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FoxRed wrote today at 07:11PM ------------------------------ > There are four-floor, four bedroom, brand new > houses in ED on offer for ?1.5m in Upland Road. > Mind you, they have been on since the summer and > still empty. FoxRed, why have you registered on the forum today, to make two posts in threads both of which which haven't been live for two years? Do you live in the area? In the UK?

Mine has blown and I'm after a replacement to buy or borrow. It's for a Toshiba, though adaptors for other machines may be suitable. Necessary requirements are: (1) it should provide something like 18-19 volts, 75 watts DC. That probably goes for many types. (2) The plug that goes into the laptop should have centre pole positive (again that goes for most types, and is easily checked) and should match the one in the attached photo. Its external and internal diameters are 5 and 3 mm, and the connections are made via two metal strips recessed inside the diametrically opposed slots. So a plug with a centre pin will NOT be suitable.

> the car pulled across the road and didn?t see > him. We left once the ambulance arrived, If you witnessed it, have you given an account to the police?

> Note from IlonaM: The children's book > attached to Owen's email is too large > to attach (6.4MB). Has anyone got any > suggestions please how to distribute? It's available here: https://nosycrow.com/blog/released-today-free-information-book-explaining-coronavirus-children-illustrated-gruffalo-illustrator-axel-scheffler/.

> There are a couple of threads on this They're getting difficult to avoid.

> ...... > I didn't see anything on Sainsbury's > website to say that either the > elderly/disabled/carers or the NHS > staff had priority at any other times. Kiera, that does seem consistent and complete and rational. Thanks. How about Click and Collect? Presumably no priority for anyone at non-concession times. Is there typically a long queue for it then? Or within a concession period? Is it even accessible then? PS Have now seen: "Due to the huge increase in online orders, we're pausing new registrations for the time being." That seems to rule C&C out for me as well. I think I may just knit myself a muesli facemask and stick with Lidl. There are only a few staples I rely on JS for anyway, every few months.

> An elderly person recently asked > about going to the front and was > categorically told no. Told by whom? And was any reason given or implied?

Spartacus' original post of April 10, 09:07PM actually ran: IlonaM Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > All those taken by the virus, some of whom are > remembered in the Guardian: > > https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/18/not- > ready-to-go-tributes-paid-to-uk-first-named-victim > s-of-coronavirus > > A truly sobering read. I agree , very sobering and glad to see you've come around to my way of thinking since you poo pooed me on the 2nd April /forum/read.php?20,2107904

No matter. I still have my letter from John Major. I've not opened it yet.

There was a leak apparent on East Dulwich Grove this afternoon, just east of the hospital. I didn't go any further as cars were splashing surface water across the pavement. I did leave a leak notification on the Thames Water website, specifying it as an EDG road leak. Their system didn't allow me to enter any more specific location -- it seemed to be designed for a touch screen -- but it should be apparent enough, and I can't have been the only person trying to report it. ETA That EDG leak now seems clear. Perhaps associated with the road works going on further up the road?

fishbiscuits Wrote: ------------------- > KidKruger Wrote: > ----------------- > but sometimes a bit of curry house > comfort food is desired. > > Never a truer word spoken. And for such a need it seems there's even a book. Indian Restaurant Curry at Home Volume 1: Misty Ricardo's Curry Kitchen Kindle Edition. by Richard Sayce is among today's Kindle daily deals for 99p at https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B079WJSNWZ/

Closure of Crematoria and Cemeteries "The Ministry of Justice has confirmed that Section 5 (8) of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020 requires those responsible for crematoria to close them except for funerals. This requirement to close would also include a cemetery if the crematorium is situated in the cemetery, which could then only be open for burials. The regulation does not apply to other cemeteries, which can stay open. ..... It is important to note that although cemeteries in England, Scotland and Wales are not required to be closed, they may be closed if they are being misused and health and safety are being put at risk." -- from ICCM Covid-19 Newsletter 6 April 2020 (PDF file,176kB; link as found on https://www.iccm-uk.com/iccm/coronavirus/)

> Hi neighbors! ORA Brewing company ltd. UK: 16A Rosebery Industrial Park, N17 9SR, London (UK) http://www.orabeer.com/en/

Do burials still take place in Nunhead Cemetery?

Renata Hamvas Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Due to a government directive that was > issued last night to local authorities, > all cemeteries are closed until further > notice. This will therefore be applying > to all Southwark Cemeteries and to > those in other boroughs too. Where can we see this directive?

Those are the figures up to 29 March. On looking at the figures for 30 March it's noteworthy that the average increase for the day over all boroughs was 10.4%. The largest increases, in Sutton, Hounslow, and Kensington, were around 20%. The increases for Southwark and Lambeth were 0.8% and 2.2% respectively. Whether or not this is an artifact of the data collecting processes I don't know. If it were, there might be an apparently corrective trend in tomorrow's figure. Data source: Historic daily data file https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/documents/Historic%20COVID-19%20Dashboard%20Data.xlsx, accessible via https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-track-coronavirus-cases. Sort on column 1 (Area code) to get all the London boroughs together.

> Queuing was around 15 mins from the > nursery to the main entrance. What determined the rate of entry?

JohnL wrote: ----------- > Still have no idea how long it lingers, > if you gain immunity, if it can return, > how long it takes to recover and what > the symptoms of the dangerous part of > the disease are and when they could > come (I heard day 12 previously) Have you read the paper you linked to at /forum/read.php?20,2096178,2103021#msg-2103021? :) There are some nicely digestible tables and graphics even if you you don't want plough through it all, which cover some of your items. Near the bottom of the HTML page there's a link to a PDF download, which I find a lot easier to handle. There may well be other papers now. One of the presenters on BBC Inside Science this week reckoned, I'm not sure whether half-jokingly, that there about forty a day emerging at the moment. That edition covers quite a few listeners' questions, and talks to several researchers. Well worth a listen I think. Hearable and downloadable at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000glnw. Actually I see that the downloadable podcast is fifty percent longer than the 28 minute off-air recording I have, so I'm getting that too.

> I went on Sainsbury's website yesterday and > the advice was to register for the government's > list of vulnerable people and then that list > would be passed on to Sainsbury's. > There was a link to the place to sign up to > the government link. That seems consistent with something in the CEO's update of 25/3, that I received as a Nectar card holder yesterday. It's on their site at https://about.sainsburys.co.uk/news/latest-news/2020/feeding-the-nation-5: We will receive the government database this week which tells us which people in England the government considers to be most vulnerable. Where these people are already registered with us, we will start to write to them next week to offer them a delivery slot. We are also working hard to secure details for vulnerable people living in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. A few days ago I had it pretty clearly in my mind that the 'most vulnerable' [*] category isn't the same as the 'deemed more vulnerable by virtue of being elderly/over 70' one. I'm wondering now, incidentally, whether repeated undiscriminating use of 'vulnerable', as above, isn't leading to some confounding of the perceived categories. Though the CEO does say, and I believe means: We are doing our absolute best to offer online delivery slots to elderly, disabled and vulnerable customers. These customers have priority over all slots. Our customer Careline has been inundated with requests from elderly and vulnerable customers ? we have had one year's worth of contacts in two weeks. which goes some way to make the distinctions redundant; though I suppose they could, and perhaps sometimes should, still make internal distinctions as to priority. [*] Or 'extremely vulnerable' https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus-extremely-vulnerable (which is the link to which JS point people in order to 'register as vulnerable')

A rough and ready conversion HTML->PDF (using free CutePDF Writer ... hint, hint) attached which makes it a bit easier to read. Also attached is the attachment mentioned in it, Empty Commercial Premises Advice. It was 709 kB when received. I've reprinted it and it came down to 157 kB. I trust it's otherwise unchanged.

Is this any better? Sorry; delted again pro tem

> Today there is news regarding the impact > of Covid-19 on the benefits system > (application, assessment & appeals). Easily viewable at https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/4197-25-march-2020-update https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/a-copyright

A Stanley knife should be enough to easily split your flat boxes into loadable segments. I do wonder though if the collectors are wholly consistent. Were the flats tied together in a bundle or two, to make the job easy?

https://www.southwark.gov.uk/libraries/southwark-libraries-and-covid-19 now announces the indefinite closure of all libraries, and that loans will be auto-renewewed and fines cancelled.

se22cat wrote ------------- > Maybe this might help clear LL of morons... > https://twitter.com/mahishasuraa/status/1241760953311432704 I think it would be helpful, as always, if you give a short summary or indication of what the link is about. Doubly helpful here, when the link is, at least for me, currently unreachable.