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No, she got released by about lunchtime.

She was 5 minutes late this morning so obviously I asked her if she'd done it again

Unlucky!
I haven't tested since late 2022, was feeling a bit rough and had a worse than normal cough a couple of weeks ago but never thought anything of it. Then heard it was doing the rounds again.


When I glanced at that initially I thought it was a pregnancy test

Does anyone test these days? Even work have lifted the 5 day quarantine and said just treat it as a cold.

We had a meeting cancelled as an in person one last week and it was switched to online due to Covid concerns.
Bearing in mind, there were about 160 invited to it and it should have been held in the auditorium on our customer site, everybody went back to the shared open office spaces and sat huddled together instead.
The local wifi onsite is so bad that if too many try to use it, they can’t get online, so in an effort to reduce Covid, everyone had to squash into a smaller area to help.

In other news, I booked the coming week off work and have plans to catch up on stuff around the house, on the car and do stuff with my kids while they are still willing to be seen in public with me!

I was there 4 years ago...

August 2020, when we thought that Covid was on the way out and special offers abounded as places tried to attract tourists back. There were no tours on offer but the stadium was open to visitors.

Maybe too feart to say anything .. .. 

I have the same problems with the Mondeo 🤣

Anyway, did one of those things I hate doing yesterday, I swapped my work laptop for a new one.
Corporate policy means they get updated every few years and a bunch of us were in the latest group, so I’ve spent the last few hours this morning reinstalling software I need, getting access to functions that come disabled on the laptops for everyone because I need them too, and trying to find out why it’s all in the cloud and not downloading to the new laptop.

To be honest, the old one was working perfectly well and was well specced, with a decent battery life.

But the new one is not too shabby and weighs less, meaning my bag will be easier to carry I suppose.

Bugger……. (It’s 50%+ longer than you can see as it goes across the top of the screen)

What a pain. I know you can get it sorted through insurance reasonably easily but only if they have the glass in stock. We've had a couple of fleet cars be out for over a month waiting for a new windscreen over the last couple of years. Plus you have to find the time to get it done as all the sensors mean the days of having Autoglass come and do it on your driveway are long gone if you have a modern car.

It’s booked in with Auto Windsceens on Tuesday morning, hopefully they can get a screen in time.

They’ve quoted 90-120 mins including calibrating the sensors (it created 2 x bookings on their website) and it’s less than a 10min walk from one of my sites so I don’t have to hang around. It’s only £100 for the excess, but will impact the insurance renewal as getting a repair on the Range Rover added about £60-70!

That's odd, Autoglass put a new screen in the Range Rover at home last year.

The only camera the Kuga has is the reversing one. The windscreen just has a rain sensor (which I have disabled in the standard user settings as like all rain sensing wipers,it's useless) and maybe a sensor for auto lights. I was surprised that it couldn't be done outside my home but it worked out OK

The sensors in the L322 and the L200 are Garbage and I would rather the Volvo offering of variable intermittent with auto option.