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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.

> Sainsburys at Bell Green is reducing its > opening hours from 8am to 8pm from tomorrow > - not sure if DKH is going to do the same. It's general. There's a lot copied from Sainsburys on page 11 of this thread. /forum/read.php?20,2101607,2105381#msg-2105381

nxjen wrote ----------- > There were certainly restrictions about > who could go into the store itself when > I was there at 7.30 At 7.15 there was a queue that afaics extended along half the store front, and the car park seemed close to full. I just walked back home. Was the queue short-lived? Was the store fairly full then?

> It's only a lost caterpiller..somehow > got into a giant cardboard box. I blame the parents.

I think I heard mention on Today this morning of people paying ?275 for test kits supplied privately by some outfit in Harley Street.

bcam Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Looks like the kind of trap this nasty piece of > work - Mahoody - is selling. You should send him > your vet bill. > > /forum/read.php?30,2096886,2097838#msg-2097838 It does not, and there are no grounds for asserting that it might have been sold or set by him. If you look at his trapbarn.com website, mentioned in the thread you link to and have also contributed to, it's clear to see that the Fenn traps are made in Redditch. It's also clear to see that the Kness trap was made in the USA, and looks different from the Fenn one. It's also a clear matter of law that the Spring Traps Approval (England) Order 2018, SI 2018/1190 gives the Fenn traps explicit government approval. That approval has, for all varieties of the trap, the clear condition:The trap must be set in a natural or artificial tunnel which is, in either case, suitable for the purpose. So, any responsibility for the hurt done to the cat lies clearly with the user rather than the unknown supplier. The trapbarn.com website itself makes it clear at a number of places that it's a legal requirement to have such a tunnel, and supplies artificial ones. Do you have any evidence that, as you clearly imply, Mahoody has some responsibility for the hurt suffered by the cat? How do you justify "this nasty piece of work"?

dbboy, are you including in your calculation the number of people who are infected but have not come to any attention, or those who, recorded case or not, are currently infected but will die later? I think the worldometer site has a useful primer on the difficulties of specifying a mortality rate.

A thought that struck me a few days ago after getting a noseful of cigarette smoke walking along LL -- exhaled smoke of any sort would presumably be an excellent vector for viruses, hanging about in the air as it does for several seconds.

Dr Phil Hammond's 'MD' article in the 6-19 March edition of Private Eye is still online at https://www.private-eye.co.uk/columnists (but liable to be replaced by tomorrow) and I think worth a look. I was reminded of it by one of Malumbu's post earlier.