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Riz, I've just thought, have you got gear for the UK climate, Birmingham 6am today..... 1c and all the clothes shops closing down.

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Riz, Ok so as your agent I have the first 10 after dinner speaking engagements lined up, if Blair and Cameron can make a fortune from it with their boring stories you should be quids in

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Riz, omg that's dreadful apart from the obvious, as a smoker I can empathise don't forget to walk about as much as possible, all that sitting in planes is no good for your veins.

Hope you get sorted in the UK, I hear Mud Island can be nice this time of year, if you're a Penguin

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Chancer, I can see how that would be extra stressful, you can but keep yourself safe in order to keep them all safe

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germanspitz, well lets not worry about supermarkets, they do that for themselves I will just say that's this afternoon's news so you won't know until you next shop if it's more expensive.

RE: Which are you ...

V, personally I write a blog it's the only thing we're allowed to do

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Merc, look on bright side, you the essential ingredients for life..... toilet paper but anything with no end in sight always seems hopeless, but we'll get there

RE: A sad day

Tatami, , here as of earlier today we have over 3400 infected medical staff my heart goes out to them as like most places they don't yet have the right safety equipment, seems despite knowing this would happen at some time governments seem completely unprepared, and medical staff, police and people having to deal with the public have basically been abandoned

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Merc, Italy hasn't been in full lockdown for very long, don't forget you have catch the virus, then it can be I believe 5 to 14 days before you become ill, then a few days before you become ill enough to go to hospital, there the worst cases end up on ventilator until they recover or die, at a guess maybe 3 to 4 weeks to see the results of isolation, we here have done just over a week and it's still getting worse, we can but hope it will work given time

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germanspitz, I don't ever repeat nonsense from social media, that comment came from a newspaper article with a quote from Tesco management saying it was to stop panic buying, I don't doubt due to the backlash they've now come up with a different explanation, I'll let you read it yourself (link below) and see if you think it's BS as I do.
I haven't stepped into a Tesco store since I was shopping in there Eastbourne store and noticed a freezer had packed up and the temp in it was reading +4c, I reported it to staff. The following week (7 days later) I went in for the weekly shop and the same freezer was still reading +4c and all the food was soft, a total disregard for safety and a disgrace that a company that makes billions a year would allow that. The exact same thing happened a few months later in Asda, I'd switched to them, I alerted staff and it was like WW111 had broken out, they'd put barriers on the isle before I got to the end, at the checkout the manager came over to explain that they have alarms in the office but the rise in temp hadn't yet reached the sensor, he apologised even though it wasn't their fault and the next week the whole freezer had been replaced with a new one.
I have in the course of my business life come across Tesco, people who did work for them under contract could wait 6 months to get paid, after the telephone company Telefonica, which I'm sure you had dealings with when you lived here, Tesco imo is the second worst company I've ever come across.

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Luke, add a dash of tonic, slice of lemon and drink the stuff

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I've heard it all now Tesco, a UK supermarket chain, has raised prices on 600 items claiming it's to stop panic buying Tesco has form for being the UK's most ruthless supermarket, from paying farmers less for milk than it costs to produce to not paying their bills for months on end, this has to be the most flagrant bit of profiteering of the year

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Palm, you're not alone there, I was just this minute discussing that very issue with a friend here (by mail as we're not allowed to meet in person), it is and will be tough, but hopefully it will pass quickly and we can all get back to some sort of normality.

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Palm, you're right there, as I mentioned earlier I've suddenly become very popular with 20 something Californians

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Palm, so when are you flying into "The Death Zone"

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Pat, another reason with getting done asap, here in Europe governments are spending money like there was no tomorrow, some paying 80% of wages for those laid off, that can't go on for long, no country can take that kind of hit.

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To add to mystery of why the Germans have a lower death rate from the virus, turns out we here in Andalucia have the same chatting with friends here we're wondering if it has anything to with a really serious outbreak of flu we had here two years ago, it was really bad and not like normal flu, whole families had it and even some youngsters ended up in hospital, this area has a lot of German visitors so we wonder if we've built up some resistance to it

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Spain Update - 14 day isolation period extended a further 14 day, hardly unexpected but min further 21 days of this

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Pat, my feeling is the sooner you do it the sooner it'll be under control, you don't want to be in the situation as some towns here were the hospitals can't cope and you have be at death's door before you can near one.

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Fargo, it seems to me some counties, UK and Oz in particular, are thinking we can get away with this with minimal disruption, imo not going to happen, just making it worse when they finally have to isolate, maybe both are relying on the weather to help, but the UK rarely gets a summer and you're going into winter, so I can't see that being the case

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germanspitz, we had a similar thing here yesterday, there are quite a few people from Madrid etc with holiday homes round here, some tried to drive down here yesterday, the police were expecting it and had a road block on the motorway, they sent 200 back, but some were sneaky and came via the old pre motorway road, the police were also expecting that and fined all of those

Glad to hear she's doing well, Scooby is also fine but still sensing something is up.

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germanspitz, I'm not convinced, having seen your news reports, that the UK is taking it anything like seriously enough the numbers coming from here and Italy are a sign of what's to come there, do make sure you keep away from others as the thoughtless generation appear to be spreading it across the country

RE: Baby got rollback

Luck it was the toilet paper isle, plenty of space to work as doubtless the shelves were empty

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First week of incarceration complete and the news is grim today, Spain has had a bad 24 hours, however if these precautions are going to work we should see new cases fall to near zero this week, if they don't then it's not spread by human contact.

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I'm a multimillionaire with a yacht moored in Monaco, dine on caviar and fine wines, only stay in 5 star hotels

The above may have been influenced by the newly announced guidelines to Spanish doctors on who to treat when they have to make choices -

"‘best hope of quality of life’ – ‘regardless of age’

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Riz, I've never been inside one but I imagine she'd be right, they tend to be inland and anything away from the coast can be cold at night in winter

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Riz, they do have there advantages, want a new en-suite, guest bedroom, kitchen, all you need is hammer and chisel

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Riz, never fancied the troglodyte life myself, that constant 18c temperature is a bit chilly for my liking

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Riz, I'd love to put my phone onto Linux but they can't be bothered to make a touch screen version as you know, and as I hate the bloody things anyway I'm not forking out silly sums for Apple kit, the laptop has had Linux for years.

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V, yes not surprised it's a home made adaption, I expect we'll be seeing more of that as people get more bored