UK staycation boom predicted

Some very timely posts for us.
Staying at home this year was decided on a week or so ago but that was with the van as our holiday buddies do not want to venture abroad this year.

Yesterday brought good news on the medical front for my wife, confirmed by letter today, after her 12th medical related appointment since January 1st.

On reading the letter she said “when are we going away” and we have decided that as soon as we are allowed and we feel comfortable we are off to somewhere warm.

Well after watching Prof Van Tam/Mat H tonight on the 1700 hrs update, things are not as rosy as one would imagine, and they were begging people to "stay at home and save lives", if any of us are to have a holiday of any sorts we should heed his warning, but i have to say that after seeing our beach side car park full to the gunnels today it would appear all the warnings are falling on deaf ears.

Yes, Rufs, JVT was definitely playing the realism card but I fear some will never heed the warnings and always seek to break the rules.☹️

Went to Charlestown today to see how they’re getting on repairing the harbour wall. Lovely settled, sunny day and the place was like high summer. The place is very trendy these days (getting ruined like Padstow) and overrun with second homes - many of the holiday cottages by the harbour were occupied by late afternoon seemingly for the weekend. Forget April, for some who should know better, the lockdown is over and done!

Well I'm not sure how you know it's "incomers" and just for the weekend, Bill, but it's clearly wrong at the moment and if it offends you that much the solution is clear - report them - nobody would blame you for that surely? 

Had my first brush with the ‘big C’ recently. Over Xmas noticed a suspicious looking skin lesion. Despite Covid, got to see a NHS specialist within a few days followed a few weeks later with surgical excision. Recently got the histology results back, turns out it was a localised skin cancer, thankfully now completely removed. It’s lots of factor 50 for me from now on!  

I can spot them a mile off, cottages I know are normally empty and many of these folks just don’t look and act like locals.