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What a grey day :-( :-D

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Morning Belle :-D <3

Sunny Here :-D :-D just saying ;-)

Morning Fly <3 :-D

Are you teasing :-0 :-P :-D

Morning all :-D <3

Wet wet wet here oh and did I mention it’s wet :-| :-| :-|

I know we needed rain but not everyday ;-)

Have a good day <3 <3

Early afternoon all :-)

Damp but brightening here.
Fine enough for a short walk earlier, because I think we are due a deluge later :-0

Sunny here also :-D <3

Have a nice day all <3 <3

Afternoon everyone. <3 :-D

Glorious spring weather here. I was sitting in the sunshine with a coffee waiting for my grocery delivery this morning when my neighbour (the intensive care ward sister) told me that there had been no covid cases in for more than a week and the covid ward was still empty in our local hospital.

Good news indeed. <3

Stay safe y'all. <3 :-D

That’s really great Joy <3

Unfortunately it isn’t the same story in Bedfordshire where the Indian variant is spreading. A three fold increase. :-(

Now the football has been moved to Portugal fans can fly there and won’t have to quarantine when they return :-| :-|

Sorry for the rant <3 <3
I think the HS2 pile driving today has addled my brain ;-) ;-)

Hi Von. <3 :-D

Rant away, I would!

It seems silly for people not to have to quarantine when travelling back from Portugal as the fans attending the match will be from around the globe, I expect.

I feel sorry for everyone who is or who will be affected by HS2 because, from what I've read, it seems unnecessary - and particularly more so in the tech world we live in when it has been seen how easy it is for conferences and meetings to take place via the net.

It seems to me that if they continue with HS2 it may only be so that someone saves face!

You know more about it than I do Von - what do you think?

Joy :-D <3

Don’t get me started on HS2. I think the way local people are being treated by HS2 as a company is appalling. They are riding rough shod over people and people are constantly having to take them to task :-| :-| :-|

We have lost a huge amount of local ancient woodland, properties demolished and a local sailing and outdoor activities centre.
I appreciate that you can’t build a railway without some disruption but it’s heart breaking to see some of the destruction.Tunnelling begins today and as I say the constant thump thump thump of the pile drivers is like having a very bad headache. Trouble is with covid restrictions you can’t get away from it. I’m not right next to it either so it must be far worse for a lot of others :-(
With the latest cracks appearing in the fast trains that we have currently there is clearly a lot more work to do on designing the new trains for a high speed line. :-S :-S
On a brighter note the sun has just appeared
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I never saw the need of HS2 just to save a few minutes' journey-time - and even less need now, as video conferencing and zoom meetings increase.

I have to wonder who are the few who are going to benefit from HS2 at the expense of many now that appearing in person is no longer necessary for meetings and conferences.

Those cracks would put me off, Von. The Hitachis were made (or assembled, I am not sure which) in the NE. I can't see cracks in engines being an easy thing to repair either ..... but I am no engineer, so I don't really know.

I can only imagine the rotten time people who live closer to the work than you do are having. :-(

Joy we’re just over a quarter of a mile away from the workings so far worse for those next to it :-(

It must be awful, Von.

Do you get the impression that HS2 is old hat now that more people will not be meeting or conferencing face to face but rather online? It must surely mean that even fewer will benefit from it than was first envisaged? But who will be brave enough to pull the plug, I wonder?

Evening :-D

races in and gets chair in the corner

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Evening Pay :-D <3 did you miss the chair :-0 :-D :-D :-D

Evening :-D <3

Joy I’ve just watched the head of HS2 pontificating about how many jobs they are creating and how many trees they have planted.
He forgot to mention that a large percentage of those trees died through neglect.
From what I’ve seen for every man employed 5 are employed to watch him :-0 :-0 :-0 :-|

no I climbed in OK.

didn't know I'd changed my name :-S

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