So this is Semi-Lockdown Day 3

[kathyh]

We didn't rush out to the pub or anywhere else on Saturday, mostly because we don't go to pubs that often anyway and the one nearest to us is closed still. We did order a delivery from our favourite Italian restaurant last Thursday and J wished them luck for their re-opening on Saturday. They were, apparently, nearly full which is good news as I

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[kazzy_cee]

Anyone who has worked at the Beeb has to be good in a crisis (real or imagined by arty people!) ;)

Our main High St is mostly restaurants - they've put some barriers on the road so that people can sit easier outside and pedestrians can walk off the pavement onto the road and avoid the people seated.....

[kathyh]

Anyone who has worked at the Beeb has to be good in a crisis (real or imagined by arty people!) ;)

Too true :) In our case it was usually journalists screaming at us to find them a clip which they knew must exist even if they had absolutely no information about it!

Our main High St is mostly restaurants

What used to be the main road through Croydon divides into three. North End is where most of the shops are, the High Street has a mixture of shops and offices and South End is where the restaurants are. Up until very recently anyone coming shopping in Croydon would wonder where on earth we ate out as there are very few restaurants in North End. North End is already pedestrianised so it wouldn't take much to pedestrianise the rest.

[archaeologist_d]

We've only been doing take out because the covid deathrate is so high here. My govt is pretty much shit at coping with it and is actively talking about ignoring it as if it doesn't exist. Lots of people are going to die.

[kathyh]

I don't think our government has distinguished itself in its handling of covid but at least they acknowledge it exists. I won't feel comfortable eating out for quite some time but it does sound as if restaurants are following good safety procedures. We have cooked a lot but are getting really bored with it now so as well as take out we've found some very good frozen meal deliveries.

[curiouswombat]

Oh - I rather like the idea of a Restaurant Quarter!

[kathyh]

It is very funny as we are pretty much the last place you would expect to have one. The idea does work quite well though as most of the local restaurants are there and for the last few years (apart from this one) they close the road for the last weekend in June and have a little food festival with street food and restaurant tables on the pavement. It works well in another way because as there is so much competition if a restaurant lasts in that area longer than a year then we know it is a good one.