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1 minute ago, Zoo Music Girl said:

It does sound lovely, but I'm guessing it's not super accessible without a car? We are always a bit limited when it comes to rural destinations. I am tempted, though! 

We probably won't book a proper holiday until early autumn anyway, if at all, as avoids the summer price hike and we don't have kids.

Doesn't stop me looking and dreaming, though! There's some amazing deals out there for long haul too.

Bus service in the Lakes is actually OK. Less so out of season. Very expensive though

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24 minutes ago, Chef said:

@Toilet Duck - what are you thoughts on this new variant from Brazil? There seems to be some concern in the media so is it justified or one to file away in the box that says its completely normal for a virus to do this and carry on with your socially distanced day? 

Howdy, It's still too early to say really. It has the E484K mutation that the SA variant has, and lab studies on this alteration have suggested that in some cases, it can reduce the activity of antibodies from people who have recovered. In some cases it did nothing, in others, there was a 10 fold reduction in neutralising activity. How all of this impacts on vaccine efficacy, we still don't know and whether it means that people that were previously infected could get infected again, we don't know that either! In combination with other alterations, some of these spike variants do seem to have greater affinity for the ACE2 receptor, suggesting that they could be more transmissible. Modelling of outbreaks where the variants have predominated seems to back this up and real world data is now starting to fit the models. For example, the UK variant arrived in Ireland before Christmas, we still got a massive spike in cases due to socialising over the period and the UK variant only made up about 10% of those...however, it is replacing the other variants now by outpacing them (somewhere around 50% of cases in Ireland now are due to the UK variant). So, keeping a lid on the new variants is probably a good idea until we find out exactly what they mean (it should be noted that current restrictions in Ireland are the same as for previous variants and while the proportion of cases due to the UK variant is rising, absolute case numbers are less than half what they were last week, so what we did before still seems to work now...we just have a big peak to climb down from!). So far, there no evidence that any of them cause more severe disease (thankfully), but, a more contagious virus can have an even bigger impact on hospitalisations and deaths simply because more people catch it, so we need to be careful. Based on the wide repertoire of antibodies and immune cells stimulated by the vaccines, I suspect that they will ll still work fine for the new variants, but the good thing is that the new genetic vaccines are easily altered if we need to. There's ongoing trials of the existing vaccines in places where these variants are circulating, so within those trials, we should start to see a signal for specific variants if they do indeed escape immune targeting. Prudent to be careful until we know better basically!

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1 hour ago, Quark said:

Obligatory plug for Dome House in the Lake District chez @fatyeti24 and @H.M.V.  It's proper lovely. As are they. And they keep a decent bar as well 🙂

Just had a look and it looks fucking amazing!  Think I had visions of it being a being a bit of a hole made up for by the hosts and bar so worth a stay. Hadn't realised it had been on grand designs either! Will give it a butchers over the weekend. 

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1 hour ago, Quark said:

Obligatory plug for Dome House in the Lake District chez @fatyeti24 and @H.M.V.  It's proper lovely. As are they. And they keep a decent bar as well 🙂

Ive just had a google as well!!! Omg it looks incredible!!! We need to create a places to stay thread support each others local areas and business!! We could have a efests round the uk grand tour meet in the future! 

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Lockdown restrictions in Wales may begin to be relaxed at the end of the month if rates continue to fall, the Welsh first minister, Mark Drakeford, has said.

Drakeford said the current arrangements would be reviewed as is expected by 29 January – the end of the government’s regular three-week cycle.

He said:

If things over the next two weeks continue to head in the right direction the cabinet will decide if there is any headroom for us to begin the process of lessening the levels of restrictions we face.

But he added:

We would have to be certain that improvement is reliable, sustainable in order for us to begin the journey of lifting restrictions.

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1 minute ago, zahidf said:

Lockdown restrictions in Wales may begin to be relaxed at the end of the month if rates continue to fall, the Welsh first minister, Mark Drakeford, has said.

Drakeford said the current arrangements would be reviewed as is expected by 29 January – the end of the government’s regular three-week cycle.

He said:

If things over the next two weeks continue to head in the right direction the cabinet will decide if there is any headroom for us to begin the process of lessening the levels of restrictions we face.

But he added:

We would have to be certain that improvement is reliable, sustainable in order for us to begin the journey of lifting restrictions.

It begins... 😀

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Just now, bamber said:

One of the people involved in the government program to combat the pandemic is Grant Shapps.

🤯

Let that sink in for a minute.

Has Dixons Head Office approved this? He's been missing his regional sales targets recently so the last thing he needs is another distraction. 

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49 minutes ago, Zoo Music Girl said:

It does sound lovely, but I'm guessing it's not super accessible without a car? We are always a bit limited when it comes to rural destinations. I am tempted, though! 

We probably won't book a proper holiday until early autumn anyway, if at all, as avoids the summer price hike and we don't have kids.

Doesn't stop me looking and dreaming, though! There's some amazing deals out there for long haul too.

Windermere is pretty accessible by train, then a short cab journey to Dome House.

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12 minutes ago, funkychick2007 said:

Ive just had a google as well!!! Omg it looks incredible!!! We need to create a places to stay thread support each others local areas and business!! We could have a efests round the uk grand tour meet in the future! 

Already looking to organise something in the Glastonbury area IF the festival doesn’t happen .... once we have clarity either way ... and depending on what restrictions we might have left ...everyone welcome 

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1 minute ago, crazyfool1 said:

Already looking to organise something in the Glastonbury area IF the festival doesn’t happen .... once we have clarity either way ... and depending on what restrictions we might have left ...everyone welcome 

Lets do it anyway i would be up for seeking out some places locally!! Have s few farmer friends with campsites etc!! 

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17 minutes ago, funkychick2007 said:

Ive just had a google as well!!! Omg it looks incredible!!! We need to create a places to stay thread support each others local areas and business!! We could have a efests round the uk grand tour meet in the future! 

+1 for this, the place looks amazing.

Once everything is back to normal my partner and I want to go to the Lake District and do a bit of hiking and this looks like a great spot to base from.

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31 minutes ago, SheffJeff said:

Just had a look and it looks fucking amazing!  Think I had visions of it being a being a bit of a hole made up for by the hosts and bar so worth a stay. Hadn't realised it had been on grand designs either! Will give it a butchers over the weekend. 

 

18 minutes ago, funkychick2007 said:

Ive just had a google as well!!! Omg it looks incredible!!! We need to create a places to stay thread support each others local areas and business!! We could have a efests round the uk grand tour meet in the future! 

Me and Mrs Q did 4 days there back in Aug and it's really lovely. Obviously I'm a bit biased, but I'd recommend it regardless. Like anywhere up there you get more out of it when the weather is good just because of being outdoors and making use of the garden and your verandah bit, but it's proper cosy too.

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