Reply to: South African

[SueEllen]

Well the South African variant is now in Wales, Liverpool and Bristol.

In Wales it is link to foreign travel.

[Scruff]

It was of its time (1986) and actually was part of a movement that changed South Africa mostly for the better.

I went in 2008 and it was a whole lot better than I expected. But seeing the armoured and armed personnel carriers in the apartheid museum was chilling.

My south African friend tells stories that are scary.

Don't come round my house then...

[vetran]

Sorry for causing a woosh!

I was being smutty

OH I see, you can only watch it in 16:9.

I do worry sometimes that video would offend but its like "sing if you are glad to be gay" it was art pushing culture in a good way.

[ladymuck]

It was of its time (1986) and actually was part of a movement that changed South Africa mostly for the better.

I went in 2008 and it was a whole lot better than I expected. But seeing the armoured and armed personnel carriers in the apartheid museum was chilling.

My south African friend tells stories that are scary.

Sorry for causing a woosh!

I was being smutty

[vetran]

I don't think I want to see that video

It was of its time (1986) and actually was part of a movement that changed South Africa mostly for the better.

I went in 2008 and it was a whole lot better than I expected. But seeing the armoured and armed personnel carriers in the apartheid museum was chilling.

My south African friend tells stories that are scary.

[vetran]

You just couldn't control yourself....

I was like aTw at a nut fest.

[ladymuck]

You just couldn't control yourself....

I don't think I want to see that video

[SueEllen]

Is it time?

Spitting Image - I've Never Met A Nice South African (With Lyrics) (HD) - video Dailymotion

You just couldn't control yourself....

[vetran]

Is it time?

Spitting Image - I've Never Met A Nice South African (With Lyrics) (HD) - video Dailymotion

[SueEllen]

It isn't care, she already has care hence the direct payments, basically there is a support service for it, but thinks my wife can short cut it, which she can't.

You said in an initial post your wife could help but now you are saying she can't as it is to try and queue jump.

[Gibbon]

It isn't against the law to provide unpaid care for someone else.

Guidance for those who provide unpaid care to friends or family - GOV.UK

It isn't care, she already has care hence the direct payments, basically there is a support service for it, but thinks my wife can short cut it, which she can't.

[Gibbon]

Her and her mate can book a covid test online (no proof required that they have symptoms before turning up for the test) and if both negative form a support bubble. Can't spread covid if they don't have it.

My gran is in a support bubble with my parents despite living hundreds of miles apart, so she can go visit several times a year. Them's the rules.

But we already have another support bubble, you can only have one AFAIK.

[Hobosapien]

In my experience more people aren't following the rules this time. One of my wife's best friends is having a terrible time at the moment, she has a husband with dementia who has no/reduced daycare and somehow she's messed her direct payments up and expects my wife because she's high in Adult Social Care to go into her house and sort it out! My wife is well torn between following the law and protecting me and also helping out a longstanding friend who has always been there for her.

Her and her mate can book a covid test online (no proof required that they have symptoms before turning up for the test) and if both negative form a support bubble. Can't spread covid if they don't have it.

My gran is in a support bubble with my parents despite living hundreds of miles apart, so she can go visit several times a year. Them's the rules.

[SueEllen]

Even if she wasn't protecting me its against the law, and if she got caught it would be all over the local papers at least and cost her job. What I'm getting at people think its ok to break these laws if you have persuaded yourself you need to.

It isn't against the law to provide unpaid care for someone else.

Guidance for those who provide unpaid care to friends or family - GOV.UK

[Gibbon]

If she is protecting you then she can't help her friend face-to-face.

Even if she wasn't protecting me its against the law, and if she got caught it would be all over the local papers at least and cost her job. What I'm getting at people think its ok to break these laws if you have persuaded yourself you need to.