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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    The delay it seems was to allow all the people from up country towns to come down to Devon and Cornwall to stay in their second homes. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • And pack the east coast too 🙄 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Yes @Lyn.   Macron was cleverer, knowing what the bloody Parisians are like.  Didn't give them time to get really stupid.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It's looking quite empty round here.  How kind of you all to take our refugees
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Obelixx said:
    Yes @Lyn.   Macron was cleverer, knowing what the bloody Parisians are like.  Didn't give them time to get really stupid.
    Boris doesn't have the power to impose a lockdown now. His emergency powers expired a few weeks ago and Parliament wouldn't reinstate them, so he had to get a vote though Parliament before it could come into force.
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    That's the difference between a president and a prime minister. PM's can't go off half-cocked and I suspect a Boris might if there weren't brakes.   Tony Blair too.   One good reason for keeping the monarchy I suppose.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    Can't see any 'safe' way to have our usual family Christmas this year so trying to organise a 'virtual' Christmas.  Amazed and very disappointed at my two favourite food shops!  Relying on food being delivered nowadays (daughters do their best but now back at work) but I really don't want a meat joint that will serve 12 people (what happened to the rule of 6?) or dessert for 8.

    Have the SMs missed a trick here?  How many Christmas dinners for 1 or 2 could they sell this year do you think?

    Guess I will be making my own.
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    Thank you @BenCotto clearly someone is awake!  I have found it v difficult to get a delivery from Tesco but I might try again now I have a goal  :D 

    Sainsbury cancelled my first and only order for 'security' reasons ???????  and after a couple of other bad experiences with another SM that delivers I went back to my old favourites.  It has been a steep learning curve this shopping by Internet.


    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Do you have any Co ops near you @herbaceous? They do deliveries in some areas.
    Ideal for small amounts too. :)
    I sometimes cut joints in half and freeze one half. Even small ones are often too much for us, although we don't do beef any more because of youngest's problem, so it's usually ham I do it with.
    Roast chickens last a couple of days anyway, and I don't mind eating it various ways.  
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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