OI - Bob Mortimer.

Matt B has just told me that the Club will do "medical exemptions", so will work on that before Reading game. Useful info for those of you with precarious health issues

RK you do as Mags says or you'll be for it.

Yes, that is a worry Kitey.

Problem Sandy, I'd that next time you travel to EU, your data won't be in the system, I guess

That'll be it, Spit

Probably didn't want to blow their cover, Sandy,that your under surveillance:-)

Pads - went to Spain last month, and the machines at Heathrow only required my face. The rest of my family had to do the fingerprint thing. No idea why - just wondering whether it's an age thing? As in - he's an old git, so we're not worried about him.

There are people on television who aren't narcissists?

Building the third floor was very much an Erik Samuelson-era decision. It was Joe Palmer who IIRC first mused out loud about whether it could be turned into an income generator in the meantime even though we couldn't afford to have it fitted out - not an easy task! If the club offices have now moved up there, maybe the insurance payout helped fund installation of some facilities.

Well played to the BBC’s legal team for dealing with a certain narcissist. But boo to cancelling Winterwatch.

I have no idea about the legalities, but I humbly suggest a proper body search (as some of our away clubs do), a rucksack as the maximum size with a THOROUGH bag search (not like the West Stand has been), and a small onsite cloakroom (chargeable) for those travelling with larger luggage (probably okay to have just one of these as fans with big luggage are unlikely to be looking for trouble).

RK, decant a small amount of sun cream into a small container to take with you. You will be under cover at football so probably no need to top up during game. Re water, is is 2L per day or 2L during the game? If during the day, you should be ok. There used to be a fresh water dispenser in reception, I’m not sure if it’s still there, But if it is you could top up before going into the stadium.

I'm thinking of Weatherspoons or the Alex Spit, up in the village atm

Unfortunately we have become a nanny state with far too many rules and regulations, it's what makes some people feel important:-)

Oakham Bishop's farewell £3.29 in the wimbledon spoons,cant get much better than that.,

Our woes stem from the fact that pre-covid we had a notion that we would get lots of conferences but Covid itself both stopped that type of thing for a long time, as other means for communication took over as the WFH employees perfected remote working, with a significant sway moving from direct contact and much reduced transportation costs overall.

Going to football is a health risk. I'm told by my renal nurse to drink min 2L water on hot days plus use factor 50 suncream. Can't fit the latter in my small bag and restricted to 0.5L with no proper refill facilities

At least I still have a face, I suppose! Good luck with Italy, RK. Wonderful place.

They take a face scan too Padds. Haven't done it yet since my two breaks since Oct 25 introduction have been deliberately outside EU, allowing the inevitable teething problems to get better. Off next month to Italy though

Silent Joe

Thanks, Carsh. That's good to know if we need to go to Belgium via Schipol. (No flights to Brussels from Bristol any more). Not looking forward to trying to fly but get decent treatment at St Pancras. If it was so easy for normal people it can't be that terrible for we fingerprintless can it (?)

My understanding is similar to REPD, in that the 3rd floor marginal cost was minimal and the then CEO thought it was an income generation opportunity, which we have failed to exploit

Speaking of lockers - is there a Post Office locker very near PL?

TF - IIRC it wasn't significantly more expensive to put it in (I remember at the time thinking the sum was less than I would have gathered), and TBH I don't think it would have drastically improved our financial issues if we hadn't put it in - I think it's used as a bit of a scapegoat, because we didn't seem able to keep the general construction costs down.