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What Seph said, despite the vaccine our R rate is still around 1. Common sense should tell a tradesperson that at some point they will encounter someone who would prefer them to wear a mask, so keeping one to hand for such an eventuality would be the sensible thing to do...

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If people are precautionary thinking of the possibility of going 'off grid' at some point this winter, this is a simple light/heat source hack, lots of variations out there...

Get one of these John... https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/kettles/article/hot-water-dispensers-how-to-buy-the-best-aE1aB3z1blaX#is-a-hot-water-dispenser-quicker-than-a-kettle-and-does-it-use-more-electricity

Angelina Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It will be hot water bottles, blankets, extra layers and quicker showers. Kettles use up a huge amount of electricity; Layering is good, several thin layers work better than one thick layer; Quicker showers make a big difference, Thames Water hand out a 3 minute egg timer you can stick on the shower wall. > Heating will be on but low to stop the issues with the house (damp etc). I've read that having the house at a regular temperature > is better than having blasts of central heating for shorter periods - although happy if anyone has a view. Regular temp is indeed much better, that's the job of the thermostat, if your radiators have individual thermostats, turn them down a bit in the less occupied rooms...

The blame game worked for Brexit, so if it ain't broke...Johnson's speech stays on course, full of tubthumping rhetoric minus actual policy. However, I do feel that once things start affecting Joe Public, like the fuel shortage has, then you will see more reaction. Winter of Discontent 2.0 looming...

BBC now reporting on it with info and implications for the consumer... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58815665

I think Cat is referring to wholesale price, which will eventually filter down to the consumer...

You should be ok leaving internal rooms unheated, but any room with an external wall would benefit from some heating, albeit at a lower temp than the main living spaces, otherwise you could be inviting damp/mould...

I'm guessing they'll update the fixtures during the current two week international break...

Point taken, but in light of, and the closeness, of the SE case, is it really surprising that another woman randomly attacked and murdered drew such attention? Again, without adding context of the male murders you cited, it becomes a pretty pointless exercise...

Angelina Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If the OP can find details of similar crimes > against men / women we can then compare the > reporting of them and understand why they think > there is a disparity This is the main flaw with the OP, a lack of context. One of the reasons the SE case received such a (as the OP put it) 'fanfare' in the news, was not just the nature of the crime but also who carried it out, namely a serving Met police officer, the very people who are supposed to be protecting us. For that reason alone it was always going to create more attention, so I'm not sure why the need to question it...

Week 7 points... Week 7 table...

Just read that Sainsbury's are looking to recruit Christmas seasonal staff, should be worth contacting them directly about local possibilities... https://news.sky.com/story/sainsburys-launches-drive-to-recruit-22-000-temporary-staff-for-christmas-period-12422695 Online deliveries is one of the few sectors that 'did well' during the pandemic so that might be a worthwhile avenue to explore more fully... ETA: Royal Mail is another company that recruits Christmas seasonal workers...

Good luck with the search for work beansprout, a lot of people are struggling to make ends meet with the effects of the pandemic, and with furlogh ending it's about to get a lot worse...

Nigello Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Trendy, empty, Twitter-friendly slogans don't help Neither does facetious posts...

Week 7 fixtures... Saturday 2nd October Manchester United v Everton Burnley v Norwich City Chelsea v Southampton Leeds United v Watford Wolverhampton Wanderers v Newcastle United Brighton & Hove Albion v Arsenal Sunday 3rd October Crystal Palace v Leicester City Tottenham Hotspur v Aston Villa West Ham United v Brentford Liverpool v Manchester City

Week 6 points... Week 6 table...

Well done Meds and thanks for organising, you're lucky I missed the Friday session... ;-)

TheCat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Haven't you just contradicted yourself? You say > brits aren't prepared to accept the conditions of > the job, but EU drivers do...isn't that the very > definition of 'undercutting'? Not in this context, the Gov's use of 'undercutting' was clearly to imply that EU workers were lowering wages for British workers, it's an oft used argument by Leavers both during and after the Brexit debate, that's simply not the case with the haulage industry whereby British workers had long since given up on the industry. EU drivers didn't have to do any 'undercutting', they simply filled a growing void that already existed, a void that has since returned after many EU workers returned to the EU post-Brexit...

FoM meant they could do either, they could work for haulage companies from their own country, but they were also able to work for UK haulage companies, likewise UK drivers were free to work for other haulage companies in the EU. For a long time there's been a growling shortage of UK haulage drivers working for UK companies, and that gap was eventually filled by EU drivers, basic market forces at work. The market has since changed due to Brexit which is why we now have a shortage of drivers again...

The UK haulage industry was going downhill before EU drivers rocked up, like fruit picking it's an industry that simply doesn't appeal to Brits and what they're prepared to do workwise, e.g. long hours, often sleeping in laybys, no washing/toilet facilities etc. The Gov's claim that EU lorry drivers undercut Brits is disingenuous to say the least...