Going for a drive on Wednesday!

kis

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 Surrey / West Sussex Boarder
Who else is taking the Zed to undertake some unrestricted exercise on Wednesday?! I’m sure everyone else is thinking what I am :fuelfire:
 
kis said:
Who else is taking the Zed to undertake some unrestricted exercise on Wednesday?! I’m sure everyone else is thinking what I am :fuelfire:

Will have to wait until Saturday for me but i will be out early :driving:
 
Yes! Yes!yes!. Mine was due for taxing at the end of the month and I was holding fire on what to do. Now I’ll go ahead and tax and MOT it. :thumbsup:
 
What part of the speech wasn’t vague?

So long as it’s sensible, will be fine. 15miles ish seems sensible to me. 50+ miles and that’s pushing it IMO.

Say it out load, “so you drove 15miles to do a few hours exercise?” Or “so you drove 60miles for a few hours exercise?”

Everything is open to opinions!
 
kis said:
What part of the speech wasn’t vague?

So long as it’s sensible, will be fine. 15miles ish seems sensible to me. 50+ miles and that’s pushing it IMO.

Say it out load, “so you drove 15miles to do a few hours exercise?” Or “so you drove 60miles for a few hours exercise?”

Everything is open to opinions!

He said " you can drive to other destinations" , it wasnt linked with exercise & definitely didn't say the journey was to carry out any particular purpose.
 
Our restriction is relaxed. I drove 50 miles to avoid the murdering of my lovely wife of 20 years who I have been quarantined with for 8 weeks now. :cry:
Solid reasoning I think :thumbsup:
 
Please remember Wales is still on "essential travel only", ie CLOSED. The boys in blue are stopping and sending home lots of cars, lots car parks are closed and lots of garages, and food shops only open odd hours. l am Lucky l live in snowdonia, and its a 13 mile drive to my nearest shop,...lol
 
Blast down the snake and round the peak dist , only prob carparks and loo's are all shut .
Not a prob for me as i carry a bottle , but the Mrs may struggle :rofl:
 
bigredrob said:
Please remember Wales is still on "essential travel only", ie CLOSED. The boys in blue are stopping and sending home lots of cars, lots car parks are closed and lots of garages, and food shops only open odd hours. l am Lucky l live in snowdonia, and its a 13 mile drive to my nearest shop,...lol
No point going to wales ,
Ponderosa's shut. :D
 
Scotland, Wales and the occupied counties in Ireland have a different approach.

Heard that Police Scotland said they will start policing the border to turn anyone away that isn't travelling due to essential travel if the approach to the pandemic is different south of the border.
 
I'd strongly recommend waiting on the cps guidelines before planning any trips - you'll be appropriately armed with the facts which will help you decide what is and isn't allowed, and know exactly where you stand should you be stopped :thumbsup:
 
skelters said:
Scotland, Wales and the occupied counties in Ireland have a different approach.

Heard that Police Scotland said they will start policing the border to turn anyone away that isn't travelling due to essential travel if the approach to the pandemic is different south of the border.

Thats interesting...wonder if they will do that in Wales. We're literally 2 miles from the English border so I for one will be out in my Zed heading back to England.

If the Welsh rossers try and stop me I think 2 miles is an acceptable distance for essentials and then once back in England new rules apply!! :driving: :driving:
 
mr wilks said:
kis said:
What part of the speech wasn’t vague?

So long as it’s sensible, will be fine. 15miles ish seems sensible to me. 50+ miles and that’s pushing it IMO.

Say it out load, “so you drove 15miles to do a few hours exercise?” Or “so you drove 60miles for a few hours exercise?”

Everything is open to opinions!

He said " you can drive to other destinations" , it wasnt linked with exercise & definitely didn't say the journey was to carry out any particular purpose.

It was linked to exercise, wasn’t it? Could have been more explicit, but it was in the part of the speech re. exercise, as in a subtext of “you could only exercise locally before... now you can exercise anywhere”.
 
Exercise no longer a requirement. You can go out and just sit on a park bench or have a picnic. The thing is though, we all need to stop taking things so literal and start thinking for ourselves. The virus hasn’t really changed.
 
Plausible deniability.

He’s put the ball in our court to pass the buck on to us. If it all goes tits up, And we take advantage by flouting the rules etc..it’s not on his head, but ours.

Clever.
 
Nobody seems to do any policing in PA (Pennsylvania) or Ohio which I am 11 miles from. I've driven when and where I have wanted to since this whole thing started but with most places closed there really isn't anywhere to go other than just drive for the sake of driving (which I have done a few times). I do go visit my 92 YO mother often and have tried several times to get her out of the house for some time in the Z but she hasn't really wanted to. I don't want her going out on her own so I've been doing her grocery shopping and errands.

Actually lots of people over here are getting really pissed at the over reaching control of state governments and governors. Our governor is getting sued by 4 counties and several other counties have had their officials declare that they will not enforce any of these gubernatorial edicts or cite any stores or eating establishments that decide they want to open irrespective of what the State says they should do.

There have been many protests. I think our governments over here are taking advantage of the situation to grab power and control. And, no matter what you think of Americans, many of us just won't put up with that crap for too long and I think the powers that be are starting to see and feel that. People WILL remember when reelection time rolls around. I think lots of power hungry Pols will be looking for jobs pretty soon.
 
1000rr said:
Plausible deniability.

He’s put the ball in our court to pass the buck on to us. If it all goes tits up, And we take advantage by flouting the rules etc..it’s not on his head, but ours.

Clever.

ph001 said:
Exercise no longer a requirement. You can go out and just sit on a park bench or have a picnic. The thing is though, we all need to stop taking things so literal and start thinking for ourselves. The virus hasn’t really changed.

Just thinking about the above two comments, surely they know the rules will be open to interpretation and it’s more a question of whether the spread of interpretations is in line with what is required by the relevant models? An effective but more autocratic governing body could, in theory, be more permissive with the rules and still achieve the same overall levels of distancing, containment etc. Plus, it seems unlikely that any set of concise public guidelines could ever be both relevant and applicable to all.

To put it another way, our models will probably have a “bellend factor” built in. Not that I think it has been handled at all well, of course.
 
Nothing much has changed from what I heard. It would be nice to get the Zed out though. Longest time it's ever spent in the garage by some weeks. :(

I drove my sons Mx5 to Tesco yesterday and stuck some air in the almost flat 18 PSI tyres. :o Not been there since lock down 103 per ltr for petrol :D . So I was back there 08:00 AM this morning in the daily and filled up. :wink:
 
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