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by mosy
2 Nov 2020 20:31
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: The NHS COVID-19 app
Replies: 43
Views: 25915

Re: The NHS COVID-19 app

Evidence from results (lack of) shows that much money generously bestowed on uncompetitive bids was pointless. Had the results been successful it might have been easier to stomach the blatant excess, but for failure? Also hard to stomach that companies willing to step in who could do the job or make...
by mosy
2 Nov 2020 18:51
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: The NHS COVID-19 app
Replies: 43
Views: 25915

Re: The NHS COVID-19 app

...[clip]...The Tory party must do its patriotic duty and boot them out forthwith. I probably won't live long enough to see that happen, unless a few £10m golden handshakes get lost among the £billions already wasted. I've no doubt top dogs and underlings are all working 24/7 (some more than others...
by mosy
2 Nov 2020 18:36
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Sewer/drain location maps within home boundaries
Replies: 5
Views: 12098

Re: Sewer/drain location maps within home boundaries

The water board ought to know where the respective pipes enter your fence boundary and maybe beyond that entry point. Assuming they can tell you, they ought to be able to tell you how to detect them, including how deep they're likely to be given the known outside entry point. If the water board can'...
by mosy
1 Nov 2020 17:48
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Sydenham Street Names
Replies: 6
Views: 3458

Re: Sydenham Street Names

Hi and welcome. It sounds fascinating and of course worthwhile to enable feeling to belong to the place they're in. Have you browsed this forum's Town Museum and Gallery yet? A couple of really knowledgeable posters contribute. I can't speak for them of course but perhaps if you made contact they co...
by mosy
31 Oct 2020 21:42
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Sewing lessons
Replies: 2
Views: 8028

Re: Sewing lessons

Hi and welcome Mary_Kelly. Can I suggest you give the brand name of the machine and the model number or name? Or link to it on the John Lewis website. To post a link on here, you'd need to open the page on John Lewis that shows the machine, then copy the URL at the top that starts with http:// and p...
by mosy
23 Oct 2020 18:50
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Poodle Club - free half-term lunches
Replies: 4
Views: 4518

Re: Poodle Club - free half-term lunches

Thanks for the heads up. The Poodle Club's initiative is heartwarming and worthy of praise and gratitude from us all. (You'd think we were in Dickensian times.) A radio caller put it like this, that most people wouldn't even let a dog starve, yet our ruling body thinks it's fine that the poorest of ...
by mosy
21 Oct 2020 16:50
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Freeview reception problems?
Replies: 27
Views: 24658

Re: Freeview reception problems?

I've noticed a bit of halting or pixelation when the wind & rain was bad. I record to my computer whereby a right mouse-click offers four playback software options. Dodgy programmes sometimes hang or crash altogether on one but will play via another. Purely a guess, but maybe at time of recordin...
by mosy
16 Oct 2020 20:56
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Consultation on Proposal to Close Silverdale/Bishopsthorpe Road to traffic
Replies: 132
Views: 231441

Re: Consultation on Proposal to Close Silverdale/Bishopsthorpe Road to traffic

Scrapping many road closures might be true, although I suspect Silverdale's closure might not be scrapped immediately. As mentioned elsewhere, they're demolishing Silverdale Hall to make way for building flats, which will no doubt involve more heavy machinery and concrete mixer lorries standing for ...
by mosy
9 Oct 2020 14:34
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: The NHS COVID-19 app
Replies: 43
Views: 25915

Re: The NHS COVID-19 app

Re NHS and Excel, according to several computer people, It's been well known for years (as JGD said) that Excel drops off data it can't handle once full, so Serco should have known it was tagging onto, i.e. accepting data from, a system with limitations, and that they should have made provision for ...
by mosy
4 Oct 2020 11:57
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: The NHS COVID-19 app
Replies: 43
Views: 25915

Re: The NHS COVID-19 app

A question on the test itself. The UK test, we are told, is pointless if no symptms are present (false negative) yet TV says that the White House personnel take daily tests. Do they use a different test?
by mosy
4 Oct 2020 11:53
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: The NHS COVID-19 app
Replies: 43
Views: 25915

Re: The NHS COVID-19 app

Andy Burnham and others are still asking why test and trace is not handed to local authorities who have a better handle on outbreak hotspots plus better access to data which the government currently chooses to keep to itself or releases at the last minute. Given the app's shortcomings and uncertaint...
by mosy
3 Oct 2020 19:23
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Sydenham hall is no more
Replies: 3
Views: 2734

Re: Sydenham hall is no more

Jumble sales don't work in a disposable society where new stuff is cheap and replaceable, but might come back if saving the planet's resources takes hold and things made to last re-emerge, i.e. without built-in obsolescence. I've always thought that abandoning youth halls, I don't know table tennis ...
by mosy
2 Oct 2020 11:44
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Sydenham hall is no more
Replies: 3
Views: 2734

Sydenham hall is no more

For info, the Sydenham Hall small community building near the top end of Silverdale is now all but gone, to be replaced by a housing building, which doesn't appear from the plans to be too much to worry about in aesthetic terms at least. However, I have noticed a Japanese Knotweed treatment/eradicat...
by mosy
16 Sep 2020 17:48
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Masks
Replies: 46
Views: 36006

Re: Masks

Many thanks Syd. I'll have to peruse it later and will come back if anything useful to say.
by mosy
16 Sep 2020 13:38
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Masks
Replies: 46
Views: 36006

Re: Masks

It was certainly in my thinking that people who most need high protection masks are often those least likely to be able to breathe through them, and probably aren't sewing wizzards either although home-made masks can be bought online (e.g. via Etsy). Maybe one of Sydenham's dry cleaners with an alte...
by mosy
16 Sep 2020 10:57
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Masks
Replies: 46
Views: 36006

Re: Masks

Yes alwyn. Although, tests on ease of breathing showed a drastic reduction with more layers or e.g. vacuum bag filter paper which is highly effective. Hence the now readily available double layer masks that more people can and are more likely to wear is considered a happy medium especially if couple...
by mosy
15 Sep 2020 13:26
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Mess left in Mayow Park
Replies: 2
Views: 1972

Re: Mess left in Mayow Park

I think litter bins became scant as long ago as the parcel bomb scares so are often inadequate in parks on busy days. That said, some people believe they have a right to leave rubbish as it keeps someone in a job clearing it up. That's something said to me once when I told somebody off for littering...
by mosy
14 Sep 2020 18:11
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Masks
Replies: 46
Views: 36006

Re: Masks

Syd, what is new about that study's findings please? What date was it published? It's been known for ages that typical blue masks will keep out the virus to about 60% as do double layer home-made cotton masks, that inhaling fewer droplets usually leads to milder symptoms, and that being in contact w...
by mosy
12 Sep 2020 18:47
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Masks
Replies: 46
Views: 36006

Re: Masks

Yes Robin Orton, it does seem odd that a recorded message would not implore or remind people to wear their masks over nose and mouth for the duration of their journey on a bus where distancing is impossible at times. At one time and generally, we were told not to touch masks once in place or risk tr...
by mosy
12 Sep 2020 18:23
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Rubbish on sydenham high st
Replies: 2
Views: 1552

Re: Rubbish on sydenham high st

Hi Formernortherner and welcome :) What you might be noticing are the bags put out for collection at specific times (e.g. around 6pm) by high street (Sydenham Road) shops. They don't have back ways so their rubbish has to be put out front for collection. There might be rogue bags of course, but legi...