At last! 6 people can meet in a garden!

[BruceAndNosh]

WE can meet family

I also think 6 is to keep groups down. Remember this can be in public too. Much easier to manage social distancing when only 6 people, if say you have a group of ten in a park and drink is involved how much will they end up socially distancing?

Of course people in flats can meet up. Why on earth couldn't they?

I think the number 6 because say a family of 4 plus 2 parents for example.
It's not ideal for everyone but it's so you can see your parents and all those people that live alone too .
My dh can ask his parents round but he can't see his sister yet and the dc but it's better than nothing .

Clearly driven by Cummings. All the sooner to drown out continued criticism.

Would 'everyone can meet up now!' been a better public health message?

I also assume if you are a family of 6 you have quite a bit of company between yourselves. This is mainly for people who don’t have any company. This is a start. If people keep flouting the rules lockdown may become strict again.

How absolutely stupid. So people in flats can't meet up? Pathetic.

Many blocks of flats have communal gardens. Ours does. I'll be avoiding it like the plague and doing very thorough hand washing whenever I've been through communal areas.

Surely though not everyone needs to be 2m apart- only those from separate households. So the 3 of us in my family can sit together 2m from another family of 3 who all sit together.
Good god !!obviously
Of course people from same household can sit together.
Are you serious?

The way I see it is this....if you can use the toilets at work, when you have no idea who's been there before you, then it's ok to use a member of you family's as long as you clean it afterwards. I'm more likely to trust my sisters toilet to be clean than than those at work.

If you have four in your family couldn't you invite four but only two of your family go outside at a time?

Meeting up has to be outside as this reduces the risk of transmitting the virus.

Say you're a family of 6... you can't have anyone round? How bloody stupid

The 6 will have been decided by scientists.

Why can't people understand that the lock down rules aren't about them personally?

People have already been doing this albeit in their front gardens. My sister has been visiting my parents for weeks - mostly talking through the front door. I've had friends visiting me in the front garden since day one (on their daily walks).

I'm shielding, so have been stuck in for weeks.

I don't see the problem with the new rule.

Still no good when my mum lives 260 miles away. Can’t do that and back in a day.

You can't manage 2 lots of 4 hours of driving?

I was wondering if Airbnb's will be up and running again, which would allow us to visit relatives who don't live nearby. They didn't cover that, just said not to stay at other peoples' houses.

Hotels etc aren’t allowed to open yet. Unfortunately for those of us who moved away from family, it is the price you pay.

The R is still only just below 1 so the advice is in everyone’s interests to follow the guidelines..and no I am not a Boris fan but do agree with these changes.

@ZaZathecat I would like to know that too!

How absolutely stupid. So people in flats can't meet up? Pathetic.
Of course they can, I live in a flat and have met with two different people in a park.

Hooray! But ..... I still think the Scottish way is much clearer. Doesn’t this mean that 6 18 yr old mates can all meet up for a Bbq - all from different households, yet my family of 4 can’t meet up with my sister’s family if 3 so just 2 households mixing. And Scottish gives guidance that you can only meet up with one other household in a day rather than this wishy washy stuff ...

Looking forward to seeing my parents but no idea how we are going to make my 18 month old stay 2m away from his grandparents who he adores.

Good job the weather is so nice! How would this be going if it was December? ⛄️
I do feel for people with no friends or family or any close enough, people with no garden and the group that are still shielding.

We’re 6 in our house. Do they really exprct one of us to sit in the house when my aunt comes round?

But it’s fine, I just ask “what would Dom do?” And that guides me to what I should actually do, regardless of what the rules say.

@Flaxmeadow.. so Scotland and Spains scientists have different info to the English ones then?

*Thewheelsonthebus23 That is hard for you, my kids are between 3 and 4 hrs away so no good for us either but at least we have a garden. Oh for life to be normal again.