Numbers meeting - my predicament

[Whattodowhattodooo]

I am fully aware of the facts: 6 people from as many different households (England)

My predicament is: Close friend group. 3 sets of married couples = 6

Children of these couples = 3. Altogether = 9.

However........ Two of the mums are key workers and 2 of the children (reception & yr1) are already socialising as they are at school together throughout the week and the 3rd child (10month old) is the sister of one of the other two.

I KNOW the magic number is 6, but surely if two of them have already socialising for the past 2 months.....would that in effect take them out of the equation??

Or am I just reading too much into this to justify meeting my friendship group??

I'm prepared to be flamed!!

Surely just meet them in two different groups of 6 on two different days? The meeting in groups isn't to let people get completely back to normal and have social meet ups exactly as they used to, it's a step on the way to getting out of lockdown. So people will need to meet up a bit differently and make some compromises, but it's a lot better than seeing absolutely nobody.

If you're worried about breaking the rules meet up separately so there is a maximum of 6 people

Are you trying to justify why you should meet with 9 people instead of 6? In which case, don't worry about it. People will meet in groups in gardens and I really doubt the local police will be popping by to do a head count. But as pp said, assuming you want to stick to the regulations, just arrange meet ups with different people at different times. I'd imagine if numbers remain steady they'll increase the number of people soon enough anyway.

Thanks, as I said I do believe I am trying to justify it, I just can't get my head around the fact that 3 of them are interacting already!

, I just can't get my head around the fact that 3 of them are interacting already!

So are you saying that those 3 should be left out of the meet ups because they've already had their social "quota" or are you saying that because they're already interacting then they might as well interact with whoever they like?

"Or am I just reading too much into this to justify meeting my friendship group??"
You are just trying to justify meeting the whole of your friendship group at once.

Is it not limited to two households at a time? I didn't watch Boris but saw him quoted as saying to avoid meeting with different households in quick succession.

@stuckindoors77

Not with whoever they like, no. I'm not explaining myself very well am I?!

So even if we take out the other couple there would still 7 of us.... But surely as they have been interacting with each other anyways at school, haven't we (DH and I + other couple and Son) created our own social bubble in some ways??

I'm must add we have NOT met up in the past despite this. Although we have had conversations about it.

@NotEverythingIsBlackandWhite

Yeah, thought as much! 😒 Oh well!!!

@Whattodowhattodooo

Thanks, as I said I do believe I am trying to justify it, I just can't get my head around the fact that 3 of them are interacting already!

That increases the risk though doesn’t it, as those 3 are also interacting with others at school? So if you wanted to keep the risk for your family as low as possible whilst introducing some social interaction, you would exclude those who are already having more contacts.

@NaturalBornWoman

2 of the 3 are mine.