Well Then. Personal update.
Jul. 4th, 2020 07:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lucifersprizeMy son's pub made it to the BBC News today.
full article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-53293055?at_medium=custom7&at_custom2=twitter&at_custom3=%40BBCScotlandNews&at_campaign=64&at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_custom4=E926F25E-BE1C-11EA-8C1D-06C5FCA12A29
It is the first and last pub in England on the primary A1 route into Scotland, so travellers and tired contract workers from everywhere but especially Scotland, are very much normal for them.
On a purely aesthetic note, what a pity it was raining when they took their photo but it still looks pretty with the twinkly lights! And I swear there is more colour in the hanging baskets and pots because I nurture them most of the time. See! (from 3 days ago).
I think the press were hoping for Bournemouth style scandal in the town but they got sedate, happy, social distancing pubs with slightly better behaviour than in the supermarkets. The precautions in place in those pubs are crazy strict, the landlords prepared to make the hard decisions - I know I've been there during the preparation - and the town in general is gritting its teeth and doubling down because it's between a rock and a hard place - better in controlled areas than sneaky gatherings and mass raves in beauty spots (which have unfortunately been a thing).
I can see local forums reporting that pubs here had a good proportion of Scots today and in a normal Summer that is entirely usual, we are a seaside holiday town on a direct route from Edinburgh.I don't regard it as a huge scandal when the local holiday camps and guest houses have all re-opened. It is not the publicans' job to police who is in the area, why and how long for - only to collect data for track and trace purposes. It is however prompting healthy debate.
And, for a little irony these protestors turned up from as far as Glenrothes to protest the English entering Scotland. They had to drive into England on the A1 to turn around to do this.
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full article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-53293055?at_medium=custom7&at_custom2=twitter&at_custom3=%40BBCScotlandNews&at_campaign=64&at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_custom4=E926F25E-BE1C-11EA-8C1D-06C5FCA12A29
It is the first and last pub in England on the primary A1 route into Scotland, so travellers and tired contract workers from everywhere but especially Scotland, are very much normal for them.
On a purely aesthetic note, what a pity it was raining when they took their photo but it still looks pretty with the twinkly lights! And I swear there is more colour in the hanging baskets and pots because I nurture them most of the time. See! (from 3 days ago).
I think the press were hoping for Bournemouth style scandal in the town but they got sedate, happy, social distancing pubs with slightly better behaviour than in the supermarkets. The precautions in place in those pubs are crazy strict, the landlords prepared to make the hard decisions - I know I've been there during the preparation - and the town in general is gritting its teeth and doubling down because it's between a rock and a hard place - better in controlled areas than sneaky gatherings and mass raves in beauty spots (which have unfortunately been a thing).
I can see local forums reporting that pubs here had a good proportion of Scots today and in a normal Summer that is entirely usual, we are a seaside holiday town on a direct route from Edinburgh.I don't regard it as a huge scandal when the local holiday camps and guest houses have all re-opened. It is not the publicans' job to police who is in the area, why and how long for - only to collect data for track and trace purposes. It is however prompting healthy debate.
And, for a little irony these protestors turned up from as far as Glenrothes to protest the English entering Scotland. They had to drive into England on the A1 to turn around to do this.
.
