That's nice @Obelixx While I obviously support our NHS, I think the clapping thing should have included everyone who is out there helping to keep our countries safe, and operating as well as possible. I thought it was rather ironic that the footage showed posties and firefighters clapping. They're at risk too, while helping us all. There are many industries/individuals who are doing their bit - more than their bit - to keep us going. Lorry drivers, food suppliers, police, farmers - the list goes on and on.
Let's support all of them.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I'm getting annoyed at the government advice to stay "two metres (six feet)" away from other people. Six feet is 1.83m. Why do imperial dinosaurs get an extra 17 cm of tollerance?
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Things are generally metric over here @wild edges but I still have to be careful about buying hose pipes and fittings and also bits of plumbing connectors which still come in 5/8th or 3/4s - definitely not metric yet it's over 200 years since Napoleon introduced the metric system here.
I think a lot of people don't know how much 6' or 2m actually are as a horizontal measurement tho I suspect a few on here can manage when it comes to fence and trellis panels.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
'Cos us imperial dinosaurs have had to struggle with 240d to the £ turning into 100p to the £, still have problems with recipes as I know what 2oz looks like but not a scooby what 56g might be, and don't mention 1metre of 2" X 2" or 2m of 48" wide curtain fabric which went on for many years.
I would not want to take a measuring stick with me if I went out but I can gauge 6' by eye so please take pity on us dinosaurs and let us revel in measurements we can fathom.
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
..aaah remember the old school exercise books with all those conversion tables? Furlongs, chains, pecks, quarts, firkins.....the good old days. And wasn't a yard defined as the length from such-and-such king's nose to the tip of his finger or something similar? Good old measurements you can trust eh? No of this wishy washy tenth of this and a thousandth of that.... how does that teach you mental maths? Anyone can move a decimal point.....
I would not want to take a measuring stick with me if I went out but I can gauge 6' by eye so please take pity on us dinosaurs and let us revel in measurements we can fathom.
The BBC have a handy video for visualising what two metres actually looks like
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This was posted for all the other people and services getting us thru this crisis
While I obviously support our NHS, I think the clapping thing should have included everyone who is out there helping to keep our countries safe, and operating as well as possible.
I thought it was rather ironic that the footage showed posties and firefighters clapping. They're at risk too, while helping us all. There are many industries/individuals who are doing their bit - more than their bit - to keep us going. Lorry drivers, food suppliers, police, farmers - the list goes on and on.
Let's support all of them.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I think a lot of people don't know how much 6' or 2m actually are as a horizontal measurement tho I suspect a few on here can manage when it comes to fence and trellis panels.
I would not want to take a measuring stick with me if I went out but I can gauge 6' by eye so please take pity on us dinosaurs and let us revel in measurements we can fathom.