Corona Virus Treatment

The terms of every Operators Licence in the land dictates that frequent inspections be made of all vehicles (usually no more than 4 to 6 weeks apart, and often every 21-28 days), with fully documented defect reporting and maintenance records mandatory, so it is not unreasonable to work on the premise that these vehicles will have been in front of a trained mechanic fairly recently and is therefore less likely to have major defects. On that basis, I sort of see the logic to be honest.

 

Well, they're offering free "holidays" on their State Farms, pete, as compensation.

 

I tend to agree with @JWK that gardeners may be allowed to work if they work in isolation - which most jobbing gardeners do.

There will be lots of individual situations that will need clarifying.

The person that helps us in the garden can easily work without any contact with us apart from an email telling him what jobs need doing. He can get into the back garden without coming into the house. So total isolation.

We have a decorator booked to paint our summerhouse in the summer and redecorate inside. That could be done without any contact between us. I can see him asking to bring it forward as indoor jobs in houses shouldn't be done. We had to book him 18 months in advance!

 

I'm waiting for a similar message for my annual check up and hygienist appointments that are due in April.

I've already had that message from the chiropodist - which crossed electronically with me cancelling it anyway

 

I doubt that very much as the critical word being used by the Government is "essential". So, only those workers who are regarded as essential to the public system will be allowed to work and travel to work and I can't see, with all due respect to all our hard working professional gardeners, such professional gardeners being regarded as "essential". There is a Government list out on who they regard as essential workers and I don't think you will finder Professional Gardeners on that list

 

I think outdoor Markets are to licence by the local Council, KFF, and as they will definitely attract more than one couple at a time, and now with the stricter rules I shouldn't think the Council will let them open, nor do I think will there be enough customers to make it worthwhile to the Market people.

 

It just mentions 'non-essential shops and community spaces'.

I'm sure there will be an expanded version of the rules in the next day or so.

 

Good morning thank God I have a garden,and that I don't live in a flat as for going food shopping there's nothing on the shelves so that my family can eat I shall go out until I can find some,there's no milk or potatoes here

PS.3 more weeks of this and I shall be at my perfect fighting weight for the first time for 50 years

 

Are there any farm shops not too far from you? They may have something as they don't seem to have had as bad a rush as town shops.