Are driveway drinks allowed

[NotPawPatrolAgain]

With neighbours if sticking to the 2 metre rule?

Sounds great!!

We had a BBQ with our next door neighbours yesterday.
We slid a fence panel out of the posts so we could see each other and chat.
We sat at our patio table, they sat at theirs and the food went in the middle.
We were around 12 feet apart and we had a great time.

My in laws are not in the extremely vulnerable group, but have decided to stay at home for 12 weeks anyway. We are 200 miles away, so can't visit.

So we couldn't be more grateful that their lovely neighbour joins them for a coffee a couple of times a week, her safely on her side of the hedge and they on theirs. Well over two metres away. They can't hear everything she says from that distance , but they love the company.

mumsnet in the moment is a classical case study on semi-religious hysterics and cults
official advice : staywithin your household group, only go outside your property to shop for food/medicine or exercise, stay away at least 2 meters away from people

cult like following: don’t leave the house! don’t talk to people! if we make ourselves miserable, the virus will go

Newsflash: it won’t. but loads of people will suffer even more. nobody will notice that Alice across the road hadn’t been seen for a day or 2. nobody sees little Tom‘s bruises....

@myself2020 don't be talking sense now, they'll be after you with pitchforks

@custodiandiscount they already are ;)

@Myself202
Indeed. MNetters in a little bubble of froth without a shred of understanding for those bruises... and the children who are immeasurably safer at school than with parents in flats with no garden at the end of their tether with worry at losing jobs etc. No-it’s ‘I’ll be keeping Jonquil and Sebastian off as long as possible’ Please do, in fact because Jonquil and Sebastian are selfish little buggers!

I think there should be a fourth plinth for MN at the afternoon briefing, giving frother rules. In case the chief medical officer and health secretary aren’t strict enough.

We are doing a once a week morning wave along the street just to check the elderly and those living alone are really OK. There was a lot of tears, waving from windows from those who did not feel able to come out and the postman got a round of applause.

We are doing a once a week morning wave along the street just to check the elderly and those living alone are really OK. There was a lot of tears, waving from windows from those who did not feel able to come out and the postman got a round of applause.

This is so lovely!

Italian Sunday lunch

Was going to post a pic of Italians having lunch together across balconies but can’t to it 🤷‍♀️

Love the dog getting involved !

Oh I obvs can

Ffs yes you can do that. Even the government advise for the most vulnerable says you can sit on your own doorstep for fresh air, a driveway isnt really any different is it?

The police here are too busy dealing with the increase in domestic violence to be worried about me sitting on my drive having a cup of tea saying hello to whoever happens to pass.

The rules are simple: if it's enjoyable it's not allowed. Hope everyone is sitting on a spike at home.

Everyone sitting on a spike would be extravagant. At home H sits on a spike and we sit on H.

We are lucky to have a garden so spent most of the day in it yesterday with the kids playing. Our neighbours also spent the afternoon in theirs. We had a nice chat and we all had beverages. It never occurred to me that that might not be in the spirit of the rules.

Probably because the rules very clearly allow it.

No, don't be daft

FGS this is what pisses me off about the 'hollier than thou' people on here.
Of course I'm allowed to sit on my drive/in my garden and talk to my next door neighbour sitting in her garden as long as we are more than 2 meters apart. If we happen to have a drink as well - what is the problem.
Genuinely - those who say it's not ok - explain to me why not?
We have been observing lockdown to the letter but I refuse to go inside if my neighbour happens to be in her garden at the same time as me.

Ridiculous comments here. It's like saying you're jot allowed a drink in your garden if your neighbours are in theirs

For all those trying to suck what little joy out of anyone's life at the moment, please try and educate yourselves on the spread of this infection and the reasons for the current rules. (I'm especially incredulous of the NHS 'family member' who is equally angry and asked 'does this behaviour increase the risk to the NHS' to which the answer is an emphatic NO it doesn't .!!

So just for all you fun sponges here are the reasons not to go out (as in off your property which includes gardens, driveways and garages if attached to the property. ;

This virus is spread through droplets . From person to person and via surfaces touched through an infected surface.
If you leave your property, you could be infected and touch a surface. Then another person touched that surface.

If you are out and about someone could also come within 2 m (the most extreme distance of a powerful cough) and infect you.

If you are sitting on YOUR driveway drinking Whisky, Knitting, playing hopscotch or dancing the fandango in your pants, there is absolutely no more increased risk than if you are sitting in your garden or on your sofa. PROVIDED the 2 m distance is maintained at all times.

Enjoy and please don't take any notice of the eye rolling and venom on here about this. It is simply written by people who obviously don't understand why we are doing what we are doing and have got all angry when they see people trying to make this bearable.

Absolutely fine OP..

The One Show showed a group of @ 8 neighbours meeting every morning for coffee and chat last week, all from their gateways and drives, and at least 2 metres apart..
Reckon if its on prime time telly it must be ok aye?

< disclaimer, there wasn't anything else on at the time >

It was my daughters first birthday on Saturday, my mum can and sat at the top end of our garden for about half an hour and we wall drank some wine.

I've seen a lot of YouTube videos of similar.

You obviously can't share a bottle but a lot of people seem to have forgotten that social distancing doesn't mean that you are forbidden from doing stuff like making eye contact, saying hello and smiling at people not in their household.