Grandchildren are next-door!!!

[Redwoodmaz]

I am fuming. I haven't seen my son [27] since before lockdown.
And our nextdoor neighbours have their adult children and grandchildren in their garden!!!
What don't they understand about 'Don't visit family or friends who don't live with you" ????

If the bloody football comes over the fence they're not having it back.

@DishRanAwayWithTheSpoon
I wasn't curtain twitching. It was the kids shouting and playing football in the garden that drew my attention.
DH and I were keeping ourselves to ourselves - as we should be!

Quick, report them! I don’t doubt it’ll be the highlight of your week

Heehee!

It's insane how quickly we've become a nation of curtain-twitchers. I know entertainment is thin on the ground just now but surely just stick on netflix or read a book and forget about what the bloody neighbours are doing?

'Stay at Home. Save lives.'

I don’t understand these people at all. I hate this lockdown I’m a natural extrovert. I’m a counsellor and worry immensely about the impact on mental health.
However if we do not do as we have been told. It will only get worse. We don’t have enough armed police to enforce a stricter lockdown. We are not like European countries. I do not want to see the military on the streets. To not be able to exercise. To literally be confined in my home. To have my family members in the military patrolling the streets and facing god knows what.
Let’s just stay in our own homes and go for a walk once a day, shopping when needed. The other option will not be nice. There are lots of army units on standby, these are not the ones helping with deliveries or medical staff. These are infantry units. Please just stay inside.

It's annoying how some think they know better than the experts. Rant away op. Sadly there's not much you can do about it.

Lynda07 you have somehow COMPLETELY MISUNDERSTOOD the instructions. The instructions are NOT, self isolate for 2 weeks then go about visiting whoever you want. Where did you possibly get that idea from? The lockdown means ZERO travel outside your property unless essential. Essential means work where unable to do so from home, medical reasons, pharmacy, petrol and food shopping. That is it. No ifs, no buts. If everyone took your approach and reasoned that THEY are safe to go about their business, then IT WOULD NOT BE A LOCKDOWN and millions would be going here and there and the virus would spread. Please, PLEASE, people are dying, save the NHS, STAY HOME.

I honestly would report them

People like your neighbours and those who minimise it are really pissing me off.

I haven't seen my kids since the 21st Feb & 28th Feb respectively and I have no clue when I'll see them again. DS2 is going into work day in and day out, putting his life at risk to treat people with Covid 19. He hasn't had the correct PPE and still hasn't been tested. I'm petrified he might catch it and die. DS1 is in the army, at camp, leave cancelled working on this too.

Why can't these selfish fuckers just sit their arses on the sofa? People don't usually have any bother doing it.

OP remember as you read some of these posts in disbelief, some people don't understand the basics of viral spread and impact of widespread infection. They will tell you not to feel anger, not to post on here, that you are being OTT. They simply don't get it.

The majority do and thankfully most are following guidelines.

Yes we all know we are in lockdown. Stop playing police, judge and jury. All you can do is make sure your own house is in order and find a hobby ....

I'd put a screwdriver in it and send the deflated remains sailing over the fence. Will you feel clever if you get done for criminal damage?

If they have all been isolating what is the problem?

It’s some of the idiots on this thread who are going to cost others their lives. My DH is a doctor treating patients in A&E - they are dying! What don’t people get - over 700 people have died in the last 24 hours.

If there were police and army resources, I would put those breaching the regulations under house arrest and slap a huge fine on them.

Some people can also say where all this is leading, and it is far scarier than the virus.

The positive glee some people project when talking about the army taking the streets is chilling.

OP, remember also schools are out and also certain individuals need to get their kicks in other ways.

My GC have been round twice during the lockdown. Teenagers who phone me to see if we need anything, husband is in SI for 12 weeks and I'm doing my best to do the same. They come round and sit in the garden and we talk to them through the window. They do it as part of their exercise for the day and yes we are lucky that they only live 10 minutes away. Honestly normally people would say what nice thoughtful kids but now the lockdown police are on patrol.

I wish every day that the army would take control of the streets. I would give my DH a greater chance of not catching the virus from the patients he is having to treat.

Doctors and nurses have died trying to save the lives of the selfish arseholes like your neighbours, as well as the innocent victims they infect with their selfishness.
People are dying alone. People are losing their livelihoods. But a minority just don't give a fuck.
Too right it's all of our business.

I'm with you OP. Some of these comments are unbelievable - and demonstrate why the virus keeps spreading and more people than necessary will die. And I'm not an overly anxious, scaremongering kind of person. Makes me feel sick.

If they’re all two metres apart there isn’t a problem. One of the worst aspects of this horrible situation is some people’s inability to mind their own business.

I don't see why you are fuming, what has it got to do with you?
I've not seen 2 of our dc, who are grown up, nor my granddaughter.
I don't care what others do tbh, their funeral.

Oh great, just want I wanted! Another curtain-twitching thread.

Are you one of my neighbours? Because right now (and at least a couple of other times since ‘Lockdown’) my neighbours (in their early 80s) have their adult son round with his wife and two young ish kids. They’re all playing in the garden, grandma is pruning the roses and grandad is in the potting shed. Meanwhile we’re at home missing the 4 grandparents and catching up with them on FaceTime. I won’t be reporting them & I'm not stressing myself over it but just finding it very odd.

MaxNormal what a nasty thing to say, does your husband describe his patients as selfish arseholes?