Is Scotland going into lockdown?

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Who thinks Nicola will announce a circuit break lockdown tomorrow?

What the bloody hell is tattie holidays?!?!

A holiday for picking tatties

Aberdeenshire, Angus and Aberdeen City get two weeks. Tattie holidays relates to the time when children would pick potatoes during these holidays for cash - I remember a friend of mine making £100 picking for a week about 30 years ago!!

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@Judystilldreamsofhorses

Households can mix outside homes here, is that not the case throughout? No visitors, but I could meet you in a cafe for lunch.

Rule of 6 here. Only six and from 2 households outside. No visitors.

To add- I don’t think an announcement is likely to be made tomorrow. Based on last form, I reckon it will be announced towards the end of the week and restrictions will come in on Friday or Monday.

Pure speculation

Even the rule followers have stopped following the rules now.

When I was a kid in the 60s there were vans parked outside the primary school.
It would pick up older children and their mothers to take them to the fields to go " tattie howking" for a few shillings payment.
The school was fine with this, there was the option to go to school or to go picking tatties, they would mark the register at the gate and see which kids were off in the vans.

I see a lot of people breaking rules.
A great weariness has set in. People are getting fed up of complying.
I know very few people who are following the rules to the letter.

@dementedpixie

Is it not known as the Tattie holidays in some areas?

I still call it the tattie holidays

@speakout

When I was a kid in the 60s there were vans parked outside the primary school. It would pick up older children and their mothers to take them to the fields to go " tattie howking" for a few shillings payment. The school was fine with this, there was the option to go to school or to go picking tatties, they would mark the register at the gate and see which kids were off in the vans.

How times have changed! I could see a list of heath and safety issues now ha ha ha....

@floweringstar

Aberdeenshire, Angus and Aberdeen City get two weeks. Tattie holidays relates to the time when children would pick potatoes during these holidays for cash - I remember a friend of mine making £100 picking for a week about 30 years ago!!

Fife get two weeks. Sure Perth and Kinross and dundee get two weeks too

Where do you lose a week I wonder?
Wish we got 2wks. Do you get the September weekend? Maybe thats how its made up?

I can visit my family but only outside.
I think i could go for a meal with my family

I think this will stop and it will be no mixing with other households in any context.

@raviolidreaming

*I can visit my family but only outside. I think i could go for a meal with my family*

I think this will stop and it will be no mixing with other households in any context.

Think you might be right. What about kids though?

That would be tricky as they are playing in school?

Yes Dundee here and we are in the first week of our two week holiday.

Sorry, never I should have specified about six here too. I tend to see people one to one, so I don’t really think about it. I haven’t seen anyone bar DP who I live with since this latest change anyway!

I think there will be a lockdown on pubs and leisure centres.

Im not sure they can do that if the children are at school with one another. My children find it hard to understand how they can't mix in the playground but can after school?

They lose a week in the summer. My nieces live in fife and get two weeks in October however normally finish a week after us for the summer.

I think it’s going to be restrictions to with meeting and mixing households, she did mentioned no lockdown and normally school holidays as well as no travel restrictions so fingers crossed.

We get six weeks in summer, two at Easter and Christmas, and two in October. Mayday is the only public holiday, so if actual Easter falls outside the Easter holidays, too bad.

I also think it will be no mixing of households in any setting as when journalists were asking about new restrictions on hospitality today Jason Leitch was dodging the question and kept referring to issues with households mixing in any setting. He made some reference to that not necessarily applying to “mothers and babies meeting in a cafe during the day” as an example. So they’re going for the pubs then.

Strange how it is so different in Scotland depending upon area.

I’ve kind of contradicted myself there! I think it will be further restrictions on households meeting rather than banned altogether. So you can go for a coffee but not for a pint or something? Who knows!