From today you no longer have to take any covid tests when coming home from holidays.
You do still have to follow the rules of different counries you visit.
Spains rules are changing again on Monday. Anyone aged 12-17 has to show a negative PCR. Adults have to be fully vaccinated within 270 days, otherwise they have to have the booster jab.

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I thought I'd post this as many of us are not spring chickens https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/feb/10/study-finds-link-between-alzheimers-and-circadian-clock

Some bad news, not been feeling my best over the last few days I just wanted to let everyone know that I have been admitted into hospital and they are keeping me in. I have only gone and poisoned myself. What I thought was an onion turned out to be a daffodil bulb.They said I should be out some time in the spring.

Shen Yun? Would love to see but too far away. They coming to London and Birmingham.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2lLkRXiu3g

Ordered yesterday 12.30 just been delivered - under 24 hours, that's good going.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-60345334

The political boys' club has succeeded in forcing Cressida Dick to step down as commissioner, blast them.
It's not as if many ideal potential female replacements were available. How on earth could any male replacement possibly engender more public confidence after all these revelations of misogynistic police officers' appalling antics?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-60340525

When Pure Planet failed, its customers were automatically transferred to another supplier and Shell Energy got the job. It took them months to issue me a first bill but at least all the credit on my PP account seems to have (just) exceeded what they've now charged for that period.
But the cheeky beggars blandly asked me to pay another £10 a month, which I'm not going to do. SE may not have direct access to the Shell group's massive profits from generating and selling energy to consumers but their cashflow has to be much healthier than any individual customer's.
How have other transferees found their new suppliers' attitudes?

https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/plastics_treaty_loc/?bfLKjlb&v=137862&cl=19044598523&_checksum=783eb9402532a3e789dc4d4a2f28a0d13e99db83a02fd34f7bbfea52a80e0f72

Not sure if this has been posted before......

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/royal-mail-not-accept-first-065103674.html

Just tested positive - but no symptoms
No social club today then sod it

Yesterday I had an email saying my parcel would be delivered today, using their link I changed the delivery to tomorrow - it has just arrived.
What is the point of the options ?

Hope you have a lovely day

Only had a choice of two matches tonight as Chelsea are playing in the World Club final. Get your predictions in by 7.15pm.
Good luck

B Johnson told his independent ethics adviser that he knew nothing about where the funding for the renovation of his apartment had come from. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/09/met-police-considering-whether-investigate-pm-boris-johnson-downing-street-flat-refurb Taking so many handouts he couldn't keep up with where they'd come from or another bare-faced lie?

Wimbledon Choral's 150 voices along with top professional soloists and orchestra are performing Handel's Messiah at Fairfield Halls Croydon on Saturday March 19th.
Don't miss it!
This one of the world's greatest choral works with familiar melodies and extraordinarily rich harmonies performed by one of England's finest choirs.
Book on line at Fairfield Halls.

Wimbledon Choral's 150 voices along with top professional soloists and orchestra are performing Handel's Messiah at Fairfield Halls Croydon on Saturday March 19th.
Don't miss it!
This one of the world's greatest choral works with familiar melodies and extraordinarily rich harmonies performed by a top line up.
Book on line at Fairfield Halls.

Within a week - even self isolation

Apologies to anyone who commented or questioned my previous posts.
Tried 4 different links but every one came up with my name showing I had already signed.

Another choice of three matches tonight with this one being the London based one. Get your predictions in by 7.15pm.
Good luck

Witnessed something pretty disgusting today. There was one of the light blue masks lying by the kerb, in the road. A man probably aged 60 picked it up and put it in his coat pocket. I guessed he was going to put it in the nearby waste bin but he walked past it. Instead as he got to the entrance to Sainsburys, he took the mask out of his pocket and started to wear it.
How disgusting is that?

Anyone else having login problems with British Gas? I haven't been able to login to my account since 18th January. When I enter the details the screen flashes and says that thereis a problem - try again later. Been on their live chat and when I ask the question I get a message saying they are busy - try again later - agent has left chat.

Premier League star Kurt Zouma could face an RSPCA probe after video (pictured left and right: Screengrabs of the footage) emerged of the footballer kicking and slapping a Bengal cat - as hundreds have now signed a petition calling for the charity to take action. The shocking footage shows the West Ham defender, 27, laughing as he chases the cat around his £2million London home. They video was taken on Sunday - the day after he appeared for the club in their FA Cup victory over non-league Kidderminster Harriers. Today the RSPCA, which has the power to prosecute in animal welfare cases, has commented on the footage, describing it as 'very upsetting'. And bosses at the charity told MailOnline they could launch an investigation, if a complaint is made. The RSPCA, whose prosecutions carry a maximum sentence of five-years in prison for the most serious of offences, did not reveal if any complaints had yet been made. However social media users have already flooded Twitter with complaints about the video, urging the RSPCA to take action.

Answers on a postcard please 😆

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/mystery-deepens-over-girl-photograph-050000632.html

University Challenge's original host Bamber Gascoigne dies at home after short illness aged 87
By JAMES GANT FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 10:21, 8 February 2022 | UPDATED: 10:25, 8 February 2022
The original host of University Challenge Bamber Gascoigne has died aged 87 after a short illness.

The TV presenter and author passed away at home in Richmond-upon-Thames, west London.

Famously his dedication to University Challenge was so strong he would fact-check all the questions – and even rewrite them if they read poorly.

Had a choice of three televised matches tonight. This is nearest to us. Get your predictions in by 7.15pm.
Good luck

Someone posted a link on my neighbourhood association's Facebook page to a very useful tool which should help sufferers to get better medical help and social support; see https://mylongcovid.org.uk/my-long-covid-needs .
Developed by the British Lung Foundation but general in its scope, it enables people to rate their post-Covid symptoms by relative severity, add anything else that may be affecting their overall health and generate a report that can be downloaded as a PDF and/or e-mailed to them. It saves an immense amount of time reporting to one's GP or trying to explain to disbelieving family, friends etc why one isn't feeling at all well yet.
There are also useful links to a number of other sources of support.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/bromley-man-fined-826-riding-050000253.html

https://news.sky.com/story/crackdown-on-cowboy-parking-firms-will-cap-most-fines-at-50-and-new-appeals-system-12535148

Read about the Central Vac System. They say “no more dusting”.
Does anyone has it?

Who watched the Curse on tv last night

The cast of King Gary and People do nothing

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/feb/06/the-curse-review-a-sublime-caper-with-an-unfeasibly-brilliant-cast

What about a song about co- Rona

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLYS45Ey/

Unsure if for sale section?
About 2 years old
6x8
Wooden base
Plastic shed
To be dismantled and taken away by buyer by 14th Feb. £200

Which ones do you read and watch?
On weekdays I buy the I paper, unless it is sold out. Then I buy the Guardian. On Saturday I buy the Daily Mail, mainly for the Weekend magazine. Has the best all week tv guide.
I watch BBC news at Breakfast and 6pm
I sometimes watch Al Jazeera news and particularly like a programme called Risking It All. It's about people who risk their lives just to earn a living.
I also watch GB News mostly in the evenings. Programmes I would recommend are, Dan Wootton Tonight, Monday to Thursday from 9pm. If you don't watch the whole show, its worth tuning in about 10.45 for the nomination of Greatest Briton or Union Jackass.
Headliners , every night at 11pm. A comedy review of the next day's newspapers.
Free Speech Nation, Sundays at 7pm. I'm expecting tonight's show will have a dig at those Woke killjoys who are demanding Netflix cancel Jimmy Carr over a joke.
On my phone I have BBC, Al Jazeera, GBNews, CNN, Guardian and Mail online.

Today's FA Cup 4th round is an East Midlands derby. Get your predictions in by 3.30pm.
Good luck

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLY8WEnw/

Is it only me that has problems scanning their Nectar card in Sainsburys? About 9 times in 10 I have to give up trying and hand the card to the checkout person to do it for me.

It's an all Premier League clash for today's 4th round FA Cup tie. Get your predictions in by 7.15pm.
Good luck

A beautiful video and photography to brighten everyone’s day

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLFTSfr7/

Did anyone watching the opening ceremony on tv at lunchtime

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/feb/04/beijing-2022-winter-olympics-opening-ceremony-11-key-moments

I have to admit I hadn’t seen or realised that the government had already made a U turn on the mandatory vaccination for frontline NHS

https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o269

In my opinion despicable but not unexpected as I had always wondered why the date had been sent so far away after the vaccines were in circulation .

Let’s hope they get there in time

Poor little mite

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/04/moroccan-five-year-old-boy-trapped-in-well

I'm very sad to say that Vera died on the 14th. As you probably noticed, there had been no posts from her for a little while and she will be much missed.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/toxic-downing-street-hit-fifth-26137080?__vfz=medium%3Dtray_top_pages