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Article from BBC website on new report: How did coronavirus spread across Scotland? "A new report has shed light on how coronavirus first spread across Scotland, with suggestions the virus could have been spreading in the community before the first cases were confirmed." Link to pdf preprint...

I'm not sure if this is a good place to put this, but I've been listening to 'The Great British Post Office Trial' over the last 2 weeks on R4, 10 episodes, each episode around 14 mins https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jf7j Panorama will also feature this on BBC 1, on Monday 8th June at...

And dwarf beans

Picture of salad leaves from last week- they've grown more since then

I'm doing something similar to Wonko. My flat is a conversion(the upper 2 floors) of a terraced house, with a external half flight of stairs to the landing where my front door is. The landing is big enough to sit out on so functions as a sort of balcony. So I'm trying to grow some...

Not sure if this is the right place to put this, please move if an other thread more appropriate. 3 part series has started on BBC Radio 4 'Pandemic 1918' about Spanish Flu outbreak Part one was on yesterday (28 mins), available on BBC Sounds- link below, episodes 2 & 3 coming up 11am Fridays...

I did a 24hr saliva test 2 years ago. Waking cortisol was normal, midday low end normal, afternoon above normal range, and pre-sleep top end of normal range. DHEA was at the bottom of normal range. I didn't really know what to do with the results (my GP would have been totally dismissive)...

On the phone yesterday to friends. They have been getting home deliveries from Kale and Damson, Papworth Everard, Cambs https://www.kaleanddamson.co.uk/ they're wholesale fruit and veg suppliers but now supplying a range of foods locally. Delivery area seems to be some Cambridgeshire...

In the early months of being ill, I was having a phone appointment with my GP about extending my (in UK stupidly named) 'Fit Note' so that I would still receive sick pay although unable to work. I was trying to explain how difficult basic tasks of daily living were, and giving the example of...

I can't tell from that table, not sure if the information is there?

I had an order from https://www.ethicalsuperstore.com/ this week. They do wholefoods and environmentally friendly cleaning stuff and toilet roll and other things. Things do go in and out of stock so I waited until they had everything I wanted. Ordered on 20th April, delivered 27th April...

Not directly about the study, but interesting to see from the supplementary material Table 2 (link at the end of the article) under previous treatments reported at baseline, 13 patients had previously gone through the Lightning Process.

I got my delivery from local fish van today, :) really pleased with the quality even if more expensive than supermarket, and far more veggies than I could carry normally in addition to the other items on a weekly shop. 'Small' veg box: 4 onions, 3 big carrots, 1 leek, 1 cabbage, 1 cauliflower...

When I buy eggs I like to get a dozen as one of my staples is to make a big sort of spanish omlette in my big frying pan with ham or bacon and lots of veggies which needs 8 eggs, which I cut into quarters, and reheat in the microwave, so does 4 meals. I boil the others for no effort food. A...

BBC R4 PM, should be about an hour from the start which was 4.30pm https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h8gw

RIP Tim Brooke-Taylor https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52262490 A very young Tim Brooke-Taylor in the Four Yorkshiremen sketch(if I've managed to youtube link)

From the BBC website: "Coronavirus in Scotland: Who is dying and where? The Scottish government has changed the way it reports coronavirus deaths in Scotland. The daily figures from Health Protection Scotland will still be published, but additional figures from the National Records of Scotland...

"BBC presenter praised for 'powerful words' on crisis A clip of the BBC's Emily Maitlis opening current affairs programme Newsnight has been widely shared online. Maitlis debunked the idea that coronavirus was a "great leveller" that had affected equally the rich and poor, calling it a "myth"...

From Scotland's daily briefing 8th April, Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister said this: 'We don't want anybody to be falling through the net' "Outside the shielded group, there is a bigger group of vulnerable people who are not necessarily in that category but still require assistance," says the...

On the BBC website this morning: Coronavirus: 'High risk' list misses off thousands of people https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-52123446 "Defra also said it was "working quickly" to support those who did not fall into the "clinically vulnerable" category but still needed help, including...