Are driveway drinks allowed

[NotPawPatrolAgain]

With neighbours if sticking to the 2 metre rule?

Who are all these people saying no? So I can't sit in my garden with a glass of juice and speak to my neighbour who is cleaning her car in her garden? What a load of tosh!!! This doesn't mean you can't sit in your garden and speak to neighbours who are sitting in theirs. Give me break!! Incidentally her garden and car are 6 meters away

Is the driveway your property ?

Then yes. It's the same as yelling over the fence.

@TheLadyAnneNeville so those singing on their balconies on Italy?

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

www.livescience.com/coronavirus-can-spread-as-an-aerosol.html

We have been told to remain within our own households

Yes. Our own households. Gardens/drives are part of our property and there are no restrictions on being outside, in our own properties.

HTH.

I have a spike, but I've been using it to poke my neighbours with when they try to say a polite hello to me. Don't worry. It's 2m long and I completely cover myself in cling film all over before I do it.

They definitely say hello less often than they used to.

For those saying OP shouldn't do this, what do you do if you are in your garden and your neighbour comes into her garden? Do you rush inside your house?

I’m sticking to the rules before anyone starts but I can’t see what the hell is wrong with this.

Live in a little cul-de-sac, next door neighbour senior in local police and working very hard. We all have large front driveways, no small children in the equation - guess who's already suggested we do 'driveway drinks' one of these fine evenings? Yep, the senior policeman!

Whoever said 'social distancing' is a misnomer is right. It's 'physical distancing' that's the bit that matters. Being sociable, with common sense, is essential for morale - nothing wrong with 'driveway drinks' if no one is within 2m of everyone else, and everyone is respectful with regard to disturbing the others in the road by being too loud, or getting drunk (which no one's even thinking of - it's a couple of beers/glass of wine/g&t and a chat sitting on chairs)

I love my neighbours!

caperberries

So you don't go in your garden if your neighbours are also in their garden?

Why are people incessantly looking for more and more workarounds, rather than trying to work to the guidance and the spirit of the guidance.

Has nobody seen the state Boris Johnson is in atm? Well, if we carry on being twats, there are a lot more people in his condition.

Ask yourself is it really worth risking infection just to have some drinks. If you have a drive, the chances are high that you'll have a garden - use it! Stay safe and stop messing about like 16 year olds trying to push the envelope with Mum and Dad. It's so daft!!

@Namechangedforthisreply7

Ok, so I'm going out if the house now only to buy food.

However, as I went out to the car, my neighbour waved and said 'morning'.

So as not to socialise in any way shape or form. I made sure to wear a motorcycle helmet and my "fuck off socialisers, saying hello kills people"

Naturally I burn the helmet on my driveway before entering my home after my food shop.

And naturally, I have a bleach filled tub in the doorstep, where I strip bakrd, add my clothes to the fire, have a bleach bath, step inside my house, dry myself off with a towel, which also gets flung onto the bonfire.

Literally no risk of infection.

Untrue.

If there was NO risk of infection, people with confirmed CV, could do this too. There’s a reason they’re told to stay indoors.

The virus does not measure 2m then dissolve. It was found all over the sho, for example, places far more than 2m from peoples mouths or places that would have been touched.

Stop trying to find ways to get around the rules. FFS People are dying because you can’t not resist doing 101 stupid things. STAY INDOORS & when you must go outside stay away from others, don’t work out how to socialise with them bending the rules.

Enjoy your own garden if you have one, but don’t be chattering away with the neighbours - keep your breath & CV to yourself

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

What’s the point of the two metre distance then?

I’m sticking rigidly to the rules because if anyone I know, near me becomes seriously ill/dies I can honestly say, I have done the right thing. Others don’t care about that.

No, what you mean to say is you have chosen to interpret the rules in a certain way & clearly it's difficult for you so you want others to do the same.

I live very close to a large London hospital & lots of staff live on my road, we have done similar to the OP. Your saying that the staff who do this don't care?

That's a link to unproven, non-peer reviewed research. The reference to the choir practice where a number of people were infected is not relevant as choirs do not stand 2m apart in order to sing together.

Stop trying to find ways to get around the rules

There ARE NO RULES about what you do within the bounds of your own property.

What bit of that do you not understand?

@wowfudge then you clearly haven’t read any scientific discussions on what we know about the virus (little) nor have any friends/relatives who operate in any scientific field who you are discussing the issue with. 2m minimises but does not remove risk. It’s the distance to be maintained as a minimuM, in passing, when out of the house.

Knock yourselves out though. And I’ll raise a glass to you when none of us can go out at all later this week because selfish people didn't know anyone directly at the coal face and thought ‘oh fuck it’.

@caperberries

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

www.livescience.com/coronavirus-can-spread-as-an-aerosol.html

Exactly. There are several sites with that message, but the majority on here don’t want to listen. They’d rather be smart arses and take the piss

If I lived next door to some of the miserable people on this thread I’d have put a bullet through my head long ago.

For those saying that we’re going to end with a full lockdown like Italy/Spain by simply having a drink and maintaining social distancing. Italy and Spain throughout the lockdown have been on their balconies singing to their neighbours. Italian and Spanish police aren’t stopping people singing on their balconies.

Social distancing means actually physical distance between those of different households. It doesn’t mean we need to cut off all our social connections. This means we can talk, at a distance, to people.

When sitting on your balcony, can you talk to the neighbour on the next balcony?

@AmelieTaylor

What's the fucking difference between being in your back garden and chatting than being in your drive???

Do you honestly go inside from your garden anytime a neighbour pops out???

It's airborne. It won't respect 2 metres. 2 metres is the minimum you should be near anyone if you have to pass/ interact with them. If you stand 2 metres from people for any length of time, airborne particles will be shared.

If you have a drive, the chances are high that you'll have a garden

What's the difference? We have a driveway which has grass running alongside it, so it's half driveway and half garden. Or do you mean back gardens and are assuming that wooden fences will keep it out?