Our next door neighbours' dog is about twice the size it should be so there may be some opportunity there.
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[Misc] Taking your dog for a walk
- Thread starter Icy Gull
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Our next door neighbours' dog is about twice the size it should be so there may be some opportunity there.
Alba Badger
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In Spain, even while in lock down people with dogs are allowed out to walk them. (Source Sid Lowe, Guardian Football Weekly) If you don't have a dog now would be a great time to get one, dogs homes teeming with the things!
Alba Badger
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We are pretty lucky where we live, we are a short drive from some pretty secluded woods. We did go there on Saturday and saw 8 times the amount of people we normally see but as that was only 8 people on a 2 hour walk we easily kept clear of them.
Worth looking up the public footpaths through fields etc in your area if you have any around. Most fold don;t use these so can be a good place to keep clear of folk.
Worth looking up the public footpaths through fields etc in your area if you have any around. Most fold don;t use these so can be a good place to keep clear of folk.
studio150
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I'm amazed you managed to get Cissbury Ring and the gallops in one post
I have no idea what that means.
**** knows what that thing is, but Lewis Dunk doesn't look too impressed with it.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
We took the car out yesterday - 15 minute drive, into the New Forest. All the car parks were rammed full, and it didn't really look possible to park there and NOT come uncomfortably close to others. We drove around for a bit, to find an empty spot next to the road, with no folk around, for a 20 minute picnic, and kick a ball about.
I feel sorry for people. There is a drip-feed of ever-changing, contradictory advice, and they simply do not understand what they should and should not be doing.
Each and every one of those families in those rammed car parks, thought that they were doing the right thing, going for a walk in the open countryside. You had the National Trust throwing open its gardens for free, welcomed by the government - so people went along, and they were promptly closed down. People are CONFUSED.
I feel sorry for people. There is a drip-feed of ever-changing, contradictory advice, and they simply do not understand what they should and should not be doing.
Each and every one of those families in those rammed car parks, thought that they were doing the right thing, going for a walk in the open countryside. You had the National Trust throwing open its gardens for free, welcomed by the government - so people went along, and they were promptly closed down. People are CONFUSED.
Neville's Breakfast
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Yes, seems so. Boris’ instincts to allow personal choice do seem to not be working when the good of the community needs to be considered. There are plenty of intelligent people prioritizing their day out which makes them incapable of making the decision you did to keep away from crowds. A lockdown is inevitable. It won’t affect me too much as my wife and I are already remaining in our house and garden and minimizing shopping trips (occasional visits to the village shop and online deliveries from farm shops) but it might just keep the day trippers at home.
We are still taking the dog for a walk but only locally. We rarely see anyone and when we have, there is plenty of room in a field to avoid being anywhere near.
pasty
A different kind of pasty
herecomesaregular
We're in the pipe, 5 by 5
i sort of know what you mean but the government can't go through every possible activity and give absolute advice on it.
UK A&E consultants are pretty much saying on the radio: stay at home completely because in two weeks we won't have a ventilator for you.
Uk poliiticians are saying: stay at home and only go out for essential activities and if you do so try and stay 2 metres apart from everyone. That includes dog walking, general walking and running, which can be considered somewhat essential, but stay 2m apart at all times if possible. If you have underlying issues don't do these things at all (see above).
What some people aren't grasping is that going in your car to a spot and then walking also means at some point filling up the car with petrol (higher risk activity as you're touching pumps) or stopping unnecessarily at a shop or getting too close to people in busy car parks. Go for a walk from your home.
Horton's halftime iceberg
Blooming Marvellous
I did my normal walk at Sheepcote this morning and now its dry and you can walk on the top and down on the ridges, it was pretty easy to avoid everyone. The afternoon one at Hollingbury hill fort has been a lot busier and yesterday (much to the golfers annoyance) people were setting up picnics on the golf tees, flat, well kept and a good view I suppose.
I have yet to try the great wood at Stanmer a walk I do a lot as it gets warmer and sunnier. I was told Ditchling Beacon car park was consistently full yesterday
The main problem is joggers on narrow paths, when they are in the zone and really breathing in an out they tend to not give you a wide berth.
I have yet to try the great wood at Stanmer a walk I do a lot as it gets warmer and sunnier. I was told Ditchling Beacon car park was consistently full yesterday
The main problem is joggers on narrow paths, when they are in the zone and really breathing in an out they tend to not give you a wide berth.
Dick Knights Mumm
Take me Home Falmer Road
No more questions m'lud.
Not as pissed off as if you have a dog and they're forced to crap in the house :-D
If you'd left your back garden and headed to any of the popular outdoor spaces, you'd have seen zillions.
GT49er
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I'm self-isolating - increasingly so. For instance, in the early part of last week I was still nipping in the Morrison's or Asda for essentials. More recently, I have been in my garden, walking through my practically deserted local park, and driving to the country for a change of scenery and a walk, again with no-one around. No socialising at all, and very much keeping my distance. I'll have to look to getting my shopping delivered when I start running short - but I can't believe I'm any more at risk if I continue to work in my garden rather than stay indoors watching the grass and hedges grow.
el punal
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Oh I don’t know. I can point you in the direction of a few “rough” women who would love to be taken out.
