Lockdown conditions in France

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Ive seen lots of threads with people worrying about lockdown.and how they would cope/ it would be enforced.

Last night, following the President's announcement I received a text message from the government confirming the lockdown for 15 days and linking to a site with details.

From 12 today we are only allowed out to go to work if work from home isnt possible, buy groceries, see a doctor, help elderly/vulnerable family in need (with reminder about barrier actions), to let a dog do its business or for individual physical activity close to home.

Each time you need a paper dated and signed explaining why you are out. Infringements are fined 38-135 euros. The paper can be downloaded and printed, shown on your phone or just hand written.

100 000 police and army personnel are being deployed to enforce the conditions.

No mention of how children can exercise. Just that parks etc are closed and there should be no family or friends gathering.

We are going to test going out early for run with 1 DC each and hope that is allowed in "individual activity". If its not I ll stand on the doorstep and watch them run up and down the road (2 highly active boys living in a flat....)

@Roseau18 thank you, they're definitely stuck then!

Id say your parents are better off staying where they are anyway - less.risk of getting the virus than travelling.

Thanks for all the eggy suggestions. We don't eat sugar so sadly a lot of the delicious sweet things are off, but the gougère looks fab. I found a recipe where you put ratatouille in it and we have quite a lot left in the freezer from last year so that will work. I will also do a salade niçoise and make the mayonnaise.

Missclimpson I have 2 hens who lay 2 eggs a day so I make a couple of cakes a week plus a quiche - my current favourite is salmon and broccoli, the smoked salmon cheap off cuts are fine, and it's a good way to use 3 eggs. Lardons not required!
Managed to get some organic local flour yesterday, it's all that was left on the shelves. Other shelves are also starting to look rather bare, although thankfully there is still plenty of fruit and veg.

MadameF we have so far avoided all shops and only used Drive so the fruit supply has been a bit patchy, but we have been getting salmon and have the first of our own purple-sprouting broccoli so that quiche is a great idea. I think DH will venture into our regular organic shop next week and get some flour. We make all our own bread so always carry a good stock but we are using a bit more than usual.

this is delicious www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/egg-recipes/shakshuka-my-style/

Yes we love shaksuka. I usually do that with our own ratatouille too.
Thanks for the reminder, will have it for lunch today. 😊

Flour is the one thing that is starting to be in short supply here. We always make our own bread but it seems like everyone else is now starting to. No bread flour in the supermarket this week (2 different supermarkets) though I did pick up some plain flour.

Anyone recommend a nice gougere recipe? We usually buy them but the boys love cooking and love gougeres so win win!

Preferably the plain cheese version although also the vegetable one upthread please

Flour is difficult here too although i always have 3 packets in the cupboard anyway so I haven't been impacted yet

Flour is going to be an issue for us soon. Local bakers son has CoVid 19 do it's now shut. Kids and DH eating a 600g loaf a day.

Yes flour is something that has been pretty much impossible to find. Organic shops could be a good spot - our local one is pretty much fully stocked with everything.

DH had just been shopping.

Greengrocers had an enormous queue, he didnt bother waiting. Monoprix and Franprix have some stuff but lots of empty shelves. Picard was scarily empty and the Carrefour next to it was closed...

Our local Grand Frais looked empty, but they actually had plenty of stuff, just didn't put it all out in once, to avoid people touching the goods. But were constantly re-filling.

I went to the local outdoor farmers' market this morning. They had police filtering the numbers going in (first time someone has looked at my form) and had turned it into a one way system. There were far fewer stalls than normal but got fruit (including locally grown strawberries which are just coming into season) and vegetables for the week.

I am hoping my on-line order of cat food turns up next week as the supermarket had sold out of the only brand they will eat.

Thats lucky. Id bought frozen veg a few weeks before lockdown just in case and already we've had to dip into it and will again this week.

For the militaire (I have a friend who is Gendarme) it was always the 4th May, but the government couldn't say that straight away they didn't want a panic

May sounds about right.
But how will they stop people rushing out and transmitting the virus everywhere.
Perhaps a limit on how far you can travel and a nightly curfew?

I saw a U.K. news programme where they were training up medics, to be prepared for the demand on the nhs to last 9-12, so expect the same in France.
I’m going to be planting up a potager this summer and stocking up, ready for a second spike and lockdown this winter.

Fizzy I'm sure you are right, there will be strict measures to avoid transmissions. The restrictions on travel and gatherings I'm sure will still be in place. I was hoping to start racing (running) again in July but I think most races will be cancelled until September at the earliest.

I agree we ll be let out of confinement but with some measures still in place.

I think that ll include
No spectators at sports matches
Work from home highly encouraged for anyone who can
Strong restrictions on international travel
Maybe limiting restaurants nightclubs etc?

It ll depend how quickly they manage to test the population for antibodies.

I highly doubt there'll be normal international travel this summer.

They haven't cancelled my June races yet, but indeed all April and May ones are gone.

I guess the life after lockdown also depends on what will happen in countries that are ahead of us. If they open up everything and have a massive amount of cases in 2 weeks again, then of course there will be significant restrictions until..vaccine is available, I guess?

I can’t help thinking that social distancing etc might work better here if French people weren’t so programmed to do everything at the same time, every day, en masse ;-)

We’re lucky to have a big private courtyard out the back of our appartement. Every day, it’s empty pretty much all day (except for us). Then at 4pm it’s like an alarm goes off somewhere, and within 10 minutes it’s full of girls skipping, babies being pushed round, old ladies being walked round, toddlers running about with balls, teens playing footy with their sibs, badminton players and moody looking dudes with stubble talking animatedly into their phones as they pace around ! Madness. They could all go out there at any time of the day (or night). But no, 4pm is the mandated outdoors/ exercise time so there they all are ;-)

Lol yes I've noticed the French are very set on the right time to do something (gouter anyone?!) And god forbid if you mention your kids eat at 6pm ish....I end up having to explain about DS' severe reflux and his need to eat sufficiently early before bed whenever I mention it otherwise I get and faces. Fortunately my kids are tuned to French sleeping time (8pm ish for the 5 year old and 8.30 for the 8 year old) so that doesn't get any faces.

Katharina where do you live? Do you run with a club? Trails or road or both? I do both but prefer trails. My June race in Guerledan 63kms hasn't been cancelled yet but I very much doubt it will take place as there are lots of different distances and probably around 3000 people for the weekend including friends and family who descend there.

Oh yes. God forbid if you feel like eating at 2PM. 'But..but..it's not lunchtime!!'

Round here there is always discussion about what time the evening gym douce class can happen so people can get home for la soupe. We always get asked why we eat early and when I say we don't eat much at lunchtime I get a blank look.