There is also another potential problem.

If an employee is in an employer's pension scheme that has benefits if the person dies or is injured so that he or she can no longer work, that benefit covers events nothing to do with their work, provided it is not in connection with other employment.

The situation if the death or injury occurs after the person has gone on strike but not yet gone back into work is unclear.

Also unclear is if an employer tops up State Benefits to salary level if the employee is off sick, what is the situation if the employee goes on strike then becomes ill while on strike, maybe needing to go to hospital for weeks. Other strikers go back to work, but that person does not. Does the employer top up the person's State Benefits if the person has not actualy physically gone back on duty after striking?

William

I searched for

Gadgets

at the Tesco store that deliveries grocery orders to me and I saw this, which was not there when I found the vlogging kit.

Global Gizmos Rainbow Ring Selfie Light

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/p … /312092390

As with the vlogging kit I was not aware of such products until I saw the above.

There is little information except what is on the picture of the box and I cannot make it all out on the 11 inch screen of this computer.

I am not "into" taking selfies and "no plans" (as the politicians say ) to do so.

But it does say "or video", so that is a different matter.

Also, it has "10 Static Colour Settings" so I am wondering if this is a sort of mini and led version of splotlights where one can put a colour gel filter in front.

So perhaps one can illuminate a scene one is videoing in one of various colours at a time.

A quick look on YouTube seems to have, thus far, some videos about ring lights, but I have not at this time found one about this specific product, and I have not yet watched any of them.

Has anyone here used a ring light and/or can ... um ... throw any light on the topic please?

William

I suppose that for a connoisseur of fine cheeses and a restaurant making a good effort, then Selection from the cheese board would be a great delight.

How does it work in practice please?

Suppose that the menu has for dessert a choice of Lemon Meringue Pie, Apricot Mousse, Selection from the cheese board, and the diner chooses Selection from the cheese board.

Does the customer get to choose?

For example, is it one cheese in a portion size decided by the waiter, or can the diner have several pieces of good size?

Does Selection from the cheese board mean in practice that things such as bread, butter, crackers and so on are supplied too, or is it just a piece of cheese on its own?

Does it get placed on a plate?

These days, do they do a vegan cheese option and, if so, is it on a different board to avoid cross-contamination with non-vegan cheese?

And whatever information about how it is all done would be interesting please.

William

In the days before I was a vegan I did sometimes eat cheese, though rarely and not for some years before becoming vegan, as I had found that I did not like cheese and it seemed not to like me. It was very fatty, seemed to get caught up in my teeth and I found it sickly. When I had eaten cheese it was never just on its own, I always had it in a sandwich or a bread roll.

Over the years I had tried, sort of once or twice each, Port Salut, Emmental, Gouda, Brie, Lymeswold.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymeswold_cheese

I remember a television news item about Lymeswold cheese when it was introduced. There was a man promoting it and the interviewer asked him about the name and he said it was to be like the name of a typical southern English village, though for copyright reasons it was not the name of an actual real village. The interviewer seemed unable or unwilling to accept this and persisted in saying that the name of a real village would be better while the man promoting the cheese kept trying to explain about the copyright issue and the need to have a specially coined name like an English village but not an actual English village.

I know that now there are vegan cheeses and soya substitutes for cream, but I avoid anything that is not low fat, so I have not tried them. I would have quite liked to have tried the soya substitute for the cream, but I thought better of it and did not. However, I have never fancied trying the vegan cheese.

I don't know why I find the bit about Selection from the cheese board on a menu funny now. I didn't back then, it was just an option that I never chose.

Maybe one time the trolley rattled as it was pushed along and people looked up and at the trolley and people at various tables smiled at each other for a moment before all becoming private groups again.

William

No, I wasn't thinking of that.

As soon as I saw it, I laughed out loud, recognition humour.

It reminded me of something.

William

Thank you.

For me, there is not congruently a fixed billing month.

I get a reminder email to send a reading about the 23rd of each calendar month.

Notionally my readings are due on 28th of each month. I wanted the last day of each month but they could not dp that as they had to have a day in the month number that is in every month, so the 28th as a compromise. I could have chosen any number from 1 to 28.

In practice I send it sometime within a week of that. At a ratechangetide , I send an extra one on the final day of the month, such as 31 March and 30 September, gathering the day reading near to midnight.

I send two readings.

Night is from 10:30 am GMT to 7:30 am GMT.
Day is from 7:30 am GMT to 00:30 am GMT the next day.

So in BST (British summer time) that is 01:30 am to 8:30 am and 8:30 am to 01:30  am the bext day on clocks.

The meter is above the back door with a liquid crystal display.

The display shows the reading for the tariff in use (ie night or day).

There is a blue button that can be pressed to give all the available data, press by press, shown for a while, then drops back.

But there are various things like the date, the sum modulo one hundred thousand of the two readings, and the two readings.

So I usually gather readings by noting the night reading just before switchover of tariffs and the day reading after switchover of tariffs. Not only does this meamn that I do not need to push the blue button, it makes it easier, because I usually need to shine the flashlight of my mobile phone on nthe display to be able to view it clearly.

Thus far the supplier has accepted my word of what are the readings as nobody else has read the meter since before the 2020 lockdown. The readings are correct.

As it happens, as I want/need a warm house, my bills are somewhat larger than the media headline annual cost, so maybe the large size of the bills means they have no concerns over the credibility of the readings.

Maybe they have it programmed that the £66 gets credited when the electricity for the last day of the month has been charged. That would seem a sensible way to do it. I gathered the readings on 30 November 2022, but as they always treat it as up to the end of the day before the readings are taken, the bill goes up to 29 November 2022.

William

Pacific Time perhaps?

William