Please settle argument over Boris’s latest restrictions

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DD(13) thinks he can carry on his paper round. I say no.

Who is right?

No paper rounds and no allotments.

Papers would be a great way to spread virus into lots of households.

@PertEllaTitsahoy No, it's been declared out of bounds. Get back in your set house.

Allotments are busy.
There are loads of communal areas.
They are stuffed full of retired people.
People use them to socialise.

Cue a load of entitled MNers going ‘Well, I won’t, I’m just going to pick my chard and leave.’

Well, I won’t, I’m just going to pick my chard and leave

Jesus Christ! I absolutely despair.
What part of STAY AT HOME don't people understand.

So right farmertom I absolutely fucking despair.

It saves lives. Your own included. How much fucking chard outweighs that?

I doubt that I have a chard encounter more than once every six months. Now it is going to be in my dreams.

Walk to the allotment. Pick your food. Leave.
My partner went to ours at the weekend, there was hardly anyone there, no one was near each other and we ate the greens for dinner.

Exercise common sense.

My partner is flying back from South America, arriving on Wednesday. (I know, I know...) Can I still collect him from the airport? He'll be going into 14 days isolation with me when he gets home, so I figure this puts less people at risk than if he were to travel by public transport or even via taxi. (ie it only risks me if he does develop CV, which it would anyway when he gets home)

RocketinaPocket

But people don’t exercise common sense. Hence the ridiculous scenes over the last weekend. So the allotments have to shut, to protect the stupid from themselves, and everyone else from the stupid.

Stay. At. Home.

What’s to stop people all heading off to Mount Snowdon again and claiming it’s their exercise for the day?

What part of "You must stay at home apart from essential travel" do people not understand? Seriously.

It’s what’s going to happen though. Within an hour of the announcement people were on here looking for loopholes.

You can bet people will be going, ‘Hmm, he said I can leave the house once for a bike ride. So I’ll leave at 9am and stay out all day, then pop to Tesco’s on my way home. I’ll have only left the house once.’

Just fuckwitted.

I really thought my pondering about going to my allotment was quite niche.
Turns out I'm a really basic bitch.

I think people who have allotments generally are rather sensible. Sort of goes with the territory. Also, it would be foolish to close them, they genuinely feed the people who grow there.

no you cannot go to your allotment

Daily excercise and growing/ collecting. food in one go is brilliant. And if done alone, allotments are big enough to mean you stay 2 metres from each other

I think allotments are OK. It's good exercise, usually lots of space between plots so easy to keep your distance and also a source of good food.
Farmers are going to be short of workers to plant, are they going to have enough to harvest? Growing your own could be essential later in the year.

I had an allotment.

There were a good few plots that were populated by retired men who sat in a circle on garden chairs smoking, drinking beer/wine/tea and occasionally pulling up a weed.

If it rained, they sat in someone’s greenhouse instead.

Papers would be a great way to spread virus into lots of households.

I assume a paper round can't be done from home. So I'd say he's allowed to go as he's a 'delivery person'

Its hardly essential though is it

Honestly, Boris’ statement this evening is as clear as day. Only idiots or ignorant people won’t understand it.

And quite frankly I’m sick of idiots and ignorant people.

Bloody well said.

@unambiguousbeard, it wasn't vague at all. It was crystal clear. Do you think Boris has got the time or energy to sit and go through every possibility that people might think of? Some common sense...please.

@BoingBoingyBoing and @PertEllaTitsahoy

Thank you both for making me laugh this evening. Much needed :)

Did the badgers start the fire?

No I think it was a raccoon.

No to paper round
No to allotment
No to staying staying with the other divorced parent.

It’s three weeks not a lifetime. Do it right and we can all start getting over this thing.