Thankfully not ordered a big bird for the big day. Looks like it'll be same household or just another household (bubble).
As someone who works in hospitality on furlough still I think they should stop households mixing at Christmas. I get people miss each other and it has been a long years but the more cases we see the longer we stay in higher tiers the more chance my workplace will fold and I will be out of work. The vaccine is coming now and hopefully the astrazeneca one due any time will see us able to start moving out of restrictions at some point.
Juat the four of us. Looking forward to it, house is now all trimmed, a couple of days left and work at then time to relax.
We have booked and paid for Christmas dinner at indian in Fev for something different. But not sure if it will be allowed yet
Does the below exist anywhere? A graph of the last 12 months with a line tracking Covid deaths and a separate line tracking deaths from flu related illnesses? Is there clear evidence that right now, as we’ve headed in to Autumn/Winter, that there’s substantial net growth in deaths in this second phase? I’ve never seen the data reported this way but I’m sure someone will have seen it. Whatever the result, you’ve then got to reduce a percentage based on the ambiguity of what is officially classed as a Covid death within the data.
Looking terribly like it’s only me this year. And no Christmas night drink to look forward to either. No doubt Mud will be blasting out lonely this Christmas all day.
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare Another day of a upward curve in hospital admissions. I suspect by the end of today we will be told Christmas bubble rules have changed.
Will be devastated if I don't get to see my parents over Christmas, as will my wife be with hers. Not living close by we don't have the luxury of doorstep hellos.
Listening to the so called experts in the media, it seems we need to excercise extreme caution. A professor in virology on Politics Live was saying that the virus is not going to go away over the five day " holiday" period, in fact in keeping with others , as a result of social mixing, he was endorsing the view that there could be a possible spike in cases in January/February 2021. Regarding his own family, they were going to wait until they had all had the vaccine, before they had any belated celebrations which seems to make sense to me. After discussions with our immediate family, three of whom have had Covid, it's likely we could follow suit. PS . Cousin from Poole has been in touch. His wife who works in a Care Home is self isolating again after showing the symptoms of the virus for a second time.
They said nationally that you wouldn't be able to do that at Christmas, so it was never going to happen like I said. That is a BBC graphic not just for a specific tier. The whole tier system is placed on hold for those days they've allocated so im afraid it isnt going to happen.
My daughter and family live in Shetland and my son and family are in Dundee but it would be totally irresponsible to be meeting up. I might pop over to hand presents over to my grand daughters in the garden. But it’s going to be a very different Christmas for everyone. Not the end of the world as I have plenty Tennent’s in the house and BBS to keep me amused.
Just me and Susan this year as normal which means we get to listen to Christmas songs . Altogether now, you scumbag, you maggot you cheap lousy ..............................