Another "am I allowed to do this" one...

[NeverYouMind123]

I'll no doubt get flamed but sometimes you just don't know if something is acceptable or not. My front lawn desperately needs mowing. I don't have a lawn mower. I obviously can't go out and buy one now. My Dad wants to give me his. He lives near the supermarket where I do my essential shop. Would it be acceptable for me to run by his house next week when I do a shop, if I let him put the lawn mower in the car and stand well back on the street when he does so we are still socially distant?

I can’t see how that’s different from buying a mower from b and q on click and collect.

Wait a couple of weeks until after the peak

Sounds fine to me.

I think that's fine.

Fine.

The legislation says you can go out to obtain things necessary for the maintenance and upkeep of the household.

Fine.

Of course its fine.

Yes that’s fine

I'd do it

Wait a couple of weeks until after the peak

Why? You know that the peak now is from people who caught the virus a couple of weeks ago?

I'd do it too.

Fine- get that grass cut 😃

Fine.

Yes that's fine.

Faith - because it's a non essential journey.

Yep

But tired, it’s essentially part of the journey to the shop.

Go for it, absolutely nothing wrong at all, it's not going to cause any problems at all.

Wait a couple of weeks until after the peak

And you know it's going to be in a couple of weeks? The so called "experts" don't really know when that's going to be.

Fine

It's also ok to buy one. Though not to tour fifteen shops while deciding.

So, if Mumsnet say it’s ok you go, if they say no, you don’t? How do you manage in your life normally? Is it a communal vote?

The legislation says you can go out to obtain things necessary for the maintenance and upkeep of the household

I think it probably means necessary, as in a crumbling wall or fixing a leak

My dad dropped his jet washer on our doorstop on his way to the shop.