Toonpack

Mate of a lad I work with, works for DXC (formerly HP) and they've just announced they're shutting their whole office at the Cobalt and all of their other non-secure offices worldwide, (secure offices work as part of MOD etc) and everyone is going onto home working. Lockdown/Covid has exploded the myth that home working is less productive/a skivers charter etc. Property tycoons are going to be fecked, along with many small businesses, sadly, who support business parks etc. Why pay for big offices for no gain.

FYP

This - and if only track and trace had been similarly handled eh ? Bastards called it NHS track and trace which it wasn't Of course vaccination programme isn't called what it is i.e NHS vaccination

Thing is it'll all come down to the contracts. EU has contracts for Y million doses UK has orders for X million doses Lump of the X million doses (and some of the Y are made here), and visa versa I suspect. AZ hit production issues and can't fulfil Y, so EU says you must deliver equitable amounts, UK say well they're made here so they are all ours, EU are simply doing the same. We left the club, they're going to protect themselves as best they can, quite rightly, as we'll do same. End of the day everyone in the world needs the jab, so it's all rather short sighted.

Bound to, be portrayed as all the EU's fault though (which is WAY too simplistic)

As soon as practicable FFS , so not yet even !!!!

Meanwhile in New Zealand:

Silverwood on rotation policy (and Buttler is going home after 1st test it appears) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/55812121

This is true, but they've been played into that position by the endless propaganda and the dumbing down that has been going on for years.

Don't be daft, it's all the public's fault (oh and the EU)

They won't tell the 15, how much your top bid was, they'll just say to each "there was a higher bid than theirs, do you want to make a higher offer", you could still be highest even staying at what you have bid already (maybe not, as well like)

It likely will be

Vaughan is a class A prick though You do need your best players but only if they are at their best, the bubble malarkey is bit like going to work and then being stuck in your hotel room for weeks on end rest of the time, which is what it's like I believe.

From: https://www.ecb.co.uk/news/1982316/national-selectors-name-test-squad-for-first-and-second-tests-in-india Possibly to do with the strains of being in a "bubble" outside of training/playing etc.

He (Buttler) is in squad for first two isn't he ?? (Bairstow, Curran and Wood given a break)

Oldie but a goodie (so probably mentioned before). Bingeing Black Sails, some of the acting is ropey but story is excellent, small touches and detail in the sets at times is also excellent, mix of historical characters (Blackbeard, Charles Vane, Calico Jack etc). and fictional, it's a prequel to Treasure Island, with John Silver (not Long John yet), Captain Flint and Billy Bones etc. as characters. Am loving it tbh. Tits, big bushes, blood and guts galore me hearties.

That narrative was utterly predictable

Rather that, than needing one to find my cock

They'll open up too soon again, nailed on

It's actually quite scary how fucking strong dogs are, I need both hands just to pick up some of the one's he quite nonchalantly trots about with

You'd think so, but he gathers amused crowds especially when he drops the fucking things at my feet to be chucked !!! (who then have to hop/skip out of the way)

Ankle biter, my problem with ours is ankle bashing (he likes sticks)

Matches his taste in guitars

He died years ago, they probably murdered him, bastard EU !!!!!

I have - My ex neighbour (15 years ago) was a salmon fisherman (out of Blyth) one small coble type boat all sold locally