I get locked down. Tiers go up again.

[Cismyfatarse]

New Fred.

I don't think my chances of being hired as Catriona Balfe's body double are high though .

And TGIF

Me neither anon, I definitely couldn't recreate her orgasm scenes either 😳 I'm a lights out ok top on kinda girl

no faking required if you are with Jamie Fraser I'm sure

Do you still have that cardboard cutout for sale @RaspberryCoulis ? Might be prepared to break lockdown to come collect

No it disappeared, @Iwillneverbesatisfied. Unclear whether sold to a customer or volunteer.

It wasn't me!

Well this thread veered off in an unexpected direction...

When your quick lunchtime catch up on the tiers thread takes an unexpected turn🤣

@Wbeezer

Well this thread veered off in an unexpected direction...

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My husband was spitting feathers about the Kenny MacAskill story yesterday- he's been up in his second home in Moray for over a month, when he's based in East Lothian, and he's been popping back for medical appointments. He chose to go up there to enjoy Christmas with his daughter back from uni
"Mr MacAskill said he had been staying in his Speyside property during the second Scottish lockdown which came into effect on Boxing Day.

Mr MacAskill said: “I've had a house in the north for several years, as well as now having my new home in Dunbar.

“At Christmas, my daughter was returning from Aberdeen University to what is her home and before lockdown I therefore travelled north so my wife and I could spend it with her.

“Continued lockdown has seen me require remaining there, other than on two occasions when I've returned for medical-related appointments."

www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1389727/snp-news-kenny-macaskill-lockdown-rules-restrictions-scotland-latest

We didn't go west around Christmas- we stayed home, didn't see any family who live there. We have a small place there, so we could have stayed. We thought it was made clear we couldn't, plus you weren't allowed to travel between tiers. How is this different?

so yet another one?!

What part of twisting the rules to suit themselves are they not doing?

Welcome speedtalker. Interesting intervention from Kenny re the Salmond affair this morning?

My reading of his statement on his travel is that he has actually relocated back to Moray for the duration of lockdown to accommodate his DD being back from Uni? That is within the rules. Travel for medical appointments is also within the rules. It is different from travelling back and forth.

Interesting, @Dinnafashyersel.

Kenny McCaskill is a total doughball but good to see this whole thing making its way into the public domain.

I know lots of people with second homes who would have liked to relocate for the lockdown, but the whole point is we were supposed to stay put, keep our central belt germs to ourselves! It's not 'in the spirit of the rules'.

I've been an a place of relative serenity for a couple of weeks after being really stressed about all for a prolonged period, and yesterday it snapped again. I think it was reading this after the Johnson visit.

So, I'm not a great SNP fan, but have respected their purpose in some areas in the past. I don't agree with a lot of Sturgeon, but think she's called it well lots of times during this pandemic, and speaks well and appears to show real solidarity with people.

The UK government have messed up badly during this pandemic, but one thing they've done well is invest in vaccines. In my opinion, it was fine for the UK PM to come up to rally the troops in something that was a success, so when Nicola said she disapproved, yet one of her ministers who has chosen to live, what, 200 miles away from his medical amenities and office is fine to travel, something in me pinged and I was furious. I've defended her against using the pandemic for political point scoring, but this yesterday, and reading she was planning to publish the confidential vaccine contract to the EU, sent me into a tizz.

Very happy to be coaxed down from my high doh place!

I don't like Salmond, never have, he gives me the creeps like George Galloway. Couldn't believe the trial outcome.

agree with you speedtalker it wasn't in the spirit and that Boris did a good job on the vaccine investment, idk what NS is thinking potentially jeopardising the vaccine flow.

But it's Friday pm and as you can see my mind is elsewhere....!

thanks everyone, I feel better having just ranted.

School's out for the weekend in the speedtalker household, so having unloaded I'm ready to chill again.

See I have a different view on The Johnson Visit.

The QEUH is the 2nd largest UK hospital and by far the largest relative to its population base. It is also one of the newest and most modern. Despite being single room throughout it has had infection control issues on an ongoing basis and is seemingly no better placed than others in dealing with Covid. If the UK NHS as a whole needs to learn lessons on hospital design and capacity management post pandemic then it is only going to do so if the UK PM visits its supposed state of the art facilities.

The Lighthouse Lab in Glasgow processes tests on behalf of the whole UK and is part of the UK network, not just Scotland.

The vaccine facility in Livingston is similarly UK wide capacity.

Are we really suggesting the UK PM had no right or obligation to personally oversee any of this?

Sorry. Quick nip in to say hello!

My vaccine (Janssen) has come through! Not sure if that means I get unblinded as I am on a separate 2 dose trial but I feel ridiculously proud even though all I did was sit in a chair, get a jag and eat their biscuits (multi tasked!)

Vaccines a go go!

Although Outlander and other references have helped.....

Odd to think it is "not in the spirit" to choose to relocate to provide support to your Uni DC. What he did is surely no different to if his Uni DC had travelled to him instead of the other way round?

I think everyone, well both of us who have commented, agree with you...?

I've just had something pop up on NS talking about the reunification of Ireland.

Ireland had how many years of 'troubles'? Who is she to even comment? NI has peace, maybe not very stable peace but peace.
I'd really hate to see NI go back to that.

I do actually worry that trying to separate Scotland from England could equally result in some form of civil war.

och, I'm not very good at this replying this. I agree with Dinnafashyerself!

His uni daughter had travelled back from uni to their second home. I can only think his place in Dunbar is too small to accommodate them all and so it necessitated travelling to Moray.

Since Kenny has shown he needed to be back in East Lothian for medical reasons and keys, then it would make sense to stay put, and, yes, his daughter to go to him, I would think.

My guess is that modern buildings generally are not swapping air enough as you'd want with covid?

Why was there not peace in Ireland in the first place? And why is any peace so precarious? Maybe that's the question we should be addressing. People are allowed to comment on it given we are part of the UK and it is relevant to us. I hope Ireland is reunified.

Maybe Boris does need to see the Lighthouse lab and vaccine facilities but from where I'm sitting, it looks like PR and a photo op for him, doing important stuff like carrying a box, wearing a plastic apron. And he's still elbow bumping people...

@Dinnafashyersel you make a Valid point about infection control but what's Boris Johnson going to do or see or understand about it?
Why him and not some sort of infection expert / qualified person.

I find it odd that people are complaining about NC driving from Glasgow to Edinburgh, but they're grand with BJ coming from London to Scotland to visit a lab. How many labs did he bypass on his way up here?

It was a visit campaigning for the union and really nothing else, it cannot sensibly be argued otherwise.