I’m in Tier 2 – how about you?
The small rural town where I live, Raunds, is actually, I’m told, named because it is close to the boundaries of Northants, Cambs and Beds. It was first recorded as Randan in an Anglo-Saxon chronicle in the late 900s AD. Randan is the plural of the Old English word for border. So I live in the borderlands.
Only about three miles away there is a water tower at Three Shire House where all three counties join.
Bedfordshire is only a few miles away. Bedfordshire, as far as I can make out, is in Tier 4.
Tomorrow I am going to pick up our Christmas turkey (within Tier 2). I find it difficult to believe that some people from Beds haven’t ordered turkeys from the same place and it appears to me that picking up their turkey is legal (I think, I’m not completely sure).
Lines on maps are tricky things – we don’t pay much attention to them most of the time but now they are part of the fabric of regulation.
Our turkey is going to be frozen from Easter or some time like that.
The funniest thing I have heard today, so far, is the remark from a friend that it is ‘only 368 days’ until Christmas.
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Hi MArk
yes, Its interesting… Cambs (apart from Peterborough) is tier 2, but our southern boundary surrounded by Tier 4… Herts/Beds/Essex. I can go for a day trip to Woodwalton fen, over 20 miles away, in the same county, or even furtehr to the Nene Washes, but cannot in theory go the 14 miles to the Lodge as it is in Bedfordshire……..and we now have to decide whether to visit a vulnerable elderly relative in midlands Tier 3 whilst maintaining as few contacts for myself ahead of hospital visits too…. its such a dilemma. The big Cambridge hospital site has outpatients from all surrounding counties, based on specialist clinical need, not on Covid level restrictions – I expect I was walking a corridor with folk on urgent specialist appointments from tier 4, but how do I know. The birds outside probably have crossed those tier 2/3/4 boundaries too……….with no consequences for themselves, obviously
Tier 3 here, and the border to tier 2 is about 5 miles away, where there is a family of otters regularly seen quite easily! I’m champing at the bit, but won’t cross that line!! Stay safe everyone, look to the future!
Many of us will be dead before ‘the future’ arrives, with or without Covid. Whereas I broadly endeavour to obey the rules, (when I’m sure what they are), I sense a certain degree of general hysteria entering this situation. The government’s priorities do not necessarily correlate to the well-being of individuals and removing people’s capacity to conduct their own risk assessments can lead to unforeseen problems.
Apparently there is a house in Wymington (near Rushden) where the house is in Northants (Tier 2) and garden in Bedfordshire (Tier 4)!
J – well the house will be moving up to Tier 3 on Boxing Day!