"I think they said about sitting in a bench with a sandwich as an example or something yesterday (gov)"
Ooh, a sandwich! Careful now!
I like the hip-flask idea.
Have had a breakthrough with very anxious DM. She is still worried about a woman she saw coughing in the Co-op, but she is now on board with meeting one friend at a time "for exercise" (ie walking in the park). She now thinks lockdown has gone too far, & agrees with DF who has refused to shield again if asked to do so.
We also had a chat on the phone about how we feel we've become domestic drudges. Pre-covid we rattled through the chores, we weren't at home a lot so the house stayed cleaner for longer. It was easier to ignore housework because there were other things to do outside of the home.
Now there are people at home all the time, they make a mess. It's hard to hoover when someone else is in a zoom meeting. There's less places to go to escape the mess so we clean it up, partly to relieve the boredom. Then there's the making sure that there's enough food just in case. It doesn't matter how domesticated the rest of the household is, the bulk of the chores fall to us. We both married men who are blind to untidyness, & who make more mess when they clean up. Neither of us do extra cleaning because of covid- well, she wipes the shopping.