At last! 6 people can meet in a garden!

[BruceAndNosh]

WE can meet family

I have an old outside toilet but no family or friends!!

I'm a bit confused by this, at first I thought great I can have my mum and dsis over, as Iistening to Boris I thought it was 6 people could visit another household.
But now the news is reporting no more than 6 people in the group in total.
So we are a family of 6, can we visit family or vice versa or not ?!?

I'm not convinced it's even quite so easy to catch it as is claimed.

You may have had it and known. Hopefully you haven’t, or if you have then hopefully you’ve not passed it on

Not known even

PissOffStayAtHomeDogMum I agree it's not as easy to catch as people think. I've done the same as you and have also been to my mums and sat in the garden every other day. FIL has been here and sat in our garden every other day. We have been on numerous day trips since allowed to do so. No-one has been ill at all.

My son and partner have five children so if we were to visit that would make nine of us in the garden! 🤨

Damn, no more excuses not to see the in-laws. I miss strict lockdown already.

Not in Scotland though... even though would need a substantial garden to accommodate 6 additional people, socially distanced...! Discriminates against poor people, those living in flats , single people and couples....🤔

@JonSnowIsALoser I agree!

Here in Scotland we can have 8 people from today!

I'm off to see my sister and drink gin in her garden...... yaaaassssss

It means that I can spend some time with my daughter, first time since March

My mom and dad live around the corner and I’ve been doing their shopping for them, so I’ve been seeing them from a socially distanced level anyway throughout this whole debacle. So it won’t make a big difference in that respect.

To be honest, I haven’t seen my fella for 2.5 months. We haven’t met up with the whole social distancing because we don’t see the point as we can’t touch each other and it’s no different to us FaceTiming each other.

I’ll be happy on the day I can actually hug people I love.

You can use toilet at other people's house, they need to be thoroughly cleaned after though...bbc news app today...

You can use the toilet, Mr Whitty said so but you have to clean the surfaces and wash your hands.

How does it work for bigger families? What if there are more that 6 in your family already. It's nota problem for us personally but my brother has 8 living in his house already and I'm sure there are plenty of other families of more than 6 who'd love to see grandparents etc.

@planetcloud

"clarehhh" when was this?

At the briefing yesterday the medical officer clarified if you need to use toilet you can as long as it is all cleaned after taps etc

Since the rule came into force today here . I can look out my window and see people are having more than the allowed number and are not sticking to 2m. It's frightening actually. I hope it doesn't set us backwards. I treat to think what It will be like Saturday night .

I'm not risking my Mum yet, and making the past few months all for nothing.
Still way too many deaths these past few days...I can be patient, I like my life too much to bugger it up just because the Blonde Buffoon wants to take our monds off of Cummings and his lack of principles.

Neighbours on both sides have folk over in their gardens tonight - loud music and shouted conversations at 23.30 doesn’t make for harmonious living, but of course they can’t go inside can they. And I sound and feel like a grumpy old cow bag but I’m operating on limited sleep as it is and my DS is still awake because he hears the music and wants to join the party.

@JonSnowIsALoser yip i was liking lockdown for this exact reason not all the ILs though just SIL.

I'm going to ask my friends round so I can get my toilet cleaned by someone else for a change.

What a bloody fantastic idea!

At the risk of stating the obvious, the guidelines here: www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-outbreak-faqs-what-you-can-and-cant-do/coronavirus-outbreak-faqs-what-you-can-and-cant-do#gatherings-public-spaces-and-outdoor-activities
seem pretty clear to me.

Ok, if family are near, mine aren't. Also not great for people who don't have a garden. Plus most gardens will now have people, noise etc, again not great for those that aren't able to meet up with people. But want to sit in their gardens. Yep I'm cheesed off if you hadn't guessed... sorry. I am pleased for those able to socialise, just having a bad 30 mins

I totally understand how you feel but you're ok - it doesn't have to be family! It can be anyone.

I don't have any local family either but I'm having 3 other single friends round on Sunday night for drinks in the garden (yes, I'm aware the rule doesn't start till Monday morning but we're all at work/school again from Monday and I don't think the virus will know that we're 12 hours early).

Why have they chosen the number 6? Maybe a member of the cabinet, or an advisor, has been photographed socialising with 5 other people and is about to be outed by the Sunday papers. 🤭