Would you meet close friends indoors for food?

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Just that question really.

Would you meet up with friends indoors at someone's house to share food and drinks? How many would you deem to be an acceptable amount of people...?

Yep. Have done, and will continue to do

No, not for food.

Have stayed at in laws
Eaten at my parents lots of times, mostly outside, but not in the rain
Been to a garden party with friends (less than 30 peeps), stayed the night, ate breakfast in their kitchen with them
My parents 50th wedding anniversary party, 15 people, indoors but with bifold doors open
Ate dinner at 100 year old granny's house
Had friends to stay at holiday home
Currently staying at holiday home with a different set of friends
When they go home, my parents are coming down for BH weekend

Once kids and I go back to school, we're not going to be seeing older relatives or too many friends either, so this is the last chance until xmas really.

Yes - have done up to 3 households happily.

@ineedaholidaynow no school aged kids

Surely it's another personal risk assessment?

We're in an area with a very very low number of cases. I'm not doing anything risky (not travelling on public transport, not working in a care home or food processing factory, don't have kids, not mingling with lots of strangers in close quarters) and if I know my friends are doing the same, then I feel quite happy about being indoors with them. If I knew that they'd just got off a plane or spent their evenings in the pub then I'd feel differently.

With one other household yes. Mixing more households than that, no I wouldn't.

Yes, there was 4 of us and we're all fine.

No

[quote ineedaholidaynow]@HoneyBee03 do you or the people you invite round have school aged children?[/quote]
Yes most of us.

Yes without a doubt.
In fact my dad had a bbq a few weeks ago. Half his street turned up. (they've always done this) plus my household and DB household.
All ended up indoors when it got dark... Maybe 25 people. Tbf 11 of which are just our and my DB household.

I hope none of you will be complaining if your DC’s school shuts

@DidSheReallySayThat20

Yes without a doubt. In fact my dad had a bbq a few weeks ago. Half his street turned up. (they've always done this) plus my household and DB household. All ended up indoors when it got dark... Maybe 25 people. Tbf 11 of which are just our and my DB household.

Wow!! That's a lot of people

Yes, I have meet friends indoors for a meal at their home, our home and another friend at a cafe. We were generally sat 1m+ apart and - if with dh too - we sat opposite partners so were facing out own household.

I have also been out for meals with family, and I have stayed over at my parents house. too.

The only time we mix more than two households/have no proper SDis:

• with 18y DDs boyfriend, who we allow to stay over her and she and he do not maintain SDing. Restrictions have gone on too long to expect them to not be in contact with one another, especially when we have had some hard times. DH and I SD from her boyfriend - but then we wouldn't normally be sat really close anyway even pre Covid.

• with my parents and sister. My parents do the childcare for my sister - she had to return to work, wfh was denied (although would have been perfectible possible) and school hadn't restarted - so little choice really. So we treat them as one household, although they aren't really

• family funeral - indoor gathering afterwards. Me and my family did SD from the other households.

Yes, I would.

Han334 I think most people know what the guidelines are. That doesn't necessarily mean they follow them all.

We follow most and we are careful with hand washing and sanitiser, and always masks when shopping, and anywhere it is required. I am clinically vulnerable so it benefits me to do so, let alone the general population.

But we do break some of the guidelines - see above - as we made personal decisions about them. I am afraid that we chose to break guidelines regarding households/numbers within the family when, early in lockdown, my FIL died suddenly. We broke them again - this time with my family - due to the deaths of both of my grandmothers. Im afraid when it came to grieving with my parents, and with DH and his MIL too, the guidelines dropped down our priorities list. I don't regret this.

I’ve stayed over at family’s homes, ate their food and hugged them.

@DidSheReallySayThat20

Yes without a doubt. In fact my dad had a bbq a few weeks ago. Half his street turned up. (they've always done this) plus my household and DB household. All ended up indoors when it got dark... Maybe 25 people. Tbf 11 of which are just our and my DB household.

This makes me feel pretty hopeless about winter, about school.

All I can do is make sure my family stay sensible. But I do feel more hopeless about the likelihood of cases rising.

Nope. Rules are still not to visit people’s houses here and to only go to pubs etc with your household (and extended household). Probably wouldn’t even if lived where it was within guidelines. Not worried about my own risk but am keen not to spread it asymptomatically and accidentally cause someone’s untimely death.

I'm in two minds. My friends all want to meet up in a restaurant (about 10 of us at 2 tables, all from separate households) but 2 are teachers. I really want schools to stay open so think it's a bit irresponsible of them. I probably won't go. It's a shame and they will think me boring/silly but I just want my children to have as much schooling as possible this year. Risking community transmission could cause problems for many.

but 2 are teachers. I really want schools to stay open so think it's a bit irresponsible of them.

So teachers shouldn’t go to restaurants with their friends?

OverTheRainbow88 they can do what they like and go against the rules... they're adults and can decide for themselves. As can I when I choose not to risk community transmission.

But it’s not against the rules to go to a restaurant with friends...!

It is with more than 2 households. This would be 10 households.

Yes definitely.