Bonny lasses assemble for the North East support thread 2!

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Shiny new thread for all your north east needs.

Hello 👋

@Shitfuckoh

I probably bought one of your manicure sets :)

@StealthPolarBear

Is that the grocers? (rather than the estate agent) :o

Yes! :o

Durham folk: The other day I drove back from the Arnison past the Dunelm Ridge for the first time in months. Aargh those bollards! I won't be driving that way again.

Awww frolickin he is all floof!!

His paws are amazing, he looks like he's got grinch hands (in the cutest possible way).

I've got three and they're all just bog standard moggies (but don't tell them that, they don't know).

As predicted by pp couple of pages ago, the mail have gone with "pissed up young northerners" story today

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8825825/Rowdy-revellers-try-pry-open-doors-closed-McDonalds-demanding-fast-food.html

God you really can set your watch by it.

Any excuse to print scantily clad women and then let the comment section go to town on them.

Ugh. The Daily Mail has just done an identikit article about Nottingham. I think they literally copy and paste and change the name of the city.

I was following the northern mayors’ press conference a bit on Twitter earlier and Jamie Driscoll seemed to suggest he’d been told Newcastle wouldn’t be going into Tier 3 next week, but I can’t find any more about it than just a passing mention in a journalist’s tweets. I really hope that’s true and they’re giving the existing restrictions a chance. If the powers that be can get a grip on the student outbreaks we might see a bit of a levelling off.

I watched parts of the conference on sky and Driscoll did say that Newcastle wouldn't be placed in tier 3 - it was just an add on comment when answering a broader question on the tier system and there wasn't much said beyond that apart from Burnham saying he could give such assurance to Manchester.

Couldn't

Ffs I wish they'd just clearly say who was and who wasn't. This dilly dallying is just so stressful.

I have customers contacting me asking what to do about booking and I'm just having to tell them I don't know.
Luckily everyone is lovely but it's not how I would normally run a business.

Thanks FourTeaFallOut I thought it was strange that more hasn’t been made of that if he’s correct. Or perhaps it wasn’t meant to be public knowledge yet? It’s the uncertainty that I really hate throughout this process!

The guardian has an announcement that Liverpool is going into tier 3 but not a peep about anywhere else.

Are Liverpool's numbers worse than ours or Manchester's?

The comment about Newcastle not being in Tier 3 was reported on the BBC News website, but who knows? I am just fed up with all the uni student numbers being included so that it direct affects permanent residents.

@Snoringferret I’m not sure about their total numbers but I think Liverpool/Merseyside has been hit much harder than the NE in terms of hospital admissions, so that could be a factor. Their no household mixing restrictions only came in about a week ago though, they’re much more recent than ours.

but the students live here, they can't just be taken out of the numbers. Where would you count them?

It's funny isn't it. There are claims that students across the country are being counted in their parents home too causes rises in places in outer London which is probably rubbish. If students are resident in area they have to be included in local counts surely?

I appreciate what you are saying about the student numbers, but it does seem unfair that we should all be lumped in together, particularly when you live in Northumberland as I do. I haven't been to Newcastle since March, either shop online or locally, and yet it is now illegal for my family to sit in my garden and talk to me indoors.

Hi all. Went to a business today which I don't want to name & shame but was appalled at the numbers crammed in there close together on tables defo not 2 metres apart. We felt really uncomfortable. We chose to sit in the entrance bit with a few empty tables for our food then swiftly left. We would not have stayed had it not been for 2 hungry children. I am debating whether to contact them & voice my concerns or let it be. I won't go back anytime soon.

I'm feeling really low & anxious about restrictions being worse than they already are. I'm already struggling. I can't see an end to this nightmare

Haha Snoringferret you are so right about the grinch hands!

I've also heard similar about Newcastle not being included. More the North West. However, I think our time will come soon enough so it's just putting off the inevitable. Hopefully it may mean another few weeks grace for us though regarding activities and keeping businesses alive a little longer.

Daddy I would contact them to be honest. Better to be contacted than shut down or named and shamed.

I'd also contact them Daddy The Government has been responsible for creating this "one last knees up" situation by making people think we may shut down next week not at all their modus operandi of course

I would also contact them - especially when the vast majority of people are trying to follow the rules and they're being forced to not follow them by the businesses they visit.

To be honest I was under the impression that inside In cafes, etc., they were allowed to follow 1 metre, and not 2 - is that not the case?

it's 1 meter plus mitigations. You don't wear a mask while at the table so no it's still 2 meters.