I quite like Haggis and puddings, I think I’ll come up and raid yours 
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I think it will always be one of those situations where they will be “Dammed if they do and dammed if they don’t’”. 
Let’s hope it will get more positive for us ALL.
I have always liked Scottish pies mind 
Bosely…
You’d not have to…so long as ypou turn up in your 5…open door policy here.
If construction workers are not keeping a socially distance apart then I would expect them and their families to have a higher rate of being infected and needing treatment. Does analysis of hospital admissions and deaths show this? If not why. No one knows for certain whether a relaxation will cause a second spike or just a hump. It is a tricky decision to make and I do not envy those making it.
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Just to clarify my “how far can one go” line, well it won’t be any further than we go now. That’s a walk down the canal towpath, yes that’s getting boring now I have around 4 choices of route to take, apart from swimming down but it’s a bit chilly today.
When you get to the village and you start the walk back and see someone jumping out of their sports car (top down) and nip in the shop it does make you want get back home and go for a drive in ours.
I’ll resist the temptation until the end of the month.
Whit noo Jimmie! It’s tha bliddy Mel Gibson agin!!!
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I’ll just carry on doing my weekly trip to Tesco’s, coming home by the longer route.
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Just read this on Sky News:
Link to the latest guidance (11-05-20):-
This is what it says on the topic of driving, in England:
From Wednesday 13 May, you may drive to outdoor publicly accessible open spaces irrespective of distance, but should follow social distancing guidance whilst you are there. You should plan ahead to ensure that, where you are visiting places like National Parks, you have checked that they are open and appropriately prepared for visitors. You should not go to ticketed outdoor leisure venues, where there is a higher risk of close contact and touching surfaces.
When travelling to outdoor spaces, it is important that people respect the rules in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and do not travel to different parts of the UK where their intended activities there would be prohibited by legislation passed by the relevant devolved administration.
When driving to outdoor publicly accessible places, irrespective of distance , does this mean that the border controls at Devon, Cornwall etc are lifted to people from further away ? not that we have any intention of driving very far , but there are those that will now go the whole hog, some irresponsible pss takers ignored the rules from day one, so you can imagine what they’ll do now.
Its good for moral to think that things might be looking up a little, but as they have found in China and Germany this Bastrd virus can come back to bite us if we get too complacent.
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Agreed Bosley. I live in Sheffield, right on the edge of the Yorkshire / Derbyshire border & am now hoping to take the car out for a few little runs into the nearby (but still relatively local) countryside from the 13th onwards. Which will be a welcome change from the weekly supermarket runs for essential food items which of course is as far as it’s been since March 23rd. Normally at this time of year I’d be off to Whitby & Scarborough, but not even considering that sort of trip for the foreseeable future of course.
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and without tourists there will be a glut of pasties and clotted cream in Cornwall
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Hats off to whoever wrote the following…would love to give them the credit they deserve for clarifying all this…
I think I’ve worked it out…
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4 year olds can go to school but university students who have paid for their tuition and the accommodation that they aren’t living in, can’t go back to university.
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I can go to school with many 4 year olds that I’m not related to but can’t see one 4 year old that I am related to.
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I can sit in a park, but not tomorrow or Tuesday but by Wednesday that’ll be fine.
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I can meet one person from another household for a chat or to sunbathe but not two people so if I know two people from another household I have to pick my favourite. Hopefully, I’m also their favourite person from my household or this could be awkward. But possibly I’m not. In fact, thinking about it, I definitely wouldn’t be. But as I can’t go closer than 2m to the one I choose anyway so you wouldn’t think having the other one sat next to them would matter - unless two people would restrict my eyeline too much and prevent me from being alert.
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I can work all day with my colleagues but I can’t sit in their garden for a chat after work.
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I can now do unlimited exercise when quite frankly just doing an hour a day felt like I was some kind of fitness guru. I can think of lots of things that I would like to be unlimited but exercise definitely isn’t one of them.
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I can drive to other destinations although which destinations is unclear. I was supposed to be in Brighton this weekend. Can I drive there? It’s hundreds of miles away but no one has said that’s wrong.
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The buses are still running past my house but I shouldn’t get on one. We should just let empty buses drive around so bus drivers aren’t doing nothing.
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It will soon be time to quarantine people coming into the country by air… but not yet. It’s too soon. And not ever if you’re coming from France because… well, I don’t do know why, actually. Because the French version of coronavirus wouldn’t come to the UK maybe.
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Our youngest children go back to school first because… they are notoriously good at not touching things they shouldn’t, maintain personal space at all times and never randomly lick you.
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We are somewhere in between 3.5 and 4.5 on a five point scale where 5 is all of the virus and 1 is none of the virus but 2,3 and 4 can be anything you’d like it to be really. Some of the virus? A bit of the virus? Just enough virus to see off those over 70s who were told to self isolate but now we’ve realised that they’ve done that a bit too well despite us offloading coronavirus patients into care homes and now we are claiming that was never said in the first place, even though it’s in writing in the stay at home guidance.
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The slogan isn’t stay at home any more.So we don’t have to say at home. Except we do. Unless we can’t. In which case we should go out. But there will be fines if we break the rules. So don’t do that.
Don’t forget…
Stay alert… which Robert Jenrick has explained actually means Stay home as much as possible. Obviously.
Control the virus. Well, I can’t even control my dogs and I can actually see them. Plus I know a bit about dogs and very little about controlling viruses.
Save lives. Always preferable to not saving lives, I’d say, so I’ll try my best with that
one, although hopefully I don’t need telling to do that. I know I’m bragging now but not NOT saving lives is something I do every day.
So there you are. If you’re the weirdo wanting unlimited exercise then enjoy. But not until Wednesday. Obviously.
PS When can Year 7 go back to school? Not even asking for a friend!
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get off my land 
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Suzanna Reid to Edwina Currie, who says the govt’s plans are ‘common sense’:
“So I can be on Hampstead Heath two metres away from hundreds of strangers, but I’m not allowed to know more than one of them?”
Reply: “Yes, that’s right. See, it’s easy?”
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Yeah, ya cant beat having the lid down again
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