Are you planning to visit your holiday home?

Variety is the spice of life, etheltbags

Lisagran will you be taking your marvellous jugs on the camping holiday??Tha’ niver knaws what flowers are a growing locally.

Ethelbags, you also don’t have to spend all your holiday doing maintenance.

lemongrove that’s a champion idea. I’ll get on to washing and packing me jugs right now.

lemongroveWed 13-May-20 22:24:16
Lisagran will you be taking your marvellous jugs on the camping holiday? ?

WHAT????????

We are lucky enough to have 2 houses. Neither one is a holiday home. We have shared time in both. We were at our Suffolk Home when lockdown started so we stayed there. Not sure when we will go back to our Essex home. We want to abide by the rules., but we’re not sure what they are?

I know some people who live in holiday areas are not happy about second home owners as they say we have pushed up the prices of properties there to a level beyond the reach of locals.

I think that’s a valid point, but it’s not the whole story is it?

When we are there we shop locally. We eat out in the restaurants, pubs, cafes, as well as using local tradesmen for any jobs which need doing.

All of that contributes to their economy.

“Marvellous jugs “ ?!!?

lemongrove has long been an admirer of my jugs (of flowers), MawB

Just a little frivolity......

Our second home is a two hour drive and in the Lake District so no I don't think we will be visiting just yet.
We were in the process of selling it and it looks as if it may go a* up because not even the solicitor is working from his isolated office.

I'm wondering if it would be easier to say like in France people can only travel 100km from home. By putting a distance on it that stops people going out of their home area. Those from Paris with second homes on the coast certainly won't be pleased, the French live for their long summer break.

Disrespectful at the moment, to stay in an area that isn’t your home. Government guidance is not to move into second homes. If everyone did that, it would be chaos and it would be so much harder to track virus impact locally.

We are on the Guardian Home Exchange web site - you can swap either your main home or, if you have one, your second home, with someone else. You both have a holiday in a new place this way. Now the Guardian Home Exchange is part of a scheme which is offering health care workers free holidays after this is all over (when will that be?) Lots of people are signing up to give free holidays this way - I hope it will include people working in care homes and giving care in people's own homes.

Lisagran - I too love your jugs of flowers!

Going to your holiday home is fine if people have a house where they do not have to come into contact with neighbours. In Bournemouth there are several blocks of flats where people have second homes. I would like to think that people will be sensible and remember that there are many retired people, often in the at risk category, who live there permanently. Sadly, the last few weeks have shown there are people who think rules do not apply to them.

Boris has caused problems and possibly increased theorist of spreading of the infection. Why did he say that people can drive as far as they like as long as they are back home the same day ? This was totally unnecessary and will surely cause more accidents, breakdowns and increase crowding at popular places. Silly move.

As someone has already pointed out the message is clear, "Stay home as much as possible and no to visiting holiday homes." Common sense is not something everyone has and people interpret what is said how they want.

Etheltbags how I agree with you. When we sold our house in England to move abroad we did ponder for quite a while whether to buy a smaller house in England for when we visited the family. But being an accountant I decided it wasn't worth the expense of the upkeep to have one. So we have the freedom of staying wherever we want when we visit. It can be fine to have a second home if it's not too far away but not so good when in another country.

@J52 You say you would be completely self-sufficient that is not entirely true if you need hospitalisation while in your second home. That is the rub … that may be taking up the place of a local for whom the hospital was built This is true of everyone who has a "beauty-spot" second home in the UK.

Oopsadaisy3 That is awful about your daughter having to move out for holiday makers. Surely that isn't allowed even with the new freedoms. Are they going to turn up, spend a day in the accommodation the leave and come back the next day. Deposit or not sure it is breaking the law. Hope DD's treatment goes well.

It’s a shame the government has not followed the rules itself but has somehow managed to wriggle out of blame. Boris in Chequers and the one who claimed his main residence was hundreds of miles from his constituency and from Westminster.
They are not really setting the rest of us, with more modest means, a good example. On reflection this applies to most Governments most of the time!

Sorry to put a dampener on this conversation but although you can now drive as far as you want ( but not to Scotland or Wales) the journey still has to be essential although travelling for exercise which now includes sitting on benches, sunbathing and playing golf is clearly included. It might be possible, however, to use the former Scottish Health Adviser’s defence that it is essential to check on the property and carry out routine maintenance!

I think telling people they can drive anywhere is crazy it's probably been said so MP can go to theirs although I can understand people wanting to go check on their homes .

Anyone needing hospital treatment away from their main home takes up a hospital place. We have a National Health Service free at the point of need.
I didn’t know local hospitals were only built for local people.
Heaven help anyone travelling and involved in a road accident. Should they be sent back home to their local hospital?

I am SO looking forward to visiting my lovely home in Cumbria, however living in another country I cant see that happening for a while, but if I lived in the UK I wouldnt go there anyway as it is against the rules, but oh will I be glad when planes start flying and restrictions are lifted generally.I really miss my home.

You're right J52, but if everyone came to Cornwall to their holiday homes there is only one smallish hospital, Treliske in Truro, which couldn't cope with the addition of Covid19. JenniferEccles rightly points out that the locals need the second home owners and holidaymakers to come and eat out and spend money, but until that all starts up again they are seen as a nuisance and a potential burden.