Are driveway drinks allowed

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With neighbours if sticking to the 2 metre rule?

No, they're not.

No

So long as you are all on your own driveways I think it would be OK.

Yes it’s fine, why wouldn’t it be

No they’re not! It’s a lockdown.

On your own driveways, drinking your own drinks, maintaining distance. I don't see the issue.

It's a lockdown.

Are you going outside for exercise, to travel to work, to collect medicine or to attend an emergency appointment+

As in you stay on your driveway with your own separate drinks and then them on theirs ? if enough gap seems ok. Could be tricky with kids to stop them interacting, but otherwise not why not. Will other neighbours appreciate loud merry shouting to each other ? Yep they probably would love something new to twitch their curtains at.

If people are allowed to be on their driveways then they are allowed to have drinks on them. Ignore the competitive lockdown-means-no-fun lot on here.

No... And anyway, it would be annoying for the other residents of the street.

My friends are both police and have done this !

As long as you're on your own driveways and more than 2 metres apart I think that's ok.

Wow, a mixed response so far. I hope new lockdown rules come in to play to make things clearer for people. Officially no rules are broken with the current guidance, is that not right?

I think we need a comprehensive thread with all the kinds of safe fun Mumsnet has decreed to be against "the rules".

Look East on Friday (I think) featured a road where the neighbours 'met' at 11am daily for coffee. They all stayed on their drives or front gardens and shared a chat over coffee. This was presented as a positive thing. Obviously they all lived there so no unnecessary travelling. It looked very chilly...

Ffs of course you are allowed to sit in your front yard with a beer, and if your neighbour is out in his more than 2 metres away you are allowed to speak to each other.

The rules are quite clear: if it’s not essential don’t do it. “Driveway drinks” is not an essential activity. I’m so angry at seeing people doing this & posting on SM about it over this weekend. If you’re desperate to see friends there are plenty of tech methods available to you.

I’d go out back instead and chat over fence if you feel the need. It feels like a flout and last week a very same set up descended into drunken chaos where distance wasn’t maintained and ended up being publicised.

The rules on social distancing are designed to prevent gatherings. You are trying to create a gathering. Ask yourself if it’s within the spirit of the rules and you’ll probably come to the right answer.

I have no idea on the technicalities of this, probably yes because you’re on your own property blah blah. But these kind of unnecessary, selfish actions are what will ultimately lead to a more strict lockdown.

I don’t see why that would be an issue. In my village everyone is having conversations at a distance over fences/driveways etc.

You can use the outside area of your property you cannot go onto other people’s. no different to sitting in tour back gardens.

We have low fences in our garden the same height as the fences/walls between our driveways. I don’t go inside when the neighbours are sitting out in the garden.

@EdinaMonsoon so you aren't on Mumsnet telling people of then? Because you don't NEED to do that.

To the people saying No.

Why not?

Presumably if you go into your garden,and your neighbour comes out,you head immediately inside?

Or you just leave your front door to go shopping,but your neighbour is happening to be mowing their front lawn, you go back inside and wait for them to finish before heading out again? Then you go out again, and your other neighbour decides to return from their daily walk...quick, turn around go back inside.... Right, you've checked for rogue neighbours, waited for that fog walker to pass by, scramble the the family and head out to the car, eventually you get to Tesco,and sit in the car waiting for nobody else to be around....

I really don't understand why people feel like there need be incredibly specific requirements about exactly what is and isn't acceptable. Even if something isn't expressly prohibited, the spirit of the law is that you shouldn't go outside unless essential and you shouldn't socialise with people outside your household. It's a lockdown, it's not about finding a way to obey the letter of the law while still doing whatever you want.

If you are on your own property you haven’t “gone out” have you?
Or our mnetters not even hanging up washing.

Honestly save the lockdown line for those fools sunbathing and holding parties.