@Harts was taking the Essential Line before the 8.30 announcement for sure
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Just seen PM. Did you detect that he probably had to do several takes on this?
"Gatherings will be dispersed"?
The Emergency Powers are for 2 years.
Replicated in all devolved admins.Posted 5 years ago # -
Car users will need to have repair shops open surely?
Andy Wightman is responding on twitter to folk asking about particular jobs. Car mechanic - "Would say no at least for now. Unless working on emergency service vehicles."
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@laidback my kids were kind of impressed with him, until he hit the “you must not..,” when they got the giggles. Possibly not the intended effect.
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I'm surprised he wasn't more specific on the exercise front.
Only exercise from your front door (ie don't bundle everyone in the car and drive down the prom).
2Km from home
up to an hour
etcGuess that's still to come.
In my personal anecdata Maybury Road only a little quieter during the day but much quieter after the rush hour finishes. The overnight traffic is perhaps about 5 hours ahead of where it normally is.
I confess that I have partaken in panic buying. Sadly I didn't hear the doorbell when the delivery driver came with a turbo trainer. Let's hope he's still allowed out tomorrow.
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The problem with this is at the moment it is unenforceable. Nobody is going to notice if I take the dogs out in the morning and ride the bike in the afternoon. Which means if people take the proverbial & decide they are an exception or they can just bend the rules a bit and it won’t matter.... then there won’t be any alternative to total lockdown.
It’s only going to work if people accept this is about saving lives.Posted 5 years ago # -
I won't be happy until the Duke of Rothesay chairs a cabinet of national unity in uniform. There. I've said it.
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Seemingly bike shops (x2) and garages will be able to stay open https://twitter.com/RantyHighwayman/status/1242221299717615618?s=20
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Us 10 days ago: the Govt is a shambles, look at Italy. Lockdown now!
Us tonight: What do you mean I can only ride my bike once a day?...
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@acsimpson: "if people take the proverbial & decide they are an exception or they can just bend the rules a bit and it won’t matter.... then there won’t be any alternative to total lockdown."
That's exactly what happened in Italy. People thinking they were too important to follow the rules. We had similar behaviour over the weekend. Can't see the "me, me, me" brigade following these new instructions until they get caught and fined...
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Need to walk my dug three times a day!
(When I had one).
Dug doesn't understand lockdown etc.@crowriver - when stopped they have to give their tax code and they won't get any of the invisible money being offered. No-one to leave house without their tax code or NI number?
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Is dogwalking on the ‘essential jobs’ list?
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Apparently this is the list of shops that have to close, and the exceptions. Bicycle shops so important they are listed twice! :-)
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I wanted to get a cool turbo trainer so i could do zwift and stuff (is there a zwift for old, out of shape people?). but NO, MrSRD said we should get rollers, "they're better for core strength" he said.
Join me on FB for pictures, update and trauma reports as I cling frantically to the wall.
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Sports direct vows to stay open...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/business-52011915?__twitter_impression=true
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‘Sports Direct won’t open until it gets Government approval’
R4
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This thread has only been going for four weeks, and a dip into the first posts feels like a trip back to some sort of golden age.
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@crowriver: Someone needs shooting for the wooliness in some of those definitions. "Corner shops"? Harrods occupies a corner site.
Presumably "home and hardware shops" means B&Q and Home Hardware can stay open. But is a furniture shop a "home shop"?
Having arguably worsened the situation through previous lack of clarity/potential loopholes in its earlier communications, one might have hoped that HMG would have had drafts of later instructions reviewed a bit more thoroughly. The last thing we need is for the lockdown to remain any more porous than it needs to be while courts get involved in arguments about whether or not Sports Direct is a "bicycle shop".
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The Al Fayeds often referred to their empire they ran for Saudi Royal Family as The Corner Shop.
Lot of singleton runners and cyclists early doors today
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Now Sports Direct not allowed to open Evans ??
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On the subject of "bloggers" before the internet, this has been up a while now, but people may not have seen it:
https://www.pepysdiary.com/We are so not used to a weekly Big Shop. We've been going to a shop for something most days. The advice to shop as infrequently as possible is throwing us a bit!
Grateful to be allowed out to exercise, though Mr fimm was all set to try and work out how far he could run while staying 2km from home but for the minute he doesn't have to...
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Can still go to the shops every day, I took the advice to be once per day if you really need to.
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Yes, one can shop every day. We are being encouraged not to, as I understand it.
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I've just seen a 50 pp KPMG powerpoint/pdf on economic impact. message or email me if you want a copy.
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Our whole family, along with 800,000 others, have been doing Joe Wicks P.E. each morning. 9am live on Youtube
Can strongly recommend it. Great way to get up and start your day (in the living room)
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Text from Govt: stay at home.
Mobile devices are going to be really handy for enforcing compliance - until people realise this and start leaving them in the house.
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@fimm: The advice to shop as infrequently as possible is throwing us a bit!
It's also not helpful if the supply situation in the supermarkets is still as messed up as it was up to and including last Friday. If you plan on shopping for the week and then can't get 20% of what you need - much of which could be pretty essential and/or with no realistic alternative - you then need either to extend your trip, or to go out again the next day, to see if any other shop has what you're after.
I do have to admit that I haven't been to a shop since Friday and things might have got better since then, with the item quantity restrictions having been in place for a few days now. However, I'm not exactly looking forward to my shopping trip later this week. I rather suspect that it'll take a while longer for the supply & distribution side of things to get back in to balance. (I can't remember whether I posted the piece from the Times about the supermarkets' ordering algorithms falling over in the face of panic buying/stockpiling shopping patterns. Bloomin' tech weenies not even able to put decent exception handling in their code. "Move fast and break things" may not work too well if "things" are already broken...)
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