Coronavirus Regulations UK: What is permitted and prohibited
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Apr 2020
4:24pm, 19 Apr 2020
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Tim of MK
Or are the called After Eights now? No idea. Just buy and gorge
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Apr 2020
7:36am, 20 Apr 2020
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larkim
@weath I agree, as enthusiastic runners it's easy to forget to draw a distinction between running for exercise Vs running for performance. So while there are no restrictions on how far, long or strenuous our runs are, if we want to keep it that way when we head out and do a long run, or a cyclist does a 100m day ride, we should do it with a degree of discretion and avoid rubbing everyone else's noses in it by being vocal about our "need" to do it and our "right" to do it. It's just a courtesy - we can more or less continue as we ever did (though no races), plenty of other sports enthusiasts have had their mental health-supporting activities severely curtailed and they don't appreciate being reminded that not everyone is in the same boat. |
Apr 2020
8:00am, 20 Apr 2020
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Non-runner
I’m just doing laps and intervals round a rugby field rather than pre-lockdown long, scenic linear routes. More but shorter sessions. I tell myself it’s no different to track work and is much easier to avoid people.
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Apr 2020
8:35am, 20 Apr 2020
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um
[ Tim - how can you confuse Mintolas and After Eights? Mintola are the cubes. They become After Eights when you tread on them. ] |
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Apr 2020
1:05pm, 20 Apr 2020
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Tim of MK
Thanks. I am a Mintola cube man. Buy them in local shop and eat them on the nearby local beach. What better? A little treat in tough times. |
Apr 2020
1:20pm, 20 Apr 2020
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Badger
Wikipedia reckons they've been called After Eight Bitesize for years. en.m.wikipedia.org Says something for when I last ate one. |
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Apr 2020
2:45pm, 20 Apr 2020
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Tim of MK
Always called them Mintola, but they are indeed now After Eight. Or perhaps "Essential Shopping" is a better name just now
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Apr 2020
6:49pm, 20 Apr 2020
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57.5 Degrees of Pain
Not quite on the thread topic, but aren't After Eights themselves bite sized? I'm not a chocolate expert, but I do have my big fingers in lots of mouths under normal circumstances (purely in a professional capacity I should add!).
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Apr 2020
6:52pm, 20 Apr 2020
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swittle
Always a frisson of excitement when seeking an 'After Eight' in an opened box: had someone returned an empty envelope in the hopes of disguising their greed? 
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Apr 2020
2:14pm, 22 Apr 2020
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jda
An important change to regs that I've just seen mentioned on Twitter: it will no longer merely be unlawful to *leave* your house without good excuse, it will be unlawful to *be* outside your house without good excuse. That in principle means you can't combine non-essential errands with essential ones, and must return as soon as the essential task is complete. Which probably makes sense in some respects (the original reg was poorly drafted) but is a bit of pain in the arse for all the useful and quite important things that may not rise to the level of essential from the POV of the law. Until now, you didn't have to parse them so precisely, you could just combine them in one trip with another legal activity. legislation.gov.uk |
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