Well, I did say at one point that this attacks weakened immune systems. We contribute to this by living too clean not getting enough sun (Vitamin D) and using disinfectant on every thing. That weakens the immune system.

Life on the Farm went on as usual & Fergy & I had a lovely time in the sunshine, burning the accumulated down timber that was useless as firewood. So basically it was breakfast a few odd jobs & the house was then abandoned for the day.

You would be amazed at the number of Virus types & other nasty things which are out there. I love conspiracy theories, often they turn out to be right. As we get a new Flu every year, consider who benefits: Does it rapidly mutate or was is it caused to mutate, we have the technology to do it?

Stay on the farm Marcc, nice and safe there away from the crowd
Lucky we are not in the USA.
16 milion have already applied for welfare.
Plus they dying like flies over there

I will probley be attacked for this however I can't believe these footballers are trying to start up again.As far as I am concerned I can live happily without them. It's all about money. I think the government should clamp down on this.The next thing they will be wanting to recurit players from other countries. They are serving now useful essential services. The heroes are not these people or the so called celebs .
We all know who the real heroes are and the shop people are certainly part of this group,having to face all the unknown health risks of dealing with Joe Public and getting abused for it into the bargain.

Football was originally designed by the medical department to try and stimulate brain activity in morons!
It's common knowledge the experiment has been a complete failure 😛

Just read a news article from the UK saying that they may have a vaccine as soon as September.
I have heard this sort of thing before but I hope it's true.
I think the financial flood gates for R&D on vaccines would be well and truly opened.
They were very close to a vaccine for Covid 2 (SARS) but once the epidemic subsided the funds were withdrawn.
From what I've read from numerous sources that once a vaccine for a Corona virus is developed it can be tweaked to vaccinate against mutations in a reasonable timeframe.
Live in hope.

As far as getting out of the cave, when my wife and I go out for food shopping I often go home via Bunnings. (building a carport).
The other day we went via McDonalds and bought a breakfast from the drive through and ate it in our car parked at the beach which is a minute from our home.
Could we have been fined??

Irext ,
I don't think so ,you are out buying food etc.
We all need food . There was a guy fined 1600 dollars for washing his car ,
He was the only person in the car wash place ,no other bays were being used.
As for the vaccine,let's hope so .
While I have you here what thread size is the legs on your Pye? Think I have found them in a box here.

Pete

If you haven't listened to this already, I can recommend it:

https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/coronacast/youve-probably-heard-these-coronavirus-myths/12139346

Enlightening there are plenty of those armchair legends, unfortunately.

A lot of those symptoms fit my lungs when they decide to have a "hissy fits that" have been happening for decades. And C-19 had not been invented back then. I class my trip to Woolworths for food as a suicide mission. There we have a retail solution: Not an engineering one.

Read everything has been done other than what is needed to be done.

There is still crap at the ends of Gondola's taking up needed room: Why is that crap not in the empty dunny roll isle. Why are people still going down the isles in both directions? OK! you can maintain anti-social distancing long ways. Side ways : Not a hope in hell.

Then we have the premier of the state with the worst example of bio-insecurity ever seen, wondering where the "inexplicable community" contamination is coming from? Obivously she needs to sack the clowns & replace them with Pig, Dairy, & Chook, farmers & wine makers that actually understand Bio-security & is part of their daily life. I do hope the Ivermectin claim is true. I won't have to wait.

As for virus: In the wine industry for one, where machines are moving between vineyards, they are quarantined, until they have been placed in rooms & heated to 50 degrees for a specified period. I see one quote that C-19 will last 15 minutes at 56 degrees (sounds a bit hot) but I doubt it would survive this.

I note no formal declaration has been made in writing that farmers are an essential service. Make sure the KGB can see shopping bags. Too windy to light fires today, so back to the engineering shed.

Hi Pete.
Thanks for the offer.
I can't exactly remember what thread they were.
I bought some threaded studs especially made for table legs from Bunnings which have a timber screw thread on one end and a metal thread on the other.
A friend of mine turned up some hardwood legs as per an advertising photo of the set taken in the fifties.
Someone from this forum (possibly you) gave me a link to some Max Duplain advertising photos which enabled me to get the length correct.
I then stained them in the dark oak stain which I used for the rest of the cabinet.
They really look the part.
All I need is the brass caps to go on the tips.

I'll remove one of the legs and use my tap and die set to find out what threads they are.
Could be Whitworth but not sure.

Irext ,
No dramas , just I found a set in my boxes of junk . It would of been whitworth yes,now therers a name only older trades know .

Pete

Here's a pic of it (Hopefully)

Today was beautiful weather here for a welcome change. Just the day for some sitting and reading time in the park, however ... the park Gestapo's spies are about so forget that.

Let's hope these restrictions are removed before the great autumn days turn into winter.

I note that the food delivery industry is in overdrive. Push bike and motor scooter riders lining up by the dozen at the shopping centre, talking in groups, waiting for take away orders from the shops that are still open. No 'social distancing' being practised by those riders.

I went for a ride earlier today and found some coppers down at the boat ramp at Rhodes booking those who launched their boats. I guess going for a ride on one's boat isn't essential travel. At the same time, there'd be less chance of getting the virus on your own boat than by travelling on a harbour ferry to get to work, yet that is perfectly legal.

To be honest I don't have an issue with the police enforcing the restrictions - they are just following the Commissioner's orders. I'll also give the NSW Police Force some credit for their use of discretion and giving people a chance to turn around and go back home before pulling out the notepad. In Victoria, the fines are bigger and the police there aren't operating the same way.

I stopped for a break on my ride and sat down on a park bench, but I did it in a place where the police aren't likely to show up.

Photos uploaded to Posts 26 and 28.

Park Gestapo here comprises Council Rangers.

As for public transport, I'm glad I don't have to use it. I hated having to use bus and train going to and from work during the sneezing season. IMO, apart from medical establishments (especially waiting rooms), the best place to catch what's going around is on public transport.