OI: BT has a big presence in the North East now. Reversing the trend of that Thatcher years.

Worcester Park flooded again [Link]

BTW, glad the pandemic is finally over.

Did you get £12 cost for missing Each payments🤣

Bert, I worked that out on month 2 once month 1 didn't get debited. Started getting ahead of myself so making the last payment next week.

Too many people Leddy. The elephant in the room......

93rd - It will be interesting to see if any clubs do that or if it will be left up to us, when we next play them!!

That's the problem if you have an economy reliant on the price of property, rents and rates.

I think if we draw Newcastle in the 3rd round of FA Cup, all Fans should wear Adnan Kashoggi masks, I wonder if that is culturally compliant?

Premier League, you’re hanging your staff.

Kentish it will be fascinating to see how this plays out. An instruction has gone out to Newcastle fans to be compliant. I just have this funny feeling that they will comply, Big mature men with Tea Towels on head will be a big no no at the Newcastle Christmas Party. 😎

One thing no-one seems to be considering is if offices get closed down because everyone is working from home the money to councils from business rates will drop dramatically. So, either Council Tax will increase to cover the shortfall or those working from home will get charged business rates. Possibly from elsewhere that I haven't thought of but beware the law of unintended consequences.

More BS from the ticketing system. After paying for my season ticket for many years by Direct Debit, I was switched to credit card payment for some reason. Now it appears the ticketing system hasn't collected any payments and I'm expected to log in and stump up nearly half the cost for the season at once for four outstanding payments (four separate transactions). While that's not a major financial blow for me, it might be for others, and it shows how really shit the system is if it can't do the most basic of transactions without manual intervention.

Plan B is simply to blame you for more covid deaths and continue doing nothing.

Leddy, from the clients I’ve worked with the players on the high street/commercial office blocks: pension funds lending for commercial venture. So watch your return diminish.

If working from home becomes the new normal for those who work in offices and the number of buildings companies use reduces that's going to be dramatic decrease in rent for the property owners. Bad news for the aristocracy, corporations, oligarchs and city bankers who are the main holders of large commercial property portfolios. These groups are also the biggest donors to the Tory party. So what are Boris and his cronies going to do to protect this income stream for the rich when they put the pressure on him?

93rd - Do you think that will end it? Won’t fans now wear tea towels on their heads as a matter of course?

Call centres went to India and mostly came back. BT staff now answer "Hello, this is Sarah in Middlesborough, how can I help you?"

STD - they could already have done that already as office space is cheaper in other countries. The truth is that in jobs like mine some work cannot be done outside the UK and some of our clients do not allow the work to be done outside the UK. Automation is a bigger threat than outsourcing. And that will be companies next big saving after shutting the offices.

Office workers will soon want to get back to the office when firms decide to farm their jobs to people in other countries. Work from home could be redundant at home.😔

"Looks like they'll be dancing in the streets of Atalanta tonight." Yes, yes I know!

Great to see Newcastle Fans being admonished and told to be culturally compliant, I wonder what’s the next diktat coming their way. So many possibilities. Halal approved singing?

A lot of the ‘new normal’ stuff has turned out to be horlicks but hybrid office/WFH seems here to stay. Offices can shrink their rental space, and firms are using it as a recruiting tool.

When I used to work in an office the best thing about it was the banter and the mickey taking, you don’t that at home with the cat

I have spent four days in the office this month and every day the headcount in the office is in single figures. There is no desire from employees to return to the office and no desire from the employers for them to return. They are just waiting for their leases to run out so they can save money. They will just have hub offices soon where any client meeting and some IT stuff will be done.