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Post by Jim on Mar 21, 2020 12:23:38 GMT
Cv boots are a bugger to fix. Simple solution, tried effectively a few times: clean away old grease with solvent, cut a bit of thin cloth, glue it over the split with pu squidge. My last repair stayed OK from April to October, when a new boot was fitted as part of another job. Cheap and cheerful, but they also sell a split boot that you can fit without removing wheel, leg etc etc.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2020 12:42:34 GMT
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Post by Clinton Cool on Mar 21, 2020 12:58:27 GMT
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Post by Clinton Cool on Mar 21, 2020 13:00:30 GMT
I was dreading Aldi this morning but I needed to go, I'm out of some essentials. To my amazement the shop was no busier than a normal Saturday morning. Yes, some shelves were empty; no pasta or rice, not much choice of beer or wine. Plenty of bread, milk and fresh vegetables though. They had some meat as well. Even managed to buy a couple of nan breads. My usual 4 quid wine was sold out so I bought 2 bottles, fiver each, 14% according to the label. The worst of the panic buying over maybe? Second prick of the day: bloke in front of me at the checkout had 2 packs of toilet rolls and some other stuff. The checkout operator told him he was only allowed one. He started going off on one, saying he was buying it for a mate who was house bound. He then started swearing at the operator then told her he didn't want any toilet roll, just the food items. What a dickhead. For the second time today I showed some restraint. Had a nice chat with the operator when she was ringing my stuff through, hope that made her feel a bit better. The stuff these workers have to put up with, they are amazing. If I had that job, I'd lose it within one day in the present climate.
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Post by patty on Mar 21, 2020 13:01:28 GMT
Local shop had more baked beans and tins spaghetti than the giant Tescos. Also toilet rolls(rationed) eggs and veg..... Ice cream shop/restaurant forced to close handed out free pizza dough/salad and perishables to people walking past..daughter 'happened' to be one of the recipients...pizza party in isolation to follow.
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Post by naughtyfox on Mar 21, 2020 14:47:17 GMT
"He then started swearing at the operator then told her he didn't want any toilet roll, just the food items."
I think I'd have said "I'll have his toilet paper then, if he doesn't want it." And then touched the second packet and said "And mine, of course."
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2020 15:24:30 GMT
Progress! I shall be able to work a mix of 3-4 half days, 1 -2 full days. Our Childminder is having Key worker children in her setting. While our gates are open and the lights are on that should keep things ticking over OK! We declined the offer from school. They said they will open one school in their group so they could have gone anywhere. Luckily the missus can work from home for as long as it takes. On a different side and in line with the thread title, I am staying positive. Van failed its MOT but on the two things I noticed. Some corrosion to a rear suspension mount and the cv boot is torn in half. I spotted both put it in anyway. They have dropped the 10 day retest rule anyway. A mate, once he has stopped self isolating will pop by and do the two things. A few advisories but all things that are on the todo list anyway. The keyworker children thing has been a bit of a farce. Thursday evening the school said their understanding was it had to be both parents in those roles. Childminder was at first hopefully to stay open, then had advice that early years settings were affected so sent out a text saying she was shut, she then decided she would offer care to keyworker children without the both parents condition. Great - I can work reduced hours. By Friday morning just prior to the start of the last day news was coming out that only one parent needed to be a keyworker. The school quickly backtracked, but announced more information would follow. By mid morning they had decided how they would approach it. Parents had to fill in a form stating what sessions they required - mornings or afternoons week by week. Whole day care would be considered case by case. They would also be pooling resources with the school in the next village due to staffing issues, it couldn't be guaranteed that the setting would be at her normal school, meaning the normal routine of dropping off at the childminder, being walked to school and collected couldn't happen. The childminder has a baby she looks after two full days a week along with two children of her own. She doesn't drive and even if she did the whole clan would have to ve mobilised for the 2 x 5 mile roundtrip at short notice. On top of all that, as far as we understand it the theachers will not be following curriculum - they will be in effect childminding the children rather than teaching them, despite being at school and having an abundance of teaching resources available to them. We decided it was best to stick to our private arrangement with our childminder. I'm down to 24/28 hours a week and have another £60 a week to shell out but we'd rather that than accept the schools keyworker proposals. In the plus side I'll have plenty of time with the dwarf in the afternoons, busy programme of cycling, kite flying, working through her Rainbows activities and general tomfoolery 👍🍻
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2020 15:29:27 GMT
I was dreading Aldi this morning but I needed to go, I'm out of some essentials. To my amazement the shop was no busier than a normal Saturday morning. Yes, some shelves were empty; no pasta or rice, not much choice of beer or wine. Plenty of bread, milk and fresh vegetables though. They had some meat as well. Even managed to buy a couple of nan breads. My usual 4 quid wine was sold out so I bought 2 bottles, fiver each, 14% according to the label. The worst of the panic buying over maybe? Second prick of the day: bloke in front of me at the checkout had 2 packs of toilet rolls and some other stuff. The checkout operator told him he was only allowed one. He started going off on one, saying he was buying it for a mate who was house bound. He then started swearing at the operator then told her he didn't want any toilet roll, just the food items. What a dickhead. For the second time today I showed some restraint. Had a nice chat with the operator when she was ringing my stuff through, hope that made her feel a bit better. The stuff these workers have to put up with, they are amazing. If I had that job, I'd lose it within one day in the present climate. Fair play to you, like I said before, it's a job to know what advice to give them on how to deal with dicks like that; I'd have lost it long before now of I were in their shoes - being kind and trying to cheer them up is as good a start as any though 👍
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Post by lollygagger on Mar 21, 2020 16:45:09 GMT
We declined the offer from school. They said they will open one school in their group so they could have gone anywhere. Luckily the missus can work from home for as long as it takes. On a different side and in line with the thread title, I am staying positive. Van failed its MOT but on the two things I noticed. Some corrosion to a rear suspension mount and the cv boot is torn in half. I spotted both put it in anyway. They have dropped the 10 day retest rule anyway. A mate, once he has stopped self isolating will pop by and do the two things. A few advisories but all things that are on the todo list anyway. The keyworker children thing has been a bit of a farce. Thursday evening the school said their understanding was it had to be both parents in those roles. Childminder was at first hopefully to stay open, then had advice that early years settings were affected so sent out a text saying she was shut, she then decided she would offer care to keyworker children without the both parents condition. Great - I can work reduced hours. By Friday morning just prior to the start of the last day news was coming out that only one parent needed to be a keyworker. The school quickly backtracked, but announced more information would follow. By mid morning they had decided how they would approach it. Parents had to fill in a form stating what sessions they required - mornings or afternoons week by week. Whole day care would be considered case by case. They would also be pooling resources with the school in the next village due to staffing issues, it couldn't be guaranteed that the setting would be at her normal school, meaning the normal routine of dropping off at the childminder, being walked to school and collected couldn't happen. The childminder has a baby she looks after two full days a week along with two children of her own. She doesn't drive and even if she did the whole clan would have to ve mobilised for the 2 x 5 mile roundtrip at short notice. On top of all that, as far as we understand it the theachers will not be following curriculum - they will be in effect childminding the children rather than teaching them, despite being at school and having an abundance of teaching resources available to them. We decided it was best to stick to our private arrangement with our childminder. I'm down to 24/28 hours a week and have another £60 a week to shell out but we'd rather that than accept the schools keyworker proposals. In the plus side I'll have plenty of time with the dwarf in the afternoons, busy programme of cycling, kite flying, working through her Rainbows activities and general tomfoolery 👍🍻 Gazza, Are you not concerned about this key worker child care? Gathering together key worker's children seems like madness to me. I don't have a solution but it seems a sure fire way to spread the virus around key worker's families as efficiently as possible while all the comparatively useless to society types have their children isolated or at least under their control.
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Post by lollygagger on Mar 21, 2020 16:48:31 GMT
And... begging retired (old) health workers back to work? Old "at risk" people working in hospital? More nuttiness. Maybe they are viewed as expendable, maybe not, but they are many times more likely to be very ill if they catch it putting further strain on the NHS, though I guess they can just grab a bed and an oxygen bottle while they're at work...
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Post by JohnV on Mar 21, 2020 17:13:51 GMT
And... begging retired (old) health workers back to work? Old "at risk" people working in hospital? More nuttiness. Maybe they are viewed as expendable, maybe not, but they are many times more likely to be very ill if they catch it putting further strain on the NHS, though I guess they can just grab a bed and an oxygen bottle while they're at work... now think about all the other patients/sickness/diseases/nursing that will continue to be needed If they take over that, it will free up more staff. don't let's go off half cocked
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2020 17:25:22 GMT
Shop shelves empty, recession and massive social upheaval.
200 old people have died.
Hmm.
Someone in the advisory committee is going to be getting a close inspection at some point.
I bet they do know what they are talking about though, being fair.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2020 17:29:11 GMT
The keyworker children thing has been a bit of a farce. Thursday evening the school said their understanding was it had to be both parents in those roles. Childminder was at first hopefully to stay open, then had advice that early years settings were affected so sent out a text saying she was shut, she then decided she would offer care to keyworker children without the both parents condition. Great - I can work reduced hours. By Friday morning just prior to the start of the last day news was coming out that only one parent needed to be a keyworker. The school quickly backtracked, but announced more information would follow. By mid morning they had decided how they would approach it. Parents had to fill in a form stating what sessions they required - mornings or afternoons week by week. Whole day care would be considered case by case. They would also be pooling resources with the school in the next village due to staffing issues, it couldn't be guaranteed that the setting would be at her normal school, meaning the normal routine of dropping off at the childminder, being walked to school and collected couldn't happen. The childminder has a baby she looks after two full days a week along with two children of her own. She doesn't drive and even if she did the whole clan would have to ve mobilised for the 2 x 5 mile roundtrip at short notice. On top of all that, as far as we understand it the theachers will not be following curriculum - they will be in effect childminding the children rather than teaching them, despite being at school and having an abundance of teaching resources available to them. We decided it was best to stick to our private arrangement with our childminder. I'm down to 24/28 hours a week and have another £60 a week to shell out but we'd rather that than accept the schools keyworker proposals. In the plus side I'll have plenty of time with the dwarf in the afternoons, busy programme of cycling, kite flying, working through her Rainbows activities and general tomfoolery 👍🍻 Gazza, Are you not concerned about this key worker child care? Gathering together key worker's children seems like madness to me. I don't have a solution but it seems a sure fire way to spread the virus around key worker's families as efficiently as possible while all the comparatively useless to society types have their children isolated or at least under their control. Not in my case TBH, Mrs Gazza has had a face fit for a mask and passed. She is more than aware of appropriate infection control being a palliative care nurse. In the dwarfs childminder setting (at the moment at any rate) is her and a baby. The childminder is up to speed on what she needs to do from a hygiene point of view. Something has to give TBH. My job may actually come under keyworker as we are involved with the repair and maintenance of the sewer network - we keep the shit flowing if you like. Our work depends on our customers being able to work - hopefully that continues 🤢 The whole country can't come to a standstill...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2020 17:43:26 GMT
It's interesting to consider the key worker thing.
I know it usually revolves around things like health and food supply but what about the bins and the water related services?
There are a hell of a lot of people doing things in such a complex modern society.
Obviously loads and loads of totally unnecessary things but basic services are many and varied.
One also wonders how long it would take for communication networks to fall apart if people were off work.
A lot of it is automated but at the end of the day it needs human intervention to get the job done.
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Post by naughtyfox on Mar 21, 2020 17:55:06 GMT
And... begging retired (old) health workers back to work? Old "at risk" people working in hospital? More nuttiness. Maybe they are viewed as expendable, maybe not, but they are many times more likely to be very ill if they catch it putting further strain on the NHS, though I guess they can just grab a bed and an oxygen bottle while they're at work... now think about all the other patients/sickness/diseases/nursing that will continue to be needed ..and think about the NHS staff having to buy food in a supermarket after their shifts, standing in queues for the checkout with all the grasping old people. Cross-contamination all round! There's no avoiding the plague now, it's been spread around everywhere. Coronavirus on every surface. Why wash your hands when its now in the water?
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