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I guess now we're in national lockdown there should be relatively few people on the fells, as we are being told not to travel and to stay local.
I think it's a bit of a waste of time police attending the scene. I'm sure its routine practice for the MR to check ID and contact details where possible.
Obviously if people were breaking the restrictions then it should of course become a police matter.
Those Skiddaw Slates don't half get slippy when the temperatures drop! I recall a particuarly cold winter in the mid-2000's when i spent most of the tourist-path descent of Skiddaw on my backside.
This before Lockdown :-
https://cumbriacrack.com/2020/12/30/...-stay-at-home/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-55475508
People ignoring travel advice probably have made a big contribution to Cumbria having some of the fastest rising cases of covid 19
So please follow the guidelines and help everybody stay safe
I am not preaching to anybody nor would I dream of doing so just hopefully keeping people from outside the area in the picture and if my posts hit home to just one casual visitor to the forum then that is a result.
Another interesting post from people that see the mistakes that folk are making.
https://twitter.com/LakesWeather/sta...39384446406656
Ok that will be the last post from me on the Forum after all if my offering up to date information on an area that is loved by many can be misconstrued as preaching then I am obviously wasting my time.
Thanks for all the fish folks:cool:
I think you might have misunderstood my point. People moving around between areas in different Tiers was, of course, wrong and irresponsible. But there was a shadow of an excuse in that the rules weren't entirely clear, and neither was the legality or otherwise of moving between areas. Now we're in a national lockdown, there surely can be no such possibly of excuses.
From tomorrow, the lockdown guidance becomes law. Not staying local will become illegal.
"Preaching to the converted": a phrase meaning i believe everyone on here is already in agreement with you.
Not having a dig in any way.
Apparently "local" means "avoiding travelling outside of your village, town or the part of a city where you live". https://www.gov.uk/guidance/national...at-home#travel
Roughly equates to one's parish?
Someone ran it... Read a report somewhere (possibly on here?). Maybe IainR...?
Dark Peak run the Bradfield Boundary every year as a traditional Xmas run. I beleive it is the largest parish boundary in England...
I like the look of that. I did a virtual run of it in the downstairs toilet this morning with the Harveys 1:40000.
Get fit for the real run this summer. My sister-in-law still lives in BF so a good base for exploring.
Thanks for finding Anthony!
[QUOTE=felltrumpet;670960]I like the look of that. I did a virtual run of it in the downstairs toilet this morning with the Harveys 1:40000.
I hope you didn't get stuck in the bog:)
Keep posting John. Travs comment was in no way offensive or a personal dig at you. As he says, he innocently used a figure of speech.
Your posts are always valued.
Well, there were a heck of a lot more tourists about in March and April than I’ve ever known- I’ve never seen the Caravan Park behind our house as full.
But, yknow, what happens happens. Everyone’s got to be somewhere. I’m dead lucky to have Hampsfell on my doorstep. It was lovely up there this morning. I thought to myself “this’ll do for me”.
Aye, there were def folk stayin in the one behind our house into April. I was surprised, thinking they were sposed to be closed. Dunno bowt Old Park Wood ( Holker )that’s a bit more well to do. Nice spot, and good fishing off the back of there
This, I think is interesting.
This afternoon my in-laws went for their second Covid Jab having had the first one on 16th of December. They attended at the same place, a hub set up to inoculate residents served by 10 or 12 GP's surgery's in that area.
At the first visit they said it was very busy and everyone was given the second appointment at that time. However, today it was less than half as busy and they were told that lots of people had not been turning up which means that, as it was the Pfizer/Biontec one, many will have been wasted.
I wonder why people haven't been turning up?
Not interesting, just massively concerning. Why on earth would people not turn up for a booster?
Has everyone got totally stupid all of a sudden?
If you get an appointment from a doctor/hospital, you turn up unless you're specifically told it has been cancelled.
Messages may well have been unclear, but I think pure stupidity is trumping it here...
And on the subject of stupidity and trump. WTF's going on in USA: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/elec...-2020-55558355
Craziness.
Let's go the whole hog:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ie-in-24-hours
I was a bit shocked when I heard about this around a week ago.
From what I have heard and read the first jab gives a person a partial immunity - say 70% and the 2nd tops it up to 90-95%.
A decision has been made to prioritise getting as many of the top level vulnerable to 70% as quick as possible and I believe other countries are planning similar.
It's on the basis that say having 1,000,000 at 70% is better than having 500,000 at 90% and 500,000 at 0%.
I don't think we have anyone on here qualified to critique it - although Oracle maybe could have advised what his wife thought of the policy had he still been on the forum.
"I don't think we have anyone on here qualified to critique it"
Hahahahahahhahhahahahahhahahahaha!
Haha I was never able to get past the first sentence of any of the diatribes posted by oracle so, even had he known the answer, I wouldn’t have got anywhere near to reading it in one of his 10,000 word posts
Just an observation. About a quarter of a mile from my house a footpath goes over the M4. During the first lockdown, in the time it took me to cross the bridge I might have seen 2 or 3 vehicles pass. This afternoon when I crossed, although the volume of traffic was considerably lower that it would normally be, there was still a steady stream of cars, vans and lorries travelling in both directions - significantly more vehicles than in April. Perhaps this will reduce in the coming days, but if I worked in a hospital I wouldn't be planning for any lazy weekends in front of the TV any time soon.
Think schools are open to children of key workers, and families in Social Services/Care/Vulnerability situations... i went for my morning run past a school round here, and there were a fair amount of kids enjoying "playtime" on the school playground...
Yes they are open to children of key workers, as they were in Lockdown I. There are reports, however, that during that lockdown attendance was around 5%. It now seems to be around 50-60%. I can't see that many people have suddenly become nurses.... 🙄
My wife’s brother in law is a traffic officer and he’s a key worker. Weirdly though his wife, my wife’s sister, is working from home but they’re happy to let their 7 year old daughter go to school - the brother in law is seriously overweight, has health issues and has a sitting on your arse all day job so if their daughter picks covid up they could have a tough time of it.
Also one of my work colleagues, doing the same job as me (financial adviser) has somehow managed to wangle that under the definition of key worker and her two children go to school too. That said she’s a single mum and had covid herself in November.
Schools are definitely busier. Partly due to a change in classification of ‘vulnerable’ to include students without internet/laptop access at home.
My wife and I are vets. Both small animal; so although doing only urgent/emergency work, we are not involved in food production so hardly class ourselves essential. But we do have to remain open and provide a service or we have to face the wrath of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. We are a now a vet down as either of us has to home school the kids. I don’t really mind as I feel lucky one of us can work and sorting out dogs and cats isntt really essential in terms of covid, but I do get a little peed off by how some are stretching this critical worker thing. And then I wonder if we are all critical workers really in society. If you can work you should be working to at least pay taxes towards recovery from this mess. Over half my daughter’s class are in school. I know one child who’s mother is a teacher, but her father was moaning the other day that he is still furloughed. Why can’t he be teaching his kids at home if he’s not working anyway? May as well just have all the kids in at school if that’s how it’s going to be.
There are concerns some schools in lockdown could be inundated with pupils without laptops after a change to the vulnerable pupil list.
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National Association of Head Teachers general secretary Paul Whiteman said demand for key worker and vulnerable places in schools had risen substantially since the last school shutdown.
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"We have concern that the government has not supplied enough laptops for all the children without them and so has made lack of internet access a vulnerable criteria - only adding to numbers still in school.
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She [Jane Girt, head teacher of Carlton Bolling College in Bradford] told BBC News that having so many pupils in school would "defeat the object" of closing amid the England-wide lockdown.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-55565537
So, perhaps not exactly cause for optimism then.
(As an aside, and assuming he was quoted correctly, I think it would have been nice to have seen the General Secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers demonstrate that he knew 'criteria' was the plural form of 'criterion'. Given all that's going on in the world just now this is a very minor point, I know, but standards are standards, don't you know.)
Everyone - I closed the last CV thread as it had got out of hand - and yes I was one of the main contributors.
I think we should avoid going down that route again, so perhaps we can keep any CV discussion to it's impact on our access to the countryside?