How are you all doing?

[trophywench]

Elaine, had the nurse used to work for Companies House? Small Ltd company, wondering what arrangements we can make about the AGM. Articles of Assoc state that to be quorate a general meeting needs 31 attendees. Well - no thanks! - illegal to invite the shareholders to that. So what should we do? We cannot advise you and would only suggest you take legal advice. Thanks for nothing!

 

[trophywench]

5.30 can hardly be called 'late' Elaine It was the time our Office and many other businesses and shops closed, ie. Rush Hour for pedestrians and traffic. Early evening after dinner is another busy time for pedestrians, we always meet all sorts of very regular walkers, with and without dogs, at that time round here all year round.

 

[eggyg]

5.30 can hardly be called 'late' Elaine It was the time our Office and many other businesses and shops closed, ie. Rush Hour for pedestrians and traffic. Early evening after dinner is another busy time for pedestrians, we always meet all sorts of very regular walkers, with and without dogs, at that time round here all year round.

5.30 am!

 

[miguel81]

Not doing too badly tho' bored out of my mind - such as it is! My freezers are emptying so yesterday afternoon made a rather delicious pork stew in the slow cooker - not my own recipe 'twas one I got off the Internet, I just added paprika to give it a lift. Was on all night and I woke to a lovely smelling kitchen. It made 10 meals for the freezer.

 

[Pina]

We're ok, hubby spends most of the day in the garden faffing about, and I have my 3 kitties for company, and my many crafts. I love crochet, diamond painting, card making, scrapbooking, reading.
we come together for dinner in the evening, and watch tv. I do get confused as to what day it is sometimes, but it has to be done. Its for our safety.

 

[Bruce Stephens]

Pretty miserable day here. Barely stopped raining and it's cold,

Same here. Which (on the positive side) made it a great day to go and get some shopping (there was no queue outside the shop).

 

[Cazzablanca]

My husband got a phone call saying his factory is reopening Monday and so he has to return to work. That has signalled a return to my panic and anxiety ☹
I have really enjoyed us living in our little safe bubble and now all that fear and anxiety is flooding back.

 

[zoombapup]

This one's pretty innocuous compared to the metadata they could pull if they wanted to go for that. Stores numbers of any other phone you've been close to & if you get diagnosed, you can if you want to upload that data to the contact tracing team's database.

It's a tool to help out the contact tracers do their job faster and more completely, not supposed to replace or supplement them, which seems to be the way the UK govt is positioning its app.

Honestly I wouldn't trust the UK Government as far as I could throw them. Given cummings comments on letting plenty of people die, I think there's a serious concern about misuse. I'd have gotten on board with the Apple/Google method because it would likely be a bit more transparent, but the NHSX one I'm not going to touch, other than to get it in a lab once we can go back to work and sniff whatever it sends and inspect what its code is actually doing. Unless they publish the source code to the app, in which case I'd install it after an inspection. But they're unlikely to do that because that would be sane.

Having said that, apparently there are some great phone deals around right now, so I might at least buy a new phone. Because my old one is unlikely to actually work with any new apps 🙂

 

[Eddy Edson]

Honestly I wouldn't trust the UK Government as far as I could throw them. Given cummings comments on letting plenty of people die, I think there's a serious concern about misuse. I'd have gotten on board with the Apple/Google method because it would likely be a bit more transparent, but the NHSX one I'm not going to touch, other than to get it in a lab once we can go back to work and sniff whatever it sends and inspect what its code is actually doing. Unless they publish the source code to the app, in which case I'd install it after an inspection. But they're unlikely to do that because that would be sane.

Having said that, apparently there are some great phone deals around right now, so I might at least buy a new phone. Because my old one is unlikely to actually work with any new apps 🙂

Isn't Cumming's brother involved with the NHSX thing somehow or other? And Palantir? I really wouldn't want to have Peter Thiel involved in anything important ...

 

[Eddy Edson]

So the seventh day in a row with no new cases in my little state, which is good, but our grey windy winter seems to be coming in early, which isn't so good. Plus I'm buried in really boring spreadhseets and funding applications. So I'd rate today as "meh" overall.

 

[SkinnyLiz]

Sunny morning after several days of grey skies and rain. Astonishing how it lifts the spirits. Off for a walk round the garden before it rains again, as the weather app promises it will.
After that, long list of indoor jobs to keep me busy.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

My husband got a phone call saying his factory is reopening Monday and so he has to return to work. That has signalled a return to my panic and anxiety ☹
I have really enjoyed us living in our little safe bubble and now all that fear and anxiety is flooding back.

Sorry to hear that @Cazzablanca. Hope your anxiety subsides, and your husband’s return to work is uneventful.

 

[eggyg]

Well, I’ve wallowed enough. Today is the day I start my shielding routine. Put on my exercise gear, leggings and a hoodie, basically my lockdown uniform, and on the sarcastic recommendation of a “friend”, I have done a Joe Wicks For Seniors workout! I was exhausted! I can walk 20 miles no bother, 10 minutes, supposedly gentle, workout and I’m sweating! I actually felt quite proud of myself, I’ve never, ever done a workout, in a gym or otherwise. So, what am I do with the other 23 hours and 50 minutes? I’ll get back to you on that! It’s early days. 😛

 

[Eddy Edson]

Well, I’ve wallowed enough. Today is the day I start my shielding routine. Put on my exercise gear, leggings and a hoodie, basically my lockdown uniform, and on the sarcastic recommendation of a “friend”, I have done a Joe Wicks For Seniors workout! I was exhausted! I can walk 20 miles no bother, 10 minutes, supposedly gentle, workout and I’m sweating! I actually felt quite proud of myself, I’ve never, ever done a workout, in a gym or otherwise. So, what am I do with the other 23 hours and 50 minutes? I’ll get back to you on that! It’s early days. 😛

Given yr previous excellent offerings, I'd put "write more poetry" on the agenda.

If all you do is Joe Wicks you'll turn the outer Eggy into a chiselled Amazon-goddess but the inner Eggy will wither and pine.

 

[eggyg]

Given yr previous excellent offerings, I'd put "write more poetry" on the agenda.

If all you do is Joe Wicks you'll turn the outer Eggy into a chiselled Amazon-goddess but the inner Eggy will wither and pine.

I’ve being doing a daily blog on FB, now on day 42. Mostly just musings and ramblings but the odd poem too. I only have 200 friends and they seem to like it.

 

[Stitch147]

Is it all over yet!!! The amount of cars on the road in my area you'd think it was!!!! Ive had a few down days recently. Work are starting to furlough a few staff, I know I won't be as I'm the stores fire, health and safety officer. I'm kind of glad as I like the routine of still going to work. I just wish that things were back to normal. It's exhausting playing dodge the customer.
Found out that this year's Great Dorset Steam Fair has been cancelled, bit gutted as I love going along.
On the plus side I found out I've been underpaid since last September, so that will be a nice bit of back pay.

 

[SB2015]

Today I finished a reversible apron for my sister in law, and I am hoping that the photo will upload.


It works !!!! Yipeeeeeee.

 

[zoombapup]

Isn't Cumming's brother involved with the NHSX thing somehow or other? And Palantir? I really wouldn't want to have Peter Thiel involved in anything important ...

No, there's another guy (can't remember his name, was a PhD student in physics but got a job with Cummings as a data analyst because obviously there's no real jobs in physics) 🙂 and it was HIS brother that had the contract with NHSX. Something like 250 million quids worth. Both Cummings and the other guy were sitting on the SAGE meetings that decided what to do on the virus, so you can imagine how much influence there was on medical people to tow the party line and follow the herd immunity strategy until one of them did a back of the napkin calculation and realized they'd kill us all in the process.

I agree on the Thiel thing, that guy is right wing ideology 101 in terms of his views and I suspect is probably to the left of Cummings. The scary part is that Cummings is wickedly effective, with the emphasis on the wicked.

I'm sure time will out all of this, but by the time the historians analyze and pick over it, nobody will care anymore.

 

[Eddy Edson]

No, there's another guy (can't remember his name, was a PhD student in physics but got a job with Cummings as a data analyst because obviously there's no real jobs in physics) 🙂 and it was HIS brother that had the contract with NHSX. Something like 250 million quids worth. Both Cummings and the other guy were sitting on the SAGE meetings that decided what to do on the virus, so you can imagine how much influence there was on medical people to tow the party line and follow the herd immunity strategy until one of them did a back of the napkin calculation and realized they'd kill us all in the process.

I agree on the Thiel thing, that guy is right wing ideology 101 in terms of his views and I suspect is probably to the left of Cummings. The scary part is that Cummings is wickedly effective, with the emphasis on the wicked.

I'm sure time will out all of this, but by the time the historians analyze and pick over it, nobody will care anymore.

Interesting, thanks.

That u-turn on herd immunity would be one of the things which unsettles me most. I mean, they didn't realise the implications out of the gate? The very first WHO reports I saw back in Feb made things abundantly clear. I have to think that they just ignored them, bizarre as that seems.

Expect you're right on yr last point - was thinking that the other day - but optimistically maybe it will serve as a cautionary case study on how to screw things up in circles where it matters.

 

[mikeydt1]

with Johnson wanting Britain back to work does sound like they have opted for herd immunity, lets face it there is no cure at the moment and we can't run indef on lock down as the country will end up bust.

just remember one thing, it is still out there so go steady people. in the mean time think i am going to buy a flame thrower and burn the dam thing out of the air 😱