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If it's a GC allocated Royal Scot then it's not meant to run well.

Everybody knows hydrogenated oil is bad for your pipes, how long before it comes a cropper on a train. Hopefully they also have it on statins to lower it's cholesterol

Whenever I see this one I go through: Is it dirty Is it covered in rust Is it actually meant to look like that Whilst it is great to see lots of different liveries on 66s, they need to consider what happens when seen from a distance and when it gets dirty.

@Nearholmer I am simply sticking with staying away from large events at the moment, and thinking carefully about the model railway exhibitions in February, if I can avoid trains I will be doing, I'll have to see how January goes if they dont get canned. Wonder how Model Rail Scotland might fare if Scotland start with further restrictions, they are already urging more limiting of social mixing. I really want to go to this, but to do so I have to get a train, it's not a drive I ever relish, going is hard, coming home is so much more taxing.

Would you rather someone be turned away because of a faulty lateral flow giving a positive than letting someone in because a document says they have had all their vaccines and are in fact positive. You could argue that a Covid Passport may make some people feel invincible and take less precautions leading to them infecting others inadvertantly.

But the point is a passport does not change anything about your capabality to transmit Covid if you have it, testing is much more effective. The passport is a coercive method to get people to take up the vaccines to avoid having to do a lateral flow test.

Even fully vaccinated and boostered there is a 1 in 4 chance of catching Covid and passing it on to someone else, a passport does not make you immune and neither does it protect anyone. It just means you are less likely to have it and if you do you are less likely to be really ill, however, you can still transmit it to somone else. Testing is the only way to be sure that in a crowd of 10,000 people that 2500 of them don't have covid.

@hayfield data never looked at and never used, I doubt that very much if the massive data scrape taken by the NHS earlier this year is anything to go by. There are a lot of companies hovering about Goverment agencies no doubt looking what can be monetised, data is the big target at present.

@Oldddudders Liberty Ecclestone are interchangeable, different faces, same culture behind the scenes and nothing really changes. Had Belgium not been run and no points awarded, Hamilton would have been ahead going into the final race. I don't think anyone expected there to be a result given that day, but RB certainly didn't argue when there was a result. That was a financial decision by Liberty and the FIA not a race.

But there are other moves going on for identity cards of some sort in order to be able to vote, which could impact lots of people eligible to do so but not able to supply or wanting to take on an identity card. In both this and the covid passport the emphasis is being put on the fact neither are paid for and neither are compulsory, but by their very nature not having them disallows you from some activities which is an infringement on personal rights. If I recall the Government were all for going for herd immunity where if a certain percentage (was it 85%?) of the population had had exposure to Covid then it would protect the remainder. Now we appear to be trying to get to 100% of people who can be vaccinated by manipulation and coercion. It's interesting someone has died with Omicron, in 2020, we had the Government telling us when the first people died not to worry, they were old, they had pre-existing conditions etc, now they wont say a word about the person claiming it's a breach of confidentiality. Unless you tell us their name, where they live and exactly how they died you are not in any breach, so is there manipulation of data here to suit the circumstances. You cannot play one game and then change it to suit the narrative. Mr Raab also needs to get a hold of the facts too when being interviewed, a big difference between 9 and 250 hospitalisations. Note: I am fully jabbed including my booster over a month ago and am happily wearing my mask in shops.

As I see it, if Mercedes managed to somehow overturn the result then it would install Hamilton as champion on the basis he had more points. But that would only be a factual matter, in reality would Hamilton want a championship won in such disappointing circumstances to count in his best of the best most titles of all time. Morally in this current situation it is the loser who is viewed as the champion, if it switched now it would install Verstappen as the moral champion and Hamilton the factual champion. i.e. neither of them ever really win and there is some doubt left as to who should have won. This was created by the FIA who are also judge and jury, so really it is pointless trying to overturn the result, they are not going to find themselves in contempt. What Hamilton and Wolff need to do is come back next season stronger, which they likely will be, it has been thought that in reality Mercedes were putting all their focus on 2022 with 2021 a formality, RB with nothing to lose threw everything at 2021 and got their victory. A bit like the last time Hamilton lost to his own team partner who gave it all with nothing to lose.

Worried about it yes, but no-one medical has yet looked at me or spoken to me about it so it's a bit early to pack my bags for a world trip . I know I am feeling rather depressed which is the primary issue right now, whether I am at a high risk of dementia can wait till late January, I imagine the doctors are a tad busy this week and next so I will log my concerns on askmyGP and let it takes it course. I guess I should also acknowledge it's good I work for a company where it is ok to say I'm not right and not be looked at badly. I've booked long weekends for every week between now and the end of March to use up my holidays which means a nice 4 day week through winter. Spoke to my boss earlier, his response was take a couple of days off which I've turned down as it won't help whereas getting on with what I planned this week will and he is very supportive of my needs and wants.

I think the Government took it's foot off the gas when it came to the boosters thinking that simply it needed a Flu vaccination approach, this has delayed it's deployment. Wouldn't have been an issue without Omicron but we are now in a race against time to get people boosted, of course there is the risk Omicron will get in behind the boosters creating a wave that cannot be stopped by the booster programme. However, two jabs should still be enough to stop hospitalisation even if the person gets a dose of Omicron.

I think Russell will be told to be number two for the first season to allow Hamilton to pursue one last title and then he will become the defacto number one in 2023.

I thought perhaps I was back on the up, not so, just had to bail from a course because of the anxiety talking about feelings was bringing. Whilst I am fully employed at work and have lots to be doing I don't need to speak to people that often and they don't need to speak to me, I know this isn't healthy but at the moment it sort of means I don't have to confront my problems daily as I can bury myself into my work. Last night I realised who I am at work, I am that guy in environmental disaster movies that works all alone outside everyone's sphere of vision at some remote tracking station, then when there is a disaster they have to call on him for some really important data which he supplies and saves the day before he is forgotten about again. I've a couple of things gnawing at me presently, one that a job I was promised 18 months ago did not come to fruition because of a change in managers and it was the old manager who was enticing me and my colleague over to his team, and the second that I could be dead in 10 years if like my sister I am carrying whatever gene it is that led to her untimely demise from dementia. The job thing is because it was my own company poaching me for a new role, it would have put me into a team of similar people whereas at the moment I am just one technical person among a sea of people whose focus is customer service, we simply do not speak the same language. Worse, the rejection by the new manager had a knock on effect, I had to give up my direct report because our budget had been adjusted to account for me working elsewhere - so my budget was taken but not me or my colleague who then had to be moved as well to a different role (luckily one that will use his skills and gave him a pay rise too I hope). So there were two of us in a sea of customer service, now there is just me. Dementia is scary and I worry that I also carry whatever it is that brings it on, I have been forgetful for years, not your 'where are the keys' things, large chunks of my past can go. If it wasn't for my wife whose memory is good I don't sometimes know what I might do, I call her my external hard drive of memories. Without my wife my memories are a series of islands of bad events from childhood through to adulthood that I hop between. I am trying currently to see my doctor to see if there is anything they can do to test for early signs and therefore help to stave it off.

In Manchester LNWR would pass through Victoria on their way to Exchange, with L&Y services passing Exchange to get to Victoria, the difference being the through lines for Victoria were through the station, for Exchange by the station. The Great Western also ran services into Manchester Exchange, offering a chance for a view of LNWR, LYR and GWR locomotives from the western platform ends of Exchange.

It's more an aspiration than a target - by throwing as much resource as possible he is hoping the take up will massively increase the numbers of triple jabbed and stem the impact of the omicron variant during January. The age related scheme they had been running worked fine in the first and second jabs, but it was under different circumstances and in holding up other jabs whilst those who were hesitant decided to get jabs delayed getting the mass of triple vaccinated people needed when a wave is coming.

I thought they'd always offered spares but it was complicated for those not in the know, so the website just makes it easier to buy spares.

No-one saw this coming, here we were looking at Verstappen to take Hamilton out and there be a massive hoo-haw about docking points and then the FIA go and do this instead. And it completely takes the sting out of any complaints against RB because whilst Verstappen benefitted massively he was just in the right place at the right time when the FIA unleashed their end game.

It's ok @adb968008 they are all singing carols. Just had a Sunday roast in the pub because it's safe there, must be, we didn't require a mask.

Whatever happens now will leave a sour taste, the championship was decided by lap 50, even Horner had accepted the result and when he threw new boots on Verstappen's car at the start of the final safety car it was because they had nothing to lose.

I don't think they are all raving nutters, I think there has come a point where the actions of one part of the party has set it against the other and they are seeing knee jerk reactions which feel wrong. I still don't get how it is so dangerous to go into a church unless you are singing that you need a mask, yet places that sell alchoholic beverages for consumption on the premises are perfectly safe even if you are not singing. Remembering that singing and shouting was banned quite early on in the initial stages of Covid because it propelled so much around people. Confused, yes I am.

It seems each time another thing comes out about Christmas parties he appears on TV with yet more restrictions. Sorry if that sounds political, but I don't know if this is people against them leaking stuff ahead of planned announcements, or a PR reaction after the release - a proper chicken and egg thing and us the public are taking the hiding.

Ah now you've got me responding I think the FIA are looking rather stuck between a rock and a hard place, I think the influencing may not all come from the teams and that might be the problem. It is odd that just very recently we are hearing the discussions between the Masi and the teams, I don't think those conversations are new, but someone is allowing them to be broadcast, that influences the team leads even more to use that to deflect blame and to influence further knowing it is likely to be broadcast. Showing the arguments is adding to the tension and spectacle which I fear is being orchestrated and will be hyped even more for next season - Hamilton the comeback king v Verstappen the new champion. One thing which is interesting from Verstappen, he refused to take part in an F1 reality show this year, he didn't like the way inter driver relations were being played with and rivalries created that actually weren't there. If only his own team had spent less time doing this to him and making him feel like he was being badly treated, he doesn't actually need that to be a winner, he is a great driver, but he needs to be allowed to win based on his skill not his team crying all the time that decisions are not fair.

Not all un-uniformed people are non medical, my sister has been a nurse since she was 20 and about to retire, one of her more recent roles was to investigate unexpected deaths in or following visits to hospital. Not a nice job, the purpose being to ensure deaths were understood and if they were avoidable. Wouldn't require a uniform but nevertheless an important role for improvement in the management of health in ever more complicated circumstances. I am sure there are a lot of other roles populated by medical people that are not front line but extremely important to the running of the service.