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I wonder whether it's an attempt to pre-empt the batshit Republican noise about how this has been stolen? They're a lost cause, obviously, but it gets the clear lead established as the story for everyone else.

When I've bought flax oil for seasoning iron cookware (i.e. only smallish amounts required), I've found the cheapest/easiest to find in the shops has been this stuff: https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/organic-oil/granovita-organic-flaxseed-oil-260ml

Not purified, so not sure how suitable it is for wood sealing - it's the same greeny-yellow colour as extra virgin olive oil.

Well, there's Horrible Histories; that seems to get the gammon het up a lot.

X-posted from the working at home thread: any first-hand recommendations for a flipchart easel that's not too expensive, durable and can be raised fairly tall? I need one for some online workshops I'm running next week, but on putting up the one I bought, one of the legs tore out of the (melamine-faced) chipboard. Looking at the reviews on Amazon/eBay it seems to be a bit of a crapshoot as to what you get. As I'm only going to use it occasionally I'm not going to spend £hundreds on a posh one, and there doesn't seem to be any obvious quality difference between the £40 unbranded ones and anything under under £90 or so.

Any first-hand recommendations for a flipchart easel that's not too expensive, durable and can be raised fairly tall? I need one for some online workshops I'm running next week, but on putting up the one I bought, one of the legs tore out of the (melamine-faced) chipboard. Looking at the reviews on Amazon/eBay it seems to be a bit of a crapshoot as to what you get. As I'm only going to use it occasionally I'm not going to spend £hundreds on a posh one, and there doesn't seem to be any obvious quality difference between the £40 unbranded ones and anything under under £90 or so.

Hospitality venues can't serve takeaway booze (although they are allowed to deliver it...)

Over six and a half million school kids and over two and a quarter million university students in the UK; that's a fair number of transmission routes shut down.

As long as she's just got a cough that seems to be the NHS guidance?

You can stop self-isolating after 10 days if [...] you just have a cough or changes to your sense of smell or taste – these can last for weeks after the infection has gone.

( https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/self-isolation-and-treatment/how-long-to-self-isolate/ )

So, sweepstake on when exactly the lockdown is going to happen and for how long? I'll take 'midnight tonight' and 'until Feb 1'...

My condolences, James.

My kids' primary (West Mids) is not opening this week; we got a text yesterday saying the school would be closed today for an emergency planning day, and this morning they sent out a letter saying a number of staff had given S.44 notice and that they were going to switch to home learning. As a parent this is a PITA; as a governor I have to say I support them 100%. At the moment local infection rates are ~425/100,000, but that's up by about a third from over Christmas, so it's only really anticipating the inevitable by a week or two. Going to pick up activity/learning packs for the week this PM, and we'll see how we get on...

What ever I do get, will have to be stored on the street

In which case I'd be checking what insurance you can get that will cover that; cargo bikes are niche, but a £2k bike locked on the street is a £2k bike locked on the street; I know a couple of folks who have had their bakfiets nicked.

Do you feel the need... The need for speed?

Yeah, the omission of the Navy/Marine Corps from the act is slightly weird, given that the Marines have the equivalent of a couple of rapidly-deployable infantry divisions; as you note, the Act's provisions are applied to the Navy through regulations. The Coast Guard are a law enforcement organisation as well as a uniformed service, but they're presumably constrained in a similar fashion (and, purely pragmatically, are less likely to have the forces suitable for staging a coup).

Ha, the best sources! (Not like loads of my knowledge comes from The West Wing, no sirree...)

My take on that letter is it's just a reminder to the military that whatever crazy shit Trump may try and pull (and he's clearly more than a little deluded/desperate), their oath is to the constitution rather than to anything else. TBF the heads of the professional military (as opposed to whatever bootlicker Trump installs as acting SecDef) are usually pretty clear on that.

Yeah, Eddie usually sends out an email with the dates & times of the webshop reopening; the other thing to do is keep an eye on the TZ-UK forums, which will have announcements.

Posse Comitatus Act basically rules out any domestic use of the armed forces anyhow; states would have to request it, and given as how e.g. the Texas challenge was laughed out of court, there's zero basis for that.

These days the ordering window seems to be about 10 minutes or so; basically you need to be there refreshing the site at 1pm on the Sunday and have all your bits to hand (cards, authentication card reader, etc.) It adds a certain frisson to the process I guess, but I've never had a problem - I just set an alarm.

A local(ish) football club was dinged recently for having lock-ins at their ground: https://brownhillsbob.com/2020/12/09/west-midlands-police-statement-illegal-lock-in-broken-up-at-football-club-in-walsall/

Yeah, not particularly fussed about it talking to Zwift etc; though power data in some format would obviously be good for structured training.

Was hoping for more like half that...

Had a Marston's Horninglow No.2 imperial stout with lunch, and really enjoyed it. No pastry stout gimmicks*, just a big stout† with the dial turned up.

*Not that I dislike a good pastry stout; just that they seem to have become ubiquitous.
†By modern standards, I suppose 7.5% is merely a medium stout... (Though that may have gone up slightly as the bottle conditioned.)

Are there any exercise bikes worth buying that fall between the Argos shite and £££ Pelotons? Would like something to set up in the attic for me and the OH, so can't be bothered faffing about swopping bikes off a turbo.

Have heard good things about Pilgrim Cycles.

Ah, you're in chilly parts foreign, aren't you? Yeah, anything but the heaviest knits needs a wind-stopping layer of some kind.