To let family camp in the garden?

[pastaparadise]

Ds has asked if she and her dh/ kids can camp in our (large) garden this weekend. They live 4 hours drive away and want to see both us and our dm (who lives very close to us). Unless they drive up and back in a day, they need to stay overnight.

I thought that we would camp too. Our kids are too young to reliably socially distance (between 3 and 7 years), but adults could keep a distance, our garden is large, can keep indoor trips to toilet only (we have 2 bathrooms) to minimise risk.

They don't want to camp in dms garden as it's quite small. dm is physically well but early 80s so they don't want to go in her house.

Dh thinks iabu - they shouldnt stay with us as it increases our risk of catching cv. but I dont think camping increases risk compared to just seeing them for the day with kids playing. We're due to holiday near the same place to them in a few weeks (coincidentally) and he was happy with the idea of seeing them outside on a few occasions then. We havent seen them since New Year and i would really like dc to see their cousins. None of us are shielding/ vulnerable.

AIBU to allow them to camp with us?

@msbevvy

Not mentioning in your initial post that you are in a lockdown area makes the voting results unreliable.

You are not allowed to visit other people's gardens in the lockdown area, let alone camp in them. Can't your sister delay her visit for a few weeks until the situation is hopefully improved?

It hadn't been imposed when the OP originally posted.

OP - the minute it's lifted, arrange for them to come over unless your DH is staying locked in the house till Christmas

When i posted yesterday i had no idea this was coming. We're miles away from where the clusters on the news have been reported.

We won't now go ahead as technically it's illegal, even though i dont think we'd be increasing any risk, but I'm so pissed off with him. He's an introvert who's never particularly welcoming of guests (even though dsis and bil are lovely), so he's happy as larry with lockdown. He also doesn't really like his own family so doesn't understand why i want to be close to mine. I feel most sad for dc as my dsis family are the only extended family they really have (dm has dementia so interacts less snd less).

Sounds like he's using "the rules" to get out of seeing your family.