In message , at 10:19:11 on Mon, 11 May
2020, Recliner remarked:
She runs marathons and ultra-marathons, so this is just part of her
training regime. Six miles is probably not much more than a warm-up for
her, so she might be deliberately finding longer, interesting routes.

Makes the most sense. Though technically she was breaking the lockdown rules
by not going direct to work and while the BBC are hot on posting stories about
people breaking them on the beach and in parks I very much doubt we'll see any
comment about their golden girl doing it.

You're allowed to go out for exercise, and to go to work, so she's not
breaking any rules.

Can probably claim a journalistic exemption too, ie the reports are part
of her work.
--
Roland Perry

On Mon, 11 May 2020 11:11:23 +0100
"tim..." wrote:
wrote in message ...
On Sun, 10 May 2020 08:34:40 +0100
are there any voices suggesting that, starting from where we are, there is
any workable alternative to three more weeks (with slight tinkering
perhaps)?

Of course there is -

then you'll have a cite for that

wont you

Do you

need a

citation if someone

tells you how to put

on you

underpants?

if Boris and his team could find a collective pair of
******** this lockdown nonsense could be ended tommorow. This situation is
now entirely self inflicted.

you obviously haven't noticed union sabre-rattling

The unions can go do one. The government passed this emergency legislation
in days, they could pass legislation that would bang up any union reps and
close down their unions if they strike about going back to work.

The result will be teachers not turning up for work and trains not running
because rail staff wont have turned up

Then sack them. If they're not going to work anyway they won't be missed.

sending us into an economic abyss we may not recover from for a decade
or
longer and in the meantime there will be a lot of seriously unhappy
unemployed
out on the streets once lockdown is lifted.

but no-one is saying that

except you

Common sense.

Its not something

you're blessed with

is it?


Plenty of commentators have been discussion the economic future of this
country and the rest of the world.

so they have

but no-one has publicly said

"we should all go back to work tomorrow"

Are you having a fight with your keyboard or something?

Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 10:19:12 on Mon, 11 May
2020, Recliner remarked:
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 10:04:15 on Mon, 11 May
2020, Recliner remarked:

She has to commute to work anyway, and this is probably the safest,
healthiest way to do so right now.

Possibly, depending how healthy one views running as. Personally I
don't think
the risks to the knees are worth it hence I cycle instead.

She runs marathons and ultra-marathons, so this is just part of her
training regime. Six miles is probably not much more than a warm-up for
her, so she might be deliberately finding longer, interesting routes.

Even more the case that this isn't much of a commuting method that the
general public can aspire to.

Did anyone say it was?

Yes the whole discussion is predicated on the myth that "If Sophie can
avoid public transport and jog to work, the rest of you can too".

That wasn't why I posted the link. I just thought her pictures were
interesting.

Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 10:19:11 on Mon, 11 May
2020, Recliner remarked:
She runs marathons and ultra-marathons, so this is just part of her
training regime. Six miles is probably not much more than a warm-up for
her, so she might be deliberately finding longer, interesting routes.

Makes the most sense. Though technically she was breaking the lockdown rules
by not going direct to work and while the BBC are hot on posting stories about
people breaking them on the beach and in parks I very much doubt we'll see any
comment about their golden girl doing it.

You're allowed to go out for exercise, and to go to work, so she's not
breaking any rules.

Can probably claim a journalistic exemption too, ie the reports are part
of her work.

Yes, could be.

In message , at 11:00:01 on Mon, 11 May
2020, Recliner remarked:

the whole discussion is predicated on the myth that "If Sophie can
avoid public transport and jog to work, the rest of you can too".

That wasn't why I posted the link. I just thought her pictures were
interesting.

While not your motiviation for posting, the background here is Shapps
saying people should try alternative ways to get to work.
--
Roland Perry

Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 11:00:01 on Mon, 11 May
2020, Recliner remarked:

the whole discussion is predicated on the myth that "If Sophie can
avoid public transport and jog to work, the rest of you can too".

That wasn't why I posted the link. I just thought her pictures were
interesting.

While not your motiviation for posting, the background here is Shapps
saying people should try alternative ways to get to work.

It was you that turned the thread into an attack on a blameless
journalistic who posted an interesting, well-illustrated story that was
relevant to the thread. Nobody else was talking about role models.

In message , at 12:05:01 on Mon, 11 May
2020, Recliner remarked:

It was you that turned the thread into an attack on a blameless
journalistic who posted an interesting, well-illustrated story that was
relevant to the thread. Nobody else was talking about role models.

The thread is "Nice empty tube", and all the talk from Shapps etc is
about how we can keep it that way - by encouraging people to walk/cycle
instead.
--
Roland Perry

On Mon, 11 May 2020 08:32:48 +0000 (UTC), wrote:

On Sat, 9 May 2020 22:20:23 +0100
"michael adams" wrote:
wrote in message ...
On Sat, 9 May 2020 17:16:40 +0100

"michael adams" wrote:

Thanks. Although with everything closed, presumably, it would probably
be quite frustrating walking around with nowhere to go except maybe
the odd supermarket. Maybe Sainsburys on TCR or Tesco in Googe St
frinstance.

I was taking pictures of the lockdown plus having an nice walk through the
backstreets of the west end and mayfair.


What *would* be useful at any time, would be the ability to take
pictures of streets, buildings, etc. without the intrusive presence
of parked cars everywhere. Along with too much street furniture, about
which nothing can be done of course. Traffic (and pedestrians) can be
largely avoided by starting at 5.a.m. in summer time; although that
then presents the problem of having all the trees in full leaf.

I'd be very surprised if a number of film companies haven't sent some
cameramen out to surreptitiously take some stock footage videos of the empty
streets for future films.

Yes, very likely. And if any already had sci-fi film or TV projects
that could use some clean London backdrops underway, this will have
been a golden opportunity.

I presume that CGI could be used to later splice in the actors and
film-related stuff, so the empty streets won't necessarily be empty in
the completed film. It could have futuristic self-driving EVs humming
through the streets, without the need to erase 2020's parked cars,
buses, taxis, etc.

wrote in message ...
On Mon, 11 May 2020 11:11:23 +0100
"tim..." wrote:
wrote in message
...
On Sun, 10 May 2020 08:34:40 +0100
are there any voices suggesting that, starting from where we are, there
is
any workable alternative to three more weeks (with slight tinkering
perhaps)?

Of course there is -

then you'll have a cite for that

wont you

Do you

need a

citation if someone

tells you how to put

on you

underpants?

so you don't have ne then


if Boris and his team could find a collective pair of
******** this lockdown nonsense could be ended tommorow. This situation
is
now entirely self inflicted.

you obviously haven't noticed union sabre-rattling

The unions can go do one.

really

The government passed this emergency legislation
in days, they could pass legislation that would bang up any union reps and
close down their unions if they strike about going back to work.

I think you might find that the dreaded Human Rights bill forbids such
nonsense


The result will be teachers not turning up for work and trains not running
because rail staff wont have turned up

Then sack them. If they're not going to work anyway they won't be missed.

well in part I agree

but they aren't going to be replaced in days, are they


sending us into an economic abyss we may not recover from for a decade
or
longer and in the meantime there will be a lot of seriously unhappy
unemployed
out on the streets once lockdown is lifted.

but no-one is saying that

except you

Common sense.

Its not something

you're blessed with

is it?

says Mr Pot

tim

"Recliner" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 11 May 2020 08:32:48 +0000 (UTC), wrote:

On Sat, 9 May 2020 22:20:23 +0100
"michael adams" wrote:
wrote in message
...
On Sat, 9 May 2020 17:16:40 +0100

"michael adams" wrote:

Thanks. Although with everything closed, presumably, it would probably
be quite frustrating walking around with nowhere to go except maybe
the odd supermarket. Maybe Sainsburys on TCR or Tesco in Googe St
frinstance.

I was taking pictures of the lockdown plus having an nice walk through
the
backstreets of the west end and mayfair.


What *would* be useful at any time, would be the ability to take
pictures of streets, buildings, etc. without the intrusive presence
of parked cars everywhere. Along with too much street furniture, about
which nothing can be done of course. Traffic (and pedestrians) can be
largely avoided by starting at 5.a.m. in summer time; although that
then presents the problem of having all the trees in full leaf.

I'd be very surprised if a number of film companies haven't sent some
cameramen out to surreptitiously take some stock footage videos of the
empty
streets for future films.

Yes, very likely. And if any already had sci-fi film or TV projects
that could use some clean London backdrops underway, this will have
been a golden opportunity.

I presume that CGI could be used to later splice in the actors and
film-related stuff,

standard blue screen will work