Are driveway drinks allowed

[NotPawPatrolAgain]

With neighbours if sticking to the 2 metre rule?

Those attention seeking driveway dancers need locking up anyway!

Hmm. I think I will be cautious and not do this anymore. I don't want to upset the neighbours, everyone gets on well generally and I don't want to be the cause of bad feeling.

I had driveway drinks at weekend. DP washing his motorbike, me in deckchair, dogs lying in sun. Didn't speak to anyone, wasn't less than 3 meters from passerbys. What's the problem with that? I stayed at home.

If you ask mumsnet, all you can do is sit in a dark room with water and (maybe) porridge and be quiet. the more miserable you are, the better.

the official rules are: you are only supposed to leave your property for medicine, food or exercise, and keep distance of 2 meters from people not in your household
sitting on your own driveway, 2 m away from everybody, is well within the official rules (and common sense)

You can do anything you want on your own property.

Have a BBQ, wash your car, be happy. If your neighbour is doing the same thing at the same time it’s no fucker else’s business.

You can really tell who the class busy body and snitch are on here at times like this

Why do some people insist on making up shit, do you seriously believe that the guidelines say no unnecessary activity? Think about it, how would that work? Come back and tell us what you do all day with only necessary activity.

Maybe where I live is some kind of unique area (clue, it isn't) but everyone is stopping to chat to other people on their exercise walks, no one is avoidong 2m distant talking. I even walked down a street where the neighbours were all gardening yesterday and having a communal chat, all within the rules.

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Read through the many posts on this page showing residents of various streets coming out on to their driveways or front gardens to exercise together, have a cuppa together, dance together. All whilst staying apart to save lives.

Sticking together whilst staying apart.

Of course what you’re proposing is fine.

Nice try OP, but NO. Stay inside. Get sozzled alone.

btw, we don’t need to minimise social contact, we need to minimise contact leading to virus transmissions. as long as you are far enough away from each other, no harm done!

If the MNazis have their way, singing on Italian balconies would be banned because it constitutes a gathering

I can't see what the difference is if one neighbour is in garden planting and the other mowing the lawn, or the same neighbours are sitting down in own gardens with a coffee talking. They are the same distance away.

I literally do not see the issue with this. How is it any different to me sitting in a garden and the neighbours sitting 2 metres away from me in theirs?

Or do what my DH and our neighbour do. Sit in the middle of their own back lawns with a beer and shout chat over the 6ft high fence. The distance from their chairs to the fence is more then double 2m I reckon. Or is that not allowed either?

Don't forget that on mumsnet, if you buy a bar of chocolate and a bottle of wine when you shop you've just killed a key worker's elderly parents.

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My neighbours do this weekly. I think as long as you stay on your own drive it sounds like a nice way to keep in contact.

I think we're going to be social distancing for a long time. It's better if we can find ways to keep in contact with each other which maintains physical distance but prevents people feeling isolated.

Well, if someone did get drunk and start getting too close, the benefit of you being in your own driveway is that you can just go in your house to get away from them! You're not responsible for the actions of others but can control your own.

Op dont let the Loons on here spoil your plans. These are the curtain twitchers reporting their neighbours because they bought an Easter egg with their weekly big shop .

Bit of common sense, increase the 2 metres if it’s breezy. Don’t worry about upsetting neighbours. We are so deprived of human contact it’s not healthy and you never know you might make someone’s day just to see other people chatting and laughing.

Are you on your own property?
Are you 2m+ from your neighbours?
Then you are not be breaking rules.
Stay home is to minimise contact with others when 2m is difficult to enforce -e.g shopping, queues. Going out for exercise once a day also minimises contact but allows some physical health benefits. But being out for exercise means you might come within 2m of people - they might cough or sneeze on/close to you. You might touch metal gates on which the virus is.

On your own property, over 2m away from neighbours means that these risks are massively cut.

The rules are for safety not to prevent any sniff of fun.

@IamNotDarling - wow, your curtains must be permanently twitching!

I would definitely sit on my drive having drinks with my neighbours who are over 2 mts away. I would even laugh, joke and smile.

I wonder what the lockdown police are going to do when this is over?

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If we are not miserable as fuck we are doing it wrong!

It’s no social gatherings, you are allowed to chat to your neighbours as long as the distancing is appropriate ffs! OP is not holding a party, and neither is she stepping foot off her property. Everyone is bringing their own drinks so no cross contamination. Go ahead (If you haven’t already)
Even the queens speech showed a clip of neighbours out on their driveways!

I think its about being sensible. If you can guarantee you will just sit more than 2 m apart from your neighbours - fine, I see no issue. The risk is the unpredictable nature and recklessness that comes with sun, drink, chat and humans. Chuck in a few kids, balls going astray, dogs and I can see it going tits up. Personally, I wouldn't risk it because I know how scatty my kids can be I and I couldn't relax! Why risk health for a drink?

So by the fun police logic, anyone in flats is not allowed on their balconies at the same time, or even speak to them

There were ‘driveway drinks’ on my road yesterday, which ended abruptly when the police arrived!

I didn’t join in as I’m at the end of the road with a large hedge surrounding my driveway so I don’t know if any social distancing rules were broken, but I guess someone must have been concerned to call the police.