What is considered a picnic?

[xatcat]

Does it mean you can't walk and eat something outside?

Or is it when your sat down outside eating?

Just trying to clarify the rules.

Obviously a scotch egg.

A coffee?

DH uses one of those bladder things for water and eats while walking, it generally means sitting down for food I think

Leaving aside Derbyshire Police, to me a picnic involves a chequered blanket, ants, wasps and some method of heating a kettle that looks & sounds like it will explode.

Where does it say no picnics please? I can't find it.

@Noreasonwhynot
We used to be able to go outside for recreation and exercise, now it's just exercise, so no hanging about.

But who's having picnics in January?!

@Noreasonwhynot

Where does it say no picnics please? I can't find it.

Here

So for example if I was sat on a bench eating a banana, would I be breaking the law?

@xatcat

So for example if I was sat on a bench eating a banana, would I be breaking the law?

Is there any reason you would need to sit on a bench and eat a banana?

@Sparklingbrook possibly

[quote xatcat]@Sparklingbrook possibly [/quote]
And the reason is?

@Sparklingbrook hunger 🤷🏼‍♀️

[quote xatcat]@Sparklingbrook hunger 🤷🏼‍♀️[/quote]
Why the need for sitting on the bench if it's hunger? Or indeed it to be specifically a banana?

Why on earth does it matter? Nobody ‘needs’ to be eating or drinking outside in bloody January in the middle of a pandemic. The government have surely got better things to do than having to clarify things like this, just use common sense ffs 🙄

Of course it doesn't specifically have to be a banana! It was an example.

If you were on a really long walk and you or your child needed a break, where else would you sit?

@BearandaSpare

Why on earth does it matter? Nobody ‘needs’ to be eating or drinking outside in bloody January in the middle of a pandemic. The government have surely got better things to do than having to clarify things like this, just use common sense ffs 🙄

Ain't that the truth.

We now have a child in the scenario?

@Sparklingbrook

Yes people do have children!

[quote xatcat]@Sparklingbrook

Yes people do have children! [/quote]

I would personally say to be considered a picnic, food or drink must be being consumed at rest - i.e. sitting down, standing still, leaning against a tree etc. I wouldn't consider it a picnic if you were eating/drinking while walking at a reasonable (i.e. not token) pace. I'm not a law enforcer, though.

If you take a bladder then you can have a quick sip whilst continuing at pace, this is what runners use

Ffs this is the problem. I'm not one of those saying lock everything down. I am praying for the schools and nurseries to stay open. I am going for a walk with my friend this week. I mind my own business and am not obsessed with what my neighbours are doing. But here are a group of reasonably intelligent human beings arguing that their human right to sit on a bench and eat a banana, or a packet of crisps, or anything else, outweighs everyone else's human right to try and stop the virus spreading as quickly as it is. Eat before you go out; eat when you get home. Its not difficult really, is it? I have 2 young kids - when I took them out for recreation I took hundreds of snacks. Now I take them out for exercise and I give them a snack when we get home. They are 3 and 7 and they understand and can accept that. Why are you wasting time and mental energy arguing whether you can eat a banana on a bench?

Scotch eggs and two types of crisps

My 3 yr old walking along eating a biscuit really isn't the end of the world...but feels criminal!

@10storeylovesong

Ffs this is the problem. I'm not one of those saying lock everything down. I am praying for the schools and nurseries to stay open. I am going for a walk with my friend this week. I mind my own business and am not obsessed with what my neighbours are doing. But here are a group of reasonably intelligent human beings arguing that their human right to sit on a bench and eat a banana, or a packet of crisps, or anything else, outweighs everyone else's human right to try and stop the virus spreading as quickly as it is. Eat before you go out; eat when you get home. Its not difficult really, is it? I have 2 young kids - when I took them out for recreation I took hundreds of snacks. Now I take them out for exercise and I give them a snack when we get home. They are 3 and 7 and they understand and can accept that. Why are you wasting time and mental energy arguing whether you can eat a banana on a bench?

Whilst I do agree the argument about the banana was unnecessary, I also think me stopping for a quick snack is less harmful than you meeting your friend.