Should’ve been at Ascot racing & beer festival this weekend
https://twitter.com/ascot/status/131...179770371?s=21
Just 36/50 :o
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Should’ve been at Ascot racing & beer festival this weekend
https://twitter.com/ascot/status/131...179770371?s=21
Just 36/50 :o
87% or 43/50 goes to show where my interests lie.
Was in the first post in the link : https://www.sporcle.com/games/AscotR.../horse-or-beer
40/50 for me.
41/50 A process of elimination.
33/50 pretty avarage
Shameful 31/50, had a horrible start with 11 out of first 20 wrong! Oh dear...
I've not downloaded the NHS App yet, and am unsure how to use it,or use a QR code.Anyway, I doubt if my phone is new enough. I'm even less willing to use it,having read about sale of information to third parties. I'm happier to scrawl on a scrap of paper that will be destroyed in three weeks.
As it happens, I have not been encouraged to use the App, in a pub or anywhere else. Quite often, the scraps of paper are not proffered, either.
The app is by far the easiest I've used, but it seems that some gormless pubs don't have the NHS QR matrix codes up. I've not heard anything about the sale of information, the Government wanting everyone to upload it so quelling fears of information sale by not allowing it; there's very little information anyway.
As it happens, I was due to upgrade the contract on my obsolete four-and-a-half-year-old phone, so got this. It's very nice, especially the capacity to do AR and it's the cheapest model too.
This presupposes that your tech-savvy friend informs you when he gets a warning. I got a fleeting message saying that I'd been in a plague pit, but the message disappeared before I could read it and I can't find it, so don't know to what venue it relates or when, which isn't good.
There's a list here citing all compatible phones.
I get those too but I believe it's just some sort of housekeeping message rather than a warning or notification. Any notification would (hopefully) be more substantial, hard to tell as the number of notifications sent out about infections in pubs is ...............err 1. (AFAIK)
Perhaps the plague is rampant where you live. When I access the app it tells me that the risk is Medium in my area, but I rarely go out in my area. When I'm in other boroughs - let alone postcodes - it doesn't recognise that I'm in a different area so the threat level remains unchanged.
I don't recall giving anything other than my postcode and phone number - there's nothing in my humdrum life which could possibly appeal to third parties.:(
But I refuse to give my bank details to pubco apps which have a 'pay as you order' system.
A fairly shoddy piece or perhaps an illustration of how "journalism" works, it's trying to suggest this is about the NHS app but doesn't actually say that, it doesn't name names or present any evidence just the supposition of "experts" whose bias and agenda are unknown to us. More of a surprise than the fact that people don't read Ts & Cs is that they continue to believe internet balls.
It probably does recognise when you're in a different area it just doesn't tell you, the risk level shown is always for the postcode you registered with. My area is medium as well but nearby are Leeds, York, Teesside all of which have high levels of cases and are likely to go Tier 3 once the Government has twisted their arms.
I wouldn't use any of the pubco apps, partly because of what the article is about, also it would be more effective and efficient if everyone used only the NHS app as then there would be a better chance of identifying as many contacts as possible.
Yes. The NHS app requires virtually no data because all you need in reality is a phone number to send a text alert - that's it. You're right as far as this being an article of sensationalist journalism with no evidence presented. The reason though why people don't read Ts and Cs is that if you don't agree, you can't use the programme/app. The small print is usually too long, probably to deter people from reading them.
I too wouldn't want to use a pubco app, especially not the ones that ask for bank details and would give fake info when asked, save for a correct phone number and yes, it would be far simpler if everyone used the NHS app - I don't know why the Government doesn't make it compulsory and if it's a requirement for the hospitality industry, then why not shops?
The whole thing is pointless. Pubs in Liverpool, and everywhere else, have followed and put in place stricter guidelines than most supermarkets have been doing since March.
Yes. It increasingly seems that the upsurge has occurred since schools and universities reopened. The most obvious thing to do would be to drop this joy of six rubbish - it's far too large a group size. I can't remember when I last went to the pub in a group of six. Three or four yes, but six? Closing the pubs at 10.00 is also a crazy move. People are just going earlier (which increases concentration of people inside and out) or drinking to get more in, in a shorter period. Outside New Year, I've never seen so many - young - people staggering about.
That's just bad luck. I'm sure people could make sacrifices. My sister and mother live in Oxford only a mile apart and she with the young teenage kids meet up with their mother for a walk in the park; they don't need to go on a pub crawl. Anyhow, it would be a great excuse to avoid the in-laws. ;)
Not to mention casual punters.
I went into a pub at the weekend that only had two tables in the bar due to the 2m rule. Each one had a single person sitting at it, and neither was prepared to share due to our not being in their bubble. So only two people could sit on the bar, and they were about 5m apart.
Hi, thought I would give my thoughts.
Masks and T & T no problem. Will not load NHS app as I don't trust the bluetooth, and don't want isolation if my app picks up someone passing my pub window on bluetooth. I have had a day out in Sheffield, Peterborough, Beeston, Shrewsbury, Tamworth and 2 in Derby as well as supporting our local pubs and breweries once or twice a week since we were let loose from lockdown. Plan to do Reading as I keep seeing the reports of the Nags Head beers. Going to Darlington for the Snooker Club fest, if it manages to stay on which I doubt, but I have a Premier booked so will see. I did try a night away in Travelodge for Stockport to do the Petersgate Tollgate Monster weekend which was great.
I had £400 worth of travelodge vouchers from 2020 cancelled plans, so have a couple of spells booked for York, and one for Bristol for next year, hoping we can use them.
No problems at all with trains, or the table service in pubs worked ok for us too. We don't do nights, so tend to be able to walk in to pubs but have booked tables where we really wanted to get in for a reason.
What I don't like is being served food and drinks at my table where I have no mask, by a server who wears no mask and stands talking over me as has happened in 2 JDW pubs. I queried it on both occasions and got told they were exempt. Hmmmm.
New normal seems here to stay for some time, so we look after ourselves as best as we can, but living my life. We have a couple of amazing off licences for cans and bottles which kept us going when pubs were closed, but the freedom to travel and support the pubs is what counts to us.
I keep my own list of everywhere I have been, and after 21 days, delete them.
Stay safe as I reckon this will be our way of life for some time to come.
Gill
Nice to hear from you, Gill. Seems like years since I saw you and Ray at the beer festival in Birmingham, but it was only eight months ago.
I think the NHS Covid App bluetooth thingy doesn't bother about short term proximity such as someone walking past your window. If they stopped for 20 minutes or so to deliver an oration it might pick them up, but otherwise you'll be ok. I find it handy for logging into pubs using the NHS QR code.
Don't hold your breathe for Darlo; Durham and Tees Valley along with Tyne & Wear and parts of Northumberland are likely to go into Tier 2* sooner rather than later.
It was announced this morning that York is Tier 2 now which fortunately doesn't stop pub going. I'm booked to go to Brum next month but haven't booked the trains yet, it'll cost me £90 so I'm holding off as long as possible, I think it is Tier 2 but unless it's a 3 I'm still going.
Sheffield and Leeds/Bradford will probably be Tier 3 soon as well, bad luck Will.
*already are, I meant Tier 3. Doh.
Yes. The Bluetooth element uses a strong element of proximity for a certain period of time, so a fleeting pass won't have any effect. The NHS app requires very little information which supposedly won't be passed on to third parties, unlike some other pub apps. It doesn't require the user to enter their bank details and it's far easier to use than other apps, which sometimes the user to go to a website and write their autobiography.
There are no Leeds-Birmingham trains listed on the required date so I'll need to go via Kings Cross & Euston :eek: and no Advance tickets for BHM-LDS coming back although there are trains. I looked again and can get it down to around £70. £20 LDS-KGX on the Azuma and £10 EUS-BHM, coming back is £43 BHM-LDS; plus bus home from Leeds.
I haven't checked the intermediate stages via Sheffield, Burton and Derby.