Good to see the STW Puritan Stasi being as efficient as ever.

China’s just revised the Wuhan death toll up by 50%, due to delayed reports and including those that died outside hospital. It’s not a coverup.

The last thing I want is to cause a strain on the NHS by causing some of you angry dicks to have a blood pressure spike and die from impotent rage because somebody did something you interpreted to be wrong.

That’ll probably cause the Puritan Stasi to get even more upset.  Nothing to rage about😂

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/10/south-korea-reports-recovered-coronavirus-patients-testing-positive/

Really hoping it is relapses/erratic test results but if it is a reactivation like the cold sore virus then that’s a bit of a problem.  A preliminary report is being released next week.

Question, on the ITU wards, why does lying on your chest help the COVID patients breathe better?

Usually Aspall’s Draught but tonight its Devon Red.

Mrs M has a vivofit which has suffered a broken strap and both have always been a bit iffy with syncing with devices and the HRM doesn’t work very well with cycling.

I’ve got a polar M430 which is OK but the HRM lies badly with cycling so I need a chest strap.

After epididimytis (infection in pipework behind testicle) and a prostate infection regular saddles were/are excruciating to ride on.  So I switched ISM Peaks on all my MTB’s and an Attack on the road bike.  I’d try and get one cheap on eBay to try first to see if you like them. As Iainc says, watch the setup videos as it is crucial.

But do look at the ISM site as there area fair few copies about, they did have a few pages devoted to how to spot fakes.

Yes, our local garage is open and our car is having a service and MOT next week as well as some other work to keep it road worthy.

So just trolling? Fine.

Of course, maybe……….😁😁😁😁😁😁

Please stop feeding me.

ha ha ha ha ha barrel, fish, shooting

Living on the Sarf coast, we don’t have mountains, Downs but not mountains.  So I’ll keep going out till they ban it (and then the fun begins with nocturnal sneakiness)

Me as well, despite my chimp brain screaming “clink the link!” I managed to delete it first

(Tory leadership battles always remind me of the death of the Skeksi Emperor at the start of the Dark Crystal movie)

Dominic Cummings is the Chamberlain.

I spent 20 years working around UHF radio systems and a 2G network.  Apart from the odd RF burn on the fingers (don’t key up a radio with a finger over the end of the open antenna lead……..) I seem to have suffered no ill health. Some of my colleagues have spent the best part of 40 years working on anything from very high power broad band jammers for the RAF(Vulcans/tornadoes etc), to microwave point to point links to mobile phone networks 2/3/4G and everything in-between.

Now in this admittedly small pool the only odd thing that we’ve noticed was that all had daughters whilst working on the tools but when they’ve come off the tools into management roles they’ve had sons.  Also we don’t seem to suffer any more health problems compared to the rest of the telecoms staff we’ve work around.

Also I will add the caveat that most of what I’ve worked on is is at longer wavelengths than most 5G systems,  microwave stuff falls into the same bands that 5G can use, 5G has a very wide spectrum allocated to it,  600Mhz-6GHz and 24GHz to 86GHz.

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Spring sunshine #mtb #mtblife #friston #southdowns

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She did it twice, she should be leading by example, immediate sacking, no one is irreplaceable.

ha ha ha

Vent away, my In-Laws, Father and Wicked Stepmother have all acted bloody mindedly as they wanted to see grand kids,. go on holiday to Egypt or walk up and chat to people in the street.  TJ and PS have it right.

Terminator Dark Fate, watched it last night.  Bloody awful.

After taking the shed too pieces trying to find something on more than one occasion the solution is too buy another of what you want, then let you subconscious take over and decide where is a safe place to store it and lo and behold you will find what you are looking for.

oh another £25 for Mrs M.  My luck is a disease.

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Out on The Downs #curtisbikes #rustcomponents #noblwheels #steelisrealmtb #evolutioncycleseastbourne #southdowns #southdownsnationalpark #mtb #mtblife

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There’s no point building nukes for planetary targets much over 50 megatons as all they do after that is loft a chunk of atmosphere even higher.

P’ah

Amateurs

Watch “The Satan Bug” or “The Andromeda Strain”………..both gave me hideous nightmares as a kid.

Failing that, the opening book of the unabridged version of “The Stand”

All hideous, worst case scenario’s.

Sounds like the Dambusters

KTM rear pads which have arrived, thank you Fowlers.

KTM/Brembo/Toshiba front pads (4 per calliper, so 8 in all), from somewhere in Europe, they’re on the way.

Impulse purchase from Wiggle, some TLD 5/10 Boa’s and cleat plates, hopefully turning up tomorrow and then the hideous red/vermillion shoes along with my normal riding attire will ensure everyone gives me social distance or risk going blind😂😂😂

Zilch again, Mrs M won £25 last month.

Yes – Nationwide, always very on the ball regarding cuts or increases in the interest rate.

Lovely ride out today, short and sweet, the people I encountered were all polite and distances maintained as best as possible (sometimes difficult on a v shaped bridleway).  Only one old boy in the high risk group took umbrage about me riding across the field, I was about 5 metres from him giving him a wide berth and he waved his stick at me for some reason so I smiled at him which only seemed to wind him up even more.

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We all have that hill that beats us, well not today, conquered the B’stard grassy slope of Doom ! Legs and lungs now spent! #mtb #mtblife #curtisbikes #noblwheels #rustcomponents #steelisrealmtb #southdowns #southdownsnationalpark #evolutioncycleseastbourne

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I’m expecting Agent Million to turn up later today at some point. It’s my turn

You’ll be disappointed the Draw’s on the 2nd of April according to NS&I website.😁

Refrigerated bog roll after last nights curry………

Lovely photos.

I saw my 76 year old FiL at the butchers, he walks up to me, past the “maintain a 2m distance” signs and wants to rub elbows before laughing in my face as I’m trying to remind him about social distancing…….

The butcher didn’t know whether to laugh or be mortified.

What is it about some old people?!?!?!

ohh Audit is glorious but appears to be off the menu at present.

HOMEBASE are delivering still.

Ours is open after a joyless day washing the conservatory walls, upvc and windows and floor.  The quest for paint continues.

Currently on westerham breweries GF Spirit of Kent pale ale and after that it’s their GF Double Stout.

Electrical Control Room Operator for Network Rail, currently on two weeks leave but then its back to work as someone has to manage our 33/22/11KV & 750DC network.

First world problem, BandQ are only doing click and collect on essentials which I fully understand BUT my conservatory is now looking disaster as I can’t order paint to cover the freshly filled cracks in the plaster of all the walls.

If only Mrs M hadn’t had paint-choice-gate and demanded I order a range of trial pots that we were waiting for rather than Nordic Blue that I liked, if you think I’m bringing this up with her…………

Well I suppose that means more riding time….oh wait……..

Loving that Ladybird book, good find!