At last! 6 people can meet in a garden!

[BruceAndNosh]

WE can meet family

I’m also so annoyed they are counting self catering accommodation as the same as hotels re. The discussion above. The risk is clearly so so much less for a single household self catering vs lots of people in a hotel - I wish they’d give some clarity on the dates and plans for self catering UK accommodation.

I'm happy we can see people but I'm not sure how much I'm gonna like this in practice.

I've already been talking to my mother in law from 6 feet away so she can see the baby, so this just seems more of that. She's sad she cant have a cuddle, and the baby isn't best pleased at being held up like a prize pumpkin.

@Gronky

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?

Not without some food and toilet stops. Can we socially distanced food??? It's a shitter of a day for either kids or grandparents to do it all in one day.

Won’t make a difference to us then. We are a family of 4 and I’d love to go see my sister but she has 3 children.
So the guys stay/inside, I know that makes 7 but I don't think anyones going to call the police or contract corona because there's 1 more child.
My Brother and his partner have twins. so without the partners that's 6
Arw you going to refuse to see your family unless your DH is there?

My in-laws still have dh’s brother living with them so that’s a no no too. so he takes the kids to see the grandparents.

At least in Scotland they can meet in groups of 8.

There isn't actually a limit in Scotland. It's two households and they recommend no more than 8 due to it being more difficult to maintain distance the bigger the group is.

Same with the 5 mile recommendation. You can still travel further to visit family if you need to, but they would like everyone to stay within 5 miles as much as possible to contain spreads.

It's a more common sense approach whilst accepting that a family of 9 or someone visiting their mum 6 miles away shouldn't face fines.

I want to see my new nephew but he’s 2 hours away and even then it would be from 2 metres away. I will stick with FaceTime.

"clarehhh" when was this?

Maybe it’s more the mentality of different people in different countries. See how many people on this thread are already working out how they can flout the rules.

@ineedaholidaynow

Maybe it’s more the mentality of different people in different countries. See how many people on this thread are already working out how they can flout the rules.

But they're saying it's because of the science. If the science says 8 people can meet outside in Scotland, then how can the same science say only 6 can meet in England.

It's not what everyone wanted i.e. hugging, but it's better than nothing, surely? It's a step in the right direction, it means that most families are able to at least see each other a bit more after 10 weeks or so. Sure, we'd all rather it be magically safe to meet in a house and hug and not think about distancing but that's not going to happen in the next few weeks, so let's try and be positive about this, at least.

The 'six' won't have any science behind it. It will be because they will know that if they say 'six', people will have twelve people there. But if they say twelve is ok, people will start having parties for 50, because that's the way most people's brains work.

My family are 250 miles away, and the only reason I can't see them is that my DM has cancer. If it weren't for that, I would be going and staying for the weekend. Though it's true to say that I'd have been doing that all along.

Say you're a family of 6... you can't have anyone round? How bloody stupid
Well your partner could stay in with half the kids whilst your parents came round then swap the kids over. Or your single parent could come round and your partner stay inside or your dB and sil could come round after the kids were in bed

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

Yes they will, because they have different demographics and so rules will be adapted to different demographic spread

Spain has a more rural landscape, with 2 large cities, Madrid and Barcelona, and coastal tourist regions

The UK, especially England, is very different. With much more densley populated post industrial regions

We are a family of four and our closest relatives are a couple so 6 suits us fine. However if they visit and sit in the garden I won’t be denying them access to the loo if they need it. Or making them sit in the garden if it rains. And I will cook for them like I always do. Perhaps we’d better wait...

But it is a different science not medical but social.

@pissoff I agree. No science behind it whatsoever

No they really haven't dishing
We've been following the rules

Whatever number was settled on, it wouldn't suit everybody - that's just not possible. I am sorry if there really aren't ways for people to make this a benefit for their individual families, but it will make a huge difference to a lot of families, particularly single people, single parents and only children.

Grimm
But the 2 families don't have to be socially distanced from those withing their family. For example if family A who are 6 people, visit family B who are a family of 4, so long as they're distanced from each other by 2m that's safe.

You've got that wrong, it's a total of 6 people allowed to meet. But you're right about only having to distance from people in the other household.

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

They can still meet up in public parks, etc.
Obviously if they don't have a garden then they can't use one, but they cans till meet up with others.

Do you think it would be acceptable for 5 x13 year olds to meet their cricket coach in cricket field to bowl and bat with each other but maintaining social distance? Son has been waiting to play again and season almost half over.

@FiveFootTwoEyesOfBlue

Grimm But the 2 families don't have to be socially distanced from those withing their family. For example if family A who are 6 people, visit family B who are a family of 4, so long as they're distanced from each other by 2m that's safe.

You've got that wrong, it's a total of 6 people allowed to meet. But you're right about only having to distance from people in the other household.

My point was it makes no difference if it's 8 or 10, so long as they're socially distanced from the other family.

starfishmummy
Son is shielding so we still can't

You can, just because their is a shielding person in the household does mean the whole household has to shield, you just need to take additional precautions like we do.

i can’t use my families toilet

You can, you just need to clean everything down, so take your own antibacterial swipes etc...

If you're a family of 4 and want to meet a family of 3 and are stressing... just do it. Who cares?! Anymore! All the parks have had multiple groups of people and teenagers for the past few weeks anyway