Neighbour has Grandson with her on Easter Sunday .

You’ve managed to enlighten us all by yourself Valerie. Surely you cannot possibly still be ignorant of the reasons behind why you shouldn’t mix households.

Our local police website has an online form to complete for people who are not self isolating. I think most police services are doing the same. They can probably only deal with a small number but it may show how many more police are needed and they may follow up at a later date.

I am concerned about a neighbour who works on the till at a local supermarket. They’ve had extended family around for two afternoons of this weekend. All has gone quiet today so wondering if they have been reported. If they do it again I won’t hesitate to report them.

Some comments here beggar belief! I wonder how many of the more moronic posters clap for the NHS thinking it is some kind of game.

Of course, too, neither cancers not heart or circulatory diseases are contagious.

As a reminder the first UK death for Covid-19 was on the 5th March.
In 5 weeks the death toll from Covid-19 is equal to a fifth of deaths from cancers in a year.

I think there are quite a few grandparents who are seeing their kids and gc. They just don't admit it.

Really? Well as you say you are not the only one who thinks I am a 'pathetic child', obviously you have a 'behind the scenes" group that have been speaking about me then? Bring them forward Suzie.

Actually I find it quite amusing and absurd that a, presumably woman of a certain age, who doesn't know me, who has no knowledge of where I live or what I do for a living, can have such profound opinions of a total stranger! I am intrigued by this. Perhaps you would like to enlighten me?

Thought this might be interesting

2020 Covid-19 deaths in UK = 11,393.

2016 -2019 (3 year period) UK Cancer deaths (Cancer Research statistics) = 163,444, or average 54,471 per year.

2017 Heart and Circulatory Disease deaths (British Heart Foundation statistics) = 607,172 *
* This figure includes the deaths of individuals who had other medical conditions, eg. cancers, respiratory diseases, diabetes etc but this led to heart/circulatory death.

VALERIEF My user name is May7 do not call me Hon unless this was a geniune spelling mistake. Yes it was a genuine post. I wouldn't dream of insulting you anonymously so kindly do not do the same to me

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Err REALLY Suziewoozie So tell me...what makes YOU the voice of gransnet eh?

Nobody knows anyone's circumstances, but it's probably safe to assume they are as "special" as the next person's.

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Well May7 certainly different post! Sincerely hope it isn't genuine hon?

I called 101 on my neighbours having a garden rubbish fire at 2am in the morning. (Yes I was curtain twitching had gone out to look at the April moon.) Despite council and fire service publishing and asking us not to because of a) breathing difficulties
b) out of hand using up resources.
Took ages , press 1 press 2 press 346 eventually got through. A fire ? you must ring fire service. So rang community fire service.....is it unattended if so ring 999 and we'll send a pump out. Well yes it was unattended it filled my house and lungs with smoke and I've now got a cough but did I want the fire service to come out at 2am all bells and whistles well No I dont ...it wasnt an emergency. Fire officer says sadly and I quote people actually just dont give a s**t really do they love

Well, correct me if I am wrong suziewoozie , I thought the whole reason for this was so that we didn't pass the virus on to other people? What is this "not supposed to"? Not supposed to what? People are walking about, six meters apart. That is acceptable..yes ? People can bike ride past relatives and talk at gate..yes? But people can't stop by in a huge garden and keep many more feet distance because...why? You say so?

Non of you know my circumstances and all I was saying initially is ...let everyone decide what they think is acceptable. The OP did say she was envious of her neighbours which is why I said I would have been upset if any neighbours had reported me simply because they were envious!

I wrote about a family gathering in the communal garden where I live and again the same residents had family in their flat this time 2 young boys I feel afraid to leave my flat to even go down to garden They must have touched handles lift buttons etc I am not at all pleased Why have we got Management Rules ?

Val different households are not supposed to meet up even if they practice social distancing. Your dd could call round with necessary supplies ( and leave them outside) or her and the dgc could wave as they went past your house whilst on a walk.Thats it.

I feel very sorry for any family suffering from devastating consequences of terminal cancer. I think under those circumstances I too would risk breaking the rules on social distancing.
We all know many people dying of other causes are not being reported on a daily basis to the general public. However cancer and cardiac arrests and many other life limiting conditions are not contagious and they do not put other people’s lives at risk.
Socialising for the sake of it is not acceptable!

So mad, I can’t count. There are 3 telling everyone how they are twisting and ignoring the rules

I had a veritable rant when two of my children reported that they had neighbours having family parties! I was shocked and it made me so angry. None of them lived alone - they were all family groups visiting family groups. I on the other hand live alone, out of town, and won't see another soul for a week when I get a delivery. I do this willingly because doing anything that would spread the virus is just criminal, selfish ignorance. End of second rant!

I’m spitting feathers after reading those two confessions! Unbelievable !

suziewoozie* How am I breaking the rules? Distancing more than ten feet (not the 6 feet advised?)

It’s an awful things to do, but shouldn’t we be calling 101 in these cases? The general consensus says this behaviour will probably spread the virus and, as we are the ones who will be hit badly, we should try to prevent this. The police ARE interested in this sort of tentatively dangerous activity, after all they don’t want the bug any more than the rest of us.

Exactly!

If they are windups, that’s a rotten thing to do and if they are true it’s a rotten thing to do - in other words , rotten posts