We had our first family meal out last night since last October.
Despite the silly rules about having to put on a mask to walk the 10 feet from the door of the restaurant to the table, it was lovely to have food that I hadn't cooked and to have someone else do the washing up afterwards.
Zero cases in my neighbourhood area and all neighbouring neighbouring areas for 7 days. Current rates for the whole of East Dunbartonshire are 26 per 100k. So we should be, according their own figures, Level 1, approaching Level 0. And... we're not.
But we'll just keep doing what we're doing. Have had friends in the house and DD is having a couple of friends over for pizza later, they have been through such shit with the "exams which are not exams" fiasco and need to let their hair down.
We've also abandoned the lateral flow tests, the kids find them intrusive and uncomfortable and they're all old enough to decide for themselves whether they want to do them or not. So we're not.