The concept of a firebreak is where you kill a load of the as yet unburnt trees to protect the rest.

I wouldn't say that, it's just a gap large enough such that fire doesn't spread. Killing stuff to make the gap isn't neccesarily part of the concept.

Well since we're going to fully torture the analogy I'd say it is in this context. If you're talking about creating a firebreak during a raging fire then that's what you'd be doing.

Eyam considering more analogies.

My friend’s sister went on a caravan holiday with five other mates from different households recently. She’s now tested positive. She visited her mother at the weekend who has serious respiratory conditions.

You can imagine she’s somewhat contrite now.

Have realised this afternoon couresty of Facebook that I'm the only person actually isolating my child from the affected year group and all other parents are treating it as an extended half term and are off visiting tourist spots etc.

("all" might be an exaggeration but it sure as shit feels like it)

Wife negative! Weight off my mind.

£22 million.

Fucking hell.
What cunts.

Just been told we can WFH until June 2021. Strongly suspect I'll never go back to full time office work now - it's worked well enough like this that I'll think they'll try to save some cash on real estate.

£22 million.

Fucking hell.
What cunts.

The notification might be automatic, but I get you point.

but I am more interested in organic dried curry leaves, what are you cooking

Well, curries

Darwin loves curries, so I make a lot of them (mekhani dhal, dhal tadka, various other things) but I also use them in my pilaf, so I use lots of them, and I find them difficult to source (though I have noticed Ocado finally have them in).

Well, curries

Darwin loves curries, so I make a lot of them (mekhani dhal, dhal tadka, various other things) but I also use them in my pilaf, so I use lots of them, and I find them difficult to source (though I have noticed Ocado finally have them in).

Anyway, the message just appeared briefly as these notifications, but then they disappeared almost immediately. There doesn’t seem to be any history of them in the app... or am I missing something?

So i don't really trust the notification stuff at all - and its on my phone and i've never had any pop ups , however my girlfriend has twice now - the first time she got the first pop up you had (warning) - did not really take it all in but clicked it and it went into the app and there was no way to read it or check anything about it
About 30 minutes later she got the 'all clear' message
The second time she was more aware so screenshotted the first message and it was the same 'all clear' afterwards

The only time either of us have been out the house recently is to walk the dog , we're both walking her - twice a day and we will both be passing by (at as much of a distance as we can) the same people - however they system has decided that she was close enough to be warned about something twice and I've not had anything

Probably someone coming within Bluetooth range. You live in an upstairs flat, right?

Probably someone coming within Bluetooth range. You live in an upstairs flat, right?

Basically they screwed up by only implementing the first message which is stupidly vague and unhelpful. They 'fixed' it by adding the second message, saying basically "everything fine here". What they should have then done is removed the pointless first message.

Bluetooth will travel through walls. My neighbour has an open Bluetooth speaker that I can "see" all over our house