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EEVblog:

--- Quote from: Mr.B on April 16, 2020, 05:00:53 am ---Looks like we will be in the same boat here.
If the government lift restrictions next week from the current “Level 4” to “Level 3” they still want kids to be home schooled if possible.
Parents who have to go to work will be able to send their kids to school.
We will find out on Monday if the restriction level is to change on the proposed date of midnight next Wednesday.
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Even in our current lockdown they have not closed the schools (but we are on normal school holidays at the moment), you can still send your kinds if you need to.

james_s:

--- Quote from: coppice on April 16, 2020, 11:08:31 pm ---All that picture really shows is its not raining. Even the UK has days like that. It was 2C in the morning here in York  a day or two ago, but it looked just like paulca's picture.

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I've only been to the UK once, but 9 of the 10 days I spent in Manchester it was gorgeous and sunny, the day I went home the clouds rolled in and it got stormy. That was late September and I gather it was quite unusual but it was a nice first impression.

coppice:

--- Quote from: james_s on April 17, 2020, 12:02:21 am ---I've only been to the UK once, but 9 of the 10 days I spent in Manchester it was gorgeous and sunny, the day I went home the clouds rolled in and it got stormy. That was late September and I gather it was quite unusual but it was a nice first impression.

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On a dry day Manchester has a huge give away to its true nature. Just look how green everything is. It takes a lot of water to achieve that, and it doesn't come from a massive river flowing through the area, in the way that Hanoi is made super green by the massive Mekong River.

Mr.B:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on April 16, 2020, 11:39:35 pm ---Even in our current lockdown they have not closed the schools (but we are on normal school holidays at the moment), you can still send your kinds if you need to.

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Australia have not been as harsh as New Zealand.
We are feeling the pain nationally.

Our dishwasher blew up last Friday. I have repaired it a couple of times in the last 15 years, but this time the fire on the controller board was classed by me as irreparable.
The new one arrived this morning. If the shops had been open on the day it failed I could have had a new one that day. Oh well, a week of hand washing dishes never killed anyone AFAIK.

On the flip side – I have been working from home for the last three and a half weeks.
I am actually enjoying it.

james_s:

--- Quote from: coppice on April 17, 2020, 12:07:21 am ---On a dry day Manchester has a huge give away to its true nature. Just look how green everything is. It takes a lot of water to achieve that, and it doesn't come from a massive river flowing through the area, in the way that Hanoi is made super green by the massive Mekong River.

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Well Western Washington where I'm from is known as "The Evergreen State" for similar reasons. I felt quite at home in Manchester, the houses looked different, transformers and motors sounded weird, even riding passenger in a car was a bizarrely disorienting experience and I became oddly aware of my own accent but aside from that it felt quite familiar.

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