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!

Oh fuck off! Those of us who live in rural areas don't want to be overun with people coming for "lovely countryside walks". I think that might be how the virus spreads and therefore makes lockdown rather pointless.

Stay where you are thanks and stop interpreting the rules to suit yourself.

You fuck off. You dont own the fucking countryside. Sick of rural cunts thinking they own nature and can force others to stay in the concrete jungle. The countryside is beneficial to everyones health and mwntal wellbeing and everyone has the right to access it.

For me, my access is going to be Countryfile on telly for the next x weeks....

For my part, I am going to be remembering any place where the locals seem to want to adopt a Royston Vasey “Are you local?” attitude, and when this is all over, no, I won’t shop or holiday there. We all know the parts of Wales and Cornwall and the Lakes and so on that are dependent on tourism. The countryside is for everyone. Public rights of way are just that: public.

I can't believe someone has started a thread telling us it's nice to go a walk, it feels like that's all I've done for 6 months.

@flaviaritt

For my part, I am going to be remembering any place where the locals seem to want to adopt a Royston Vasey “Are you local?” attitude, and when this is all over, no, I won’t shop or holiday there. We all know the parts of Wales and Cornwall and the Lakes and so on that are dependent on tourism. The countryside is for everyone. Public rights of way are just that: public.

That’s incredibly short sighted and petty. There’s rural areas that would be absolutely decimated if Covid took hold, with either no way of getting to hospital or a massively life-threatening journey to get there.

People are only trying to keep safe.

@flaviaritt

For my part, I am going to be remembering any place where the locals seem to want to adopt a Royston Vasey “Are you local?” attitude, and when this is all over, no, I won’t shop or holiday there. We all know the parts of Wales and Cornwall and the Lakes and so on that are dependent on tourism. The countryside is for everyone. Public rights of way are just that: public.

I might go there and use a resolutely non-local accent just to make a point. It's vital people understand that public spaces in the countryside, by the coast etc are precisely that.

@WouldBeGood

I hate the fucking countryside 😂

Thank you, @MarieVanGoethem, I'm as much bemused as stressed I think, if that makes sense. Astonishing the way both mine and my DH's working lives just vanished. All the best with your health. I love the Secret Rivers info, thank you, just started a bit of reading around it - about John Ruskin sketching the Effra by the site of the Half Moon in Herne Hill which I know very well, fascinating!

Pumperthepumper

People need to remember that the countryside isn’t their personal fiefdom. It’s everyone’s home, just as the cities are everyone’s home. If they can’t do that when it is vital to the mental and physical health of all that people retain their access, then I don’t care if it’s petty. I’ll avoid them.

Orcus

Absolutely. It is vital. If people start erecting fucking roadblocks like they did last time, their communities will suffer for it because people won’t go back when this is all over. They’ll buy their cream teas somewhere else.

@Hickorydickoryspock

I live in the countryside and I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome people who live in flats in towns and cities to walk on the moors. Please keep your distance, stick to the path on the moors, dont hassle animals and always shut gates after going thru them. Take your rubbish home with you. Enjoy yourself tho because i can imagine its very hard living in an urban area during lockdown.

I have to say, me too.

I know what it's like to live for months without access to any time in nature. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

Take nothing, leave nothing, keep dogs (and children) under control, shut any gate you open, leave animals alone and give way to rural/working vehicles. When you get home, do what you can to champion the protections for such spaces, to ensure they remain for future generations.

Thanks and enjoy.

@flaviaritt

Pumperthepumper

People need to remember that the countryside isn’t their personal fiefdom. It’s everyone’s home, just as the cities are everyone’s home. If they can’t do that when it is vital to the mental and physical health of all that people retain their access, then I don’t care if it’s petty. I’ll avoid them.

Except being in the city means you’re likely to be able to access healthcare if you need it urgently. A lot of places can’t do that, and a load of people tramping in because it’s their RIGHT and FUCK THE LOCALS means loads of extra bugs travel around. It’s dangerous, these are unprecedented times.

Pumper

It is not dangerous. And I do not go “tramping in” anywhere. I go for a walk along public paths, just like I imagine you do. And I will continue doing that because a) it’s the least that I can and b) it is essential to my mental and physical health. I don’t care what you think about it.

Ive had people moaning at me for going off into the woods by myself, whilst kids are still going to schooland being allowed in parks and playgrounds.

@flaviaritt

Pumper

It is not dangerous. And I do not go “tramping in” anywhere. I go for a walk along public paths, just like I imagine you do. And I will continue doing that because a) it’s the least that I can and b) it is essential to my mental and physical health. I don’t care what you think about it.

But of course it is. You’re touching stuff. And if everyone was as selfish as this places such as Rothesay would be absolutely destroyed by Covid because the hospital is too far away. You can’t blame the locals for wanting to keep safe.

And too right dont give a shit what people think about it, flaviaritt. On top of it being very good for your health we've already allowed landowners to completely take the piss in restricting where we can go in our own bloody country.Dont need the general public joiningin slagging us off as well.

But of course it is. You’re touching stuff.

There are no known cases of fomite transmission of this virus. You are hysterical. Wash your hands if it worries you, and leave people to do what they are legally allowed to do. We will anyway.

@flaviaritt

But of course it is. You’re touching stuff.

There are no known cases of fomite transmission of this virus. You are hysterical. Wash your hands if it worries you, and leave people to do what they are legally allowed to do. We will anyway.

Hang on, I thought you were going to boycott FOREVER if the locals didn’t welcome you with open arms?

I’m not hysterical, I’m asking you politely to think of other people. I suspect your attitude is why you’re not welcomed with open arms wherever you go.

We'll drive to a couple of steep local hills for walks.
TBH I think the couch potatoes won't bother with walks so much in winter so places won't be as busy.

Hang on, I thought you were going to boycott FOREVER if the locals didn’t welcome you with open arms?

It’s both. If places are particularly unwelcoming and the locals start going on like they, personally, control public spaces, I won’t want to go there again. And therefore I won’t. But I will go where I actually do want to go, within the law. This virus isn’t spreading outdoors.

@flaviaritt

Hang on, I thought you were going to boycott FOREVER if the locals didn’t welcome you with open arms?

It’s both. If places are particularly unwelcoming and the locals start going on like they, personally, control public spaces, I won’t want to go there again. And therefore I won’t. But I will go where I actually do want to go, within the law. This virus isn’t spreading outdoors.

Of course you will. You’ll really hold it against your favourite coastal cities if the population didn’t want hoards of people coming in with their germs? Petty and selfish.

Of course you will. You’ll really hold it against your favourite coastal cities if the population didn’t want hoards of people coming in with their germs? Petty and selfish.

Yes, I will. It is selfish of people to try to hoard spaces they do not own or to which there is public access.

@flaviaritt

Of course you will. You’ll really hold it against your favourite coastal cities if the population didn’t want hoards of people coming in with their germs? Petty and selfish.

Yes, I will. It is selfish of people to try to hoard spaces they do not own or to which there is public access.

They’re not hoarding them. They’re trying to stay safe. They can’t stop you going, they’re relying on your humanity.

Pumper

No, they aren’t relying on my ‘humanity’. The virus doesn’t spread outdoors when people are socially distanced. They are simply being selfish, trying to hoard access to spaces that others are entitled to use just as they are. Why do they believe they have any more right to demand I stay away from a particular hill or field than I do to say who can walk down my street?

@flaviaritt

Pumper

No, they aren’t relying on my ‘humanity’. The virus doesn’t spread outdoors when people are socially distanced. They are simply being selfish, trying to hoard access to spaces that others are entitled to use just as they are. Why do they believe they have any more right to demand I stay away from a particular hill or field than I do to say who can walk down my street?

An overinflated sense of entitlement.