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55 minutes ago, robtheplod said:

Do you think the Police are that bothered?  Enough to stop people?

Up here in the Lakes they had "spoken to" 700 and fined 24 in the first few days of this lockdown and in the first lockdown were turning people round and escorting them back to the M6.

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3 minutes ago, Jerra said:

Up here in the Lakes they had "spoken to" 700 and fined 24 in the first few days of this lockdown and in the first lockdown were turning people round and escorting them back to the M6.

Indeed, but this was the first lockdown, which was a true lockdown - things were clearer back then and far less traffic. You can be driving around for a multitude of reasons now ...

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5 minutes ago, robtheplod said:

Indeed, but this was the first lockdown, which was a true lockdown - things were clearer back then and far less traffic. You can be driving around for a multitude of reasons now ...

No the 700 and the 24 were in the first days of this lockdown.

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8 minutes ago, Jerra said:

No the 700 and the 24 were in the first days of this lockdown.

ah sorry i misunderstood. .   its mostly just advice though so it seems?

 

With all the different tiers and areas subject to change every 14 days a valid excuse would be 'sorry i didn't know' !

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2 minutes ago, robtheplod said:

ah sorry i misunderstood. .   its mostly just advice though so it seems?

Sorry I appear to have missed the word fined out after the 24.  Not sure how you can fine people for not taking advice or order them to go home for not taking advice.

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1 minute ago, Jerra said:

Sorry I appear to have missed the word fined out after the 24.  Not sure how you can fine people for not taking advice or order them to go home for not taking advice.

Not sure in the current lock down there is much that is advice, the legislation states the reasons why you can be outside your house.  However it is very not specific about the exercise one, and that is where people I suspect are pushing it.  I don’t know what the police can do about that, so assuming that is the excuse people are giving, it is hard to see how they have been issued fines.

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2 minutes ago, john6767 said:

Not sure in the current lock down there is much that is advice, the legislation states the reasons why you can be outside your house.  However it is very not specific about the exercise one, and that is where people I suspect are pushing it.  I don’t know what the police can do about that, so assuming that is the excuse people are giving, it is hard to see how they have been issued fines.

I thin k a number of them had come a good distance bringing motorhomes with them.   However the Police spokesman didn't explain why they were fined.

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2 hours ago, robtheplod said:

 not easy to police. If you're going about your business and keeping to guidelines I can't believe the police will be interested.

There was an MP in the commons yesterday complaining to Hancock that the lockdown had prevented him from taking his daily morning swim in the Serpentine.

 

My own thoughts were that he should stop moaning, stop wasting parliaments time with his 1st world entitled issues, and continue with his morning swim. There would be a 100% chance that the police would not disturb him.

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1 minute ago, Richard10002 said:

 

There was an MP in the commons yesterday complaining to Hancock that the lockdown had prevented him from taking his daily morning swim in the Serpentine.

 

My own thoughts were that he should stop moaning, stop wasting parliaments time with his 1st world entitled issues, and continue with his morning swim. There would be a 100% chance that the police would not disturb him.

Maybe not, but he would be seen by the public.

 

And who'd be the first to bring up 'do as I say, not as I do' and Dominic's trip to Durham ?

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On 24/11/2020 at 16:51, Alan de Enfield said:

Maybe not, but he would be seen by the public.

 

And who'd be the first to bring up 'do as I say, not as I do' and Dominic's trip to Durham ?

Is going for a  swim not permitted ?

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I've got a quick question about winterising our boat. I didn't bother last year as it was so mild but this year I'm looking at the pumpout. Ours has its own dedicated 400 litre tank (no idea why!) so thinking .... would it hurt to add antifreeze to this?  a little concerned about its effects once it leaves the tank - all those pipes/pumps/seals etc which are probably not designed for this - would it damage it?

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4 minutes ago, MartynG said:

Do you think this winter is going to be less mild ?

I cant say I have worried about a holding tank freezing but guess its possible.

not sure.... not worried too much about the tank, but the pipes from it to the loo....  my hesitation is the seals etc and if they would cope....?

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1 hour ago, robtheplod said:

I've got a quick question about winterising our boat. I didn't bother last year as it was so mild but this year I'm looking at the pumpout. Ours has its own dedicated 400 litre tank (no idea why!) so thinking .... would it hurt to add antifreeze to this?  a little concerned about its effects once it leaves the tank - all those pipes/pumps/seals etc which are probably not designed for this - would it damage it?

Is this a tank of flushing water, if so why not do the same as the rest of the plumbing. Isolate tank and drain pump and pipes.?

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53 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:

Is this a tank of flushing water, if so why not do the same as the rest of the plumbing. Isolate tank and drain pump and pipes.?

not so easy on this 'circuit' ... might have to remove the pump or loosen it - thanks for the tip though!

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On 24/11/2020 at 15:29, john6767 said:

Not sure in the current lock down there is much that is advice, the legislation states the reasons why you can be outside your house.  However it is very not specific about the exercise one, and that is where people I suspect are pushing it.  I don’t know what the police can do about that, so assuming that is the excuse people are giving, it is hard to see how they have been issued fines.

We've been here before...

 

The legislation says you mustn't leave your home without a reasonable excuse, and then gives a list of examples which are deemed to be reasonable so won't lead to a fine.

 

It isn't and can't be an exhaustive list because it doesn't cover all conceivable circumstances, but if you do something not on the list you would have to convince the police (or whoever) that your excuse was reasonable to avoid a fine. You would need a good reason, so Dominic Cummings needn't bother...

 

I don't mean this because I think people should try and find loopholes to evade the law, but just because what you're doing isn't on "the list" doesn't mean it's not reasonable.

 

One example I came up with (which happened to me) was having to get a document related to my son's house purchase jointly signed and witnessed, lots of other things related to buying a house were on the list (so definitely allowed) but this wasn't -- however it would be difficult for anyone to say that this wasn't a reasonable excuse when without it the house purchase (which all the other reasons are there to allow) couldn't proceed.

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