Nobeerinthefridge
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Thoughts on a wee local overnight bivvy jaunt?
It's january, f that. 😆
Lol, aye, canny buy all this winter rated kit then no test it out Joe! Mibbe stick to the garden.
tbh if you are solo or with yer missus up in the hills behind ye, canny see the harm.
Personally I'd need a fire you could see from NI in this weather, so I'll pass on that front myself. Couldn't do the discrete part required! 😆
The spirit of the rules is basically, stay the F away from others. tbh, I think bivvying in January is probably more conducive to that than any other activity I can think of . So well within the spirit imo.
Police in Bridge of Allan stopping drivers and asking about the essential journey they were making. I was stopped this morning, a colleague's partner this afternoon.
Jason Leitch today: Meeting someone, buying a coffee and going for a (socially distanced) walk is fine. Meeting someone, buying a coffee and sitting chatting on a park bench is not fine.
It's like he is trying to explain more detail of Rule No.1....
@longdog I have found what she said - I even transcribed it here twice but the stupid site reloaded the page and lost it...
She does mention beaches and parks but not in the way you suggest (11:45 in on iPlayer if you want to go and listen again). She’s saying exercise is about getting out in the fresh air but don’t make daytrips with other people to the beach or the park. There’s no suggestion that a walk along the local beach with your child or a stroll round the local park with your dog is not acceptable, not does she suggest exercise must be energetic if anything she says essential exercise so many times you might argue the opposite - it’s about not wasting away indoors rather than winning strava KOMs!
It’s like he is trying to explain more detail of Rule No.1….
He’s had plenty of practice - he goes on the radio Scotland fitba show most weekends to explain to folk why they cannae go and see their favourite team and hurl sectarian abuse at the other team and that the pubs are still closed to protect fitba fans from themselves!
We should do more key announcements via Off The Ball tbh.
His off the ball slot is about the best info any of them put out all week.
So new stricter regs coming in on Saturday. Still to read through fully as was fixated on the "no alcohol outside" bit....... will be a few places really struggling to be open now.
I'm surprised they've not re-introduced the rule about not meeting anyone outdoors, as per last March/April.
Also looks like I need to get a bivvy in before Saturday. It's never the same without a wee hipflask 😊
None of it was particularly overly harsh or unexpected, takeaways not having folk inside - makes sense, click n collect places that aren't essential - ditto, rest of it was about wfh, and not having non essential tradespeople in your house, painters decorators, etc, again, makes sense.
Lots of gift shops, florists, even the second hand shop in town have been doing CnC, taking the piss.
If they wanna go further, there's a raft of shite that's busy, B&M, Home bargains, all that nonsense, that escape the rules cos they sell the odd bit of food. B&M have made crazy profits during this, for no other reason than giving folk somewhere to go.
Seems like mostly fairly sensible changes tbh- nothing massive that I can see but it still seems to have set the usual suspects off screaming about nazis. "FIRST THEY CAME FOR OUR CHIPPIES, except that you could still get a chippy, in fact it's not even really any harder, but anyway something something nazis"
Struggling to think either where or who would be drinking outside anyway. Unless they mean the few token LA's that still treat their residents like adults.
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Probably targeting that at the Brewdog bars and the like, the festival square one was selling pints by the dozen for take away and people were just drinking them in the square 20meters away(albeit generally socially distanced, to start with). I didn’t ever go up, but heard it was pretty busy some nights.
except that you could still get a chippy, in fact it’s not even really any harder
Is easier, in the past I was too ashamed to have my chippy delivered, now it's law! 😀
Thoughts on a wee local overnight bivvy jaunt?
Currently the law states that people can only leave home for an essential purpose.
The amendment will make it clear that people "must not leave or remain outside" the home unless it is for an essential purpose.
Guess this amendment could give the police good reason to fine you? They'd have to be made aware your car was parked up overnight at a remote location though. Current mood with landowners though is they don't want you there. Handling gates etc that they too have to use in the daily execution of their job, I wouldn't trust a farmer, gamekeeper to not shop me. Leaving from the house you are relying on a busy body not doing the same.
lotto
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Current mood with landowners though is they don’t want you there.
which is different, how? 😆
Struggling to think either where or who would be drinking outside anyway. Unless they mean the few token LA’s that still treat their residents like adults.
Round my way there have been outside drinkers the whole year. People always used to drink along the river banks in summer - this year its been all year. they have been distancing tho
Bang goes my local #beerienteering group!
Bang goes my local #beerienteering group!
😂 that's like my riding group. We're a drinking group with a cycling problem!
ski78
Full MemberProbably targeting that at the Brewdog bars and the like, the festival square one was selling pints by the dozen for take away and people were just drinking them in the square 20meters away(albeit generally socially distanced, to start with). I didn’t ever go up, but heard it was pretty busy some nights.
Lots of that down at Portobello though it'd pretty much died out. Not sure if that's because of the tighter rules that were already in place or just because this winter it's always either baltic or raining.
Round my way there have been outside drinkers the whole year. People always used to drink along the river banks in summer – this year its been all year. they have been distancing tho
Like I said, the token LA that still treats its residents like adults. I think Edinburgh may be the last hold-out on open air drinking in Scotland, everywhere else has bylaws against it.
Highland has bylaws for certain areas, not a generic one for the region.
https://www.highland.gov.uk/info/695/council_information_performance_and_statistics/546/our_byelaws
Whatabout a 24 hour walk within ones own authority? Yes, it sounds pretty awful I agree, but I'm quite frankly running out of fundraising ideas now, bake sales etc all the usual easy ways of raising cash are oot the windae and will be for the forseeable, I've got a raffle going on shortly but even that's no as easy as ye can't spring people at their desk for a fiver, far easier to ignore it in an email etc.
If I leave the house at teatime on a friday night, and return 24 hours later, I'm not infringing the rules, and I'd say charity is pretty essential right now?.
Thoughts please!
I would need to study the rules fairly closely but IIRC there is no limit on how long your daily exercise can last. Perhaps within the letter of the rules but is it within the spirit?
Could you climb Everest on your stairs? IIRC Scotroutes other half did this. Multiple times a day up and down the stairs.
make sure you put up a donation link
Could you climb Everest on your stairs? IIRC Scotroutes other half did this. Multiple times a day up and down the stairs.
I did Ben Lomond on the 3 steps in my garden last year, I'm not doing that again, never mind Everest! haha!
I did Ben Lomond on the 3 steps in my garden last year
Ruddy heck that sounds tedious.
Cànt think of any fundraiser ideas but stick a link for your raffle on here
Whatabout a 24 hour walk within ones own authority? Yes, it sounds pretty awful I agree, but
Could work out quite well in terms of fundraising though. I would personally be more inclined to donate a decent amount for doing some ridiculous, tedious thing that will be hated for every second of the alloted time than for doing something enjoyable that isn't really a challenge.
You could use your 24 hr walk to draw something funny with a tracking app.
As you know I can be a bit fundamentalist about this stuff but I don't see a lot wrong legally or morally with that bar its a situation no one thought of when writing the rules thus is probably outside the spirit of them
Ruddy heck that sounds tedious.
Aye, it was grim tj.
Tbh there's been loads of folks have done the distance in their garden, height on stairs type thing, I think the idea of walking all night would be a bit more ridiculous to your average Josephine, so maybe folks would be more inclined to donate.
Thanks Gordi, I'll post up. Planning on hitting the local businesses for prize donations, those that have done well out of the last year, and the supermarkets obviously too.
A friend's wife is a PT with loads of clients, shes gonna do a zoom class, fiver a go, that should work okay.
If I leave the house at teatime on a friday night, and return 24 hours later, I’m not infringing the rules, and I’d say charity is pretty essential right now?.
I wouldn't have any issue with that but you might still get some pretty negative reaction.
A friend’s wife is a PT with loads of clients, shes gonna do a zoom class, fiver a go, that should work okay.
Im in the same boat of running out of fundraising ideas. We had a local Zoom Zumbathon that just raised us over £650 so that was pretty tidy!
You could also add an element of danger to it my visiting all the local ned hangouts, dogging spots etc
You could also add an element of danger to it my visiting all the local ned hangouts, dogging spots etc
That's ruled out in the new rules yesterday, doing fun stuff while you're out for essential activities!.
How about use your daily exercise to to it in batches - ie 3 hrs a day for a week? Draw a picture or write words with tracking - ie "Johnson - awa an shite"
Lol!
As far as I'm aware we don't have an exercise limit. **** it, as long as EHS at work are awrite with it (it's a work/charity colab), I'm gonna go for it.
Crack on nobeer! I think the 'tour de ned' is a marvellously spicy idea.
Me and a pal planned to take some posh pals from England and Switzerland on a wee tour of Scotland, they were thinking Edinburgh Castle and that stuff. We had an alternative version visiting places like Hilltown Dundee (sadly not as fun as it once was), New Cumnock, Upper Port Glasgow etc, and have a pint in each.
One day the dream will come alive!
Next come to Lochee Nanny. And wear something blue.
I wouldn't wish Port Glasgow on anyone.
How about the tour de ned while trying out some of the lines from the Glesga patter thread?
Me and a pal planned to take some posh pals from England and Switzerland on a wee tour of Scotland, they were thinking Edinburgh Castle and that stuff. We had an alternative version visiting places like Hilltown Dundee (sadly not as fun as it once was), New Cumnock, Upper Port Glasgow etc, and have a pint in each.
I was working in Turriff a few years ago staying in a hotel in the town. There were a few Dutch folk there I ended up chatting to. Basically they spent a few days a year touring the shiteholes of the UK - hop on a KLM flight and just drive about. They were really interested by the weirdness of it and seemed to be genuinely curious rather than poverty tourists. They were doing the The Broch, Peterhead, Turriff and other northern delights that year. I did suggest New Cummnock to them for a future trip assuming they survived.
