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Last Thursday we launched the Howsafe PPE Bank – the idea was to ask our customers, suppliers and the local community to donate their unwanted personal protection equipment so that it can be recirculated into local care homes and volunteers that really need it during the Covid-19 crisis. Howsafe have made a starting donation of PPE and whilst early days, we have already had some donations from customers. Our first delivery will be delivered today to Philia Lodge Rest Home in Peterborough where there have very sadly been a reported number of deaths due to the virus. The delivery consists of gloves, eyewear and disposable masks. The rest home made national news yesterday with six deaths - the staff I have spoken with their are devastated and our thoughts go out to the care team , the residents and families that have lost loved ones. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-cambridgeshire-52291790/peterborough-care-home-boss-moves-in-as-third-of-residents-die Any help you can be to help us spread the news would be much appreciated - any donations of PPE would be hugely appreciated and our promises is, that your PPE will be going out to the care homes and volunteers that are truly in need. Blog post here... https://www.howsafe.co.uk/blog/post/howsafe-ppe-bank For more information and frequent updates please follow our facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/HowsafeLtd/ So if you have anything no matter how big or small it would be appreciated - so please have a look in the garage, workshop or have a chat with your employer to see if there is anything you can help with - thank you 👍 There's more information as to what is needed in both of the attached links (easier to find initially on the blog link). Thanks in advance

Finally got round to washing off the muck accumulated from the run to iva.

That’s great! Sounds good 👌

Little start up vid, no V8 purr but just hearing a 4 pot running is nice in the current climate!

Just for fun, have a go and put up your video!! I tried and they are linked below. Endeavoured to make it funny but it is surprisingly difficult and I don't really sound like that do I? It was great to get into the Little Beast and do a warm up even though not allowed out on the road. Not to get too technical - I might show my lack of knowledge - Rover V8 3.5ltr 200BHP, carbs so smells wonderful, underslung exhaust, Powerlite starter with power cables from the national grid, and a very noisy Holly fuel pump! GO ON - HAVE A GO!!

I did something similar, I found 220 face masks in my shed and a couple of boxes of gloves so I gave my local doctors practice a call to see if they could use them, turns out they were desperate for them, makes you feel good knowing you've helped with their protection. I just wish I could help my daughter, she's a doctor in Australia

"Back in December I was watching what was going on in China and it was very obvious what was going to happen" 12 Jan - WHO confirmed that a novel coronavirus had caused a respiratory illness in a cluster of people in Wuhan. 14 Jan - WHO tweeted that "...investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission. 23 Jan - estimated R0 (How infectious is it) between 1.4 and 2.5 (similar to Flu and SARS 02-04) 30 Jan - the four UK Chief Medical Officers raised the UK risk level from low to moderate. 28 Feb - 1st documented transmission within the UK (all previous infections were in travellers) 4 Mar - 1st fatality in the UK 11 Mar - WHO declared the outbreak a pandemic 17 Mar - FCO , finally, advises against all but essential travel ...very obvious in December what was going to happen, obvious this was worse than MERS , SARS 02 - 04, Swine Flu...sorry, not having it, the seriousness of this is dawning on some highly educated and well informed people, in March! Which brings me to the reason I am a little irked by the statement. Mid March- I am in India, due to return home mid April, it is declared a pandemic, and the FCO advice becomes "against all but essential travel" so on the 18th of March I pay Qatar to change my mid April flight to 25th March. On the 19th of March - The Indian government , at two days notice, and initially for one week, bans the landing of all commercial passenger aircraft. People scramble to buy new flights for when the one week ban is lifted, £2000 or £3000 for a one way flight home, but then the flight ban is extended, people that have paid stupid money for a flight home, don't get home. On the 22nd of Mar, India has a one day 'peoples curfew' a trial run of a lockdown, but before this lockdown is over, the continuation is announced. Within a day, all taxi drivers are off the road, all vehicle hire businesses are shut down (took my Enfield off me 😒), and in the state of Goa, every shop is closed. If you happen to be watching the news in India at that time, well, google "Indian police use violence against coronavirus lockdown offenders" and find out what a 'Lathi' stick is. It didn't happen to anyone I know, but if you were there and saw it on the TV how would you feel? 23 Mar, the FCO advises all Brits abroad to head home, except Brits in India, who are advised to 'prepare to stay in country until commercial flights resume' Interesting times, I was OK but many around me were genuinely distressed, with limited access to food and medicines. I got home on a repatriation flight that cost me £681, £2000 of mine currently in the bank accounts of airlines. Can I defend my decision making throughout that process? Yes, following the advice of the highly qualified people we pay to advise us, even at cost to me, and barring a series of surprises from the Indian government eveything would have been fine.

Chassis, interior and body all together. Still got a long way to go.

Hi mate, I hope your well. I use my Harley on nice days to go to work as I know a lot of other bikers do, I did the last 2 days, but I'm sure there's a lot taking the p..s as well. When Mrs P is back on the road I'll use it to go to work. I don't think there's any harm if it's an essential journey using what ever you have in garage.

Not a popular opinion, is a bit of an understatement, not a well founded opinion either. I simply don't believe that if you had £5k invested in a family holiday you would have cancelled it in December. If you had, given that there was no government advice to do so. you would have simply forfeited your £5K (this was true all the way up to mid March) Your comment ".. by the time 2020 rolled in it was pretty evident that it was going to go global" suggests you are in the wrong job, It has the ring of a Trump like "How clever am I" given that: It wasn't until 30th January that the WHO Director General has declared the outbreak of novel coronavirus 2019- nCoV as a "Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)" On the 3rd of Feb - WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said "there is no need for measures that unnecessarily interfere with international travel and trade” It wasn't until 11th March that WHO declared it a pandemic. Up until the third week of March, UK government (FCO) advice was that worldwide travel was fine, with the exception of a handful of countries. So well done you, being smarter than the whole of the WHO, smarter than all of our government scientists, smarter than all of the 1 million Brits that got left abroad by this, well done you. Wanna give us a clue as to when the pandemic will end? Jim

Mines half fitted 🤣

Mine just landed. Great service under the circumstances!

Sound just like mine How could anyone complain about that lovely noise.

If you bid after seeing this account name... ...it’s very much your own fault! 😄

Who hasn’t! 😂

I'd also put a post it note on your dash to advise to drop them back down before driving. As in post lock down excitement, you don't want to go backwards off the road through a hedge at the first corner......................

Also a good idea to blow the tyres to 50psi for storage. Helps stop flat spots. We use that pressure for new cars as they travel the world on delivery.. Works

Thanks @Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO for pulling this together, enjoyed the evening. That cobra was just amazing! Maybe just maybe one day.... Andy

@Mighty Mart - Look, look, look - the spelling! 😉

So it is, I'll give them a call again! Reported again!

If you look here maybe the 2 followers gives a clue......... https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/m4ttb