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18 " right across the swept area from the corner up, its mostly in an area looking just above the bonnet to that side, insurance immediately said replacement when they heard it described.

passenger side 18 " long

i was just in the garden, all i can hear is groups of people who seem to have stopped for a chat on the path behind the house

Paladin, i think Marshman was just going to go to his boat to do some work, not head out sailing in it, thats how it came across to me anyway

my day so far, waiting for the windscreen appointment to come up, 15 minutes before hand got another call, cancelling as they had 5 minutes prior shut all their depots. so no windscreen until next week when they will come out and do it at my house. (without any contact between us). so what to do with myself, work said dont come in today, and i was waiting for details how to log in to my work computer remotely. eventually called my boss, he did a facepalm and said he had set it up - yes youve guessed it and sent the email to my work email. call to IT to get access to my emails first, then managed to set up my remote working. all that palava done it was time to think what to do, so out to the back jungle and a couple of hours spent tidying. I will be working tomorrow and every day from then, so will try and get an hours gardening / tidying of the conservatory done each day from now on, and then maybe I can expand my workshop into the second half of the conservatory.

they are telling us to make fewer shopping visits, but then restricting to 2 or 3 of each item, if i do a weeks shop, there are items i will want one a day of, so that is now making me shop more often than i did before.

so close, within 10 minutes away from leaving for the appointment, i get a call, they have now (as of 5 minutes previously) shut all their bases, i have now been booked for a mobile fitting at home next tuesday - ho hum

Marshman, I would act as your conscience dictates, similarly people will be moored at the bottom of their garden and could theoretically treat the boat as part of that, the issue will be services, pumpouts and fuel if you do take the boat out, i have work to do to the car to prep it for its MOT, and my work area is the roadside outside the house, as long as i am not congrgating in groups i think i should be fine.

if construction sites remain open, my company will be needed to connect them up, as the different branches of the parent company manage 7 different utilities, we do the electrical part. we also run an idno (an electricity supply company) with customers, so part of our priority will be keeping them on supply. Offgem have indicated that it will be business as usual, whether that means we will still be held responsible for responding to things like street lighting faults within the set timescales we dont know, as a broken streetlight is hardly essential work, given a bit of time these things will be worked through. unfortunately we will be exceeding regulated response times, i have as laid drawings that are required within 5 days of the cables being energised, i was off 3 days last week, and now cant work again today, and thats just for the ones that were sent to me on time.

just had a call from the windscreen company, its going ahead, but i have been given explicit instructions, to leave the car outside the unit with the keys in, and passenger window open, then go for a walk for an hour, it was checked first whether it was urgent, when i said about the upcoming mot, it was accepted that it needed doing.

not a lot of use if it will fail due to a cracked screen, as far as i can tell the windscreen place is a one man franchise, so fingers crossed. So now everyone is on lockdown, what about all the people who normally park overnight in areas that are no parking during the day, are they now all going to get parking tickets, because they are locked down and not using their car, that normally goes with them to work. all sorts of questions like that spring to mind.

i did go through all my tinned food at the weekend and get rid of dented, bulging and tins from more than 3 years ago several packets of rice were binned as they had been opened and were several years out of best before date, one does still have to be careful.

the thing with tinned and dried goods is that they are generally on a best before date, as long as the food is still in good condition and the packaging intact and still sealed i have found it to be fine.

well i suppose i should be grateful i managed to get one bit of that

well my boss emailed me last night at 10.30pm to tell me not to come in this morning, and that he would be getting in touch later. just hoping that replacement windscreens are not considered frivolous, and that i will still be able to get a mot in a couple of weeks time, as without the car i wont be able to limit my shopping trips. unfortunately life doesnt just stop. i am hoping the windscreen replacement later today is just the screen technician and myself, keeping appropriately distanced, at least i know he will be wearing gloves to handle the glass. if it wasnt for the upcoming MOT due i could wait for the windscreen. then I may end up having to get into the office at some point to turn on my computer, so that i will be able to remote into it.

or your exercise?

can we please all calm down, we are trying to keep things reasonably sane here and some of the comments i have seen have gone beyond acceptable. in light of the government announcement we are going to all have to accept unpleasant restrictions, whether we like it or not, but here things will be kept civil. if you want to complain about the government - this is not the place to do it, if you want to ignore the government restrictions fine, but dont rant about them here. Any posts in that vein will be hidden without warning.

https://www.marthamboats.com/covid-19-update

m Marthams have now announced that due to the government travel restrictions they are shutting, repairs and slipway will still be available

or beccles which does the same for the south. Dont worry if a boat wont go under Potter heigham, most wont, but you would really want to be able to do Ludham Wroxham and Beccles bridges.

especially if they just storm out of the house as teenagers are often liable to do, maybe we ought to take up the french system of having a note.

this has me thinking of the giant pike in the museum of the broads, except I cant recall where they were caught. so far my thinking has got to 'caught off nobes strait'

thats why it is full of tools, every time its one more wont hurt, they all have to be moved around now, just to use one.

caught?

thats full of tools.