Neighbour has Grandson with her on Easter Sunday .

You could be right there SirChenjin.

I haven't been "curtain twitching" either Franburn. My partner and I were sitting in the dining room, window open, eating when my neighbour's ex returned with the 4 girls in the car. The girls next door came back bubbly after their trip out and there were lots of goodbyes to the other two girls and their father. That's how I know what they all did.
ValerieF jealousy is a very negative emotion. An act carried out due to jealousy is never one thought out. I am not jealous of either my neighbour's (and the other family of neighbours) nor her ex's behaviour, sad they do not seem to recognize the potential risk their actions are exposing their children, themselves and others to - yes. I'd feel the same if I knew her ex was drink driving.

And when people become sick with the virus because they flouted the advice to stay at home, someone somewhere has to put their lives on the line to nurse them. Fact.

Surely the posts from Sky, Valerie and Fun are wind ups? They must be - there can’t be that many stupid and selfish people on here in less than 40 minutes?

Are you joking Sky or just unutterably selfish and stupid?

Valerie you were breaking the rules - it’s not obsessive to say so. What makes you so special that you are free to potentially spread the virus?

I'm afraid I'm one of the guilty ones - MIL (86) is the only driver in the family - she takes DS and me shopping weekly, waits in the car and I do our family shop while DS does hers. Then she takes us home and goes home herself as soon as we've unpacked our purchases. But our sin is that she visits us each Saturday; one week she cooks, one week we do and we make sure that we sort out her techy bits and pieces - on Saturday I dealt with some urgent government paperwork for her, including some photocopying, as she can't cope with it herself.

Yes, we can abide by the rules.
It's a shame some choose not to, considering the potential consequences.

I think my neighbour has decided that incense is the answer. She keeps setting the fire alarm off and my flat occasionally fills with the smell of incense.
She was a bit sheepish about it the first time but it was quite funny because it is a bit silent and tense here usually. 99% of the people on my estate seem to be following the rules and the few people I have seen in the street had face masks on. There is a woman opposite whose family visit but she is the only one so far as I know.

No - because you know the rules, the Govt has been pumping this information out for weeks now. You should not be mixing households, end of. It’s how the virus spreads and it’s not hard to understand at all.

We can abide by the rules without getting obsessive about it surely? My daughter and family came Easter Sunday and we had a lovely time - in the garden BUT we kept the social distances. If ANY of my neighbours had 'reported' us simply because they were jealous I would be mortified. Give people credit for some things eh?

We miss our grandkids a lot too, particularly the one we cared for since he was 18 months old. He is now nine. I live in the U.S. and people are not in lockdown, at least not by law, but are self isolating for the most part. Still, we thought it wise not to have contact with my son's family. It is hard on the boy to not see us anymore, or once from 6ft away when we dropped things off. So, we did make the decision he could come to our back yard and play while keeping distance. I had made mouth masks for him, my husband, live in daughter and myself, and while wearing those we gave him a hug. It did us and him a world of good!

So something like that can be considered by those who want some connection. But, do keep the distance, and wear a mask for the welcome or goodbye hug!

I am 63, my husband 65 and here in Colorado things are still reasonably good. But, yes....contact should be kept to a minimum.

I know ALL about my neighbours life, because she calls in every time she goes past,to update me. (About ten times a day, on average.
It's been quite a relief to distance, not least because she is still going out and about as usual.

Hello Franbern; Please let me point out I was not "curtain twitching" and have no reason to want to. I was sitting on computer which is placed near my large window where I do not use net curtain as I like the light that it throws in. I am not judgemental and do not think I wear a nice shiny halo. I had the large window open due to lovely weather when I heard the sound of laughing and talking outside. I was able to glance out and there was my neighbour stood holding the two and half year old grand-child and kissing it over the face.
Now I am sorry to upset you but I thought that was appalling not just for my neighbour bur for the child in fact I will go further and say down right disgusting and I almost swore at her to see that behaviour.

I can empathize with your friends wanting to see their son particularly as he is at the end of life care for cancer and it must be distressing for them that is a lot to take on board and driving to see him was a chance they took.

In regard of my neighbours I know there is no terminal illness in the house and even she has a job. The sons that go in and out also have jobs so nobody is at end of life care. I only pointed out that all of us have to support and keep the rules we have been told and if we all just keep seeing family and carrying on as normal then there is no point to lockdown.

I had written a long and exasperated comment on here with regard to the previous poster's very emotive admonishment to us nation of curtain twitchers suffice to say I've deleted it. I'm polishing my halo and condolences to your relatives. What difficult times we are going through

For ignoring

I’ll be angry at everyone who chooses to spread this virus and prolong the agony for everyone whilst contributing to the ever increasing death rate. If those people find themselves on the receiving end of a fine for you ignoring the rules then they’ve only got themselves to blame.

Gosh!! Are we turning into a nation of 'curtain twitchers'? So many people on here being so very judgemental about other peoples behaviours, putting their halos in place with regard to their own behavior.
None of you have any real knowledge of any factors with regards to these neighbours. Okay, some of them may be flouting lockdown procedures, but others may have very good reasons for that
Okay...Let me give you another scenario - a real one unfortunately,. I have a relatives (both over 70yrs old) who drove a couple of hundred miles to visit their eldest son, their daughter also drove, separately similar distance to be with them and him. She has now returned to her home and husband and son.
Reason.....that son/brother is dying from cancer, unlikely to live more than a few more weeks. So, his parents and his sister felt the need to be with him and see him for a last time outweighed everything else. So, they flouted the rules - would you condemn them for that??
Not saying everybody may have such heartbreaking reasons - but unless you walk in someones shoes you really do not know their lives.
Be angry -yet, be angry with a government that deliberately ignored advice about this sort of pandemic and its effects on the health service four years back (Cygnes Report), be angry with government that wanted herd immunity process so as not to badly disrupt economics, be angry with a government that has spent a decade running down and down all NHS monies - even applauded in the House of Commons when their majority prevented a bill giving a wage rise to Health Workers was defeated.
Stop being angry at your neighbours and friends, who are just trying to cope with all the dreadful stresses and mental health problems that are being thrown up now/This virus will not be stopped until such time as a vaccine is finally found.
And, horrific as those thousand a day deaths are.....and of course they are.....take into account that nearly that number of deaths are normally recorded every day of the year for just two illnesses (cancer and Heart attacks). No daily briefings on those, ever.

We have been in lockdown here since the 13th of March, on the Monday after the lockdown, DD received two phone calls from Mothers of DGS school friends asking if she would look after their Children as she was at home all day. She works from home.
One even asked if the dog could be locked up as her little Prince did not like dogs.
DD said no and also pointed out that I live in a connected apartment. Just told well she can shut herself in.
Her comments to both of them were not polite at all.

My daughter gave birth to our first grandson a week ago and although my husband and I live about 5 minutes drive from them we haven't seen him yet and don't know when it will be allowed. It's hard enough already but when I hear others flouting the rules it makes it very cross.

Stupid people, stay home save lives, is that not what's being said all day everyday.

You’re quite right to phone them 3nanny6 - if that’s what it takes to get the message through to her then so be it.

Thank-you for the posts everyone seems to mirror my own thoughts and there are so many stories about many who break the rules of social distancing.

Great post Cherrycezzy and the last line sums it all up, it endangers the life of innocent human beings.

SirChenjin I can understand your frustration particularly about phoning 101. My neighbour has had her last chance now after yesterday as she has broken the rules for about three weeks. I know the police will probably be inundated with calls but enough is enough next time I am doing it. That is unless an ambulance doesn't turn up first the way they have carried on.

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