Recent content by SurreyCommuter

17 years after last playing a test match in Pakistan and the way England are playing it might be a further 17 years before they get invited back! Absolute carnage with England currently on 448-3 after only 68 overs on Day 1 with hundreds for all of the top 3!

Just got back from a week in Poland and for the most part there it's like there was never a pandemic particularly in Krakow. Spotted a couple of masks whilst visiting Auschwitz and the odd mask here or there on public transport in Warsaw and Gdansk. Otherwise all very normal.

Makes up for the T20 Blast QF when you were allowed to pick David Willey but we weren't allowed to pick anyone in the England squad at the time. Also we had 20+ players contracted to the hundred meaning our RLC team resembled a youth/academy team even though a number of our players didn't see...

I've got family in Vancouver, Canada that I was going to visit in 2020 but obviously circumstances changed! I was thinking about going over there next summer but from looking on Sherpa at the rules relating to flights and masks I guess I'll maybe have to wait a bit longer! Either that or I could...

How about if you want to stop under SC/VSC conditions then you can but you can't change the compound of tyres on the car. What that would have meant on Sunday was Verstappen not being able to go from Mediums to Hards and then Hards to Softs. The only exception would be if the conditions...

I’m travelling to Sicily at the end of August for a wedding and I’ve looked on Sherpa and am slightly confused. It says there are no travel restrictions and no proof of vax required so all good there. However, it says that FFP2 masks are required in social and health facilities and on public...

There was something similar to this in the Sunday Times this week but not quite as harrowing. I'll see if I can find the link to it and share.

It's not just public transport overseas where this is contentious. I currently work 3 days a week just outside Cambridge and have to get a Park & Ride bus into the site. The buses are rarely more than half full but the proportion of people (general public) still masking up is still arounds 2/3...

I'm keeping my eye on this thread as I've got a family wedding in Sicily at the end of August and so am hoping that all mask related restrictions will have gone by then. Plus at that time of year I've been told it gets pretty hot there which I think would make most normal people even less keen...

The other issue with these 'emergency' timetables is how early some the last trains are. Pre-covid if I wanted to go out in London I knew that the last train home was 23:45 which allowed time for a half decent evening out. However now the last train is 22:45 which may not sound that bad but...

This report has also made it's way onto the front page of the Telegraph this morning. Unfortunately I'm not a subscriber so can't post the whole article. Image shows front page of Daily Telegraph with secondary headline of 'Lockdown prevented only 0.2% of deaths in first wave'.

Here's one I haven't seen discussed here (at least not recently). Is it ever likely that you will be able to get on a plane again without a mask and without having to show or declare an exemption? If so how far away from it are we?

I may not be the first person to cover this but being called 'mate' by someone you've never met or spoken to before. I may have picked this up from my dad though. And before you ask no I'm not a grumpy old man, I'm in my mid 30s. This one hasn't happened in a while since I've been working from...

If I recall Vettel was fairly unlikable when he was at Red Bull and since he's moved on we've found that actually he's not such a bad bloke.

In middle class Surrey they are definitely more reluctant to! Albeit I have only made 4 train journeys in the last couple of months or so. On 2 of them I managed to keep a pair of airline seats on a Cl444 to myself, on one other one I kept half a bay of 6 on a Cl450 to myself and on the final...