And Hey Ducksie Again.

[gness]

So we are in a strict level 5. By the time you get down here to celebrate my 70th we'll need zimmer frames and feeding..... :-(

[MartinMillar]

Oh my what is level 5 Gness?

[gness]

I think we can still breathe, Martin. Not much else. Travel limited to 5k from your house. You can imagine that here. Some folk live more than that from a little local shop... :-) Last time we did try a sort of relay for the ones up the mountain but it got confusing and we all ended up in the same field.

We can meet one other household but only if we are doing some outdoor exercise at the same time. So that's me and Dave doing press ups and star jumps when we want to say hello to Pat and Bridie. They are 6K away but we can meet halfway in the field with the donkeys at the bottom of their lane.
Avoid public transport. That's okay though. We only have Rolly with his minivan on request and he rarely answers the phone.

You?

[eve1974]

I didn't know there was a tier 5?! I did listen to some of the press conference but thought it was tier 4 that was max?

[ducksie]

By the time we come out gness, we'll prob forget what we are celebrating ;)
We're in total lockdown, no house visits, we can go to shops that are more than 5 miles away if that is the closest shop, there is that leeway, but we cannot just take a jaunt to next town for the sake of shopping. The numbers are too high now, to be taking things for granted - I have an appt in the next county on Monday morning - the virus is so easy spread we have decided (I have decided to postpone the appt) until one or both of us have the vaccine

[ducksie]

eve, we don't really have tiers, it's eather lockdown or an ease on restrictions

[pixie374]

Is that tier 5, gness? We are in 4 at the moment.

[pixie374]

Ah.

[DTCwordfan]

Evidently, it hasn't affected the craic.....good luck over there.

I have this covid thing tied down and surprised you Irish don't....the only part of the UK in tier 1 is the Scilly Isles - and the vicar over there, who I know, described his congregation as '3000 drunks living on rocks.'

There must be a linkage, one that you on the Emerald Isle surely ascribe too! Play it to its maximum..... Hic.

[gness]

We have levels here, Eve. Haven't looked at yours yet, Pixie. I know ours were stricter last time.

What scares me about the UK is that if you look at all the figures they are four times worse on all metrics than Ireland. If I could snap my fingers and bring my family over here I would.