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You can fall off 10 mins from home and still need an ambulance.

Decathlon sell one but I don't know what the compatibility is.

be put up somewhere rather than go home.

Health workers in Luxembourg are doing that if they don't live near their workplaces. Interestingly the government extends the hotel accommodation offer to their families (if they have one) so that as long as they're testing negative they can "decompress" by spending a bit of time with their loved ones.

Local builders going about their business as normal round here. Vans everywhere. I sympathize with them. They need to earn money. Surely a big chance of infecting people though.

All building sites are closed here now by government order. Same reason as @Velocio said, concern of spreading illness as people come from all over the region to work on sites here.

I put a good slug of it in there but I've got a load left over I could slosh in.

My old man went for a hike in the New Forest today; managed to find a fairly isolated spot to park his car but he said the majority of car parks were rammed and some of the pubs had even ignored the ban and were open. Being in a country which is in lockdown and people opening bars/restaurants face a 10k euro fine or even jail, it's a bit shocking to think that in the UK people seem to think it's all a piss take.

I thought my scoby had been binned but found it the other day. Made up some sugar tea, lobbed it in and left it. Couple of days later it smells like it's going the right way (then again, I put some liquid in from the scoby so it could be that) but the scoby is hiding somewhere near the bottom of the jar... is this normal or did 8 months lost in my kitchen cupboard kill the scoby?

Are the aliexpress wheel stands any good? I'd like to have a crack at wheelbuilding but don't want too much outlay other than parts to get started

I'd not really considered the day to day of people living with immuno-deficiencies before. Was talking to a colleague whose kid gets very ill very quickly and he said their front hallway is like a clean room entry; whenever he comes back from the shops or whatever, he strips off, clothes into the washing machine, has a shower and puts on clean clothes before going into the rest of his place. Thinking of that tires me out, let alone living it.

Traveling is not a good idea. Pretty sure the French have said "non".

It's definitely frowned upon and crossing the borders is a definite no except for good reasons (we've issued travel authorisation documentation on request to our staff, but not for the guy who wanted to go shopping here). I think as a French citizen you'd get off the plane and be fine, but non-Frenchies or non-Residents might be questioned a but more as to why they were coming over.

hahah...

Surprisingly our company is going pretty well. People are using the tools provided, they're talking to each other and we even launched something in 24 hours which, whilst it won't make a penny for us, will hopefully be of use to our customers during the lock-down. Overall, quite happy.

nightclub bouncers at the door of our local Delhaize.

Local supermarket has bouncers and the Q8 petrol station Delhaize has lines like outside a nightclub but I was the only one shopping. Woman said they get a rush at 8am and one at 6pm and the rest of the day they're cleaning and restocking.

Didn't know the Belgians were allowed out except for essentials. Luxembourg is allowed out to exercise though; whatever that means in practice, it's just a catchall to avoid the 145e fine if the police stop you.

Being in the pub is un-British in times like these surely?

As if cruises are still happening

@hats - is there any concern in HK and China about students returning from closed institutions in the rest of the world? Likely to be quarantined etc?

Good luck!

Current rules in central Europe are residents, family of residents/citizens but it changes pretty fast. As you obviously know, though, more papers is more betterer.

Coming from the UK? Should, in theory, be okay as you've got a job.

I've still got my old trainer in the back of the garage in case I lose power. In reality if I lose power I'll be forced to eat the contents of my fridge and drink all my beer rather than use the turbo.

Here (Luxembourg) you can go out alone or with members of your household for "fitness" without breaching the emergency laws, unlike Spain for example who are just "nothing outside except work, medical or groceries"

I.E can they actually do anything unless a state of emergency is declared, or until this corona virus bill is passed into law

Almost everywhere in Europe has declared a state of emergency. I would assume the UK is days behind (like the school closures for example).

In the UK the usual thing is whether the goods are of a reasonable quality. If you've used it in some way that is unreasonable (riding across Antarctica in winter for example) then you might be screwed but if it's riding within normal boundaries, they'll struggle to argue. There's also a European Small Claims court which you could hurry up and threaten them with if you bought direct. I'd imagine a UK court would be happy to order them to pay you.

https://e-justice.europa.eu/content_court_fees_concerning_small_claims_procedure-306-ew-en.do?member=1

To protect us, the company that manages the "coffee" machine at work came in today and deactivated it. They didn't just let it run out of coffee, they turned it off. And then left a leaflet saying how the prices have gone up despite the fact we can't have any coffee. Feels a bit of a piss take.

Rest of Europe (yeah, I know), public and private schools were closed and the same for preschool. Not sure though, whether private crèches in the UK are government licensed

It could just be that connectivity-wise we've pretty good access to the Frankfurt DCs but other than video, it seems to be okay. As big an issue is home internet access slowing to a crawl because everyone is at home either working or streaming or both.