Fears For Tiers

[Bytheloch]

Thread #567 Still here, getting through each day one 2M step away at a time. November into December 2020 here we go...

I predate the by-pass...

My boundary was the Hillburn road house, once you went past that you were no longer in Edinburgh - for those that can't remember the hillburn, it was where that outdoor type shop is now, just at Fairmilehead beside the bypass, funnily enough... :o

There's that too tons of folk don't know where the boundaries are around Glasgow.

At one point the Glasgow/ Renfrewshire boundary ran through the Breahead.

@WaxOnFeckOff I’m now singing I pre-date the bypass to the tune of the Kaiser Chiefs, I predict a riot!

I mean why would you know your council boundaries? It's not like it has much impact on day to day life until now.

I know the shop Wax! Had tea and cake there in better times

[quote WouldBeGood]@WaxOnFeckOff I’m now singing I pre-date the bypass to the tune of the Kaiser Chiefs, I predict a riot![/quote]
Oh fuck, now so am I!! :o :o :o

@RaspberryCoulis

Well I won't be sticking to the ROOLZ. Ok I won't be having parties but I wouldn't have been doing that anyway. But if I fancy going into Glasgow for a wander round Pollok park or something I will go.

The 5 miles outside your council area for exercise opens up a whole world of opportunity. Don’t waste it with just a walk to Pollock Park, take a hula hoop with you, or at least a space hopper?

The Clyde mark's the division of North and South Lanarkshire and tons of folk don't even know it. I've no clue where the boundaries are to the east and west.

I know the shop Wax! Had tea and cake there in better times

I've never been in the new building, was in The Hillburn/aka The Fairmile Inn (Art deco type building) many many times. Also sat outside it as a kid with blackcurrant soda and a packet of Gammon crisps :o May or may not have had my first underage dink in there - there or the Tryst

Wasn’t that once a pub/Beefeater type place? Then I remember it sat derelict for a while before the new retail unit for outdoor shop. I had no idea the boundary was there.

Cross post - yes the Fairmile

Originally it was quite a fancy place and they had dances etc.

I don't know for sure that was the boundary, I just felt that past there you were into wild country and the ski slope etc. I just take the bypass as the boundary now but don't know if it officially but as Straiton is just to the outside of it and seems to be in Midlothian officially then I don't think we are far off.

Anyway, enough nostalgia so I'll finish with this:

The boundary is along the bypass but then includes part of the Pentlands, Balerno, Ratho and Queensferry to the west. Does some funny business to the east to exclude Danderhall. These things you learn late at night Googling when I should be sleeping.

And wow Wax that looks nothing like it does today!

No, it was derelict and then knocked down and they built that monstrosity in its place. Its been a long time since I lived in the area and with my mum gone now, we tend to only come off there if we are heading down to Peebles.

Gawd - just realised we can't go to the owl sanctuary in West Lothian this Sunday from Edinburgh. Oh fun.

Any of you who are braving Ikea this weekend if you happen to notice if they have any information about how they will be doing the real Christmas Trees this year I would appreciate the heads up.
Assuming that they are still doing them this year that is.
I’m hoping we can just pay outdoors rather than having to go inside but I’m not very hopeful

@anon444877

Gawd - just realised we can't go to the owl sanctuary in West Lothian this Sunday from Edinburgh. Oh fun.

Yup, similarly if it's not lifted by the 18th we shouldn't be going to the botanic lights which we've booked and paid for. But we have to go in to pick up DD anyway and it's the travelling bit that's illegal

What a mess.

And I am officially that person...trees up in November. The big one came home and jumped for joy and the small one is in love - so sod it.

While I don't think the police will be stopping and check people on the road to see if they are travelling where they shouldn't be , I would think that bastard car insurers would use your 'illegal' journey as an excuse not to pay out if you were to have an accident

Stoorie I wondered about the insurance too. It really is a frightening development.

I just can't believe that nobody stood up against it in Holyrood except one Tory who's now left the party.
What were they thinking?

I don't think the insurance thing will be a thing tbh.

First of all they would have to know and care that you are not allowed to leave council boundaries and know where those were and that you were outside them.

Then there is the whole thing about exemptions and reasonableness.

@anon444877 I'm assuming that's a trip for your dcs. I'm concerned that our younger impressionable generation are being told it's ok for the government to deprive you of your freedoms without reasonable justification. The other side of that coin is many young people find it so unfair and ludicrous that they are disobeying the rules and that's not a great precedent either.

I'm heading to meet my friend this morning before I'm confined to my health board. I've followed every rule but now I see that not only myself but most of my colleagues are wondering which rules have to do with C19 and which are just arbitrary control/let's see how much shit they'll put up with measures now. Nothing makes any sense. I can be in work with 300+ pupils and 50+ staff but I can't go into my elderly widowed mother's house? Aye okay then.

Yes, it's a trip to an outdoor country park to see owls outdoors. And now illegal is it? I agree it's not great as an example of the benefits of rule following.

I was saying to my dh this am I'm getting to the point of wanting to protest about the loss of freedom of choice like one of those conspiracy theory loonies but then I remember the vaccines are nearly here and employ another distraction technique!