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That's actually quite an encouraging sort of post as it sounds like, at least on your street, that the spirit of village life is reawakening. IMO the world is definitely a better place if we can all find time for a natter.

DW, when I read your description, I thought that you meant that the sides bulged out between the top and the bottom but looking at the picture, it seems to show that the bulge is around the 4th and 5th dovetails from what I take to be the back. Is that correct? That would suggest that of the...

I've come to the view that it's time for the workshop, fitness work, books and wine. I've just finished a biography of General de Gaulle. I read it because having for years had the impression that he was a bit of a t**t, I thought I ought to find out the truth. Now I know he was a complete and...

Keep your chin up, stay focussed and look forward to having it behind you. And of course don't forget that it's not a dead cert that you will get it.

Von Clausewitz famously observed, "No plan survives contact with the enemy". I think we can add to that, "No rational appeal for common sense behaviour survives contact with the public".

I don't know which is more shocking: the price or the fact that they are out of stock at that price!

To be serious for a moment: It's important that the elderly self-isolate. However, they still have to eat etc. and naturally they will want a bit of fresh air now and then like everyone else. I wonder if it would make sense for the shops, supermarkets and cafes to reserve a two hour slot...

I panic bought two bars of Lindt Cognac Chocolate. Now I feel guilty and tainted.

As for the thread title, I wonder if the mods were thinking of binning it (I wonder even more as to what lies behind their olympian decisions) and one of them might have put a rejection to bin it in the wrong place while replying to another.

A lot of people have been predicting the next crash given the lack of real change in financial systems. It's one reason that I've kept my modest savings in cash even though interest rates are so dismal. Maybe I should have bought a few ounces of gold. I read an account of the last crash by a...

I imagine I'll be standing at my bench with a book opened at the page of a desperately complex plan, following it line for line like somebody who's good at making beans on toast following a cooking recipe for lobster thermidor. Actually, I was thinking more of the evenings, as telly is likely...

It's depressing that the sense of proportion about this disease is being lost. The so-called "rout" that is happening on the stock markets seems to me to be an example of contemptible panic but then again that's always the way those people react to things. It's going to be difficult and for...

For the radicals among you who think that maybe the biology of all this might be of relevance, have a butcher's at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KXHwhTghWI It's as good an overview as any as to how viruses work.

I don't know if you're ill-informed or not. However, if you do know little of virology, the last thing you want to be doing is developing your opinions on the basis of politically flavoured articles. RogerS has just done us all a favour by completely pulling the rug out from under the...

And of course the Guardian has no political bias whatsoever, does it? Corona is a matter of virology and the practical response to it. The Guardian article is an attempt to colour the debate politically. Science, ethically carried out, is utterly honest. Politics is never that. The only...

That was a pleasure to watch. Real craftsmen always make the difficult look easy. I had to laugh at the sleeping Labrador vanishing under the shavings.

I suppose I could challenge you to prove the assertion in your last sentence and I also suppose that you wouldn't be able to. You do not know in which country and indeed on which continent a vaccine will be first developed. Scientific knowledge is promulgated on paper these days or even more...

I'm not suggesting that people stop thinking or debating. It is however, a fact that this is a very rapidly spreading virus and therefore one course of action needs (needed) to be extremely quickly selected and implemented. Given that there is a fair range of options, the govt. acting on the...

I live in Germany where the situation, even in the supermarkets, is different. The bread is only handled by the staff and they either use tongs or, as in my local bakery this morning, wear disposable gloves. It's probably about as safe as you can reasonably get. There is one exception: a chain...

The problem with a previously unknown situation is that conflicting opinions will always emerge. However, those in charge must settle on one analysis and implement one course of action as flexibly as they can so as to give themselves as much room for manouvre as possible. You also have to bear...