Unexpected consequences of Coronavirus
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My cousin lives in Mayfair. Her block of flats is near deserted, the rich have all decamped to their second homes. Tells me there’s no traffic, no noise, and shopping is easy as there’s no one around. Her exercise area is Hyde Park, loveliest she has ever seen it.
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I am hoping that lots of folks that are normally an unnecessary drain on NHS resources rise to the occasion. Not as many over drinking, drug addled, forget to pick up essential medication types. Hopefully, lots of the elderly will be getting much better care as well that keeps them away from A&E, as well as prompting folks to try more self help before resorting to A&E.
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One certain thing is that suddenly a lot more people understand and care about the word exponential.
If you're interested this is from a youtube channel I visit as much as CT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTvKQYTV0Yw
As said here maths teachers won't get the usual when are ever going to use this in real life when drawing an exponential curve after this.
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It is good to learn that these distressing times can bring the best out of some people.
Last week one of our neighbours kindly gave us a small worktop freezer to put in the garage, not for stockpiling but to enable us to make less trips for food.
Another neighbour who is a PE teacher holds Aerobic classes in the street every morning at 11:00. At first we were all a bit self conscious but now we look forward to our daily exercises in the street. Always observing the social distancing, obviously.
Another highlight of the week is at 8:00pm on Thursdays when we all go to the end of our drives and clap or hit a saucepan for the NHS. We take the opportunity to wave to neighbours that we would otherwise never see due to the lockdown.
Keep safe everyone.
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Artical in today's Telegraph. A team of archaeologists who would normally be on digs, have been pouring over Lidar images and found lots of interesting new stuff. Extract from artical in screen shot form, as my Telegraph App won't let me cut and paste.
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I can’t get over how many folks are out and walking. It’s obviously something new to quite a few, but most are enjoying themselves.
We haven’t filled our car up since early March, and it’s still got three quarters of a tank left.
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You are so right, the footpaths in the woods and open fields in this area are under far more "stress" and with the upsurge in mountain type bikes some of the paths,are getting quite rutted and worn, and will need a lot of work done on them by the county council and volunteer groups
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We are hoping that the push to get more folks walking and cycling, and the funding might end up being spent up here. But not holding our breath.
It would be lovely if some roads were safer to cycle along, but even now, in lockdown you take your life in your hands here. We have quite a few shared pavements, but the rise of the phone zombie, the dog on a very long lead, the family that has to hold hands, those incapable of walking in a straight line, and vehicles emerging at speed from properties, mean that using these is not a pleasant experience. Spatial awareness is as lost a commodity as common sense I fear. 🤔
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We have a right of way as part of our property, at the beginning of lockdown there was a rush of unfamiliar faces but now we're back, mostly, to the locals with dogs. We have to keep the right of way in reasonable "nick" and we tend to put hedge trimmings, grass etc to prevent underfoot damage, no bikes are allowed. It hasn't been any worse than usual but the dry weather has helped.
A few more people are out on their bikes. We don't have any decent off road cycle trials near here so as the traffic increases once more the cyclists will probably decrease.
Sheep and lambs were stolen from our local country park during the lockdown. Country life goes on as usual....
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Yes, with funding it can work, but sadly for other parts of the country, it does tend to be very piecemeal. London appears to get a lot done, and we have come across other places that are just brilliant for semi urban cycling. We have Trans Pennine Trail and lots of spurs off, but it can be a challenge joining safe routes up.
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You are welcome to come to Milton Keynes. We have 270 kms of cycleways called Redways (mainly because they are surfaced with red tarmac). There is hardly a house in the newer parts of MK which is not within a few yard of a path linking to the main network. The Redways were designed from the very start, the idea being to encourage people to get out in the fresh air and to cycle to work. Here is a map of the network of cycle routes. The Redway between Wolverton and Newport Pagnell is built along the route of the old Newport Pagnell branch of the Grand Union Canal which later became the Wolverton to Newport Pagnell Railway branch line. The old station platforms are still in place.
David
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Very interesting. Shows what can be done if starting with a blank sheet, and thankfully they had the foresight (and the finance) to do it.
We are well off for lovely bridleways, TPT Etc.... But making the actual roads safe for cyclists is rather woeful. Cars are allowed to park over the dedicated roadside lanes, although of course the road edges are where all the grates, gravel, glass and litter collects, so no experienced road cyclist would be in them to be honest, and there’s nothing between you and the cars doing 40mph alongside, so it’s not for the faint hearted.
OH used to use his bike all the time for commuting to work. Because he was in Fire Service, I never knew what time he might arrive home. One evening (still light) he limped in at around 7.30pm. He’d been knocked off his bike by a female driver who just drove over into him. Bike ruined, luckily relatively light injuries, but to add insult to injury she had a panic fit and he ended up having to look after her!
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Very interesting. Shows what can be done if starting with a blank sheet, and thankfully they had the foresight (and the finance) to do it.
As you say much easier starting with a blank sheet of paper. When new estates are built the Redways are designed in just like the roads which probably means the Council don't have to pay as its a condition of building. Having said that there are what we call the "old Towns" which form part of MK like Stony Stratford, Newport Pagnell and Bletchley where it has been a bit more difficult so in some parts of towns you may have to revert to the roads. Margaret doesn't mind cycling on dedicated paths but is very nervous about using roads so that has tended to limit our cycling from campsites. We have had our new motorhome a year now and thus far I have not bothered with a bike rack.
David
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I seem to be getting a lot less junk mail!
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A lot of the junk used to be flyers for takeaways etc. Even though takeaways are still open they seem to have stopped with the junk mail.
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I agree with all that has been said before as I have joined the discussion rather late. One odd consequence for me, is that I bought a new awning and a couple of Duvulays at last years October show. Still not been able to use them, and quite possibly the guarantees will run out before I do.
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