[News] The Coronavirus Good News thread

[dazzer6666]

Sorry I know its the good news thread.

I have WFH for 15 years, a couple of points.

Make sure you home insurance company are OK with this.They may want a few quid more.
Your company should be paying for BT business broadband or similar as your be using for work more than pleasure.
Try and have a home office, it gets gutting working off the kitchen/ dinning room table.

Try and get them to pay a homeworkers allowance as in the winter your fuel bills will rocket + your laptop, printer, all take power as well as kettle ,tea and milk all cost you money. ( sounds tight I know but save the pennies and all that)

Working from home is great not just for you but the company can also save them quite a bit.

Good points..............but I was already saving maybe £2kpa on not commuting to London before Covid by WFH some of the time, I spend way, way less on coffees, breakfast, lunches etc and socialising by being at home and don't need to spend anything like as much on business attire. My broadband cost would be the same whether I was working or not, and there are no additional telephone costs (all work calls are via internet/softphone). Mrs D doesn't work so fuel bills haven't changed as she's at home anyway.

Def agree re an office if you can and have the space - I'm lucky that we have one (I've WFH at least part of the time for 20+ years now). I set it up a few years ago now with a proper corner desk, decent monitors, good quality adjustable office chair etc etc. It's way better than what I get to use in our actual office, and I can sit there in my pants whilst speaking to the Group Compliance Head

 

[LamieRobertson]

Good points..............but I was already saving maybe £2kpa on not commuting to London before Covid by WFH some of the time, I spend way, way less on coffees, breakfast, lunches etc and socialising by being at home and don't need to spend anything like as much on business attire. My broadband cost would be the same whether I was working or not, and there are no additional telephone costs (all work calls are via internet/softphone). Mrs D doesn't work so fuel bills haven't changed as she's at home anyway.

Def agree re an office if you can and have the space - I'm lucky that we have one (I've WFH at least part of the time for 20+ years now). I set it up a few years ago now with a proper corner desk, decent monitors, good quality adjustable office chair etc etc. It's way better than what I get to use in our actual office, and I can sit there in my pants whilst speaking to the Group Compliance Head

Thank goodness no one has posted this

 

[Poojah]

Good points..............but I was already saving maybe £2kpa on not commuting to London before Covid by WFH some of the time, I spend way, way less on coffees, breakfast, lunches etc and socialising by being at home and don't need to spend anything like as much on business attire. My broadband cost would be the same whether I was working or not, and there are no additional telephone costs (all work calls are via internet/softphone). Mrs D doesn't work so fuel bills haven't changed as she's at home anyway.

Def agree re an office if you can and have the space - I'm lucky that we have one (I've WFH at least part of the time for 20+ years now). I set it up a few years ago now with a proper corner desk, decent monitors, good quality adjustable office chair etc etc. It's way better than what I get to use in our actual office, and I can sit there in my pants whilst speaking to the Group Compliance Head

I have to admit to having had at least four virtual meetings with only my pants covering my bottom half. One happened to be a successful pitch with a well known brand for a pretty sizeable sum of money.

If anyone denies having done the same, they are a liar!

 

[portslade seagull]

Well I've been told I'm working from home until the end of August at the earliest. After that who knows. The cat will be happy as he sits with me watching the screen

 

[LamieRobertson]

Recent tweet from the Prof

We know there is no sign of a second wave in smaller EU countries. What about Italy, the original European epicentre?

They eased their lockdown over a month ago.

Daily cases continue to fall (177 yesterday) and deaths are now consistently below 100.

Encouraging progress.



...also this is an interesting graph thats on the same thread as the above tweet

https://twitter.com/anshul__k/status/1268898434985209856?s=21

 

[The Wizard]

Well I've been told I'm working from home until the end of August at the earliest. After that who knows. The cat will be happy as he sits with me watching the screen

Funny you should say that, I can’t work out if my cat is happy to have me home a lot or if he’s secretly plotting my demise.

 

[swindonseagull]

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Piers Morgan that well know hypocrite is trying to pick a fight on Twitter with the Prof, The man who admitted hacking Millie Dowler's phone while she was still missing.
The man who produced Fake photos of British Soldiers torturing Iraqis..( for which he was sacked from the Daily Mirror)...the man is pure and utter scum who now thinks he is a medical expert....

 

[Weststander]

Well I've been told I'm working from home until the end of August at the earliest. After that who knows. The cat will be happy as he sits with me watching the screen

When we took on two rescue kittens three or four years back, they’d repeatedly walk across the keyboard, resulting in jjjjjjjjjjjffffffff. Which was nothing compared to one who’d climb up my back as I sat on the office chair, her ladder ... very sharp claws into my skin.

 

[RossyG]

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Piers Morgan that well know hypocrite is trying to pick a fight on Twitter with the Prof, The man who admitted hacking Millie Dowler's phone while she was still missing.
The man who produced Fake photos of British Soldiers torturing Iraqis..( for which he was sacked from the Daily Mirror)...the man is pure and utter scum who now thinks he is a medical expert....

Professor Sikora should just ignore him. Feeding a troll will get him nowhere.

 

[LamieRobertson]

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Piers Morgan that well know hypocrite is trying to pick a fight on Twitter with the Prof, The man who admitted hacking Millie Dowler's phone while she was still missing.
The man who produced Fake photos of British Soldiers torturing Iraqis..( for which he was sacked from the Daily Mirror)...the man is pure and utter scum who now thinks he is a medical expert....

Ive been following this guy and have posted a few links before....he backs the prof


https://twitter.com/cricketwyvern/status/1269008814193475590?s=21

 

[A1X]

If I may post something which is some extremely good news from my perspective (and hopefully some others around here), it seems the Bluebell Railway is in good shape to survive the crisis as they've reached the initial £300,000 barrier they needed to to make sure they can reopen the line post-pandemic.

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[Medwayseagull]

If I may post something which is some extremely good news from my perspective (and hopefully some others around here), it seems the Bluebell Railway is in good shape to survive the crisis as they've reached the initial £300,000 barrier they needed to to make sure they can reopen the line post-pandemic.

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I believe a number of similar volunteer run steam railways are in the same situation. I saw something from the Spa Valley railway out of Tunbridge Wells making a plea for donations to keep going in these difficult times.

 

[Norman Potting]

If I may post something which is some extremely good news from my perspective (and hopefully some others around here), it seems the Bluebell Railway is in good shape to survive the crisis as they've reached the initial £300,000 barrier they needed to to make sure they can reopen the line post-pandemic.

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I am missing my annual Bluebell/K & ESR/RH & DR fixes !

 

[Wardy's twin]

When we took on two rescue kittens three or four years back, they’d repeatedly walk across the keyboard, resulting in jjjjjjjjjjjffffffff. Which was nothing compared to one who’d climb up my back as I sat on the office chair, her ladder ... very sharp claws into my skin.

i used to be joined by the cat from across the road who used to lay next to my keyboard dragging by hand off the keyboard to get his head rubbed.

 

[Weststander]

i used to be joined by the cat from across the road who used to lay next to my keyboard dragging by hand off the keyboard to get his head rubbed.

Animals are instinctively drawn to kind people

 

[The Wizard]

No new reported deaths in the whole of Sussex in the last 24 hours.

1500 new cases cases in the U.K, lowest since lockdown, Hospital diagnosed infections (499) now lowest since March 17th

203 deaths is the lowest Saturday total since lockdown began, only 75 of those in NHS England hospitals.

 

[LamieRobertson]

No new reported deaths in the whole of Sussex in the last 24 hours.

1500 new cases cases in the U.K, lowest since lockdown, Hospital diagnosed infections (499) now lowest since March 17th

203 deaths is the lowest Saturday total since lockdown began, only 75 of those in NHS England hospitals.

Thanks for the update Wizzy

 

[crookie]

No positive results from latest PL tests

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52950898

 

[clapham_gull]

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[Bry Nylon]

If I may post something which is some extremely good news from my perspective (and hopefully some others around here), it seems the Bluebell Railway is in good shape to survive the crisis as they've reached the initial £300,000 barrier they needed to to make sure they can reopen the line post-pandemic.

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Chuffed for you.