How many of you have neighbours who

[BahHumPug]

are breaching? And did you do anything? Just experienced it for the first time and I'm so cross.

I would be pissed off with that as well op. Not a great start to a neighbourly relationship is it. We are still sticking very much to the rules and it is annoying to see others who aren't doing the same. I suspect this will only get worse after the deliberately unclear advice from government.

But on the flip side if it doesn't directly affect you I don't think there's a lot you can do. It's their business, their risk and their health. I wouldn't want to be one of those nosey neighbours who has taken this pandemic as an opportunity to become the corona police and tell everyone else where they're going wrong. Just do what works for your family and let others make their own choices.

Neighbours both sides have had people around. It makes me cross, but I haven’t said anything (yet) as I don’t like conflict. We are rule followers, which is the only reason why we haven’t had people around.I do not think having my daughters boyfriend around in the garden would put us at much risk, seeing as he’s barely left the house for two months, and we haven’t either. So it makes me annoyed when I see them in their gardens having fun with their friends. I’m really wanting Boris to allow the household bubble thing. It’s great being able to meet someone outside, but you are limited as to how long you can be out, as you need to use the toilet!

@LyndSnellsSniff me too. At least I won't feel pressured to take in their deliveries anymore when they are at work. Can't wait to move as soon as the situation allows.

Well said chocolate
We’ve just done our own thing. Gone out most days, seen family .
Life still has changed enormously so who are we to judge if people have a little bit of joy amidst all the doom and gloom.

My shielding son comes once a week to sit in my garden and we sit far away from him to chat.
He lives in a high rise flat with no garden so the risk v benefits have been weighed up.
He brings his own food and drink and uses the downstairs loo without touching anything even the doors and flush handle.
I expect my neighbours think im breaking all the rules

We went to friends yesterday. The garden was sectioned off and we all sat at least 5 meters apart. Took our own drinks and chairs. How is that any worse than going for a walk and standing chatting to someone, or going to Tesco's and mixing with people there? It isn't. Just use your common sense and socially distance. Best day for a long time

We seem to be the only ones round here who have been bothering with the lockdown. We're not spying on the neighbours either, just wfh in a room where we see them gallavanting about all day long.

One side has his mates round on a weekly basis (we hear them laughing and loudly talking through the party wall.... ). He also had an elderly relative doing diy on his house for over a week. Sometimes alone, sometimes with neighbour. Elderly relative was working out near a busy pavement....so no real social distancing there.

House a couple of doors down had a party. Music in garden and very obvious drunken shrieking.

All the flouters round here are people who have continued working outside the home. Not sure if it creates a bit of a false sense of security or something? Something like... "I've been out and about and feel ok, so sure come over and visit!"

We haven't reported any of the above. Was tempted when all this was going on several weeks ago, but we decided we didn't want any trouble.

Ones over the road have all sorts of cats coming and going and the woman is a nurse.

Those cats are the absolute worst. Boris should address their comings and goings in his next speech.

A couple live next door. They regularly have other members of their family over and the other night had quite a loud bbq with a number of them. I didn't do anything.

Funny how all these rule breakers are nurses or doctors as well...

Typing error about the cats (it was late), wish it was cats coming and going, would be far more interesting.

See now this is why - this is the attitude set out on a stall at the get go:

What I do find odd is that it's been fairly obvious that the overweight don't fare as well if catching this. So a great way to help yourself is loose the flab, but people won't, that would involve taking responsibility for yourself rather than the gov doing it for you.

What's that got to do with the thread? But @chocolateorangeinhaler feels that they know better, they are somehow superior so don't need to follow any rules on social distancing, only hysterical idiots do that. And then they hold up someone or something else and say hey, never mind that, look at THIS thing (in this case fat people) surely we can all agree on that and blame the thing.

And in this way, people convince themselves that they have some unique superiority, more insight, more common sense.

Really thought provoking commentary in the Guardian:

It will be no good directing our fear and need for order towards our neighbours and colleagues. Punishment will not bring healing. We will need, instead, to confront the yawning irony at the heart of our modern lives: the fact that, though each of us cares, though each of us is at pains to show that we care, we have nonetheless shaped a society that doesn’t care at all.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/17/show-care-lockdown-clap-transgressors-rontline-workers-pandemic