If we can meet up tomorrow with one other household....

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I mean one person from another household, is it only one household we can meet?
Eg. Can ds see one pal on Friday and another pal on Sunday, socially distancing of course in the garden.

He has stuck to this rigidly, like wax's son, not seen his friends or gf, who he adores, whilst elderly neighbours have their grown up families around often and other neighbours have boyfriends popping in and out whenever it suits. And this fucking disgusts me can I just say.

Anyway, does anyone know?

Yes, I think he can. Just not more than one person at a time.

One meeting up with another household at a time.
In theory you could visit e.g. parents in their garden in the morning, and your friend in the park in the afternoon.

NS clarified this in the briefing today. Not one person but one household. Max 8 people at a time. Can pick a different household each day.

I am not sure if this is all that clever a move here. It is more relaxed than England in terms of how many people you can meet. And I know she says you still stay 2m apart. But I have already seen quite a lot of kids in our area playing together. I think people will start to relax their rules too quickly here. I hope everyone is still sensible and sticks to Nicolas rules without pushing the boundaries

@Blueberryham I'm not NS's biggest fan but I'm so glad she has done this for the sake of my DS. He's so sad not being able to see his friends. We've got a friend planned to come to our garden all weekend now. Plus meeting up with friends in Kelvingrove park Sat and Sun. And the weather is amazing! I'm so happy 😀

I think it's meeting one household, up to 8 at a time, in one day. Its quite clear now.

My dd lives on her own would I be able to sneak her into " our household" and go with her to visit grandparents that probably wouldn't be allowed would it?

@Mrsjayy are you all within walking distance? Or going in separate cars if not? Can't really see the problem if so.

Would be walking although dd might pop in before work so in her car I might just say to her meet us there .

I'm now going with my assessment of risk. Basing it around what's been said but just being sensible. i.e. it would be quieter for us a group to go further than 5 miles to exercise and have a picnic than it would to stay within 5 miles. We can pick somewhere quieter that will be a bit further away. I that happens to be near a family we want to visit then we'll do that, just not go to Loch Lomond/st andrews beach/any other popular spots.

So, after all; that I don't think this weekend will look any different for us but will push it a bit in a couple of weeks when we have our summer hols. DH and I been working all through apart from when we had (or likely had) Covid so we need a bit of a break and happy to go further than 5 miles.

DS has said he doesn't want to distance meet his GF as it will just feel worse. I've said he's an adult and it's up to him and GF but to ask me about anything he want to .

Well, you know it's not within the rules and Mumsnet can't give you permission. But people are gonna do what they're gonna do and we can just hope it all keeps going in the right direction.

I think the 5 miles is a starter isn't it so people don't go too daft .

Exactly how I'm taking it. I will avoid crowded areas, avoid close contact with anyone but if two different random neighbours start to talk to me in the street (at a distance) at the same time, I'm not going to go into the house becasue it's more than two households.

My family are all compliant people by nature so will more than follow the spirit of what's been said but I've decided I am sensible enough to make my own decisions around the guidance but obviously not the law.

DH says the hospital itself is the worst place for folk not social distancing.

It's been made clear it's around 5 miles. So 6 or 7 is fine if that's how far the beach is but 20 isnt.

@WaxOnFeckOff yes I agree with your DH. I work in a big hospital and social distancing just does not happen. How I've not caught it is a miracle! Or maybe I have and been asymptomatic?

My 79yo DM is desperate to see us so DD and I may drive the 20 miles to her house and see her in her garden. She suggested meeting somewhere but I would rather she stayed put and we went to her. If we needed to use her loo then at least we could clean it properly. That's surely better than her risking using public loos?

I won't be going near a beach but if the quiet hill we want to go and sit on is 4,8,19 or 23 miles away, that's what we'll be doing. If it's crowded then we won't go there. We need to inject some common sense. There is a lovely park about 4 miles away, I'm guessing it will be mobbed and difficult to social distance. I'm leaving that for closer locals and folk without transport and not adding to the conjestion.

We live in a touristy seaside town which I think may be busy this weekend given they are opening golf courses too. I think I will avoid the beach. Might get DD to go scope it out as she is planning to meet up with her friend on Saturday.

@Apolloanddaphne the 5 miles is just for exercise. There is no limit on to visit family apart from toilet need. Personally I think so long as you clean it it's ok. Just not sitting inside and contamination multiple surfaces. It's more about trying to reduce the movement of people, traffic on roads, RTAs etc than any individual risk.

I think being sensible is the key. I'd love a run to Troon, but can imagine it'll be mobbed and actually it's more than 5 miles away so defo won't be going.
It's hame'lldaeus a bit longer. That's fine by me I just want my boys to be happy and hopefully see friends outside. Although ds won't see his gf as she is shielding.

My uncle who lives in England named his last house hameldaeus I don't think we will be going far Dh wants to go fishing but says he might wait.

I can imagine fishing would be fine if he gets a quiet spot. That would be nice actually, somewhere nice and peaceful.

I was hoping my dds could have a friend round here for one of them to play with and the other could go to a friends house (garden) but if it's just one household per day that wouldn't work and if we have grandparents over there will be no playing with friends that day. Is that right?

redsky, neither of these things are illegal. They want you to limit interactions but there is a big difference between going round 5 or 6 houses and occasionally doing two in a day.

For example if I traveled an hour to see my brother and my other brother lives in the next street, it would make sense to see both in the same day rather than making trips on different days, but I probably wouldn't see anyone at all on another day.

Yeah I can see that. I just assumed (wrongly) that my kids would be able to see their best friends on the same day as each other but not that the same time obviously. One has a friend round in the morning, one goes to a friends house in the afternoon but I don't think that will work.