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Don't mention the war https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/06/12/now-even-fawlty-towers-is-being-erased/ Strange days getting stranger still Most peculiar mama

One couldn't really expect Cummings to resign, hardly strikes as the honourable type and has an ego almost the size of his balding pate; but perhaps it could have been expected that Johnson would sack him... ...though my guess is that Cummings has a barrowfull of dirt on Johnson he could empty...

Presumably you found out; but if not, they're descended from the African Wild Ass, which itself is an endangered species I do wish folk wouldn't denigrate the noble Ass by using ass when they mean arse: a puritanical americanism I believe Did you know that the name Wheatear, a familiar bird of...

Sleepy Dawlish is something of a 'county lines' drug hub isn't it? I believe a mob of Geordie dealers were run out of town last year, who got to know the area as children when holidaying in the caravan parks on Dawlish Warren. I recall a pub above the Warren with splendid views across the Exe...

Yes, it was excellent and innovative. It was ripe for recommissioning given the hundreds of other dickensian characters it could have dredged up for 'reimagining' but the beeb got cold feet and didn't, despite its generally very favourable reviews. Needed the money for a 'Mrs Brown's Boys...

Has anyone subscribed to Britbox? Would if I could but at present it isn't available on Virginmedia cable, my sole source for goggling Rather fancy watching 'The Forsyte Saga' and the beeb's magnificent catalogue of Dickens adaptions; those and 'It ain't half hot Mum' :)

Lovely garden GH Japanese Maple, Cotoneaster and Gunnera where nowt but neeps and tatties could have been expected :)

Is this essentially a 'goodness of fit' problem? If so, employing statistical 'smoothing' tests might help Chi-Squared and Poisson Distribution spring to mind, both of which are available on Excel Not that I'd have a clue how to use them: I just know the names :) This forum might prove...

At present I'm ambivalent about the help face masks will provide in reducing transmission or infection. I'd be less ambivalent if there was a public health campaign detailing how to wear them correctly, as the frequent footage of folk wearing them almost invariably shows them fiddling around...

I thought that was common knowledge. It's the transmission from skin to the mucous membranes (nasal passages, mouth, eyes, lungs) that causes infection. Probably not a good idea to have a rummage around the nether regions with dirty hands either. Broken skin or a cut elsewhere on the body could...

This is amusing, but like the original several minutes too long :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ue5F57dZMU

Congratulations I wonder if this lockdown will result in an aberrant spike in births early next year In a normal year September and October are the peak months, which coincides with conception in mid-winter when couples tend to naturally 'lockdown' at home. Infact, late September is the peak...

Around 300,000 people die annually in the UK, around half of them, as would be expected, aged over 80, so the Covid deaths are, as yet, statistically fairly insignificant And, while the refusal to add Care Home deaths to the daily tally is very questionable, it is perhaps worth pointing out...

Thanks for the reminder about 'Quiz', forgot about it I've been recording episodes of 'Armchair Theatre' being shown on the Talking Pictures channel. Oldsters might recall the series from the '60s & '70s. The ones I've watched so far have been enjoyable if unconsequential and the main interest...

Same here, and it's almost certain there'll be another three-week extension, which apparently is the maximum laid down in the emergency laws that can be imposed before another review If my outlook reflects those of the public at large then the next three weeks will be easier to cope with than...

An interesting article about the plethora of 'doomsday forecasts' which failed to materialise and their possible contribution to the slow response by governments to one which has now actually occurred https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/04/13/an-epidemic-of-doomsday-forecasts/

When it comes to forecasts: be it weather, election polling, cost of an infrastructure project, economic growth, the effects of brexit, pandemics, who will win the next World Cup...anything, placing faith in a single source is foolhardy However misguided Slim's source might be I'd still welcome...

Rickets (Vit D deficiency) has been increasing significantly in the UK this millennium; in all ethnic groups but particularly amongst those of Asian heritage It's well known that the darker your skin the longer you have to expose it to sunlight to produce adequate D. For we whiteys this can be...

I knew it was a significant percentage but 44%...wow They come over here, just dying to do the jobs we won't or can't do, just dying to save our lives

Interesting projections and please keep them coming Slim; but the already apparent volatility between updates suggests healthy scepticism is required I'd also suggest that projected figures on their own mean little without weighting for countries' population and population density