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.

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

Wonder what a lockdown muffin would consist of, according to the rules?

The crumble is on top of the muffin.

Here you go. Yummy! (Person who called me a wanker I'll let you off)
www.bbcgoodfood.com/user/1213186/recipe/apple-caramel-crumble-muffins

Over 20000 people dead and still people are still doing their thing and treating it all as a bit of a, joke .

Why can't people just mind their own business?

Because the actions of others affect EVERYONE.

Fair point

Enjoy being miserable and sanctimonious!

Says the sanctimonious poster that decided everyone needed a reminder of the exercise rules...

😂

Totally agree with you OP I'm sick of people making up their version of the rules!

Yeah - like the OP

They've got drone footage of families picnicking in fields and are slagging them off on the news - I immediately thought of the OP 😂

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.

Ah yes, the slippery slope we’re all on to the gas chambers because people have noted the picnicking is not a permitted reason to leave home

But did any of the families on the footage have flatbread and muffins?

@sickofPPEtalk - I think they call them ‘CoVidiots’ in the Daily Mail captions by the pictures of picknicking families and the sunbathers

I’ve not been miserable once, I’m enjoying sunny afternoons in my garden, enjoying baking and cleaning and watching satellites and binging on box sets and gin & tonic and cooked breakfasts.

That’s nice for you, but I’m pretty sure the OP said she doesn’t have a garden. Personally, I can’t imagine not being able to go outside for days on end.

Going out for exercise is fine though, everyone acknowledges that. It's the gleefully laughing at people who think she's out of order for packing up a picnic everyday and 'getting out and about now' and 'isn't it great - this is the exercise rules don't you know' attitude, when clearly it's not and she's made the rules fit her own narrative and stuff everyone else.

The guidelines so say you can eat lunch whilst on a long walk. So as long as you weren't too near other people OP I don't see the problem

The crumble is on top of the muffin.

So it's a cupcake, in other words. Why not just say so.

No, it's a muffin. Are you American?

Here are some images of crumble topped muffins, in case you're having difficulty...

They're really nice. Maybe you should bake and eat some.

Oh dear lord now I want a muffin topped with crumble

Not everyone lives in England. Please don't assume that your rules affect the rest of us on mumsnet. There are other countries......

I don't. I was just responding to the weirdo who questioned my muffins...

Those muffins look lovely

I'm so tired of this endless argument. The muffins look lovely though.

@HopelessLayout
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Isn't there something to be said for following the spirit of guidelines rather than trying to find loopholes and justifications?

One would hope so, but apparently not. For some people it's all about what they can get away with.*

There aren't any loopholes. The guidelines have been garbage and NOT based on the law at all. The government shied away from legislating what they wanted as MOs were already horrified at the extent of the unaccounted power grab and that was conservatives as well

The law states in respect of leaving your house "a person shall not leave their home without reasonable excuse". The following regulation for clarity gives examples of what specifically are reasonable, ie attending a funeral.

So all of the "guidelines" produced, especially by police forces until recently were utter bollocks. Police forces here were undertaking road checks, searching car boots and checking shopping and also checking shopping trolleys on leaving stores. This is Totally and utterly ulawful and has exposed junior police officers to potential civil and disciplinary action

Then I read in forums like this the curtain twitchers making uk even more rules....so if in doubt read the legislation which amounts to two short paragraphs

I never used to be to bothered about civil liberties but this has been a shocking exercise in how quickly coercive controls can be made up.

Oh...and for the howls of protest to follow...if you need more examples, read the case of the British Transport Police who prosecuted someone for flouting the law and had to return to the court and ask the court to overturn their own prosecution as it was flawed and they had convicted the defendant under a non existent provision!!

I can see that in your eyes you stuck to the guidelines. Problem is the guidelines themselves are very vague when it comes to some things. What is considered a short time? to me personally anything longer then 5 minutes would be breaking guideline rules. I don't even dare to sit on a bench when I need a rest for a minute or two and people are actually having full on picnics would annoy me