I was just told I shouldn't have gone out today!

[curiousgeorgie]

My DD2 (9 months) is unwell, and being A Nightmare.

I couldn't cope with the long day of hell stretching out in front of me so walked her and DD1 to the park for an hour.

(DD2 was sick in her pram and started screaming so I came home earlier than intended!)

My neighbour was pulling up in his car as I was walking up the drive and he said hi and asked where we'd been... I told him and he said there's far too much pollution in the air today! Far too much dust to make my 3 year old walk to the park and especially for the baby

It was dead, to be honest, just a few dog walkers. But that could just be because everyone else was at school (DD doesn't go on a Thursday) we're in Epsom in the SE.. Is it really that bad that you shouldn't go out?!

Surely not!

We have the weirdest light here ( just behind Stonehenge) it's sort if grey, but not grey I take it that is because if the pollution ?

Hopefully. A bit of wind, some rain and it will all be gone!

I'm in a low to moderate area and washed my car yesterday. It is now covered with a thin film of dust and needs a careful wash again! Don't want to scratch the paintwork!

So it is all over, even of you don't really notice, it seems!

I washed my windows last weekend too

op- if it was bad where you were you would have noticed it, and the guidance locally was only for people having difficulties to take any precautions.

I'm in SE (Greater London). Car covered in sandy dust. We've had that before with no symptoms, but this time I have scratchy eyes, nose and throat after being outside for an hour or two this a.m.

I wouldn't have taken a baby out if I hadn't had to, but you're further out and it sounds OK where you are.

Shosha-we do too, sort of dull yellow light.

Looks like I've missed something serious from not watching the news and banning newspapers as a happy life choice .

We've been in the garden all day again , like every day this week . Ate tea out there too . Just dropped dd at the canoe club for a paddle .

What have we been breathing in and why ?

Ironically, we're about to have an Asthma UK walk at school!

Huh? What is happening in the UK? (Am not there) Saharan dust?!

We're a bit north of Norwich and spent this week working in the garden. Eyes stinging and found it exhausting but put that down to hayfever and a cold.

But maybe it wasn't? I do have a 'weak chest' according to aged GP.

Yes Bertie see here www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26863228 and here
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26848489

I'm in Morden - so just up the road from you really, and it was horrific here this morning - people were coughing in the street and i still feel grainy in my throat. Also had heart palpitations pretty bad, but i've got issues anyway.

Then again, if you didn't notice - maybe the air had cleared a little where you were?

It's actually been visibly hazy where I am in Gloucestershire today.

Don't know if it's partly the weather tonight but visibility is terrible at the minute. Think it should clear tomorrow though.

Good God! If you'd known what the smog was like in the early sixties! Smog = smoke plus fog hence its name. You could not see the other side of the road because it was so dense. Walking down the road, I could not see the cars passing me on the same side of the road.

Sorry. I know we've been warned and I'm staying indoors to be on the safe side because I'm a bit older now.

DS was coughing this morning, so I closed the windows and he stopped. We waited until it had cleared a bit and the sun was out, before going outside. He was fine then. I have asthma, whereas he's just a bit sensitive, so I know I'd be in trouble before he would be, which would give us plenty of warning to go inside.

It's not nice here at all. (east Midlands) Chest feels tight and have stingy eyes and tickly cough. I have stayed in with DS all day. He is 7 months old and already has a cold. I find it quite disturbing. The air smells awful. OP your neighbour should not have passed comment on your choice to go out. Its none of his business. Like another poster pointed out, it is quite stuffy and horrible indoors as well.

I'm in west norfolk. Sod all here. Apoarently Norwich is bad. And Northampton...

Bit of dust on car but not noticed anything else. North London.

No problems here. I keep thinking what dust when I hear it on the news. What I've heard though is that they are only suggesting people with heart and lung problems stay indoors not people who are otherwise healthy.

Your neighbour is probably concerned, I don't believe in being rude to everyone who says something you disagree with.