The Tierany of Tiers

[dancemom]

Teirtastic times ahead ....

If I finish my current contract early may I'm going to find a pool by then agent - friend does sea swimming all year round, even the thought of it makes me feel cold!

I see someone has tweeted about clots and contraception - exactly, how many of us have taken hormone based contraceptives for a large number of years.

I think it’s a good idea anon. I waited so long for our council pool to reopen and it never did so I finally said fuck it and joined up at the private one. Dearer than I would like but absolutely worth it right now. Desperate times and all...

@GreenlandTheMovie would you say your flat is toddler friendly? We’re definitely planning on taking DS through to Edinburgh when we’re allowed again.

[quote AgentCooper]@GreenlandTheMovie would you say your flat is toddler friendly? We’re definitely planning on taking DS through to Edinburgh when we’re allowed again.[/quote]
Hi, no its not really suitable for children at all as the entrance is directly out onto a busy road. Its also got 4 bedrooms, so not suitable for smaller lets.

Does anyone know why the numbers in Stirling are still so high? I looked at BBC and then Travelling Tabby thinking “surely some mistake?!” It looks like Fallin and Braehead in particular are not doing great, but just can’t understand why...we’ll never even get to Level 4 at this rate!

I'm going to be travelling to England in April once it's allowed there. I'm going to ignore Sturgeon.

@AgentCooper DL? We had the kids in at the weekend, pool temp was lovely, getting out was unpleasant but not awful. The look of absolute delight on their faces was well worth the changing outdoors afterwards.

@MaxNormal

I'm going to be travelling to England in April once it's allowed there. I'm going to ignore Sturgeon.

Yes me too Don’t think they can stop us

Ironically people will get away with travelling from other LAs to Glasgow to use the shops and coffee shops, but we still won't be allowed to go to Blair Drummond or similar as they take an address.

Yes, desperate to see family south of the border - will go at Easter if remotely possible!

I'd say Edinburgh city centre is an undesirable place to live precisely because of the numbers of holiday lets.

I was really hoping that covid might have resulted in a deluge of people selling holiday lets in town, letting them become more affordable for people to live there.

My husband got his letter today to go on Friday. He is 47 and no medical conditions.

@Icannever

I want to leave Fife please 😬

I'm in Fife but have never stayed in it.

@icanboogieboogiewoogie

Ironically people will get away with travelling from other LAs to Glasgow to use the shops and coffee shops, but we still won't be allowed to go to Blair Drummond or similar as they take an address.

Do they? They don't at Edinburgh zoo

I couldn't get everything on the screenshot, but thus shows that today around half of the vaccs were still in the 60-69 age group.

We are so far behind England it’s unreal

@icanboogieboogiewoogie they don't take an address when you book tickets for blairdrummond and they've said on their Facebook travel restrictions are policed by the police when someone asked how they would stop people from other areas going.

@icanboogieboogiewoogie

I'd say Edinburgh city centre is an undesirable place to live precisely because of the numbers of holiday lets.

Really, please don't perpetuate this. Young, older and middle aged Scots just don't want to live in larger city centre properties. Its exactly the same in Aberdeen, where you can now buy one bedroom flats in the city centre for less than 50k.

Scots on the whole want to live in new build housing estates on the fringes of the city, or, if they can afford it, in The Grange, or Marchmont, or Comely Bank or Barnton, etc.. I would love to let long term to a family or even a group of older sharers, rather than having to let to students and do holiday lets in the summer, but there is just no market. The number of businesses that have moved out to places like South Gyle from the centre hasn't helped either.

Young Scots in particular don't want to move into city centre house shares in the way that you get in other countries. They prefer to live at home until they buy a starter home with their partner. The people who buy one bedroom flats near the city centre have generally moved from elsewhere to Edinburgh.

Generalising hugely, but in nearly 2 decades of being a landlord in Edinburgh city centre, I know my market, and I know exactly how City of Edinburgh Council makes a lot of of money out of licensing everything in site. Its latest wheeze is charging homebuyers £50 for a outstanding statutory notices on record!

That's good to know @shouldistop and @Pootle40, thanks.

[quote tiredoftiers]@AgentCooper DL? We had the kids in at the weekend, pool temp was lovely, getting out was unpleasant but not awful. The look of absolute delight on their faces was well worth the changing outdoors afterwards.[/quote]
@tiredoftiers that’s the one! I can’t wait. I do think I’ll be missing that lovely warm changing room and shower but it’s not forecast to rain this week so that’s something

We are really behind England. I know I'd people in the 40-45 age group now getting the vaccine. In the North of England. My friend of 61 hasn't been done yet and dh 58 hasn't heard a thing. Its really bad. We are both essential workers who don't qualify for the vaccine, but are in our 50s and have heard nothing.

Going by travellingtabby Scotland is only a couple of percentage behind England.

Unless they have areas which are much further ahead than others.

A couple of %
That translates to a lot of actual people who are at risk for longer
NS doesn’t stand up every day and say we are doing worse than England
But if it was the other way about...

@icanboogieboogiewoogie no problem I've already booked tickets for April!