Are driveway drinks allowed

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With neighbours if sticking to the 2 metre rule?

@BestOption I don’t h see stand how you have your own rules though that no one else is being told?
If it’s so important to not even go into the garden and say hi to a neighbour why isn’t that the rules ?

We had drinks with the neighbours, us in our garden, them in theirs and chatted across the fence over 2m apart - this is absolutely fine. I wish people would stop trying to be complete martyrs here. It's lockdown not prison. Be sensible. Don't annoy the other neighbours by being loud and stop worrying about the Mumsnet jury, it's bringing out all those who hate others having fun in droves

FFS, the whole world is in a Pandemic. Millions of people will die and you cannot just stay inside for a fucking fortnight.

Just stay in at home, not out in.

My sister is a physiotherapist, she is almost 70 but is working hard to clear the lungs of patients who have not Covid19

My neighbour is a doctor & was chatting to me yesterday morning whilst we did some gardening in the front.

Just stay in at home*

So now we can't even use our gardens? Why? Because you said so?

@Hyrana my mum is a frontline nursing sister and my uncles a GP. They have both been out in their respective gardens having a gin or two and saying hello over the fence to their neighbours

Your sisters profession is totally irrelevant

The rules state we can go outside.

@Hyrana can you please show us where government are saying we have to stay in our houses and can’t go in our gardens?

Yes it's OK

if you each stay on your own property and keep 2m between households

If you think someone may be temoted to mingle, or share bottles, then of course don't
but it's fine if you are sensible

I saw my GP out walking on Saturday.

It's such a shame people can't be trusted to behave with common sense and follow the spirit, as well as the letter, of the law.

"Staying at home"

Home includes your own driveway and garden
(if you are fortunate enough to have these)

So you can stay out all day and all night there if you want

@Hyrana
Just stay in at home, not out in

You what? People are allowed out into their gardens still, you know!
(Unless self isolating/showing symptoms then should be indoors)

What you can't do is invite anyone else, from outside your household, onto your property

(obviously delivery people, posties etc may visit briefly)

What you can't do is invite anyone else, from outside your household, onto your property

Exactly - nothing wrong at all with being sat out in your garden/on your own driveway if you have them.
Just don't invite anyone else round whether it be neighbour/friend/family.
Just people who live in the house should be there.
Hyrana sounds like they want us all to be sat in the house with the curtain shut and not even venture at all though

venture out that should read

If the govt / public health advice ever becomes that we must all stay indoors, then of course we have to follow that

However, that is not current advice, let alone law

Fresh air and vitamin D are all thought healthy, even without the probably additional exercise
and currently outweight the tiny, tiny risk of being outdoors for people not in high risk groups

I don’t see how this is any different from people in Spain and Italy meeting up on their balconies to sing and dance or play an instrument. Keeping spirits up is important. How is sitting in on your driveway different from sitting in your garden?

We are at the bottom of a cul de sac, yesterday OH and two neighbours shared a beer and chewed the cud from their own drive ways. I took a pic. Was last of the summer wine watching them. Compo Howard and Clegg, the wives did not have the same itch. It is harmless.

We sat in our front garden yesterday and the neighbours opposite sat in theirs - we enjoyed a chat and our own respective drinks with the road between us (we live in a very quiet culture de sac) so we were more than 2 metres apart

Some people like Hyrana seem to be suggesting by the rest of us not creating a whole new set of self-imposed even stricter restrictions are somehow disrespecting anyone working in the NHS.

@Hyrana

*FFS, the whole world is in a Pandemic. Millions of people will die and you cannot just stay inside for a fucking fortnight.

Just stay in at home, not out in*

Where did you get a fortnight from? When have we been told 'Stay in at home'?

Unless you can back up your opinions with something factual, you've really no business swearing at people.

believe the official advice says something about not socialising in gardens, and this amounts to the same

Not only is this wrong but DM's shielding letter positively encourages getting outside into the garden if available. My drive is part of my garden, don't know many people travelling to get to their driveways.

If cigarette smoke can waft across from one driveway to the next, what's stopping the virus from doing the same?

Physics.

I take it the ones complaining are not going shopping, putting out bins let alone going into their gardens?? Otherwise you are obvisually breaking your own rules, are you going to ring the police on yourselves?

My neighbour is a nurse and was out drinking in the garden and you know what they fucking deserved it

@Hyrana it will be longer than a fortnight, that's why self imposed stricter limits will make it even more unsustainable. There is nothing to say you cannot go out into your garden, front or back as long as you are sensible and observe social distancing from neighbours. Physical health is important, as is mental health.