This Christmas would you rather-

24 max .

24 max in a 51 seater coach, funnily enough I've got plenty of availability . We should do a bbs day out . Oh wait a minute though were all locked in.

 

Our Christmases are usually an international affair, which obviously can’t happen this year. We’re going with a Zoom Christmas.

 

Because people cant be trusted to follow simple guidelines of distance, sanitise and isolate if you have any symptoms then it has to be option one.

 

Option 1 for sure. But seeing as it looks like the government have decreed option 2 I'm planning to make the most of it while still trying to be sensible.

Normally pretty much all my friends would go halfway across the country to visit family. My 'bubble' (me and one other person, both living alone) are sticking around this year and doing a local xmas with one other household. We all live within walking distance of each other and are in our 30s, so the whole thing should be comparatively low risk.

Honestly, I have to admit that it's just really nice to have something to look forward to after an unbelievably tough year. The general plan is for the four of us to eat and drink a ludicrous amount, probably over three or four days. Fairly confident it's going to be completely ridiculous. I've been given a spreadsheet.

 

Why don't we all decide what to do for ourselves? If you don't think it's right to mix with other people, don't. There's nothing wrong with that. You're absolutely allowed to read the information available and make your own mind up. And if you choose not to mix with other people, you'll not get the virus. There only becomes a problem when a government dictates what you can and can't do. Choose what you want to do, all of you, and reject this totalitarian state that tells you what you can do and can't do. That's not their remit in a democracy.

 

Will and I will be doing option 1. Both our mams are shielding so we won’t be risking it with me working in a school up until a few days before. It seems a bit daft as Will’s parents have 2 of his sister’s kids who live with them who go to school and my dad works in a meat factory so they’ve been at risk all along anyway but there’s no point us adding to it even more. The 23rd is my birthday but it won’t make a difference that the restrictions are relaxed as I won’t be able to see any friends for it anyway as they’ll already have their 3 households designated with their families.

 

I'm going to attempt to get to Germany to see my wife for the first time since July. I'll be going by car via Hull-Rotterdam as I'm not going on a train or plane. Failing that it's option 1 at home.

However, things are changing all the time, who knows what rules will be in force when Christmas gets here?

 

Actual footage of Stahlrost making the long trip back to Germany:

 

But you can only give it if you’ve got it

 

Neither, lockdowns don,t work..

 

I've got to go by car anyway as they've run out of PG Tips over there, and I've run out of cheap red wine over here.

 

That's as good an excuse as any mate lol