If you see the footage, the Russians have ID’d themselves, red bands are conscripts, white bands are regular troops. They’ll be better equipped and trained (in theory).

Still need the same supply lines tho – wonder if that’s slowing them down?

Power off in the neighbouring villages, they’ve been told not to expect reconnection until tomorrow afty. Commute across the Humber Bridge could be interesting tomorrow morning.

Moto G10 is a great phone with a decent camera, no hesitation in recommending one but I am not a teenager so I’ve no idea if it’s cool or sick or something else

@Bruce, that’s to put a larger value shunt resistance in the measurement circuit ( needed because of the larger current)

Not before time but wondering why now?

OP, suggest you quit FE and find something else to do. Pleased my teenagers do not have a teacher who thinks like you.

Here you go folks:

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/38464131

Press fit BB creaking yet again on my Diverge

Great words from Joe Lycett

Can anyone explain to me why the met are investigating something they were involved in? My understanding is /was that an investigation into alleged criminal behaviour involving a police force had to be investigated by an outside force.

Hutton-le-Hole, Gillamoor, Rudland Rigg, Bloworth Crossing, old railway to the Lion Inn, more old railway to Bank Top, Ana Cross and the descent to Lastingham that is guaranteed to put a smile on your face

That route looks fantastic @djflexure – any chance of a link to a .gpx please?

Vocation do a similar brew to Hazy Jane – hop, skip and jump?

I commute to work on the bike steadily and try to spend some time looking around as I do it (quite easy – I ride over the Humber Bridge). I’ve found that I can get my work thinking done on the bike and it acts as a buffer zone between home and work.
We’ve had quite a bit of “resilience” training and these sessions nearly always suggest exercise outside as a method of de-stressing.

It sounds like you have an unsustainably high workload – can you identify any tasks that you can delegate or pass back to your management? I think it would be a good idea for you to speak with management and explain your situation with a view to offloading some of your work; if they are unwilling to support you then it’s probably time to be thinking about alternative options.
Good luck with it

I couldn’t shift mine and I used a blowtorch to heat the tank on the recommendation of a plumber. It needed a lot of heat as the tank acts as a heatsink – the blowtorch I used was one of those with a separate gas bottle and I seem to remember it went clang as it heated up, gently tapped the element spanner with a mallet and it turned easily. Not difficult but one of those worrying jobs with a good disaster potential.

Another vote for Galibier Barriers, Use mine daily for the commute and at weekends and they are into their 3rd year.
Somebody at work had to wait for a pair and I think he only waited a few weeks – not sure if they notified him when they had stock so it might be worth an email if you want a pair

Fenwicks caravan cleaner here, it’s a diluteable job that seems to last ages

At present, issuing higher grade masks (FFP2/3) to all NHS staff and banning office sharing whilst we are in the current Omicron surge would be a more scientific and sensible approach, not threatening dismissal for being unvaccinated

FFP3 masks in all clinical areas for all staff and everywhere for anyone with increased risk score (immunocompromised etc). Surgical masks mandatory on site for all staff and mandatory in the buildings for everyone. Shared offices are avoided where possible and where not possible the perspex screens are still in situ from previous waves. Don’t know about other trusts but I expect their measures are similar.

LFTs twice a week in the trust I work for. We came close to running out of tests early midweek but I understand that’s sorted now.

Frank, I reckon if an offer is made to settle out of court then Giuffre would receive advice to accept.

13 according to Veloviewer.
Not bad for Lincolnshire

@Convert, thanks, I understood; my point was that we didn’t want to send patients because we would loose the care teams from the hospitals. Which were and still are in short supply

I always felt that they weren’t really intended for healing the sick.

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The one in Harrogate certainly didn’t receive any patients. If we were to send patients there, we would also have had to magic up care teams to send with them. Fortunately we didn’t get to that point.
I know some patients were admitted to the Nightingale in London because it was on the news but I strongly suspect that the other regional Nightingales were in a similar position to Harrogate

The nightingale hospitals have been decommissioned and the equipment distributed via NHSE amongst the permanent hospitals.
Not that we ever had staff to send to them with any patients anyway.

Interested to hear if it is the route that others are thinking of or not?

Similar to the route I took although I went from Keswick up to the carpark and rode the track to almost Skiddaw House then into Mosedale rather than along the railway.

If you know you have to have it before April to continue in your NHS position, then why not come forward and get your first jab now? It can’t be compulsory immediately, you have to give people time.

First jab deadline is Feb 3rd to meet April deadline

Took me under 4.5 hours from Keswick and I’m a skinny lad from Lincolnshire who stops to take a lot of pics. You’ll be back in Keswick for lunchtime with an early start. I remember a short stretch of Mosedale being fairly boggy and another short section from Skiddaw House towards the singletrack below Lonscale Fell but otherwise dryish

Government website reporting that it’s run out of LFT kits to send out.

Thos keeps getting overlooked, they weren’t built for the role people thought they were for. Luckily, they were never quite needed.

Very luckily. We couldn’t staff them.

Congratulations TiRed, well deserved. I’ve used some of your information to help explain things to our team of NHS engineers – thank you

Fab thread @munrobiker, some great rides and pictures to look at here.

My daft ride of the the year was a mixed terrain 400K audax from Darlington that went through the Dales down to Ribblehead and then across to the Lakes and back via Northumberland

Screenshot by Al[/url], on Flickr

It was that ridiculously hot weekend in July, I saw 35deg indicated on the GPS as we were on Cam Road

I discovered the alternative Borrowdale

The Windermere ferry set us up nicely for a sunset over Langdales and a starlit trundle below Helvellyn before a sunrise above Hexham

Hexham Sunrise by Al[/url], on Flickr

Coldberry End led us to Yad Moss and another brekkie at Middleton in Teesdale before the run back to Darlo

A stunning ride and the event should run again next year if anybody fancies a decent weekend out

Another vote for Don Charlwood’s No Moon Tonight. One of the finest books written about life in Bomber Command and a fitting tribute to their bravery.

Some of our surgical wards are full of medical (elderly) patients. Many are awaiting discharge with nowhere to be discharged to because of the lack of care home beds (staff).

A lot of elective work has been delayed and we have limited capacity to admit via A&E which manifests in the queues of ambulances that we are getting to used to seeing.

@db

I want to paddle a canoe from my house in Burton to my house near Arbroath. So down the Trent into the Humber and then up the East Coast

Stather or Lincoln?

Another vote for the V60 – especially one of the nicely specced ones. Just large enough to get your bike in the back without removing the wheels

Other vaccinations are already mandatory for NHS staff.

Which vaccines would those be?

We’re at Bassenthwaite, looking like the rain has finally stopped. Pleased about that because I’m wearing the last dry clothes I have with me.

Cam road from Bainbridge is pretty long

One of my colleagues has tried to book a collection this morning (a medical device that requires manufacturer repair). We’ve tied to using TNT by a national framework agreement so setting an alternative courier up is going to take time. Worrying!

Galibier Mistral – so good I bought a second pair. No pockets though!

I’ve done a fair bit of night riding as part of audax rides and I feel safer at night than during the day; riding from sunset to sunrise is a really special experience provided the weather is kind. Top tips are multiple rear lights as above and a headtorch. And warmer gloves than you think you will need.