Rumour has it,
That, bit by bit,
Bonking Boris might be letting us out again !
Fish & Chips
Ice Cream
Coffee !
Let’s Roll :cool:
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Rumour has it,
That, bit by bit,
Bonking Boris might be letting us out again !
Fish & Chips
Ice Cream
Coffee !
Let’s Roll :cool:
Grand !
I won't lie, I'd quite like it for a bit longer. Pollution down, community spirit up, the footpaths on the plain near me are quiet because people are not driving 20+ miles so their dog can crap in Tidworth, wife on fulough so I'm getting constantly overfed/massaged/etc and I've done more bike miles in the last few weeks than all of last year.
It worries me that infections are still going up...he's looking to follow Trump and relax things because of the economy not because of public health. It's a bit too soon but the behaviour scientists are saying we'll all decide not to bother soon anyway
Then if I reopen the office and someone gets infected it's down to my duty of care to be scrutinised and it's me who goes to prison if it's shown we hadn't done everything in our power to stop it. So I've had to spend on PPE, extra cleaning, distanced desks...
Safer to stay as we are for another few weeks!
The easing of the lockdown restrictions is arguably a much trickier problem than the lockdown itself.
We have a woefull capacity for stupidity, just look at the loo roll panic buying.
I hadn't seen that but that's another detail to add to the pot.
The government have to juggle a lot of balls and very carefully.
I wouldn't fancy making the call.
Apart from not being able to ride when I want I’m actually REALLY liking this lockdown malarkey and I’d like to think people are going to realise that we can make alot of these changes a permanent part of our everyday life.
I'm getting plenty of riding in. In fact I'm just taking a short break before pottering up to Swindon GW. Sat on the lock bridge at Semington, lovely .
I reckon that it’s too soon to start lifting restrictions, there are still plenty of people getting infected and still too many dying. Just because the Daily Express is calling for lifting of restrictions isn’t a good enough reason to. As much as anyone I’m desperate for a return to normality but not before it’s safe to do so. I don’t want to be in a position to say “told you so...” but I can only hope that the forthcoming spike in COVID-19 cases is limited to the idiots who’ll forget all about safe distancing and behave like it never happened over this weekend.
I read today that the scientific community were very unhappy that a critical report they wrote about the government’s preparation and handling of the situation early-on was heavily redacted before being made visible to the public. Shysters and charlatans the lot of them.
STOP with the optimism.
Relax, chill - if we get out this year it'll be good.
https://external-content.duckduckgo....%5D&f=1&nofb=1
Could be to early to start lifting restrictions, Germany has increased its infection rate since easing off.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52604676
personally to deal with all the twats that think its ok to go and see their friends or go for a 200 mile ride to the coast they should be fined about a grand a time that should make 'em think twice
yes we are all climbing the walls at the mo but the alternative is not very nice is it, weeks in ICU or death or both.
can anyone tell me with regard to essential journey's how is opening garden centres so people can buy plants logical ?
So did anybody hear Bonkers’ talk ?
I must’ve been watching paint drying somewhere ;)
Was it just Titchmarsh friendly ?
Or are we free-er or no ?
Clear as mud tonight. Who knows what we are and aren’t allowed to do now. What we do know is that fines for doing what we aren’t allowed to do are now doubled. So yeh, don’t do the stuff we aren’t quite sure we aren’t allowed to do folks.
I personally think green light means go !
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has introduced ''careful steps'' to ease lockdown measures for England, which from Wednesday will include allowing the public to take as much exercise as they want.
Mr Johnson said people in England could now sit in the sun in the park - providing they observe social distancing - and could drive to other destinations to exercise. Previously, people were asked to only exercise outdoors once a day, and not sunbathe.
Two people from different households would be allowed to meet in a park if they stay more than two metres apart, the BBC understands, while it is also thought sports like golf, tennis, fishing and watersports will be allowed for people in the same household.
At 0800 this morning, the link road that splits my estate from the Plains was double parked. Not seen that since pre-lockdown and even then only on a really nice weekend morning.
It's people driving from towns and villages (think as far off as Andover), so their dogs can crap in the woods here and they can hang their little bag of crap up in the trees next to a school. It took them 12 hours from the buffoon mentioning things may ease, on Wednesday, for this to happen.
I was really hoping the drive 12 mile to walk my dog 500 meters crowd would never return.
Just don't go to Wales or they will book you!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-52614204
This will be interesting ,Llanymynech Golf Club, in Shropshire, sits on the border and has 15 holes in Wales and three in England. :rolleyes:
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cp...7_golfclub.jpg
https://www.gov.uk/government/public...ties--exercise
looking at rule 1 -1.7 it seems I'm quite within the law to get on my bike and take a leisurely ride up to lake windermere for a nice walk for abit of exercise. Or am i reading that incorrectly?
Roy - Looks like you will be ok...
https://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/...ct-motorbikes/
Oh balderdash, looks like I need a new battery.
So we’ve, as motorcyclists, got quite a good deal it seems.
Just bring us back some warmer weather please mama nature :cool:
The old bill in Cumbria have urged people not to head to the Lake District in droves once restrictions are eased, and I’d expect that Dorset plod will be trying to dissuade a lemming-like rush to the coast as well. West Bay won’t hold many people if they maintain 2 metre social distancing (nor accommodate many parked bikes at that spacing). What people will easily forget is that nothing will be open wherever they end up; shops, pubs, restaurants et al will be closed, as will the public loos! If they’re lucky there’ll be the odd kebab van, hardly the highlight of the year’s first trip. Best stay relatively local folks, and if you see someone you know parked up, just wave and ride by.
The MCN article makes an interesting point about bikers falling (even further) out of public favour by being slow to observe lock-down, and currently being in the good books... it won’t take long to become the public’s bad guys again if people are tearing about aggressively and throwing themselves at the scenery, and the roads are likely to be rammed - it isn’t just us who’s getting parole remember. I don’t know how many people haven’t driven much at all since lockdown began, most have been out and about locally but there’ll be a few who are properly rusty. I’ve seen some forum posts elsewhere suggesting ride-outs... that’s an absolute no-no, stick to ones and twos. I think I’ll drag the off-roader out as well, it’s a bit overdue a run...
I see 1.1 and 1.7 as key. Specifically in 1.1, "Sunbathing" and 1.7 refers to unlimited distance.
So in my view if you stuff a mankini in your pocket and ride to John-O-Groats, as long as you cite, "Sunbathing", you are bullet proof.
That said Scotty has nailed it above, doing so would simply antagonise people and furthermore when you get where you are going you'll struggle to even find a coffee. I'm going to be a hypocrite there though on Wednesday when I finish work I'm going for a pointless ride, it'll be nice to not have to strap half a dozen tachograph downloaders to the seat as a valid reason for being out.
I can book my child in to a childminder but not her grandparents. Schools possibly back June 1st but still no grandparents...
I can open my office and spend the day with 15 people from all over the area and different households (2m distance) while we work but can't see more than 1 person at once in a park
All makes perfect sense....
The Pythons were visionaries !