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That's so clever! Good news on your jab Marigold. My elderly mother is awaiting an appointment. Although her surgery has started doing vaccinations, (in a hotel) as she is in good health there is no particular rush. She was amazed when I told her, she really isn't expecting anything to happen before 2021. My Aunt down in Cornwall is also waiting, but maybe that part of the country is not in the first priority of areas as it is in Tier 1? My Aunt has booked a trip away in April, she says it gives her something to look forward to, which makes all the difference to her. I hope its not too early and she isn't disappointed.
 
Well that's it, Christmas on my own with the cats. My sister is in Wales and although we can be a support bubble we're 75 miles apart and it's supposed to be essential travel only. Fortunately she's decided to treat it as an adventure/opportunity as she has never spent Christmas on her own. My only complaint is that none of the churches are holding services and with no Christmas concerts or carol services to sing at it does feel slightly odd.

Stay safe and have a good Christmas everyone.
 
We are into tier 4 now. Saw our neighbours leaving just before the press conference, presumably on their way to their folks in Devon. The footage from the stations in London and the roads out of the capital show the bedlam this has caused. It just leaves you wondering if anyone who is supposedly in charge even takes five minutes to think what practical effect their pronouncements will have.

The head of the Metropolitan Police Federation said this tonight:

"We’re not going to be knocking on people's doors on Christmas Day. We have no power of entry."

“'It’s just a shame because I don’t think people are going to take much notice.

"You’ve lost the goodwill of the public. They’re so frustrated.”

Very sorry to hear you've had to cancel your plans Margaid.
 
Things are changing so fast at the moment, I'm wondering whether they will invent a tier 5, 6 and 7 before Christmas, in which case this will be me on Christmas day.
 

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Groups of people on the local golf course playing happily. So Covid doesn't like golf, and a group of 9 women sort of jogging and laughing and joking. That's Tier 4 this morning
 
The cartoon above is by Matt, on the Telegraph website. (The headlines and front page are free to view, I wouldn’t want anybody to think I subscribed to the Torygraph.) Daughter subscribes to Private Eye and circulates their cartoons to our family. Otherwise, the BBC link to The Papers every day gives the front pages of all of them which is illuminating. And Margaid often shares funny ones on Facebook, and BYM keeps my spirits up via some on email.
One good thing about the present situation is the creativity of many of the cartoons!
 
Marigold said:
(The headlines and front page are free to view, I wouldn’t want anybody to think I subscribed to the Torygraph.)
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Protesting too much Marigold, your secret is now out!!! :lol:

On this business of the new mutations, good piece in the Independent, apparently they are not new at all but were discovered in September.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-new-variant-matt-hancock-cog-uk-latest-b1774502.html
 
dinosaw said:
We are into tier 4 now.

Very sorry to hear you've had to cancel your plans Margaid.
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You're worse off than I am Dinosaw as I'm in tier 2. Change of plan isn't a real problem, in fact I felt relieved after we'd made the decision. I often spend Christmas on my own and at least now I avoid the pressure of tidying and cleaning.

Sorting a pile of "unknown" papers, I found a letter that must be answered dated 2019! My sister has a habit (just like our mother) of moving things to what she thinks is a more appropriate place but doesn't realise that the heaps of papers have their own order. I may even manage to get some of them sorted and filed!
 
Talking of assholes. Matt Hancock said today.

“We know that the November lockdown did not work against this new variant, because the cases carried on rising.”

In the bizarre world of Matt Mengele that clearly means more of the same is needed so it can not work again.

I believe the quote, misattributed to Einstein goes something like:

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
 
Fantastic Marigold, we will have to put that cartoon up on the buses. Just had a row with a group of people trying to board bus, in breach of Tier 4 as they weren't related in any way and no masks. But they reckon it's ok as they are not old they can't die. Lovely.
Sorry your plans have had to change Margaid. My mum does that with papers, she gives me something irrelevant to look through, something vital goes in the drawer
 
A friend works in a micropub that's been selling takeaway beer while in tier 3. They sold out of a beer called "Tiers of a clown" featuring Boris in a clown outfit on the pump-clip. :-)
 
The Met Police Federation chief had doubled down on his comments I see. Given they will have canvassed the opinion of their members on this is seems Christmas day in London will be whatever you want it to be provided you don't go wild. From the BBC

On Sunday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said it was the job of the police to enforce the law.

However, Ken Marsh told the BBC News Channel: "It’s not a tough ask for us because it won’t be happening."

He said his colleagues "won’t be knocking on people’s doors at all", unless there is a large group - such as a party - but "there is no way" the force would be dealing with smaller gatherings.

Marsh said it was always the job of the police to "police the law" but it has to be something "we can police, it has to be something we understand, and it has to give us time to digest what is being put in place".

He added that the laws were changing "on a daily, weekly basis making it very, very difficult" and some of them were "not obtainable" in terms of what the police were being asked to do.
 
What I am most concerned about at the moment, isn't the virus, the blockade, or Brexit, it is whether Jon Snow is suitably restrained well away from a keyboard after Big Ben strikes in January 1st.

https://twitter.com/jonsnowC4/status/1212322198435827714

That tweet has made me chuckle every time I've looked at it this year. Nostradamus can rest easy in his grave.
 
dinosaw said:
What I am most concerned about at the moment, isn't the virus, the blockade, or Brexit, it is whether Jon Snow is suitably restrained well away from a keyboard after Big Ben strikes in January 1st.

https://twitter.com/jonsnowC4/status/1212322198435827714

That tweet has made me chuckle every time I've looked at it this year. Nostradamus can rest easy in his grave.
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H'mmm, I see what you mean!
 
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