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?

Vets are conserving oxygen for the NHS so no emergency procedures requiring anaesthesia say my vets.

Mot still needed, garages are considered essential so should be open
Delivery still ongoing, so send your stuff.

I know it's probably already been said but for those that don't want to read 19 pages:

"How long does lockdown last?
At least three weeks
What remains open?
Parks
Supermarkets
Food shops
Health shops
Pharmacies including non-dispensing chemists
Petrol stations
Bicycle shops
Home and hardware stores
Laundrettes and dry cleaners
Car rentals
Pet shops
Corner shops
Newsagents
Post offices
Banks
Ordered to close
Restaurants and cafes (exceptions: they can offer food delivery and takeaway)
Workplace canteens (exceptions: canteens in hospitals, care homes, schools, prisons and military canteens, services providing food or drink to the homeless)
Pubs
Bars and nightclubs including bars in hotels and members clubs
Hair, beauty and nail salons
Piercing and tattoo parlours
Massage parlours
Auction houses
Car showrooms
Caravan parks/sites for commercial use (exceptions: Parks where people live permanently or those used by people as interim abodes where their primary residence is not available)
Libraries
Playgrounds
Outdoor gyms
All shops selling non-essential goods including clothing and electronic stores.
Community centres, youth centres (exceptions: Halls may remain open to host essential voluntary or public services such as food banks and facilities for homeless people)
Churches, mosques and places of worship (exceptions – they can remain open for “solitary prayer”, funerals with social distancing – the mourners two metres apart and for live streaming)
Cinemas (exceptions: live-streaming of a performance if the group of workers exercise social distancing)
Museums and galleries
Bingo halls
Casinos and betting shops
Spas
Skating rinks
Gyms
Swimming pools
Playgrounds
Enclosed spaces in parks including tennis courts and pitches for football, bowling etc, and outdoor gyms (equipment could become contaminated by human touch)
Prisons in England and Wales are closed to visitors
Services, free movement and work that can continue (according to written government guidance and interviews in past 12 hours)
You should not:

Visit friends in their home
Meet family members who do not live in your home
Leaving home
People are instructed to limit going out for these reasons:

Shopping for basic necessities “as infrequently as possible”
To take one form of exercise a day - for example a run, walk, or cycle - alone or with members of your household
Dog walking is permitted as part of the one form of exercise people can take a day. Households with two or more members can take it in turns to walk their dog so the dog gets more than one walk a day
To look after any medical need, to provide care or to help a vulnerable person.
To donate blood
Under-18s of separated parents can visit both homes
To travel to and from work “but only where this is absolutely necessary and cannot be done from home”
Essential work (list here) including work on construction sites, although there has been conflicting instructions on contruction
The housing secretary, Robert Jenrick, said: “if you are working on site, you can continue to do so. But follow Public Health England guidance on social distancing”

www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/24/uk-coronavirus-lockdown-rules-what-you-can-and-cannot-do

I booked an MOT for this week and the centre closed down and cancelled my car service and mot. How do I insure without an mot?

The garage we take our car to has shut, but they have given a mobile number for any keyworkers whose cars need urgent attention.

Children travelling between parents is allowed

yes, confirmed on BBC and other websites, see useful link below
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-51176409
I just booked mine for next week

I think currently unless you have an ill family member at home you still have to get an MOT and cannot get insurance nor drive nor buy food to live without one.

"It continued: “The Department for Transport is urgently looking at MOT testing for cars, motorcycles and light vans in light of the current situation and will provide an update shortly. Annual tests for lorries, buses and trailers have already been suspended for up to three months.”

It had previously told Fleet News that if the MOT expires during a period of self-isolation, drivers can make an application to SORN their car or van and apply for an MOT test once their period of self-isolation is over.

Garages are currently on the exemption list for businesses that must close. Some garages will remain open for now and will be providing 'critical services' to cars and vans due for MOT, for the time being."

www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/fleet-industry-news/2020/03/24/garages-will-remain-open-for-car-and-van-mots-for-the-time-being-says-the-dvsa

I’m confused with the difference between house and home!! House is the bricks and mortar - but I’m ordering I can let the two little Ines run riot in the back garden all day long if necessary??

BBC talked about MOT at lunchtime.
At the moment garage is open for MOT for cars. Trucks and buses ahve already suspended MOT testing.

It is likely that MOT for cars will be suspended, but they aren't yet, so MOT appointment should go ahead. Garages are on the open list, not just petrol stations, so if you need an urgent repair, you should be able to get it done.
But in the spirit of the lockdown, if it can wait, don't do it now.

This has been updated by Michael Gove today, children under 18 can travel between their parents houses

@Hannsmum
Pretty sure I read that gas/electricity meters will be put on hold if you can't get out to top-up.. Maybe ring your supplier and check.

This is a wind up, right?

Dear god I really don’t understand. Do you want to die? Do you want you loved ones to die?
No?????
Then the dog gets one walk a day and you do some sit ups or run up the stairs.
Stop being so selfish, entitled and precious.

If you flout the rules I think you should be denied all medical treatment should you get it.

That might sort some of your ridiculous priorities out.

Post offices are seen as essential.
Walking your dog is allowed maintaining the 2m rule is allowed.
Exercise outside maintaining 2m Social Distancing rule is allowed.

You can go into shops for food or posting but maintain the 2m rule. I still see people queuing behind each other (madness)!

Do not go for a walk or a run with friends.
Do not take your dog out in a group walk.
Do not queue either outside or inside ANY shop or enclosed space without observing the Social Distancing 2m rule.

What about estate agents and surveys being done? Are they allowed? Xxx

Parcel delivery couriers are still working so your parcels will be delivered

Waking the dog is fine, just no meeting up for a chat with other dog walkers

We’ve still got local feral kids playing outside here running in and out of each other’s houses. Parents are as thick as treacle !

I’m going with:
You can, but should you?
If the answer is yes you should then yes do it. If your trying to bend the rules to suit you then don’t.
I think if people really think carefully then it’ll answer (most of your) your question (s)

My MOT was cancelled this morning

Find more info here

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.fleetnews.co.uk/amp/news/fleet-industry-news/2020/03/24/garages-will-remain-open-for-car-and-van-mots-for-the-time-being-says-the-dvsa

You get automatic 3 month extension for any mot that has been booked and cancelled

Can't see a problem with going to tend allotment as your daily exercise provided not chatting to people. No different to a daily walk and at ours, actually more space than footpaths near us which are full of people apparently oblivious to social distancing when passing ..

Wrt dog walking I suppose, unless you live alone with your dog, then each member of the household does a dog walk as their exercise? Thereby ensuring multiple daily walks for Fido?

MOT - garages classed as essential to keep transport going. No leeway on MOT running out. Some garages may struggle fir staff/open reduced hours

Paper Round - newspapers/newsagents/journalists classed as essential in public communication

Building merchants - some are still open for essentials eg showrooms closed but emergency breakdown parts. Several of our suppliers are asking orders to phoned through first.

dog walking - either your excercise or animal care.

Fish - again animal care. Fish shops open for food/medicine etc but not new fish/ornamental plants etc

Off licence - probably allowed under local corner shops

@okiedokieme the nail extensions thing is a wind up, right?

Yes they just discussed that on radio 4 today

If your having to ask what is allowed(what we can get away with), then youre not getting it.