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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

road2ruin said:
Brian, out of interest is that official government advice? Reason I ask is that we’ve got a UK trip booked for the 27th July and this would be welcome news for us!
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I’m not 100% sure, I’d imagine it is, I’ll ask the wife as she deals with everything to do with the holiday cottage and let you know ??
 
BrianM said:
I’m not 100% sure, I’d imagine it is, I’ll ask the wife as she deals with everything to do with the holiday cottage and let you know ??
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We are due to stay in Fort William in August.
Cottage owner originally cancelled all bookings but was back in touch last night to say he is prepared to reopen from the date you quote if guests still want to stay.

As you say cleaning is the issue, so he is proposing shorter stays to allow for a thorough cleaning of property.
 
saving_par said:
We are due to stay in Fort William in August.
Cottage owner originally cancelled all bookings but was back in touch last night to say he is prepared to reopen from the date you quote if guests still want to stay.

As you say cleaning is the issue, so he is proposing shorter stays to allow for a thorough cleaning of property.
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I would ca canny with that and wait for an official announcement
At the moment tourists from south of the Scottish border may only travel 5 miles...….Gretna and Berwick will be busy then.:love:
 
saving_par said:
We are due to stay in Fort William in August.
Cottage owner originally cancelled all bookings but was back in touch last night to say he is prepared to reopen from the date you quote if guests still want to stay.

As you say cleaning is the issue, so he is proposing shorter stays to allow for a thorough cleaning of property.
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This is our thoughts as well, we’ve just ordered a steamer.
All cushions to be removed, all books removed, DVD’s removed, leaflets removed and the list goes on....
We normally gave ourselves 5 hours to do a turnaround but we will need longer than that now.
We are scanning all documents / instructions into PDF and sending them with welcome email.
 
I dont know where i sit on the impact... So good work by Govt on furlong pay... but hearing more about redundancies now. From where i sit, i think Companies thought this would be over quickly and worked on the cash, but now it is catching up that new world not going to be the same for the rest of the year. So more redundancies coming up. it may further fall off the cliff if there is the second peak. God help us
 
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Mudball said:
I dont know where i sit on the impact... So good work by Govt on furlong pay... but hearing more about redundancies now. From where i sit, i think Companies thought this would be over quickly and worked on the cash, but now it is catching up that new world not going to be the same for the rest of the year. So more redundancies coming up. it may further fall off the cliff if there is the second peak. God help us
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I’m not sure furlough was ever going to stop redundancies entirely, it was just to prevent the double whammy of lockdown plus being out of work. Hopefully the numbers that lose their jobs will be less however I can see many people losing jobs in the next 3 months and there will be plenty of companies that never open again.
 
My lad on the phone to his mum this afternoon - in tears reflecting on how, just as he had got all his debts and problems sorted and under control - and with a really exciting 2020 ahead - it's all just completely crashed around his ears and he has no idea when his work will ever get up and going again...and of course my wife in tears listening to him.

He was reflecting on how it has come to pass that in a period of 3months, from the future looking bright and exciting with the promise of a decent solid income - to about £55 a week left after rent, power and water paid - to run a car and buy food, drink and everything else - and having to look to go to his local foodbank...

Anyway - to help him keep going we have decided to help him in his attempt to get going on the on-line music production front - paying for him to get his music productions published and promoted on various on-line music and download sites (inc Youtube and Spotify...). Meanwhile he can look into 'what next' as it looks like his 'dream job' is kaput - at least for a good while.

And he will be far from alone. It really is very difficult and desperately crushing and upsetting for us all - as it will be for very many others out there.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
My lad on the phone to his mum this afternoon - in tears reflecting on how, just as he had got all his debts and problems sorted and under control - and with a really exciting 2020 ahead - it's all just completely crashed around his ears and he has no idea when his work will ever get up and going again...and of course my wife in tears listening to him.

He was reflecting on how it has come to pass that in a period of 3months, from the future looking bright and exciting with the promise of a decent solid income - to about £55 a week left after rent, power and water paid - to run a car and buy food, drink and everything else - and having to look to go to his local foodbank...

Anyway - to help him keep going we have decided to help him in his attempt to get going on the on-line music production front - paying for him to get his music productions published and promoted on various on-line music and download sites (inc Youtube and Spotify...). Meanwhile he can look into 'what next' as it looks like his 'dream job' is kaput - at least for a good while.

And he will be far from alone. It really is very difficult and desperately crushing and upsetting for us all - as it will be for very many others out there.
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Sometimes (and many times as a consultant) I have had to tell businesses that the 'first loss is the best loss' and the things they plan for the future will soak cash and may not improve. Do your research or you will end up throwing good cash after bad because having sunk one bunch of money it would be hard to stop and easier just to add a bit, then add a bit more until you wake up one moring and you're broke.

You and your son might want to take a hard look at the business/industry he is in. Your investment might be better spent on training him in another area. When things improve and after he's saved a bight of cash then he can get back to his musical ambitions. (there are training for machine operators, fork lift drivers, truck drivers as well as diggers and construction kit - they may not be at the top end of the pay scale but often they can provide a reasonable wage much higher than the £27k average and the courses are not that long/expensive). The music and entertainment business is full of kids from those already in the industry prepared to work for nothing and supported by relatively wealthy parents with connections.
 
Massive discussions about bubbles with grand parents demanding they have a bubble despite being relatively socially distantly active. The real victims are the children, my son is an only child. He hasn’t had other children to play with for 3 months .. where as adults have been able to socialise by talking to one another at a distance, which is not what children do. So yeah I am annoyed with the grandmother who doesn’t interact with him on any level is demanding her right to have a bubble without thinking beyond herself.
 
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