15 May 2020 21:45:59
Just watched today a queue of people outside the micro brewery in long eaton.
You take your four pint jugs or pay a £5 deposit to hire one.
Why can't pubs be open and we sit in the the garden or do the takeaway the same?
It baffles me that you can go to the supermarket everyday as many times as you like and yet you can't go and buy some plants from the garden centre in the fresh air?
The vilage I've just moved to have it right.
A farm shop?
Sells a bit of food and then sells a great variety of plants all out in the open.
Then my my local market trader who sells plants has carried on by turning up alone but sells fruit veg and eggs.
Funny how they make laws even if they think they are protecting us.
They tell you to stay at home unless essential but then open diy stores .
Open the pubs but restrict the amount of people after all they were going to the wall in their hundreda before this.
Just saying.

1.) 16 May 2020
16 May 2020 13:14:52
I agree mate. The village where I live, the local pub has a huge beer garden, the tables are all over 2 metres apart so social distancing would be easy. I guess the powers that be are only thinking of city centre pubs, but as you say, with a bit of planning and common sense, they could make it work. It’s daft you can go to the supermarket and DIY stores where you are constantly on the move and walking past loads of other people, where as in a pub you’d be mainly sat in one place! The problem is my friend, as with so many other things in life, nobody asked us to sort it lol!
I’m pleased your move went well by the way!

2.) 17 May 2020
17 May 2020 16:57:49
The police don’t wear any protective clothing and one has just moved next door to me, back garden constantly full of people (coppers) and no social distancing observed. These are the people handing out fines when ya walking ya dog!!