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Post by WDB on Jul 8, 2020 8:27:15 GMT
We came to a decision last night: that France isn’t worth the bother, risk and expense when most of the party aren’t even sure they want to be there. It’s also apparent that holiday lets in appealing parts of the UK are filling up fast as more people reason like us.
So France is off, but we’ve found a nice — if expensive — let just on the Welsh side of the border, with access to some good outdoor things and enough comfortable spaces indoors for us to spread out and read if it rains all week. Yes, one week only, but it’ll be a change of scene, which is what we all need more than anything.
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Post by tyrednexited on Jul 8, 2020 8:33:02 GMT
...seems sensible to me (except the bit about it being Wales!  ). Weather is everything - if you get some sun, with a bit of garden and a BBQ, everything should be good. |
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Post by Humph on Jul 8, 2020 8:53:27 GMT
Which bit of Wales?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2020 8:57:18 GMT
BBC News: Home Counties families shunning foreign holidays are arriving in their droves to holiday in the beauty spots of Wales Attachments:
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Post by Humph on Jul 8, 2020 9:10:14 GMT
We've been going through the same agony, normally we go to France too around now. I received an email the other day from the owners of a campsite we've often been to where we've rented a static caravan. They were at pains to say that they've got all manner of precautions in place to ensure the best possible safety and for us to please come.
Like you and yours though, it's difficult to get everyone on side about the whole thing. Couple that with my having been furloughed during April and again in June and July with the resultant restrictions to my income, it's seeming increasingly likely that our holiday this year will be in a rather nice house on the outskirts of a pretty little market town in Cheshire, that we know quite well. It has a south facing back garden, a barbecue, plenty of room for all of us and is handy for outdoorsy pursuits over the border in Wales.
The owners keep it quite tidy, and it is decorated much to our taste, so it should be fine. We're not limited to any timescale on it either, and we can just use it as and when.
Remakably good value too, and it comes with the use of three cars and a selection of bicycles.
Not ideal, but it may have to do.
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Post by EspadaIII on Jul 8, 2020 11:57:13 GMT
Humph, any sign of trade picking up for your company now shops are re-opening?
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Post by Humph on Jul 8, 2020 12:10:16 GMT
Aye well, it's all a bit curate's egg at the mo. Online retailers have actually had a bit of an uplift during the crisis, while of course the "High St" has been closed. Some activity on the street now since re-opening, but well down on the same period last year. I'm starting up again as of the 1st of August when we'll be inviting retailers to place their orders for Spring/Summer 2021. I guess that will be the test. Some retailers have simply stored their Spring 20 stock and will re-introduce it next year, so demand for Spring 21 stock could be limited by that a bit.
It's going to take a long while to wash through.
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Post by EspadaIII on Jul 8, 2020 12:42:01 GMT
Hopefully enough trade to keep you working even if its just breaking even.. If you are available to take calls and do some business, then you won't lose what might just 'walk through the door'.
We have taken that view that some people are worth bringing back to improve general office mental health and efficiency even if the business case is not totally justified. Others will stay on furlough until made redundant..
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Post by Rob on Jul 8, 2020 12:47:04 GMT
>> Others will stay on furlough until made redundant..
Be careful there. You can't use the furlough scheme to pay wages during a notice period. You would have to repay that. Check the small print which apparently has changed recently. At the end of the day it's a job retention scheme.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2020 13:01:50 GMT
Aye well, it's all a bit curate's egg at the mo. Online retailers have actually had a bit of an uplift during the crisis, while of course the "High St" has been closed. Some activity on the street now since re-opening, but well down on the same period last year. I'm starting up again as of the 1st of August when we'll be inviting retailers to place their orders for Spring/Summer 2021. I guess that will be the test. Some retailers have simply stored their Spring 20 stock and will re-introduce it next year, so demand for Spring 21 stock could be limited by that a bit. It's going to take a long while to wash through. Well I don't know about anyone else but now that I'm not going to be going to an office for work, I'm going to be buying fewer shoes and clothes. Not that I bought that many anyway, but for sitting around in the house then everything I currently have will do until it becomes transparent or falls apart. Thinking about it I haven't put a pair of jeans on since March. |
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Post by Humph on Jul 8, 2020 13:17:28 GMT
That is already a trend in the market. Trade in women's clothes and shoes has held up astonishingly well, but men's has more or less collapsed for now. In truth, I've bought nothing since March for myself, but the Amazon/Asos/Next etc delivery drivers are still showing up here with monotonous regularity. Sometimes I commit the sin of questioning the necessity for this, but it's a bit like being Canute on a beach.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2020 13:25:59 GMT
I was just idly thinking as I got dressed this morning, that my formal shirts and jackets will now probably last beyond my retirement. I was a great fan of T.M. Lewin shirts as they were relatively inexpensive for a reasonable quality manufacturer from which you could order differing sleeve length/collar size combos - I find most off the peg shirts too long in the sleeve for my neck size (Yes I iz a chonky boi of Highland build). I wonder if they'll disappear entirely now? No biggie to me of course, I probably will never need such garments again.
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Post by Humph on Jul 8, 2020 13:29:25 GMT
Although, a formal shirt, untucked, sleeves rolled, over a pair of shorts and boat shoes ( never trainers by the way ) can look cool.
Sorry, just reverted to type for a minute there...
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Post by WDB on Jul 8, 2020 13:32:52 GMT
The only clothing I’ve bought has been for cycling. That hasn’t stopped the various clothing suppliers who have my email address bombarding me with ideas for the ‘perfect work-at-home wardrobe’. I mean, seriously? I don’t wear my beach or gardening clothes on work days but nor am I going to buy a whole new set of shirts and shoes just to sit in my front room.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2020 13:33:46 GMT
Although, a formal shirt, untucked, sleeves rolled, over a pair of shorts and boat shoes ( never trainers by the way ) can look cool. Sorry, just reverted to type for a minute there... 😉 You are Don Johnson AICMFP. I own no boat shoes, and do not envisage purchasing any. I do own a boat, but not that kind. |
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