Are driveway drinks allowed

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With neighbours if sticking to the 2 metre rule?

OP how could you?!

For the last 3 weeks Ive not left the house once. Ive not been selfish & gone out to get non essentials like milk as I have plenty of cobwebs to eat & once they are gone I will turn to wallpaper paste. I sensibly sit in my chair & stare at the wall for most of the day so I reduce my risk of an accident in the home & overwhelm the NHS. I also restrict social media & phone texts to 1 hour a day to leave the networks free for the emergency services.

Common sense needs to be used but there does seem to be a lot of people making up ‘rules’.

Such as, I keep reading that some people are insistent that you can only have 1 hour of exercise a day. I’ve looked and looked to see if this is the case and have seen nothing anywhere saying this to be true. Once a day yes, but nothing about 1 hour max. Common sense needs to be used of course and no taking the pee.

Ask a nurse?

Oh & my chair is in the middle of the room as i'm in a terrace & need to socially distance from people in neighbouring houses as I sometime hear them brushing against the walls so they are not maintaining the 2m rules.

seems ok to me - otherwise the Queen made a big mistake last night encouraging all those NHS clappers to come outside at the same time....

Surely a driveway is like a front garden, is anyone saying that you can't use your front garden?

Seriously? You cannot just Stay home Protect the NHS Save Lives? Are you joking? FFS. Drinks on the drive. Heard it all now. Some people must be so bored with themselves and their lives.

A CHAIR, Blackadder? A CHAIR? At home we have a SPIKE. Nathaniel sits on the spike and I sit upon Nathaniel. TWO spikes would be an indulgence.

@mochajoes, you SLACKER!!!

You should be doing your duty and sitting next to the curtains as you twitch them, glaring disapprovingly at anyone who looks like they are not suffering utter misery.

Should anyone sit on their own driveway and dare to drink in unison with others sitting on their own driveways, thus creating human connection and (NOOOOOOOO!) enjoying themselves, you should be posting it on your social media (during your 1 hour, obvs) and coming onto Mumsnet to call them idiots.

Remember, it isn't about germs spreading. It's about completely demoralising people - and we all have our part to play!

doodleygirl

Not at all - posting for clarity. The law is clear - you are allowed to use all of your property!

Fed up with people making shit up!

A CHAIR, Blackadder? A CHAIR? At home we have a SPIKE. Nathaniel sits on the spike and I sit upon Nathaniel. TWO spikes would be an indulgence

I love this, it sums the cv dementors up perfectly. Anyone found the clip?

It's totally fine.

Too many people are interpretting lockdown to mean 'make sure you are totally fucking miserable, and if you aren't, you aren't trying hard enough'.

If and when we come out of this there are going to be a shitload of people with MH issues, ranging from minor to major. Allowing people to do things like sitting in their own gardens talking to a neighbour who is also sitting in their own garden might help with that, and I defy ANYONE to demonstrate why people shouldn't be able to do this.

Why do so many people seem incapable of using common sense?

Of course its fine OP as long as everyone's sensible - you are not leaving your property.

Wow, lot of fun sponges here. We’ve all been in our gardens most days chatting (at a safe distance). I suppose that’s not necessary and we should all be sat inside looking sad?

You can use your front garden, this doesn't count as 'going out' - your front garden is your property.

If your neighbour is in their front garden as well, you are not banned from shouting chatting with them from 2 metres. If you both have a glass of wine/brew in your hands, it's ok to drink them.

I think the joyless fuckers are the ones who will really cause the bigger problems - if you insist on a type of lockdown that means people are miserable and can't cope with it, then there will be mass ignoring of the rules. And no, we don't have enough police and army to enforce everyone staying indoors if it really is the majority ignoring the rules.

The rules need to be acceptable to most, particularly as most people will not be that sick if they catch Corona. It's got to be sustainable for a long period.

I don't see why not.....you're on your own property, at least 2m from other people.....
When the guidance says go out, it means go "out out" not outside your front door! The fun police will be telling us we can't even go to put the bins out next.

I think the people saying 'No' are assuming that you and your neighbours are going on to each other's driveways, which would be against the regulations. If you are on your own driveways, then you haven't even 'gone out', so you don't need to worry any more than you would in your own back gardens.

There's a lot of people spewing crap and expecting people to obey their opinions.

It doesn’t fall into any of the permitted categories.

I’m certainly not hysterical about any of this but just fairly straightforward and rational. We are told DO NOT socialise with anyone outside of your own household. You would be socialising in this example.

I’m not sure it would be possible to guarantee no one came within 2m of eachother. It only takes one for a potential transmission, and then to another, and then someone goes to sainsburys and someone else goes to Tesco etc etc and so it continues.

The rules are there to break the transmission, not to make our lives a misery or to make it a competition.

Of course it's ok to sit on your own property and have drinks - where's the difference between that and your front garden except the ground type your chair is resting on. All those saying no, on what are you basing that answer?

Fuck it, I'm going to invite my neighbours to driveway drinks now off the back of this. Possibly tomorrow, it's due to be a bit miserable here today...

ladyanne she IS staying home. Please can you explain specifically for the OPs scenario why she can't do what is proposed.

thelady stay home doesn't mean stay inside.

Ignore the self-appointed lockdown police. It's very very simple. Do not get within two metres (six foot) of anyone you don't share a house with. As long as you're not doing that, you are breaking no rules.

Presumably non of the “it’s not allowed cos it’s not in the rules ” brigade ventured out of their homes to clap for the NHS the other night.

It doesn’t fall into any of the permitted categories.

The permitted categories all relate to leaving your home.

Neither the OP nor her neighbours will be leaving their home.