Mundane News

[deptfordmarmoset]

My morning plumber arrived at 2:50pm!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Rear light AAA batteries on charge for audax later this week

 

[Roseland triker]

Rear light AAA batteries on charge for audax later this week

I thought you would of had solar powered lights...

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I thought you would of had solar powered lights...

Boom 💥 Tish

 

[Reynard]

Mild and grey here chez Casa Reynard.

T'is apparently the season for roadworks out here in this corner of East Cambs - encountered three lots being done on my way into Ely this morning. I think the council has an excess of tarmacadam given what appears to have been done. And each one is a proper job, not the usual tar-and-chippings malarkey.

Anyways, I am now in possession of 25 prints for my archive, so I shall have some fun (and a dose of nostalgia) cataloguing, mounting and labeling later on.

I also took my plastics recycling to Tesco while I was at it.

Had a chicken, avocado and mango sauce wrap for luncheon, along with a tangerine, a pear and two

Am about to go and furkle in the garden for some more deadfall. Makes for good kindling.

 

[rockyroller]

bossman says beg. February 28 the vaxxed employees won't have to wear masks in the office, if they don't want to. just brought him something & he is sitting in his office w/ a colleague, both not wearing masks. what day is today?

 

[rockyroller]

My morning plumber arrived at 2:50pm!

someone probably threw a monkey wrench into his plans

 

[mybike]

Of course they're not going to be as reliable or sensitive as a lab-based PCR test, but what do you expect for something that is only a fraction of the cost. The technology, though, and the scientific principles behind the LFT are both perfectly sound, and have been used for many years.

Anyone who has done either a pregnancy test or a HIV test can certainly attest (See what I done) to that. I've done one type in the past, but not the other. I'll leave you to figure out which one.

I have the safety of family and friends to consider, ergo I will carry on as I am currently doing for as long as I deem that to be necessary. Because I care about what happens to people other than myself. If it was just me, then hey ho, but it's not just about me.

I'm afraid PCR test are useless especially at the cycles they are using them at. They were never intended as diagnostics tests & have been used to scare people with their inflated 'positive' figures.

 

[mybike]

Probably a Scottish connection in there somewhere as there were close ties between Scotland/France as well as the Low Countries. My own ancestors seemed to favour Holland in times of home country stress in Covenanting times.

the Protestantism of the Netherlands would have been closer to that of the Covenanters than the near RC of the Anglicans of the time.

 

[Andy in Germany]

monkey wrench

These are known as an "Englander" in some parts of Germany.

Just saying...

 

[Reynard]

Whew... Brought in a whole load of mainly ash branches of around three inches in diameter that got dropped by Eunice and her assorted siblings. There's still more out there, along with a load of bullace and some pine. There's also an oak dangling dangerously, so that'll be a chainsaw job for sooner rather than later.

That lot'll keep me in firewood for a fair while, then I don't need to dip into the top quality logs I've got laid by.

Time for a methinks.

 

[Reynard]

I'm afraid PCR test are useless especially at the cycles they are using them at. They were never intended as diagnostics tests & have been used to scare people with their inflated 'positive' figures.

And your reasoning behind this is what? Sources, please.

Admittedly I'm a Doctor of Engineering as opposed to one in the field of the various biological sciences, but the scientific principles behind the PCR test seem sound enough to me.

There was actually a really good bit on PCR tests in the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures which should satisfy the layman in terms of an explanation. An entertaining and informative watch - still available on the BBC i-player for around 10 months or so...

 

[oldwheels]

the Protestantism of the Netherlands would have been closer to that of the Covenanters than the near RC of the Anglicans of the time.

True and that is one reason my ancestors went there for sanctuary as one was a prominent Covenanter. One branch of the family were also hereditary doctors to the Dutch royal family.
Strangely one prominent person with the family name was clearly closely connected with the church of Rome and visited the pope on several occasions as an ambassador for James IV of Scotland. He died on a last pilgrimage while en route to Rome.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Well, I've just given my 0.25ml of blood. Maybe it was closer to 0.35ml because I got carried away. That's my ONS antigen and PCR test done for this month. I expect a positive and a negative result respectively. In fact since May 2020, all my PCR tests have been negative so no false positives on me.

 

[Reynard]

I have just lit the fire.