Are these things allowed in lockdown?

[ComeOnEileen2020]

These weren’t included in Boris’s list but are things affecting me currently:

Car due for mot Friday (need to wait til then for pay day). Need it to get to my essential job.

Hermes/other courier deliveries - I’ve sent loads of stuff this weekend that I sold on EBay. Non essential. Old baby toys. They’re waiting to be delivered to my buyers. Will they still be delivered or should I start refunding?

Given the lockdown what's everyone's view on children who go between my house and my ex's house still continuing

I despair at some of these replies!
Front-line workers on here telling you people are dying and Karen has to walk her dog for a fucking comfort break!
Get puppy pads, cleaning up dog piss/shit if you have no garden is a tiny price to pay for saving lives, not just the people who you might meet BUT the front line workers who are having to put themselves in very real danger because idiots just can't do the right, the humane thing instead of acting like fucking toddlers...

@Inappropriatefemale
We’re not really on lockdown though are we, well not yet, we are being advised to stay in unless it’s absolutely necessary to go out but it’s not yet been made official
I'm not sure how much more official you can get than a national announcement from the Prime Minister? It's not advisory, it's compulsory. DO IT.
Watch Netflix, spring clean, garden, cook, read books, skype your friends and family, teach your children. Walk your dog once a day. Don't go and buy a paper just because you fancy a little sally outside. Take it seriously.
Go to the food shop the minimum you can, join the local facebook groups if you can't manage without pasta bake for a frigging week. Make cloth wipes. I have to go to work in the supermarket and at the moment it's impossible to practise safe social distancing there.
I CANNOT believe all these people have nothing to eat at home, it's nuts.
Today a lovely friend had a serious cancer diagnosis - fuck this up and fill up the NHS beds and she doesn't get treated. DO IT.

Re: vaccinations, phone your vet and ask. They can safely be delayed 3 months in most cases.

It’s funny what we worry about isn’t it. We’re facing thousands of our compatriots dying, pretty horribly, and my thought after a few minutes was - I’ve only got 2 hair bands left (very long hair). Can I order more online? Is that selfish? I mean I could find some string or an elastic band or something. Doesn’t bloody matter in the grand scheme of things.

My next thought was, I don’t like Fiona Bruce on QT but she’s done a sterling job of sounding very calm whilst delivering all this news to us this evening.

From BBC News
“ Only a small group of retailers will be allowed to stay open including:
Supermarkets
Pharmacies
Newsagents
Hardware stores
Banks
Pet shops
Post Offices
Petrol stations
Vets
Retail shops in hospitals
Laundrettes
Funeral homes
However, retailers will still be able to take online orders and deliver items to your home.”

No it isn’t official, Boris has only advised us and there was coffee shops open this evening at the train station, Waverley in Edinburgh and a coffee shop isn’t a necessity so how is this lockdown?

www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-vehicle-approval-tests?fbclid=IwAR2rC4hzGJ0HrLkUR9lRo67WrcZPWezcH0WNfK4UL0eCbNZVarkm6xMrUZ4

We have four dogs - three of them re working spaniels and are VERY high energy.

Until this corona kicked off they got three walks a day, totalling about 4 and a half - 5 hours. Now they get an hour first thing in the morning with me, half an hour in the evening with DH.

They don't like it- they want to be out and on the move - well, that's tough. They have, over that last few weeks got used to it. They perk up and look at us hopefully every time we get up, but settle again with very sad eyes when they don't get anywhere.

If push came to shove, we'd knock off the evening walk as well, but I'm hoping it won't be necessary.

We're lucky - we have a garden, but it's small. They can't play in it, but they can go to the loo, and they often ask to go out and sit in the fresh air.

When this whole horror is over, we're going to take them to the beach and they can just run and run and run!

I really don’t Understand the obsession everyone seems to have with exercise. Will it really matter if you don’t do much exercise over the next few weeks?

surely some staff allowed to work in some shops (closed to customers) to look after stock , can think of garden centres, pet shops

Also there is a play park right outside my house and everyday there are adults and children in it.

*Some people need to calm down.

A dog needs to relieve itself more than once a day. For dog-owners who don't have a garden or other enclosed space they can just let the dog out in, they should be allowed to walk outside, just far enough so that the dog can do its business off the actual doorstep, then go right back in. A dog doesn't have to have multiple long, recreational walks every day (much as it might want to), but you can't expect a living, breathing dog to only "toilet" once a day! It's cruel to suggest otherwise*

This

“Only a small group of retailers will be allowed to stay open including:
Supermarkets
Pharmacies
Newsagents
Hardware stores
Banks
Pet shops
Post Offices
Petrol stations
Vets
Retail shops in hospitals
Laundrettes
Funeral homes
However, retailers will still be able to take online orders and deliver items to your home.” (BBC)

@errolthedragon could you share link too allotment thread please.

Olawisk I don't have one I am just thinking of family member who has one, I was only wondering, and worried about family member, as I don't live on UK anymore and don't know when I will see them next

Garden centres don’t need to be open

You can pay I’m cheques via your bank’s app but there is an upper limit (which they may increase now, I guess).

Oops, didn’t mean to do that twice

I currently work in a bespoke furniture showroom. My job is sitting in an office so people can come in and browse and then book appointments if required. You would think no one would want appointments but unsure if my boss will close or if he can get round it by saying we’re a hardware store

Why do you think a dog cares whether it's owner owns the grass it runs on, Olawisk It's a straightforward question. If you answer it with 'Don't talk crap', you weaken your argument.

Do you think people with gardens just have the back door open 24/7 so that the dog can come and go as it pleases?

Drop the vitriol. I'm trying to stick to the rules we've been set whilst treating my dog humanely. Countries in lockdown allow dog toileting more than once a day. We're not in lockdown.

I am a nurse and cannot drive. Can my husband drive to pick me up from work? This is especially relevant if public transport stops. He can't prove that this is where he is going.

@AnotherMurkyDay
Can I take my kids with me to the supermarket (single parent)?
Clearly we would rather you didn't. For everyone's sake - ours and your children's. You would have to consider their age and responsibility i.e. capable of leaving in the car for a short period?

Exercise is vital for my mh (and my waistline)

@happypotamus I am a nurse and cannot drive. Can my husband drive to pick me up from work? This is especially relevant if public transport stops. He can't prove that this is where he is going.
This sounds eminently sensible, safer for you and everyone else to limit the numbers on public transport.

@TheCountessatHotelCortez Well yes of course! Work is essential