendly, but don't they drive on the right there? Will my bike be compatible.

What waste of time this woman is

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/rebecca-long-bailey-and-the-bogus-brexit-journey-1-6525073

How Rebecca Long-Bailey has come full circle on her Brexit views

The Salford and Eccles MP's odyssey now appears complete after she told Andrew Marr it would be "absolutely disastrous to go into the next election advocating a position of rejoining the EU". What a long, strange trip it's been for her, back to square one.