We're all told not to travel except for essential journeys, we actually have stricter guidelines here in Wales than the journeys allowed in the rest of the UK. Including no driving to anywhere to begin a dog walk or start your daily allowable exercise.
Roads into Wales from every point of access have professional and homemade banners stating that Wales is Closed.
Every week Visit Llandudno share photos on their Facebook page, clearly stating Wales in Closed and asking people to stay away. They share beautiful photos of places that will still be here and available for all when travel restrictions are lifted and we can start to get back to normality, and every week without fail the Police are having to track and catch up with people heading to coastal areas and to Snowdon to walk, hike and try and holiday.
Last weekend for instance saw 10 people from London in two vehicles stopped at Bethesda, just half a mile from their chosen area for their 'daily exercise' ... they were on their way to climb Snowdon!! A five hour drive, 245 miles and then they were turned round by the Police just half a mile from their destination of choice and escorted out of Wales.
Serves them right ... and what a disgrace that they thought rules didn't apply to them.
Stay away from Wales, stay home drink gin, wine or the beer of your choice.
So many of us are doing our very best to stay within all of the guidelines and then we have the few who try and ruin things.
Stay safe, stay home, and don't forget to Clap for the NHS tonight ... I broke my wooden spoon last week, I was so enthusiastic 😄
Sue xx
My sister in law broke a very very old hammer from a very very old gong!
ReplyDeleteSome Londoners have been turfed out of a caravan park half a mile away. They must have got past security!!
ReplyDeleteThere are some idiots about aren't there! We clap to ourselves in our front room. I have tons of admiration for the NHS front line (we have a nurse and 2 key workers in our close family and I spent 30 yrs in the NHS), but I refuse to stand out on our culture de sac with neighbours who whilst clapping their support, continue to flout the rules daily with outings,gatherings, visiting family etc. I have some idiotic neighbours!!
ReplyDeleteCul de sac....not culture!!
DeleteI miss Wales and recognise all those places as we are very frequent visitors. My brother is in Wales and yet we have refrained from going to Wales because only essential travel is allowed. Why oh why do people think the rules do not apply to them though they apply to everyone else. Thanks everyone for clapping for us NHS workers and all the other key workers. Sue what were you banging the spoon on?
ReplyDeleteOn one of my breadbin lids, then I may or may not have played a tune on the metal washing pole in response to a tune echoing across the valley ....
DeleteWe are a very spaced out collection of communities on two very distant hillsides we have to be LOUD to be heard ... don't worry it is now my official NHS Clapping Spoon, I have another for the porridge :-)
Lol, my husband has taken to taking his tambourine out and banging it loudly (he's never been the shy, retiring type). Good news you have another spoon though.
DeleteSand it down, a half spoon might just be useful!
ReplyDeleteThe sharper corner will be ideal for stirring and scraping the porridge out of the pan
DeleteBrilliant idea ladies. If it survives 'Clapping on Thursdays', I'll do just that 😃
DeleteLike the sound of the gin idea.
ReplyDeleteI too miss Wales, we were due to be down in Porthcawl, this week to visit with no. 1 son. Still it will all be there after, as you say. He is also very good at keeping in touch, so chat at least twice a week. Better safe than sorry. Also Mum-in-laws birthday to-day, she is in Powys, another lockdown birthday. Helen. S.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter has the Gin, my husband Mead and there is a wine box (currently quarantined!!) I don't know why people think that the rules (or law) doesn't apply to them and happily come hundreds of miles on a JOLLY! They are from London, but hey, it's all the other Londoners who may be infected - not them . . .
ReplyDeleteIn Carms they get stopped at St Clears and turned around too. Sat-nav's are locked on to the beach they are heading for, which is a bit of a give-away!
We are in Cornwall and have had the same problem here, people in campervans and pulling caravans have been turned away at the Tamar bridge but it seems that Gordon Ramsay was allowed to bring his family down here to his holiday home and then complain how difficult it was to get enough food for his family, that upset quite a few of the locals. My eldest son is in the RAF and until last July was stationed at Valley and would run up Snowdon often and really misses it as he is now near London, in fact he organised the fly past for Captain, now Colonel Tom. We will clap tonight, it is a lovely sense of community and a lovely thing to hear, one of our dogs comes out to the garden to join in !
ReplyDeleteOne of my sisters lives in a part of Ontario that is very popular with summer tourists and many of the fancy "cottages" are owned by Americans. At the present our border with the US is closed (except for essential goods being trucked back and forth) - this has been extended to May 31st - but she is very worried that an influx will bring an outbreak - so far there have been a mere handful of cases in her area) so they are hoping that the border remains closed. As you can see from the news reports the US has not done well with shutting down the virus and frankly I'm worried about the same issue. We are a popular tourist destination also but with all big events, theatre, sports etc. cancelled for the summer and all hotels closed we are hoping that this discourages people from arriving over the summer. I do feel very sorry for those businesses that rely on tourists - and I'm sure this must apply to Wales as well - but I'd rather stay closed down longer now rather than having to go back into lockdown later.
ReplyDeleteGood luck.
Oh and yesterday I had to go to the office for a couple of hours and then managed to hit a practically empty liquor store on the way home - 2 bottles of wine and a nice bottle of Bombay Blue Sapphire Gin - for medicinal purposes of course! :-)
I live in Cornwall (and how frustrating it is to live here but be unable to go to the beach or any of the beauty spots) and on one Facebook site that shows videos and photos of gorgeous Cornish places, the administrators warned people that if they told people to stay away, that Cornwall was closed, they would be banned!!! I confess to being really frightened about the possibility of an influx of people from up-country, descending on our little county and spreading the virus.
ReplyDeleteHere they are opening the beaches...Be thankful your government has sense and acts for the public good.
ReplyDeleteI wonder why some people feel the rules do not apply to them.
ReplyDeleteI broke my rolling pin last summer (it was 43 years old at that time) Harvey fixed it, but I ended up buying another one. My goodness those things have gotten expensive.
God bless.
That sounds like here in New Zealand. I am glad they are doing that - My cousin died of Covid 19 in Shrewsbury Hospital at the beginning of the week.
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad to hear that Wales is being self-protective because if they didn't, surely you'd have the carnage and indifference so many are displaying here in America and why we have the highest numbers in infection rates and Death from the Virus Globally! Not something to be Proud about being No. One about and yet our Village Idiot In Chief, who is a complete Sociopath, can't wait to Open things Up regardless that he has well over a Million Infected Americans and more Dead in less than 3 Months than the whole 19 Year War in Vietnam had as Casualties! It's such a disgrace and few of us feels Safe with such Poor Leadership. Wales is doing the right thing by it's people... and since I still have Welsh Relatives there, I'm glad they're in a Country trying mightily to stay Safe and keep the Lunatic Fringe types OUT!
ReplyDeleteI would love to go to South Wales for a holiday but that will have to wait. We are not closed in North Lincolnshire because no one wants to come here :o)
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