When This Is Over

[molehill]

Get me haircut

Done that, clippers.
Then did the Missus hair, clippers.

We tried scissors but quickly realised it was going to end in a mess, so out came the old clippers. Not going to be seen in public for a month or two so why worry.

[Travs]

I did my hair in the back garden with the clippers. bit of a disaster and look like a prison convict (even moreso than usual)….

[Oracle]

A valid comparison would be between deaths among NHS workers and deaths among the working population under 70 years old. I suspect that working in the NHS would then be seen as substantially more dangerous. And last time I looked, there had been 32 deaths of NHS workers.

Nevertheless, the general point that remuneration is not a major problem in the NHS may well be correct.

On stats, it’s true. It’s easy ride a coach and horses through that argument as a measurement,
I was commenting on orders of magnitude.

19 is the official figure, and I understand fatalities are skewed to older groups amongst them.

Compare with a nasty like Ebola, I gather more than 1 in 20 of the fatalities were medical staff , probably more since many of others will have been helpers rather than medical, so they really did put their lives on the line going into work.

With this only as order of magnitude 1 in 1000 are medical staff.
Everyone a tragedy. But context is important.
Now imagine the doctors in most poor countries.
Our resources dwarf theirs in protection.

[JohnK]

Anybody else getting 3 weeks to the gallon out of there car ?

[Travs]

Anybody else getting 3 weeks to the gallon out of there car ?

Usually do a tank a week, plus more for travel to races. Think I've used less than quarter of a tank since the lockdown.

[molehill]

Anybody else getting 3 weeks to the gallon out of there car ?

One trip of 15 miles to stock up on chicken feed, otherwise the car hasn't moved.

[wheezing donkey]

Surely a hill climb can only be iconic if you can go down the other side? So only Bealach na Ba qualifies. The Welsh one should presumably be Bwlch y Groes. Not sure what the most iconic climb in England should be: Fleet Moss? Holme Moss?

Anthony, what makes Stwlan Dam iconic is not its length or altitude but the 8 perfect, Alpine style hairpin bends.
In the case of Great Dunn Fell it is the altitude circa 2,700 - 2,800 feet - far higher than Bealach na Ba which is Great Britain,s highest through road.

Remember, in cycling it is not a pre-requisite to "descend the other side" - in the grand tours some of the most iconic hill climbs are mountain top finishes. In traditional British cycling hill climb events it is merely an uphill time trial.

[Daletownrunner]

Get me haircut

I’m growing it out to see if it covers my bald patch or whether I end up looking like that baldy fella off the hamlet advert

[Llani Boy]

I’m growing it out to see if it covers my bald patch or whether I end up looking like that baldy fella off the hamlet advert

Ah, Gregor Fisher AKA Rab C Nesbitt. "correct me if I'm wrong"

[Daletownrunner]

Ah, Gregor Fisher AKA Rab C Nesbitt. "correct me if I'm wrong"

Ha that’s the fella