Can you Dad come for Christmas from London?

[friendlyflicka]

He is 89, just had first vaccine, hasn't seen anyone all year. He is desperate to come to me. I am a single parent not bubbled with anyone else.

Dad was due to come on Christmas Eve in a pre-booked black cab with partition etc. I was going to drive him back from Somerset on Boxing Day.

I am not asking whether he should come. He is aware of the risks and is adamant he wants to come.

Is it legal? I would definitely deem him to at 'extreme risk of loneliness' and he has aged a lot this year and I thinks considers this Christmas could easily be his last. I have offered other way round: for me to come down for a day before Christmas but he really wants to come to me....

@friendlyflicka

Thanks very much. Maybe there will be more guidance tomorrow.

For those saying 'is it worth the risk?' I have tried to make other arrangements. For him who is a very clever and aware man, he clearly thinks it is worth the risk. The alternative, if it is still legal, is that I refuse to have him. Would you do that to your totally alone 89 parent who is obviously desperate for some company?

Of course you should see him. What on earth is in it for him to be alone at the ripe old age of 89.

He's lonely. Poor chap.

OP get him over to you, and don't feel bad about it at all. It was stated today by the PM that bubbles still stand, and he needs you. Who cares what the curtain twitchers say?

I’m mostly of the following the rules brigade but in this case I would proceed as long as the travel arrangements are doable.

I’m gutted to not see my parents but a. Despite being old there should be many more and b. They have each other.

Ps whereas tenuous he’s your dad so I would count him as a support bubble