Catch one to Chester sometime - every other one on the 15 min Time Table runs through Capenhurst - so 100 km/hr more than possible !

So, our (i.e. England's) 3 tier system has now reached level 5 . . .

One wonders when they'll dial it up to 11.

Quote from: ianrs54 on 04 January 2021, 01:08:58 PM
Catch one to Chester sometime - every other one on the 15 min Time Table runs through Capenhurst - so 100 km/hr more than possible !

As long as they don't get up to ludicrous speed.

Well back to isolating/shielding* as a family due to our son being on the clinically extremely vulnerable list. At least we know what's happening until the February half-term, when hopefully at least our son and myself should have had our first vaccine jab.

* To be honest we've been doing pretty much this since the March lockdown just to be safe.

Best wishes to all, stay as safe as you can

Quote from: paulr on 04 January 2021, 10:17:34 PM
Best wishes to all, stay as safe as you can

Am quite jealous of NZ now - my sister lives out there and calls over Christmas with blue skies were bad enough, but now with extra CV restrictions, even more so.

Quote from: Steve J on 04 January 2021, 09:49:35 PM
Well back to isolating/shielding* as a family due to our son being on the clinically extremely vulnerable list. At least we know what's happening until the February half-term, when hopefully at least our son and myself should have had our first vaccine jab.

* To be honest we've been doing pretty much this since the March lockdown just to be safe.

My wife is on the CEV list too, so we have been doing limited excursions from the house, the main change will be for my daughters, who will be back to remote school. The biggest impact will be on my eldest daughter who is in A level year, and really into her sport, she had just got back to training on a track in Nov and Dec, and now will be back to much more improvised stuff. She is also going to have the challenge of choosing a university without having visited them. Younger daughter will be much less bothered - she seems more annoyed that they are having school by video call, rather than just being set the work remotely as they were in April to July.

Personally, I think these changes make it easier for me to exercise outside. As we were in Tier 3, but on the border of T4. So where I could cycle to was limited due to the sea to the West, T4 to the East and North. But now with everywhere being in T5, I can go back into Lancashire again. A small silver lining.

Covid is turning out to be "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose."

I've left the house nine times since lockdown started last year.

Two visits to Tesco while I got home deliveries set up, four visits to the local pharmacy to collect repeat prescription meds, one visit to the podiiatrist, one visit to the doctor and one visit to a centre to get a flu jab.

Lots of reading, online lectures, films, TV, computer games.

Not enough tabletop gaming and next to no painting. Not enough games to motivate me to paint. Hasn't stopped me adding to the lead mountain though!

Truly, I am in the land of the Lotus-eaters

Quote from: fred. on 04 January 2021, 11:27:44 PM
Am quite jealous of NZ now - my sister lives out there and calls over Christmas with blue skies were bad enough, but now with extra CV restrictions, even more so.

I'm very aware of how fortunate we are here in NZ and have deliberately limited my comments on it

Quote from: Raider4 on 04 January 2021, 09:33:04 PM
So, our (i.e. England's) 3 tier system has now reached level 5 . . .

Well if it was good enough for Douglas Adams

I'm hoping that Wales doesn't come out of lock-down before the rest of the UK........Otherwise we'll get the folk that think the rules that don't apply to them*, trundling over for a day out......Or go to the pub, 'cos ours are open and theirs aren't.

In theory..We could be out of our lock-down in a few days.......But I'm absolutely sure it'll get extended for another 3 weeks...and probably for another 3 weeks after that.

I check on the number of new cases in Pembrokeshire every morning...and it's been slightly disheartening to see the totals going up, after we'd been doing really quite well up until a few weeks ago.

* Wonkers ! (sic)

Cheers - Phil (I'm sitting in a bunker...here behind my wall.)

Hang in there Phil, we will keep picking on you to keep you on your feet 

Quote from: paulr on 05 January 2021, 01:28:49 AM
I'm very aware of how fortunate we are here in NZ and have deliberately limited my comments on it

Don't worry about it, it gives us some hope that normality will be possible again!

Normality - any problems you have are your own - to miss quote Douglas Adams

Got my first unit up for painting. Lockdown supposedly ending on 19th here in Nederland, but I think it will be extended whilst the vaccination programme is rolled out. I now have a very nice Polish made paint station set up that happily takes 60 of my Vallejo paints, with anothe 8 tucked away in the painting area. Also brush and tool holders. Very useful and easily moved with hand holds. so plenty to keep me occupied through lockdown and cold weather.

A nice walk this morning over the hills and through the woods to get some fresh air, as it's too cold to enjoy a bike ride. However walk spoilt somewhat by a group of 5 ladies taking their dogs for a walk, when you are only meant to 'exercise' with one other person not from your family . Some people just don't get it!

Quote from: Steve J on 06 January 2021, 10:59:53 AM
A nice walk this morning over the hills and through the woods to get some fresh air, as it's too cold to enjoy a bike ride. However walk spoilt somewhat by a group of 5 ladies taking their dogs for a walk, when you are only meant to 'exercise' with one other person not from your family . Some people just don't get it!

Perhaps they were named Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine, and Lydia? One family, then.

Our regional restrictions at one point said that indoor and outdoor gatherings were restricted to only 6 people from one household. This could have made things awkward for big families...

They have since corrected it.