Author who left wife and child in NEW ZEALAND and came to Scotland for lock down

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I mean is he fucking nuts???

He left NEW ZEALAND to come here???

Apart from breaking lock down, obviously, who the hell would leave New Zealand?

Fud.

Yes, but his former wife and the children, I thought were in the USA?

In other words, he is not returning to be near them, which would make sense.

He came back to where he considers home. Lots of people have made journeys to come home. There’s obvs more to it and he hadn’t broken any laws. If YOU had been working or on holS in NZ when the pandemic happened you would have been able to come back, in fact the U.K. government would have spent quite a lot of money ‘repatriating’ you.

Okay it sounds a complicated situation. I still would not move away from near my small children and nor would most fathers or mothers.

What's it matter, caper, I've lived in Scotland for nearly 20 years. I'm naturalised but I was born foreign. Can that be held against me, should I choose to live in my native country again? My son does, even though he was born in Scotland. It's his right. He's a dual national. Neil isn't even that, he never naturalised to the US.

British people can return home. It's not breaking lockdown.
I know several who were stranded abroad for weeks and have now returned.

His former wife? His first three children are well into their 30s. His eldest is at least 36, possibly 37 or will be this year. They are not young children, they may have young children of their own.

His first three children were born before 1990, which was 30 years ago.

are we supposed to be annoyed he left NZ and came to Scotland?
or annoyed that he left his family?

does anyone Really care?

I don't give a fuck about this bloke

He's a British man who was in NZ when his marriage broke down and returned to a home he has in Britain. That is not breaking lockdown. British people are allowed to return to the UK in the such events.

Yes, Crowded, we are all supposed to stone him. He didn't break lockdown by returning to the UK, he is a UK national, in the event of marital breakdown. But Crowded, WTF? You're supposed to be picking up a pitchfork! Skye is a 6 hour drive from here. I even have a place to stay in Lewis. But if you're English, sorry, but you can't come to burn him at the stake, Sturgeon says you're not welcome.

a friend of dd was on a world wide travel, the last place was Australia, and she chose to come back to Britain.

You can get his perspective on why he moved to Skye here:
Neil Gaimon Statement

The summary is that:

• Him and Amanda are not getting divorced but are trying to sort out their marital problems in private and apart from one another

• He wanted to live in a place where there wasn't such a large time difference with the people he needs for support (friends and family living in UK for e.g.)
• He couldn't stay in his apartment in the USA as there are already people staying there at the moment
• So he chose to self-isolate in his home in Skye

I don't personally agree with his decision - I would have personally just rented another place in New Zealand until things with the pandemic improved.

However, it's clear that no-one is really benefitting from all this speculation about him and Amanda's relationship status and Neil's subsequent decision to move to Skye.

i will find my pitchfork @highmarkingsnowmobile

i will wave my pitchfork in the air

@ Crowded. Dammit! I could have collected you in Glasgow. But alas, Sturgeon says NO.

New Zealand has had a lot of Lockdown & a strong snitching culture. I would never want to live there..

They have a lot of meth, too, lljkk. I can't say I blame him for bolting. He probably hired a fucking private jet, he's rich enough. Whatever. He's a British person who returned to Britain, Skye is in Britain, following marital breakdown. That's not against lockdown. So why give a fuck? I seriously doubt he's coughing all over Skye.

Is it windy up there? I haven't been in a long time and when I went, I just got stoned all the time, it was when I first got here 18 years ago, that place is full of drugs, and it was Autumn, and it was windy then. If it's not windy now, I can guarantee, it's full of midgies. They're certainly down here in the lower Highlands. Bastards. I'd go to like, Iona or some smaller island where the wind just blows all the time.

However he has come from New Zealand, who claim to have eradicated the virus, so no harm to Skye, if it was the other way round it would not have been allowed, I hope,

I am never happy when parents move away from their small children. That is my main objection - how mucho f the childcare burden will he be doing and that kind of thing? How will the relationship with the child be if he is so far away. What are the chances of saving the marriage given how far away he has gone rather than just done somewhere local for a week until the rows calm down.

@ICouldHaveBeenAContender

The man's a CF - his argument is that he's on the electoral register and pays council tax so he's entitled.

He's certainly self entitled, although the really annoying thing is all the things that facilitated him to do so like airlines still flying, his friend providing him with a car etc etc.

Regarding childcare burden - AP and NG have used live-in nannies in the past that they've had an emotional connection with. They have the money for it too, so that's not such a big deal for them.

They're also used to spending most of their time apart from one another. So in their case spending time apart long distance may be beneficial to them.

NG claims he's video-calling his son and AP twice a day, take from that what you will.

Am not actually that invested in AP and NG's lives but just bothers me that people would rather gossip about their lives rather than just Google it, considering how open they both are about their relationship. Gossip is for bores.

Bloody hell. Only took about 30 posts before someone brought up Nicola sturgeon and Scottish independence - what the hell doea that have to do with him travelling from NZ to Scotland?

I think if you read his blog it's pretty clear what's happened but for all that it's really none of anybody else's business.
He's rich and entitled. Of course he did what seems right to him. To be fair it probably hasn't made any difference to anybody - but the pitchfork wielding clans of Skye will have him in a wicker man by midsummer anyway....