Really nice to see a “wobbly newbie” couple on bikes, going up my now very quiet street.
Ethnic minorities too, by the looks, which is encouraging.
We shurely cannot go back to business as usual, in terms of rat-running, after this?
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Do we need a coronavirus thread?
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Nice cycle today but some places to avoid if you are social distancing:
- Dalkeith to Penicuik cycle path. Huge numbers of walkers by Bonnyrigg , including families spread across the path. Never see anything like it there . Great normally for health but not now
- Gladhouse Reservoir bit like Cornwall on a bank holidayI expect it is similar elsewhere (but not on the Granites). No shops, pubs or restaurants, return to the eighties
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I would suggest cycling round the prettier leafier suburbs rather than on the walking/cycling paths. They will be hoaching all days of the week now. In the suburbs the roads will be quiet and you won't be brushing up against folk.
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I have used the excuse of imminent societal collapse as justification of the purchase of a Tern HSD. It should be ready tomorrow (which I hope will be in time). My only concern is that I'm not as achingly hip as any of the people in this video, so may not be able to live up to it.
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@neddie - As for business as usual, who knows? I spent a couple of hours gardening this afternoon, which always raises my spirits and quietens my anxieties. Any chance people will dig up their paving patches for cars and start digging for serenity?
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Couple of clearly novice e-bikers heading towards St Mary's Loch from Selkirk as we drove home from Duns this morning (I say clearly novice because one of them waved us to pass on a blind bend and they were sticking as far to the left as possible except when swerving out around potholes. We ignored the invitation to pass and waited until it was safe). I can't say I've ever seen anyone tackle that road who wasn't in full roadie gear and usually in an organised group.
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+1 on avoiding the cyclepaths. The NEPN seems to be heaving and as a result I'm not using it.
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A reminder from my Twitter post yesterday.
Shop has the demo Urban Arrow wihh Bosch CX that I'm quite happy to lend out to careful forumers (ie almost all of you!)
That can carry 100kg of stuff. Could fill up with crates of Brew Dog Punk IPA or pasta if you can find. Maybe useful if you need to shop for relative. We were just about to sell a used UA but seller now wants to hold onto for reasons similar to @greenroofer.
With so many idle cars around there is no shortage of load capacity but you can park the UA anywhere legally.Posted 5 years ago # -
The NEPN usually suffers from more broken glass and clumps of oaves during half-terms and holidays so likely to be the same or worse during virustide.
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I think much stronger restrictions will get put on this week. The politicians will be shocked by the overall inability to follow the "guidance". Hopefully we will still be able to go out but in one's and perhaps twos. We will see.
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Was thinking earlier that some horrible weather would actually have been a public health bonus this past few days.
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@unhurt - yes - it was a hard day not to go out in the spring sunshine today.
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Going out is good.
Just keep your distance
Exercise, sunshine, blah blah.
Watch C4+1 for next hour.
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Many still hoped that the epidemic would end and that they and their families would be spared. As a result, they did not yet feel any sense of obligation. For them the plague was only an unpleasant visitor which would leave one day as it had entered. They were scared but not desperate and the time had not yet come when the plague would seem like the very shape of their lives and when they would forget the existence that they had led in the days before. In short, they were neither here nor there. - Albert Camus
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At the time, what Camus was on about debatable but today he has nailed it
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Keep Your Distance by Richard Thompson
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Cycled up to Bo'ness and Linlithgow this afternoon. Never seen so many families out on bikes - quite a few people on Just Eat bikes too. Ran into a couple of friends in Barnton -
chatted across the width of the road, which was possible because no cars passing at all. Hopefully families will remember the pleasure of riding quiet routes after all this is over, and won't just go back to car-dominated normality.Posted 5 years ago # -
My mate in northern Italy has surfaced;
Je vois que tout le monde connaît les mêmes problèmes à suivre, peut être nous avons tous sousestimé la situation.I am tending to the view that the prime minister and his closest advisors - who have access to not just the internet but a whole diplomatic service and one of the world's biggest ever spying apparatuses - should be shot for treason when this is over.
We are two weeks behind Italy, as from today no one there can leave their commune except for reasons of health, food production and other essential services. The coward/thug/clown in Downing Street is trying to make deals and reason with us. It's either an existential threat or it isn't.
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Yep, two weeks behind Italy yet we cannot learn from them. Pubs in the west ignoring the request to not open. Beaches busy. Had to contact school to. Get them to lock the hockey pitch as whole families playing team games next to other groups et cetera. The Astro is locked but the boys are climbing the fence
Total Lockdown For Easter
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Roads definitely more quiet than usual this morning. Saw only a couple of my regular commuters (a cyclist and a runner/driver). None of the people who normally wait at the bus stops -- hope they can still somehow get to work if they need to.
EDIT: my workplace is still open and operates fairly normally as we are a manufacturing place. Some people work from home but the majority has be in.
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all uk train franchises now 'temporarily' re-nationalised
socialism for the private sector
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That's the railways nationalised. Socialism here we come.
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The thought of being stuck in the house for weeks is making me very uncomfortable. But I can't see any other way at this rate, the British public are too <rule 2> stupid to be dealt with in any other way than as children.
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Thanks for EDIT detail.
I think most people really aren’t understanding how much ‘carrying as normal’ depends on other people doing just that - food production/supply, energy, internet etc etc.
Above all the NHS - dedicated people preparing for the almost unimaginable without, in places, enough basic protection equipment.
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“The thought of being stuck in the house for weeks is making me very uncomfortable.“
Well yes, but not aware Gov has organised universal food delivery for all those who didn’t panic buy.
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as David Graeber made clear
in our society, there is a general rule that the more obviously one's job benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it
time for UBI has come
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Well yes, but not aware Gov has organised universal food delivery for all those who didn’t panic buy.
I doubt a trip to the supermarket is going to help.
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