to tell people that you can go for walks in the countryside which is lovely

[chomalungma]

But the pubs will be shut so you can't get a lovely lunch whilst out

So it's going to be pack lunches again.

At least this time there won't be people complaining about people exercising in the Peak District like last time!

You can only leave home if you are a key worker, for essential goods (once a week) and for essential exercise if you absolutely cannot exercise at home (once per day for 1 hour at an absolute maximum)

This is all entirely fabricated.

@user1274157963247 I had completely forgotten about people up in arms about public eating! Made me laugh out loud

@Ecosse

The basic position is that you should be staying at home at all times.

You can only leave home if you are a key worker, for essential goods (once a week) and for essential exercise if you absolutely cannot exercise at home (once per day for 1 hour at an absolute maximum).

Driving to the countryside for a walk is neither essential travel nor essential exercise.

Ideally, you should be either in your garden or using a facility like WiiFit. Everyone should minimise the time they spend outside their home as far as possible- a 30 minute walk nearby 3 or 4 times a week should be perfectly sufficient for most people.

Shut up, for fuck's sake.

@chomalungma you've done nothing wrong and your post is fine.

Halloween is clearly missing some of it's witches but instead of themselves, it appears they are sanctimoniously burning YOU at the stake.

Amazing how it's totally fine for them to call you goady, patronising and a bellend but you suggesting ways people can maintain a positive attitude and mindset is somehow offensive?

The hypocrisy sets my teeth on edge.

Ignore the trolls. They don't like themselves much other.

P.s
I'm a dog walker so I'm all about my local mud n rain. If I'm in a bad mood I walk my dog and I literally don't come home until I feel better. Highly recommended. Some of the pitbulls on here should take themselves for a walk. It might improve their mood and their manners.

P.p.s
No, I won't be back to read the faux outrage at my above comments so quote at me as much as you like. 🖕

• The basic position is that you should be staying at home at all times.

You can only leave home if you are a key worker, for essential goods (once a week) and for essential exercise if you absolutely cannot exercise at home (once per day for 1 hour at an absolute maximum).

Driving to the countryside for a walk is neither essential travel nor essential exercise.

Ideally, you should be either in your garden or using a facility like WiiFit. Everyone should minimise the time they spend outside their home as far as possible- a 30 minute walk nearby 3 or 4 times a week should be perfectly sufficient for most people.*
Well I won't be doing any of that
Will follow the law but not rules made up by randoms on the Internet

@Ecosse

The basic position is that you should be staying at home at all times.

You can only leave home if you are a key worker, for essential goods (once a week) and for essential exercise if you absolutely cannot exercise at home (once per day for 1 hour at an absolute maximum).

Driving to the countryside for a walk is neither essential travel nor essential exercise.

Ideally, you should be either in your garden or using a facility like WiiFit. Everyone should minimise the time they spend outside their home as far as possible- a 30 minute walk nearby 3 or 4 times a week should be perfectly sufficient for most people.

Why are you making shit up?

Is it not bad enough without making worse shit up

@Ecosse

The basic position is that you should be staying at home at all times.

You can only leave home if you are a key worker, for essential goods (once a week) and for essential exercise if you absolutely cannot exercise at home (once per day for 1 hour at an absolute maximum).

Driving to the countryside for a walk is neither essential travel nor essential exercise.

Ideally, you should be either in your garden or using a facility like WiiFit. Everyone should minimise the time they spend outside their home as far as possible- a 30 minute walk nearby 3 or 4 times a week should be perfectly sufficient for most people.

No it isn't, you're talking rubbish. It wasn't the case in the first lockdown, let alone this one.

I have a very small garden and don't have a Wii Fit so I'll be going for a walk as often as I like for as long as I like and I might even drive somewhere different to do it, which I'm perfectly entitled to do under the government guidelines.

You can only leave home if you are a key worker, for essential goods (once a week) and for essential exercise if you absolutely cannot exercise at home (once per day for 1 hour at an absolute maximum)

Apart from anything else, if this was the case (which we all know it’s not), how would I get my children to school? And home again?

Current restrictions are that

You should avoid travelling in or out of your local area, and you should look to reduce the number of journeys you make. However you can and should still travel for a number of reasons including:

exercise, if you need to make a short journey to do so.

Unfortunately they are unclear about what the term ‘a short journey’ means. I’d have thought ten minutes on a car, fine, but two hours for a day out, not fine.

@PinkSparklyPussyCat

People should be grateful they are allowed our for exercise rather than abusing the privilege. The government have been clear that time outside the home should be minimised and exercise should only be a maximum of 1 hour per day (less for running).

Exercise was not a permissible reason to leave home in China, Spain or Italy during lockdown. DC in Spain had to stay indoors at all times for 12 weeks in order to keep people safe.

There are 21 SHOULDs and only 9 MUSTs in the guidance.

YANBU yes people can make short journeys to exercise.

It's not a loophole.
It's knowing the difference between the law and guidelines.
The whole it says should not must attitude is frankly juvenile.
YABU to ignore any of the guidance that says should instead of must.

I'll be working and also walking the dog over the hills and far away. When lockdown is over I will go and litter pick our local woods that has permissive access and got bloody messy over the last lockdown.

If anyone is really bored, they could volunteer locally.

The current Government line is:
The single most important action we can all take, in fighting coronavirus, is to stay at home, to protect the NHS and save lives.
When we reduce our day-to-day contact with other people, we will reduce the spread of the infection.

It is going to be a quite boring month

DC in Spain had to stay indoors at all times for 12 weeks in order to keep people safe

Yes, a monumental error on their behalf.
I will never, ever be ‘grateful’ for being allowed out of my house.

I am on the shielded list. I have blood cancer and the prognosis if I catch Covid is scary. I will therefore not be stepping outside my front door and walking locally amongst people. I will however, be getting in my car and driving a short distance to lonely country lanes so that I can get some exercise. I refuse to stay locked indoors for months again. The guidleines do not forbid this, they say that a short journey for exercise is OK.

@Ecosse please back this up with facts, which you clearly won't be able to as you're making it up. The government have not said we should minimise time out of the home, nor have they said we can only be out for an hour.

No, people should not be grateful they're allowed to exercise, we're not in fucking China!

Made up stupid rules.. it’s like March all over again!

@Ecosse are you taking the piss? 😂

I’m looking forward to lots of countryside walks, I like the rain, genuinely

@PinkSparklyPussyCat

The government have been very clear that exercise should only be for one hour per day at the absolute maximum www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.thesun.co.uk/news/11284289/daily-walk-or-run-maximum-one-hour-coronavirus/amp/

Shopping should be done as infrequently as possible- Grant Shapps has stated only once a week is acceptable. “People know the rules that have been set. Try and shop just once a week – just, you know, just do the essentials not everything else.”

The government have been very clear that exercise should only be for one hour per day at the absolute maximum

Well it takes me 45 mins to walk my children to school in the morning and 45 mins to fetch them in the afternoon.

The Sun from 30th March? I rest my case.

@Ignoringequally

Travelling to and from school is allowed. But this is your exercise for the day- you should not be going in and out of the house on multiple walks and trips out.

I think @Ecosse is probably on the wind and enjoying the responses they're getting to their totally fabricated rules and guidelines.

But I'd like to ask of anyone going into the countryside this lockdown, please leave the animals alone. So many were harmed last time with gates left open, loose dogs, being fed shite and rubbish/fires in fields.
I for one, don't need another few sleepless nights and large vet bill for a laminitic horse shoved full of high sugar crap she shouldn't be eating.
Thanks 😊

Either that or stuck in a time warp @MoodieMare!

I'm sorry to hear about your horse, I hope she's ok and people show more consideration this time.

I would hope enough has been learned from the ludicrous situation in March where people were harassed for eating whilst out for a walk etc. It's quite clear now that covid isn't being spread outdoors, and people should be encouraged to get out for some fresh air.

During the last lockdown we had people ranting all over the local fb page about people driving to go for a walk, to the extent one loony was saying covid is carried on car tyres. I for one will be buying a new flask and getting out as much as I can.

But the rules also say to avoid all non-essential travel by public or private transport - meaning we need to walk local, no?

NO. Because going to exercise is an EXEMPTION. We really are going to be back to all the dementors trying to make everyone's lives as miserable as bloody possible.