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  1. 9 hours ago, CambridgeCabby said:

    The move away from the high street was already happening , as is evident by the value of companies such as Amazon , what this pandemic has done is merely sped it up , albeit admittedly very rapidly.

    Prior to Covid , Cambridge city centre retail space  was already 58% either bar, cafe, sandwich outlets , take always or restaurants compared to less than 2% in the early 1980’s

    Wot no bookies?  :default_biggrin:

  2. 1 minute ago, CambridgeCabby said:

    Considering the huge swathes of England placed into tier 4, I wonder the reasoning behind not imposing a blanket tier 4 lockdown , by leaving some areas as tier 3 when they are totally surrounded by tier 4 will only encourage those that do not follow the rules to travel from the higher tiers  to enjoy the added limited freedoms permitted.

    Agree, it seems so dumb and people will "bend" things to suit their "needs".

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  3. 11 minutes ago, JennyMorgan said:

    We are also showing that we are prepared to shop on line, to click and collect, no need for the local High Street now. The consequences of Covid 19 will live on.

    There are some things where buying online doesn`t work though. However I do fear for the shops.

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  4. 42 minutes ago, annv said:

    Where working from home has many advantages i wonder about the future how will replacement workers be trained/shown how to do the work that requires human expert es impute that only comes from following a senor college, retirement will be a problem i fear for replacement's. John

    Friend of mine had to go to the office for initial training period then she was remotely monitored whilst working from home.

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  5. 2 minutes ago, Hylander said:

    Problem is Maurice is we have no mountains.    This is Norfolk.      I was just conjuring up the picture of you dressed as Tina Turner with your fluffy wig and short sparkly dress and red high heels, not forgetting the fishnets.

    Would somebody be kind enough to pass me the Mind Bleach. 

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  6. Same after the car show left Earls Court and moved to the NEC (?).

    Went to the bike show at NEC one year and whilst sitting in the car in the car park witnessed four guys get out of a car, put their leathers & boots on and stroll in - Prats! 

     

  7. 11 hours ago, BroadAmbition said:

    Unusual dogs on a shoot - Personally not seen or heard of any, probably as it's so steeped in history / tradition that us country folk have worked it out ages ago what dogs work on a shoot and what doesn't.

    Appreciate the history and tradition within country folk Griff however I wondered if there were tales of unusual dogs being trained to doing it so threw the Q out there.

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  8. 9 minutes ago, Helian said:

    What's the situation now, does anyone have the current situation!

    Thanks

    Water was very, very high last night with ice this morning, level is now reduced by around six inches with next high around five hours.

  9. Whilst I agree it wasn`t great when was the last time Christmas TV was? I dropped in on a few of the animated films made for kids and thought that they were great entertainment, I even enjoyed watching the film 27 Dresses which is most unlike me so perhaps it was the bottle of Bucks Fizz with additional Vodka that helped there. :default_biggrin:

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