Originally Posted by
Daletownrunner
I agree there it’s hard with restrictions on what you can buy, three of us in the house, all vegetarians, we drink enough milk to warrant having our own cow :D but we’re having to manage, I noticed that one of the local farms had put a sign up on the footpath through their land saying footpath closed and people should respect this, the Police are taking the pragmatic approach and are only using the heavy hand if people don’t listen. I do dread to think what would happen if we had another major Foot and Mouth outbreak, the Lake District is a very different place now to what it was 20 years ago with far greater visitor numbers, and as recent events have shown, most who would give a toss if we had an outbreak.