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Personally I'm worried about the economic impact, I rent holiday cottages in Wales for a living. We get nearly all our bookings from the big four online travel agencies (we rather get direct but that doesn't happen anymore). Already we have had contact from them stating we must allow people to cancel at last min and issue full refunds. With the first case near to me (Swansea) it's an easy way for people to change there plans at my cost. It's been a tough winter and with the recent floods which saw a landslide onto one of our cottages, a few months without bookings would finish us. My wife is also self employed as a child minder.
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4 hours ago, Astral Goat Juice said:
No Sorry, does not work like that. Imagine the scenario:
You phone 111 because you have been in contact with someone you think or know has the Coronavirus. 111 will tell you to self isolate. You phone work and say you don't think you are sick but you have no choice but to comply with Government Statutory Law and self isolate for 14 days. You will be tested by the NHS, it comes back negative, you are not sick and are free to return to work. The employer has to pay you in full. I can't put it any more plainly.
According to the legal experts on Radio 4 today, The employer does not have to pay you anything unless you are actually ill, complying with the law on isolation is irrelevant. You are able to make a claim for universal credit though for that period (if you can be bothered with all the form filling)
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Might need a bigger shovel... my house this morning
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Disaster!!!!! my local is flooded....
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So many rivers are at record high levels..
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On 05/02/2020 at 08:14, Sky Full said:
A beautiful sunrise this morning holds a promise for a nice day ahead - maybe a couple of nice days this week. But is this the calm before the storm? The outlook for the weekend and beyond is for high winds and heavy rain to return to the west again so make the most of the settled weather this week. At least we are in the tail end of winter now and Spring is just around the corner. Can't wait!
Stunning earlier..... now for the storms..
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November in the Swansea valley a few centimeters for a few hours!...........since it's been like spring....
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No Christmas snow, but treated to a delightful sunrise complete with an inversion on christmas morning. Hope everyone is enjoying the break. No doubt Jan and Feb will deliver like its 1963..... probably
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16 minutes ago, Jackfrost said:
Heavy, settling snow here for the last hour or so. This is a little unexpected, especially as Derek Brockway on Wales Today promised snow above 400-500 metres only just an hour ago!
I'm at 78m ...lol got about 2 cm atm
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Its my Birthday today and guess what i got Hello Winter!!!!! sticking now...this could be awesome
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As its quite, here's a few pics from the past few weeks around swansea..... right who's off to hunt for wet snow in the Beacons later?
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Sunday ....maybe...
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Not negativity, but harsh reality, been snowing for hours but so light with so little progress inland i can't see the next fronts making any progress, game over for us in Pontardawe. To hills at the weekend....
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Think this is going the way of Brexit! that second front is stalled over Devon...
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rapid fall in temp now 0.4, but nothing except a small bit snizzle ....yet
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13 minutes ago, Jonathan Rhodri Roberts said:
Now this is strange according to the radar it's been raining here for about 30mins, except when I went outside everything is still dry
Yep, l looking out over a wide area at 250m height, it's dry as far as the eye can see...weird
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3.5 here but dropping slowly...
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18 minutes ago, thetipster said:
seems about right
Dam you lot stealing my snow with your mountains....
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57 minutes ago, Sky Full said:
The Euro high definition models are showing copious amounts of snowfall for the Beacons tomorrow.....snapshots of forecast snow depth at 2:00 am Friday morning:
Thats 30cm showing in that first chart! Pretty sure it won't actually happen quite like that though....
Nearly 30 cms now on the higher bits...
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Haven't looked at the models today....hope they are as good as my walk today
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BBC goning for valleys as main area just now, also Scandavian high development later, could be a cold Feb
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lets hope thurs don't go like today, made this just now..
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It's gone very cold now, maybe tonight the valley will get lucky..
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Novel Coronavirus – China
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Thanks Nick. I thought that too at first, but like the recent storms the big OTAs just let customers cancel without any notice, and tell us to suck it up. We didn't have any flooding in our village recently which was explained to our customers, but many still cancelled half term breaks because it was wet and they had an excuse for a refund. Seems like everyone has an excuse now.... i'm worried about that virus, please refund, had 2 today. My cleaners have also raised concerns about cleaning after our italian and chinese guests....hmmmm