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?

Can my mum care for my son while I go to my 38 weeks antenatal appointment? Is this classed as caring for a vulnerable person? My DH is in the emergency services so cannot do it.

I agree Korean lady, I’m shocked at some of these questions, not the MOT ones they are sensible, but the “i must walk my dog three times a day and go for a run”

How long is brief exercise ?

want to know if walking the dog is classed as my exercise

Of course it will be. Walking is exercise and there's nothing stopping you taking the dog with you.

Fucking hell

Totally agree, it’s Unbelievable really. I don’t think it is people are too thick to understand. I think it’s they don’t want to.

LibrettoCornetto and BentNeckLady , I’m with you. We need to save lives here and pull together. Why are some immediately trying to get around the rules?
I understood, in Spain, dog walking was limited to 400m from home so we should count our blessings.

irememberthekoreanlady

You can't restrict a dog to one toileting opportunity a day. It's animal cruelty. They won't restrict us to the extent of animal cruelty.

The list I just meant what he had said in the speech. - shopping for basic necessities allows and medical need and shopping for essentials - so I suppose car repairs are essentials and get to get MOTs done.

Interesting conflict between some people's religious views and what the state is saying now too . I wonder if the police will go into places of worship and places cults meet and break it all up. I suppose convents will be treated as one large home of individuals together as will communes. Squatters might have a hard job. Gypsies with more than one family on a site may now perhaps be easier to move on under this new kind of martial law.
Bit mean to ban all weddings even if it is just the couple and a priest standing 20 feet away.

You can order from b&q online you don’t need to go in store
That'll do me fine

Surely Petrol stations will still be open or pay at pump? I work in community nursing so use a lot! Also what about if you got a flat tyre? Which happens to me more than I would like working rurally!

My parents are in France, they have a parking area (AKA scrubby bit of land)next to their house that the Gendarmes have taken to using to check on everyone andpull over every car to see where they're going, Dog walking allowed but there were forms they had to fill out and he said they weren't going to take the piss and start taking the dog out whenever they fancied it.......no doubt people here will try it on

Are you allowed to drive anywhere? We live in town, a very short drive to the countryside. It would be much safer to walk or run in the countryside. But is the drive there allowed?
Similarly, we are a 2 mile drive to the allotment. Are we allowed to drive, or do we have to risk proximity to other people by walking through town? Or are we just not allowed to go to the allotment to grow veg?
I've booked a click and collect at the supermarket, 20 miles away. Will that be allowed? Otherwise I have to go into our crowded local supermarket, which doesn't do deliveries or click and collect, thus increasing risk.
Just wondering. I appreciate that none of this is life and death (unless we run out of food completely).

I think the exercise one is dependant on where you live - because in very rural areas it makes not one jot of difference how many times you go out for a walk - you don’t see people. I suspect these areas won’t be policed. In towns though to help disperse the numbers you want to thin people out as much as possible so hence once a day. However it would be too muddled to say ‘as much isolated countryside exercise as you like but only once a day in built up areas’ hence the clear guideline for people to follow.

I've been in lockdown in France for a week now. People need to realise that society grinds to a halt.
You stay at home.

Eckhart- my response to that would be do you not have a garden? If not then you shouldn't have a dog. Simple.

I’m due to complete on my house purchase on Monday. Wonder if I can still move?

I would be surprised if the police had to go into places of worship and close them down, I suspect the places of worship will do it automatically.

In larger communities I suspect they will self isolate together, with whomever shops. If they have to, taking due care.

My dog gets 3 half hour to 45 minutes walks a day, I'm quite happy to shorten them but you can't just take a dog out once a day, that's bloody cruel!

I want to know about building sites, just because I want to know how angry I am allowed to be when 60 builders turn up tomorrow to work on building three shops that now won't open til let's say July so that they can all socially not distance and sit 4 to a van between the house of 7 - 8 am, 10 -10.30 am and 12 - 1pm.

between the hours of !

To be fair they haven’t clarified the dog walks.

@Bluntness100 quite

Beginning to wonder how many of these are people who have led us to this in the first place

Post offices would be helpful

I’m sure builders are smart enough to socially distance and sort out their transportation and not sit in their van together.

I can work from home but there is a piece of equipment that I need. Can I go into work to collect it? I won’t see anyone else, straight in grab what I need then home.