How far away is your Bubble?

[HmmSureJan]

I am allowed to bubble with my parents as I am a single parent with disabled children.

They live a 90 minute drive away though. The guidance is you should try to bubble in your local area but I don't have anyone here at all.

Anyone else bubble with a household that far away?

@HmmSureJan I’m sure it is. Not sure why you’re being so defensive

What do you think? genuine, none, snippy answer 😊

I actually wasn't, the above was my first reply to you. I guess things get lost in translation on here sometimes though

If you need the support, and they are willing and able - of course supporting your disabled grandchildren is essential.

Enjoy your respite break.

My MIL is a widow so on her own and we're her bubble. She's 90 mins away as well

MIL lives alone and we are here support bubble, she lives 10 miles away.

[quote Dinosaurcatcher]@HmmSureJan I don’t know. An hour a day? 6 hours a day? Overnight once a week? Every other day? 7 days a week?
It was actually a genuine question - there was a clue where I wrote genuine[/quote]
For me I go to visit DP every weekend from Friday night to Monday morning, he's in a job that he hates 90 miles from me/his family and even though he has made friends where he lives he obviously can't see them at the moment as none were prepared to be his bubble as all had elderly parents to bubble with etc. His mental health is generally ok but he is really struggling with work at the moment (and desperately trying to change that but you know, pandemic) so I would worry about him if he then had to spend all the time he isn't at work alone on his own.

My df is 3 hours away and is CEV - he is too far to be in a bubble with me, although if there were an emergency I would go to him. I choose not to be in a bubble with anyone locally (or indeed at all), I do not wish to feel obliged to spend time with someone else's family because the law says I can, when I would not do so normally.

Some people have formed a bubble with a fair journey away, usually an elderly parent and I know my friend has as her mother lives 60 miles away and she has to visit several times a week as very infirm etc.

I have posted several times on MN in response to threads about the utter shite that is being posted by people that seem to manage to create incredible interpretation of the regulations having clearly never even read them. Not helped when the media get it wrong. A good example was my friend had it brought to her attention that ....wait for it Dear Deidre from The Sun in her advice column had informed someone that they couldn't form a bubble with a elderly parent because they didn't live locally..

Frankly I despair as we now have the media making it up as they go along (suppose no change there)

Mine is half an hour away. I’m pleased to read this actually as I was starting to feel guilty about the distance even though it’s an exclusive bubble and very much needed for mental health

Ours is 50 minutes away. Only see them about once a month but stay overnight when we go to them. Other relatives are shielding, we meet for occasional walks only.

An hour and 45 minutes away from my widowed ECV mother of 82.

My father in law is only 5 minutes away. I try to only go once a fortnight though and wear a mask and gloves to drop off his washing and clean his flat.