Thank Goodness The Weather Is Due To Change

[pastafreak]

Bournemouth and other beaches can hopefully breathe a huge sigh of relief...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8458527/Sunworshippers-face-burning-maximum-UV-strength-rays.html

[ummmm]

Do these people not have gardens? I know the sea is lovely but it's not going anywhere. It'll be there on the next sunny day.

[pastafreak]

I don't have a garden, but a crowded beach is my idea of hell.

[jackthehat]

Blackpool beach/prom is absolutely heaving. There is barely a place on which to put your foot down :o(

"Second-wave CV-19 virus coming to a town near you......very soon."

[Mamyalynne]

It looks like hell to me too, I have never liked crowds anyway and to have everything you need on a hot day on a beach you need a pack mule in my experience.

[ummmm]

I've been to the park today. That was enough.

[pastafreak]

Scary...but probably true, JTH.

[pastafreak]

So was I ummmm...at 8 am with the dog. 22° and getting busy even then.

[Buenchico]

The risk of contracting Covid-19 aapears to be far lower outdoors than it is indoors. (A Chinese study, based on contact tracing, found that out of 5000 people with the disease, only one person had caught it outdoors).

For some unexplained reason, it always seems to be the same beaches that attract thousands of inconsiderate litter louts. (Any editor of a national newspaper, looking for a story about littering and other anti-social behaviour on beaches, knows that getting photos from Durdle Door, Bournemouth and Brighton will almost certainly allow him to fill some space on the front page of his journal). Other popular beaches don't seem to have the same problems. Despite theoretically 'shielding', I was at Clacton's Martello Breach yesterday, which was certainly busy. However everyone appeared to be courteously social distancing guidelines and I saw many people either taking their litter back to their cars or walking some distance along the promenade to dispose of it; I didn't see a single person leaving any litter on the beach at all.

[jackthehat]

///I didn't see a single person leaving any litter on the beach at all. ///
If I could be bothered, I would take a stroll along the prom about 9.30 tonight and take photographs of the rubbish left behind. Based on other recent nice days, it won't be pretty...... :o(
And the stink of urine-soaked paths and brickwork would challenge the strongest of stomachs.

Blackpool (and other resorts) get unfairly stigmatised because of the behaviour of visitors to our towns......like so much in lkife, it's not terribly fair.

[AuntPollyGrey]

I've never heard a beach breathe a huge sigh of relief :-)

[jno]

"Twitter users claim furlough scheme should be stopped because too many staff off work are going to seaside"

that'll teach them... off to the soup kitchens with you! And queue nicely when you get there.

[bednobs]

"Any editor of a national newspaper, looking for a story about littering and other anti-social behaviour on beaches, knows that getting photos from Durdle Door, Bournemouth and Brighton will almost certainly allow him to fill some space on the front page of his journal)"

or her. I hear women are allowed to work now too chris - although who's going to cook the tea god only knows

[pastafreak]

Don't nitpick APG... ;))
...there's always a first time.

[Buenchico]

>>> or her. I hear women are allowed to work now too chris

I was going to write "him/her", Bednobs, but I couldn't recall any woman who were actually doing the job. (I don't count Victoria Newton, as The Sun isn't a newspaper; it's a comic).

I have to admit that I rarely think about the Financial Times when my mind turns to national newspapers, otherwise I'd have remembered that Roula Khalaf is in the hot seat there nowadays.

Alison Philips seems to have more of an executive role than a traditional 'hands on' newspaper editor would, as I can't really believe that she personally approves all of the content for the Daily Mirror, the Sunday Mirror and the Sunday People. I suspect, for example, that it's Kevin Maguire who's in charge of most of the day-to-day decision-making at the Daily Mirror.

I've got excuse for forgetting about Katharine Vine at the Grauniad though!

[Togo]

The great British Summer. Get the dheads off the beaches and back into work where they belong.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/bournemouth-sunbathers-left-33-tonnes-of-rubbish-on-coastline-in-one-day/ar-BB15XQuY?li=BBoPWjQ


https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/exmouth-beach-mass-brawl-with-up-to-200-people-as-horrified-families-look-on/ar-BB15XGBJ?li=BBoPWjQ