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Household gatherings

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daffodil10 · 10/03/2021 21:03

As we trail towards the next deadline, truthfully are people sticking absolutely to the no household mixing etc? Or are people sneaking round to each other's for meals etc

I am sticking to it but only because my husband keeps me on the straight and narrow which is obviously the right thing to do. Just wondered?

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flowerycurtain · 10/03/2021 21:45

Within reason.

Yes with my double vaccinated inlaws. They actually work with us and it was ridiculous that I could legally work with them but not have a coffee in our farm office. (Aka kitchen).

Yes with my parents who we also work with for similar reasons.

Neither are we having lunches or social time but we are in and out of each other's houses for work purposes with a coffee.

Not with friends though.

lljkk · 10/03/2021 21:46

dont' have any friends so nobody inviting me round.
Never did.

actually, do have one friend in bubble. But only one.

AlexaShutUp · 10/03/2021 21:46

I'm still sticking to it, so are DH and DD. And my parents, and my DSis and her family. I do judge those who don't. It's selfish, and if we end up back in lockdown again, it will be their fault.

karala · 10/03/2021 21:46

i'm sticking to it 100`% - it's only a few more weeks and we've been through the worst of it - I've only had conversations in the street or the park when walking the dog and the rest of it has been facetime or zoom

GintyMcGinty · 10/03/2021 21:48

We mix with my parents, my sister and BIL, nieces and my children.

In each other's houses for sleepovers, dinners, coffees etc.

We mix with no one else and neither do they.

RichardMarxisinnocent · 10/03/2021 21:48

Us too. Likely in the minority though it would appear

I'll join you in the minority of sticking to no household mixing. I see my support bubble DP indoors but none of my friends or family.

Iremembertheelderlykoreanlady · 10/03/2021 21:49

I have been seeing my parents outdoors. We've all had 1st jab. Minimal risk

I'm not comfortable about mixing inside yet

AntiHop · 10/03/2021 21:50

I'm sticking to the indoor rules, and so are many people I know.

Firefliess · 10/03/2021 21:51

Mostly. Haven't had any friends indoors for a year now. But a couple of weeks back I went to see my now-vaccinated mum (allowed as a bubble, but 5 hours drive away) and took with me both DD (lives with me) and DS (moved out last summer, hadn't seen his gran in 18 months, nor seen me indoors since October) and we had such a lovely weekend. I really needed that quality time with DS, as did DD. And my worryingly-isolated DM was the happiest she'd been in months. We also allow DD to see her BF. She was threatening to move out at one point last spring when we tried to stop her, and that is so not what she needs. The trouble with the Covid rules is that can fly in the face of what the people around me need from me, as a parent, daughter at times.

BigGreen · 10/03/2021 21:51

Seriously? I understand bending the rules a little, but how about meeting outside? We're not supposed to meet inside for 2 more months. Confused

Frazzled2207 · 10/03/2021 21:52

@Firefliess
Agree entirely. Pleased you had a nice weekend.

Cookerhood · 10/03/2021 21:52

I don't know anyone who isn't sticking to the rules. I do know someone who mixed several households over Christmas but that's it.

OldRailer · 10/03/2021 21:52

I'm not mixing indoors. I don't see visitors at my neighbours either so all in all I think people are either sticking to it or being very low key.

Which is all hopeful.

Katie517 · 10/03/2021 21:54

One set of parents are our support bubble as we have an under 1 year old, we saw the other set at the weekend as we helped them
move house and had dinner with them afterwards, they are vaccinated, we will be doing the same at Easter. Friends we see outdoors but if I invite them to the garden after the 29th and it starts raining we will move inside.

I’m done with being told what I can and can’t do in my own home to be honest, I think it’s a step too far and has gone on long enough. Most people I know are now seeing select people indoors.

GinJeanie · 10/03/2021 22:04

Yep. Sticking to it because I teach and want the schools open with the kids attending. Not lots of flipping burst bubbles (we had one on day 2! 😕) I imagine outdoor socialising is pretty safe but indoors is the way cases will go up amongst those not vaccinated. The minute schools open I think people socialise more not less - I guess life feels more normal to folk

joanneg36 · 10/03/2021 22:05

Nope not sticking to it anymore. To those saying ‘it’s only a few more weeks’ - it’s two more months, and that’s assuming all goes to plan.

I am seeing close family and close friends and I think people who aren’t are making the wrong cost/benefit analysis.

ChocOrange1 · 10/03/2021 22:10

It was my daughter's 4th birthday so my in laws came round to give her a present. We would have chatted in the garden but it was tipping it down with rain, so they came in for a while.

secretllama · 10/03/2021 22:10

I gave up staying away from family around July last year, and from late Jan this year I've started having friends over. Just tonight I had a friend over for tea and cake, it was lovely Smile

Tootsey11 · 10/03/2021 22:11

To those who have/are mixing. How many of you has been affected by covid directly or had someone die in their family? Im guessing not many.

sunflowertulip · 10/03/2021 22:12

We are sticking to it. I have walked with my sister with my daughter and niece ahead of us but two groups of two.

JensonsAcolyte · 10/03/2021 22:14

My sister is my bubble, she’s a single parent. We’ve stuck religiously to the rules. But it’s her 40th next weekend and there’s a slight possibility her neighbour and friend might join us for our cocktail evening.

I can’t even muster up the faintest objection tbh. We’ve stayed away from our parents (who have had it, and now been vaccinated) and followed all the rules up until now.

joanneg36 · 10/03/2021 22:16

Tootsey11 - I have had Covid and I’ve had people close to me badly affected and a friend lost a friend to it.

However I have also lost people to cancer and know that my mum’s chance of dying of cancer or a heart attack in the next two months is higher than her chance of dying of Covid, now that she’s been vaccinated.

So don’t assume that people breaking the rules are stupid and selfish. Some are willing to take the risk because they are sensibly balancing those risks against the other many risks we face in life.

XenoBitch · 10/03/2021 22:17

@Tootsey11

To those who have/are mixing. How many of you has been affected by covid directly or had someone die in their family? Im guessing not many.
No Covid deaths, but known of too many suicides now and I was nearly one of them.
duckme · 10/03/2021 22:18

My mom picks my son up from school on the days that I'm at work (also in a school). I have to go to her house to collect him when I've finished work. I'll have a coffee at her house while I'm there and I have popped round for coffee at other times too.

AlexaShutUp · 10/03/2021 22:19

We mix with no one else and neither do they.

Do you all wfh and home educate?

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