People who are bored can pee off imho. There's so much I could be doing other than looking after the kids and work but don't have time for any of it!Cheers, and no worries.
I had thought this situation pisses on everyone's chips. I've got a couple of mates who are furloughed and loved it to start, but now bored. I've got another couple who are looking at businesses that normally make a fortune in the summer not making a penny. I'm sure some key workers would love to be working from home whereas I just want to break the door down and jump on a train to see my clients. The grass is always greener and all that. With that in mind I'm glad it's working out for a few of us!
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[News] Lockdown lifting - when?
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Neville's Breakfast
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23rd March. And it was overnight. Our local row of shops / bars / restaurants went from rammed to ghost town the next day. I can only account for the small part of one city where I live obviously because I haven't bloody been anywhere else since.
But I must admit, the photos my mate sent me yesterday surprised me. In comparison to some of the stuff I've read.
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The Moor, Division Street and Fargate. Three of the busiest streets in the city centre usually.
Perhaps all the people are in cupboards in Sheffield pubs ?
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-south-yorkshire-52475708
Neville's Breakfast
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Yeah as mentioned on another thread, Pitsmoor is a very "special" place.
I thought I recognized it from the picture. Is it near Hillsborough ? I seem to remember walking from the tram stop and passing a pretty rough looking place that looked similar.
Yeah as mentioned on another thread, Pitsmoor is a very "special" place.
Jesus
Tom Hark Preston Park
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'What makes this more significant, is that the licence holder has already been served a prohibition notice under the legislation for another premise, The Staffordshire Arms on Sorby Street.'
Soon to be ex-licence holder shirley?
Neville's Breakfast
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Jesus
Living out here in amongst the fields of Norfolk that behavior seems almost alien. The only time we go out is to the village shop (max 5 people in at once and no-one goes down an aisle with other people in it) or for a walk along the lane, where we move in to the side if even a bike goes past.
Mr Banana
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That is exactly what I imagined happening in those kinds of areas over the last couple of weeks. The pubs out there are pretty intrinsic to the localities. I've got a mate who's a cartoonist in Sheff and he'd been drafting some stories along those lines.
That pub looks like the archetype of about half the pubs in the suburbs. I would bet similar stuff is happening in Killamarsh and Mexborough. Bless 'em. "Quick pint, owd cock?" "Tern oop at eight, keep the fookin' lights off."
No. But basically most of the city North of the centre is bandit country.
There are still plenty of "nice" areas but they're still full of díckheads and everyone supports WednesLOL.
Proper Sheffield is the South.
I imagine that the pubs in Maltby, Brimington and Wath (which are Rotherham/Chesterfield towns/villages) will be doing a roaring trade.
It's village mentality.
It's always been said though that Sheffield is the biggest village in the country. A collection of small places with separate identities and a city centre. It's unlike any other big city I've spent time in in that respect.
Think it also comes from the fact that it's so central and has a huge percentage of students who come here and stay here. Of my best mates over the years living here, only a few were born in Sheffield. Others are/were Birmingham, Bolton, Leeds, Blackpool, Edinburgh, Cambridge..... oh and Maltby. [emoji23]
Mr Banana
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Instinctively understand why they'd pick Sheff over those...although Leeds is probably better but dun't know enough about it. Cambo might be better but everything is twice the price there...
father_and_son
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My view is that we will be under some degree of lockdown until the end of the day.
What will happen (soon) is that they'll start to broaden what people can do but it will still be under a degree of limitations for a long time to come.
Schools I think will be first (staggered certainly - but parents need schools before they can start to do things themselves). Then some selected shop types and trades will be allowed to restart.
I can imagine a pretence of normality within a couple of months, but pubs/sit-down restaurants will be amongst the last to open and possibly only after we have herd immunity or a vaccine.
The very last thing to be allowed will be mass gatherings like concerts, theatres, cinemas and, unfortunately, sports events and can't see that happening until we have been zero deaths and single figure new cases for a couple of weeks.
By the time we return to 'normal', normal will have become this.
What will happen (soon) is that they'll start to broaden what people can do but it will still be under a degree of limitations for a long time to come.
Schools I think will be first (staggered certainly - but parents need schools before they can start to do things themselves). Then some selected shop types and trades will be allowed to restart.
I can imagine a pretence of normality within a couple of months, but pubs/sit-down restaurants will be amongst the last to open and possibly only after we have herd immunity or a vaccine.
The very last thing to be allowed will be mass gatherings like concerts, theatres, cinemas and, unfortunately, sports events and can't see that happening until we have been zero deaths and single figure new cases for a couple of weeks.
By the time we return to 'normal', normal will have become this.
father_and_son
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Guilty of having been one of those students coming in but I then did stay for a while, running pubs and (mostly) maintaining a lock-in culture. Definitely a unique city but holds some good memories for me.
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Well I dunno about y'all, but I've been spending lockdown playing The Last of Us, in prep.
Mind you, this is a fairly normal evening in LIDL'S,to be fair.
Well I dunno about y'all, but I've been spending lockdown playing The Last of Us, in prep.
Mind you, this is a fairly normal evening in LIDL'S,to be fair.
Is that the Croydon edition?
BN41Albion
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BN41Albion
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Somewhere between 4 and 32 million
It was in a couple of the papers, but that's not really the point - the point is that we don't know and it has a huge bearing on how things need to be handled.
BN41Albion
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Sorry I understood the point, just thought it a bit ridiculous that something so wildly imprecise could even be called a study!
BN41Albion
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To be fair though, we're allowed to go for a walk once a day. Apart from the last few days the weather's been gloriously sunny throughout lockdown. Where do people go for a walk in the city when it's sunny here? Largely one place : the seafront. And also, the pictures you've seen really, really don't paint a proper picture. Theyre cleverly taken using a telephoto lense for a start. I've gone for my daily walk along different parts of the prom nearly every day since lockdown, and 99% of people are very respectful of social distancing, and it doesn't feel anyway near as busy as the photos you will have seen suggest.