Great News!

[teacake44]

Pollution levels way down, massive improvement, mainly due to the reduction of air travel. Hope it continues!!

[gulliver1]

22.32, Classified , Bobbi.

[teacake44]

NJ, Your main concern from the beginning of this pandemic in my view has mainly been focused on the economy, and especially the hospitality industry, who I think most would agree have taken the brunt of the financial loss.

Your post @22.01 more or less validates my post at 21.26. While I believe you do spend your fair share within the UK, on other than hospitality, or very little compared to what you would if you went abroad, is the point I'm trying to make. If you're that concerned / sincere about the hospitality industry within the UK, then with respect, put your money were your mouth is, as they say, and support such when the restrictions are eased. A staycation in the UK is going to be even more valuable in the coming months because there are no doubt going to be thousands less tourists coming to the UK from other countries. So anyone who may have the funds at home for a holiday should look to support the UK economy.

Looking ahead I can't really see holidays abroad getting off the ground this year , and even if they do, it won't be the same as you may have experienced in the past, my feeling is that restrictions all over will be in place for some time to come yet. That sun drenched beach is a long way off, in the real world at the moment.

[teacake44]

Prudie 21.51. Your attempt to list businesses that will benefit from you having an holiday abroad is really scraping the barrel. They are all geared to promoting holidays abroad. We want the money to be spent here.

[New Judge]

//If you're that concerned / sincere about the hospitality industry within the UK, then with respect, put your money were your mouth is, as they say, and support such when the restrictions are eased.//

I don't think you quite understand, tc.

I (normally) spend an awful lot of money on hospitality in the UK. As soon as it is permitted, that spend will resume and will probably increase as I will give a bit of extra custom to those businesses which I like to use and which have survived (which is looking like being an increasingly small number day by day).

What I will not be doing is supporting businesses in places I do not want to go to. I don't take extended holidays in the UK. There's nowhere in the UK that I want to spend more than two or three nights. I will still do that as occasions arise. Basically, as much as I want to support UK businesses I am not going to do so by spending time in places I don't like. It's not my fault they've been compulsorily closed and it's not theirs either. But I'm not going to rescue them from bankruptcy by spending money in places I don't want to frequent. Their usual customers can do what I am going to do in the places I usually visit - they can up their spend a little to help them recover. But if I don't go abroad the money I might have spent there will not be spent here. My altruism only stretches so far.