Leicester lockdown

[Mortblanc]

[MaryN]

Yes, MB, I am sure it seems illogical. However, Leicester has quite a high proportion of BAME folk, and their tendency to gather in large groups has been problematic. There are other cities in England that are having the same problems; they are also under lockdown in localized areas. (Shrug!).

[Mick]

I was born in Leicester and lived there most of my life until I decided to get out 20 years ago.

[bigpaul]

what made you come south Mick? and to a city?
the same city I left the same time you left Leicester!

[Mick]

what made you come south Mick? and to a city?
the same city I left the same time you left Leicester!

My sister and her two daughters moved to Plymouth many years ago but I hung around in Leicester with my elderly mam, then when she died in 1999 my sister said "come down to Plymouth now there's nothing to keep you in Leicester", so I packed a rucksack in May '02 and hopped on me bike to cycle the 240 miles to Plymouth over the next few days.
But i took ill about halfway (underactive thyroid made me feel like a sluggish cold-blooded reptile) so i donated my bike to a charity shop in Cheltenham and hopped on a National Express coach the rest of the way.
BTW, I've discovered it's always warmer in Plymouth than in the rest of Britain because the city is lapped by the warm waters of the gulf stream coming up from the caribbean, it soon helped cure my thyroid because i could bask on warm rocks along the seafront..

PS- here's a couple of webcam pics I took 5 minutes apart last month, Plymouth Hoe (half a mile from my home) is warm and sunny but Dartmoor 17 miles away in the other pic is snowed in, as were some other areas of Britain-

[bigpaul]

its always warmer on the south coast, and in a city its warmer still because of all the buildings, the concrete retains the heat.
I lived in the city for 40 years, man and boy, I left in 1999 when I remarried, I now live north of the moors.

[Mick]

[Mick]

[bigpaul]

[Pete Grey]

.........obviously the further North one travels the colder it gets, its colder in say Northumberland than it is in Devon,the last really cold winter down here was 1963 I remember seeing the Army drop Hay to the ponies on the moor from helicopters.
our winters seem to be getting warmer and warmer, temperatures post SHTF wont be an issue in a few years time.

Judging from the way our weather appears to be going we can expect very dry summers, verging on drought, and very wet winters bringing floods, and the occasional short lived snow storm.