hpr3076 :: Keep calm and Virion
A COVID-19 lockdown chat from Scotland
Hosted by Dave Morriss on Monday, 2020-05-18 is flagged as Explicit and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.
Virus, Virion, COVID-19.
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The show is available on the Internet Archive at: https://archive.org/details/hpr3076
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Duration: 00:58:46
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Introduction
Two HPR hosts from Scotland get together over Mumble to chat about all manner of stuff.
Apology
Dave’s sound was a bit muffled in this recording. It turns out that it’s important which USB port the microphone (Zoom recorder) is plugged into. Who knew!
Notes
Some of the topics we discussed
- Accent differences in Scotland
- What is Butcher Meat? Is it an Edinburgh expression?
- The Fish Van from Pittenweem
- The mysterious non-Crab Crab meat
- Dressed and live crabs in Cromer
- Handling enforced isolation; the response to COVID-19
- The type of disposable masks sold for DIY use can be impractical
- Supermarket online shopping and delivery versus local shopping
- The etiquette of distancing when out walking or cycling for exercise during the lockdown
- Cycling anecdotes
- Slime tube sealant
- Old railway lines turned to cycle paths (e.g. Balerno line in Edinburgh, Marriott’s Way in Norfolk)
- Industrial archaeology and historical buildings
- Water of Leith, Edinburgh
- Paper making (Esparto grass)
- River Kelvin, Glasgow
- Lord Kelvin
- Warrender Baths, Edinburgh
- Govanhill Baths, Glasgow (ref. steamie)
- Electronics
- D&D sessions
- Initiated by Klaatu in New Zealand
- Shortages during the pandemic: toilet rolls, flour, etc
- Supply chains: wholesale versus domestic
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- Whitby, Yorkshire
- Brașov, Transylvania, Romania.
- Called Corona at one point in its history.
- Near to Bran Castle, known outside Romania as Dracula’s Castle.
Links
- Pittenweem, a fishing village in Fife
- Cromer, a town on the Norfolk coast, famous for its crabs
- Whitby, a seaside town in North Yorkshire