To remind people of the exercise rules

[Orangeblossom78]

Keep seeing all this stuff where people are making up their own rules and telling people off! we were even glared at while having a family picnic on a long walk yesterday! Please stop with telling people off when they are within the guidelines.

Here is the current situation, as updated about a week ago.

What are the current rules when it comes to exercise in the UK?

Daily exercise, including walking, running, cycling, tending to an allotment or doing yoga is allowed.

You are allowed to drive somewhere to take your exercise. The guidance says, ‘it is lawful to drive for exercise.’ However, ‘Driving for a prolonged period with only brief exercise’ is also deemed ‘not likely to be reasonable’. The rule of thumb? You’re allowed to drive somewhere to go for a walk or run as long as you spend much more time walking than you do driving.

Exercising more than once per day is likely to be allowed if you have a ‘reasonable excuse’ for needing to leave your home.

You are allowed to sit and take a break from exercise, say, on a bench or sitting down in a park. However, this must be for a short time only and, as before, you must spend markedly more time exercising than resting.

@LaLaLandIsNoFun you haven’t read the OPs posts have you? You are actually agreeing with the people you are arguing with. You wrote a common sense would suggest that ‘likely’ is indeed there to suggest that stopping to eat food and staying there for longer than it takes to eat a couple of sandwiches and a piece of fruit, for example, WOULD NOT be a reasonable excuse
The OP says their walk was about an hour and their picnic about 20 mins - so longer than it would take to eat a couple of sandwiches and a piece of fruit, and in a walk where it would be reasonable not to stop at all (unless you had disabilities, which I feel confident the OP doesn’t as she’d have told us by now if she did).

OP you're a goady one, very much part of the problem. Crack on finding your loopholes and lecturing, I'll just sit in with my miserable children weeks longer. You're a prime example of why I'm not enjoying taking exercise, bravo.

OP stop behaving like a mature responsible adult and follow the government guidelines and more importantly the mumsnet stasi rules.

Think for yourself can only end in tears....

Sorry not read the whole thread but you are definitely being unreasonable when you say those are the rules for the UK. Wales has different guidelines which have just been clarified today.

Just reporting back to say we've just eaten our lovely houmous halloumi and pepper flatbreads and apple crumble muffins on a log at the edge of a field. They were delicious. Haven't seen a soul on our walk through the fields and woods, but then we are lucky enough to live rurally so we can do this sort of thing, which I'm very grateful for. I left out the living rurally bit on my first post to annoy the picnic stasi

Ps I also took a can of gin and tonic and craft beer for DH, and a sugar-packed fruit shoot for DS!

Mother of dinosaurs

I think you’re fine provided you don’t enjoy yourself.

Remember it’s important for people to feel that their lock down a harder than your lockdown......

@cardibach it’d take my autistic son about 20 minutes to eat a couple of sandwiches and a piece of fruit - all of which can be done whilst keeping your distance from people.

Oh ffs no one said don't enjoy yourself, just don't be a c*nt making everyone go around you because you want to interpret rules to suit yourself?

So picnics are fine as long as people don’t have to go round you, otherwise you’re a c*nt.

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@LaLaLandIsNoFun we aren’t taking about your family but the OPs. She hasn’t revealed any autism in her family. She talks about a picnic which takes up about a third of the time she’s out. Seems unreasonable to me.

Here we can see why a further lockdown is needed, British people are thick as shit and think the guidelines don't apply to them.
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These threads are so funny, people frothing about walkers, cyclists, cats, dogs, children.

My advice do you own thing, whether it is taping up your windows, bricking up your doors, or enjoying this glorious weather, your choice.

In 1940’s Germany the governments ‘guidelines’were to capture Jews and send them to concentration camps.

Government guidelines can often prove to be very wrong with hindsight, best to use your intelligence and act as a adult.

Completely agree justasking

Because that's exactly what I said isn't it . Obviously there is a bloody difference between being somewhere completely remote and being smug about your gin on a log and having a picnic somewhere public enough to gain glares from the people around. Both are breaking the rules. Which is being a dick, but obviously if you're in the more public place then you're in the way of others who are just trying to flipping exercise as they are allowed and yes that does make you much worse.

Picnic stasi you say. How can it be a picnic without a greggs sausage roll and a bottle of lager. None of your fancy Dan craft ales and houmous.

Many golf courses have public footpaths running across them so cannot be closed off.
My own club has a lot more people walking across it than usual as there is no danger of being hit by golf balls!

This is the case near us, we are taking walks across the golf course as it is now safe to do so with no flying golf balls. There are numerous rights of way so not doing anything wrong.

No where in the real world would an hour be described as a long walk.

Is that the real world where people drive their children two streets to go to school, which everyone claims not to do on MN?

In 1940’s Germany the governments ‘guidelines’were to capture Jews and send them to concentration camps.

Oh do fuck off. That is completely different and you know it. That is an utterly disgusting comparison to make.

I take a fairly relaxed interpretation of the rules but even I would 🙄 at a "family picnic", especially if it occurred after one (!) hour of walking.

Just reporting back to say we've just eaten our lovely houmous halloumi and pepper flatbreads and apple crumble muffins

Cor!

In principle I agree:

There have been threads on here with people getting mega salty at people having their nannies back at work, or having building work done - both of which are clearly now allowed.

BUT - having a picnic for 20 mins on a one hour walk? I can’t see the point/seems a bit deliberately contrarian as it’s in public/not in the privacy of your own home. Plus, your tone is goady AF and makes you sound like a dick.

Crumble in a muffin. That's surely taking things too far.

Haven't read all the thread. The key criteria to me is - 'am I presenting a risk to anyone?' not am I following the (poorly thought out) rules to the letter.

Today, as every day since lockdown, I drove to a nice location a few miles away and walked my dog for hour and a half. I took sandwiches and a flask of coffee and sat on a tree stump to eat them. I saw a few other walkers and maintained a good many metres distance away.

In a while I will take dog out again for an hour's walk to the park and dh will take him out for a short walk last thing.

None of these actions will have presented a risk to anyone so I don't care whether they fit with the rules or not. I also don't care if the OP wants to have a picnic or how long it took them to eat it compared with how long they walked. As long as they kept themselves away from others it is fine.

Is that the real world where people drive their children two streets to go to school, which everyone claims not to do on MN?

This.