Self catering holiday this week

[Olsihabi]

We were supposed to be going on a self- catering holiday today for a "big" birthday - just me, DP and the dog. We can't decide whether to go or not. Neither of us have any symptoms, have both been working at home all week (I work at home all the time anyway) and have not been mixing with other people.

Where we are going is pretty rural, we'd keep to ourselves and just go for walks at a remote beach. We have enough food to take to last the week and then won't have any reason to go to areas with lots of people. Is there any difference between doing all this at home and somewhere else? There hasn't been anyone staying in the cottage where we're going all this week, and the official word from the cottage company is that they are happy for people to continue with their holidays.

Do we go or stay at home?

And now cafes, cafes, restaurants and pubs are shut you are undertaking non-essential travel and moving from sitting in one house to sit in another. What’s the point of that. All peripheries in the U.K. have under resourced healthcare systems (I don’t think some people understand how hard it is to recruit in some places, it’s not just funding). If we are in imposed lockdown - as in using police/army to restrict movement - in the next few days, you might also end up stuck there. And it’s Devon and Cornwall now that have asked people to stay away. I’ve cancelled our week in Cornwall from next Friday.

I bet you’ll still go.

We have unpacked our bags and have just made a nice lunch at home. Now putting up a new fence in the garden after the old one was blown down in the storms.

Glad you changed your mind x

Nobody wants to cancel holidays etc but the sooner we get to grips with the situation the sooner life can go back to normal.