Today I am mostly wanting......

And now for something different
I don't think I've ever seen one of these in black. Plus, how many photos can you actually take of the outside of a car?

www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/202001085931922?make=NISSAN&model=GT-R&advertising-location=at_cars&sort=relevance&minimum-badge-engine-size=3.0&postcode=ky155un&onesearchad=New&onesearchad=Nearly%20New&onesearchad=Used&radius=100&page=1


There's a similar one but in dark blue at Arnold Clark in Perth.
If it weren't for them being shut at the moment I'd be sorely tempted to go and have a proper look at it. I could get there in 25 minutes and home again in about 10

www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/202003208621939?make=NISSAN&model=GT-R&advertising-location=at_cars&sort=relevance&minimum-badge-engine-size=3.0&postcode=ky155un&onesearchad=New&onesearchad=Nearly%20New&onesearchad=Used&radius=100&page=1

The walled corners are where I had my moment a couple of days ago!
The road surface is also pretty patchy so a stiffly sprung GT-R (or 370Z or 320D for that matter) isn't entirely in its element. They were amusing in the Toyota last night though 

I haven't actually driven a GT-R but 3 years ago a mate hired one for a weekend and took me out in it for about an hour.
Fuck me, that thing is fast but I was surprised when he said that he thought it was actually too fast. That coming from someone who drove a year old RS6 and had a Kawasaki ZZR1400 for fun. 

Today I am mostly wanting to live somewhere else:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-52677059

Fuckers.

It's not that. It was 7am-6pm weekdays only. Now its 7am-10pm including weekends. So no nipping into the West End for dinner or at the weekend, which we are accustomed to doing. As someone who commutes by tube a lot (I also cycle but not when it rains or if I'm working late), I try always to avoid going anywhere near public transport at weekends.

158k it went for in the end . Wow

Agreed, it's the seven days a week and till 10pm that will rally rile people. For ages hasn't Khan wanted to extend the area as well? Maybe that will be the next step? 

I suspect that pedestrian zones and making driving harder will become a "thing" across more towns and cities in the coming years. 

I would have thought that many businesses will be re thinking their office requirements post lockdown. They might find their staff more receptive to remote working and be eyeing up a big monthly office bill as a target for cost reduction. One of my big customers has its head office in The Shard. The leadership team has found remote working via teams so agreeable that they are questioning the need for an expensive London office. The Mayor of London signalling that he’s going to make it more painful to live and work there might just be the final straw. 

This.
Our rent/service charge is the 3rd greatest expenditure but we could easily downsize and still accommodate everyone so if there's going to be some WFH/hot desking I reckon we could half the size of the main office and still not feel cramped.

Ironically our landlord is the same company that also provides some of our non-execs and they will be pushing for cost savings so lets see how they take to this.
If we could completely relocate it'll leave them with 6500 sq feet of empty office to try to fill. Good luck with that when the City council are busily adding new blocks next to the new V&A building.

I've had lots of discussion on this on LinkedIn. The likelihood is that there will be smaller foot plates with meeting rooms and a few desks. For documents / office stuff that have been printed then the old model of a roll around or locker will be the norm in more places and those smaller footplates might be spread across an estate for larger businesses so if you live in Putney or Fulham and WFH there's a drop down office and meeting space somewhere round Fulham Broadway or Brompton Road to meet people.

Many places have been "under-desked" for years and teams are allocated banks of desks and they arrange between them who's in when during the week so they feel a connection as opposed to WFH 5 days a week (which let's face it is not very human behaviour). If I were in commercial property I'd be looking at offering these kinds of models like a quasi-Regus model where you actually long-lease a space as a business but don't allocate it to individuals.

We've already seen off-estate IT systems and supports (we've changed IT vendor during the lockdown and no one has noticed!) so they don't need desks; same for lots of other support services. The only folks that need to be in and around the office all week are security with cleaning and maintenance on SLA-based call outs and regular services. The office isn't dead but if you work for a medium-large corporate don't expect your own "space" in an office for much longer.

When I was in school the most trumpeted theory around was the in the future nobody would work in an office and they were talking about the 80's and 90's not well into the 2,000's. All meetings held virtually around the world, no need to travel, just meet virtually in your own home office etc.

Or we could act like adults, take some personal responsibility and carry around some decent disinfectant wipes to clean the desk ourselves before we start work.

That happened when I started working too, I'd forgotten that.

The easy answer to your concern could be a wireless keyboard and mouse - just take them with you and plug the little thing in to whichever PC your going to use then no need to touch anyone elses stuff.
You'd still have to wipe the desk though.

A mate of mine used to work in a factory making wireless keyboards.

He got sacked for not putting enough shifts in.