Neighbours Behaving Badly

Common sense should prevail. As long as you're only mixing with members of your own household there is nothing wrong with garden activities. Likewise you can chat with your neighbour outside if both keep a distance. Your children calling with food and chatting with you for a while outside (at a distance) is also okay!
Visiting another household is not okay whether inside or out.

3211123rjc, have you asked your children to help you with groceries/prescription deliveries? If they are as worried as they say, surely they would help?

And why NOT use FB to find a support group? Are you happy to risk your life because you dislike social media? You're on Gransnet. It seems a bit of a false distinction to me.

overnight visitors to the left, visiting children to the right, luckily several m away on both sides. Pee`s me off tbh, so many of us are `obeying `restrictions to the letter. It does change my opinion of both. really finding out how they think about the rest of us and the nhs. Ie selfish to the core. Someone mentioned white feathers, that is exactly what it feels like

Unbelievable there are those not taking this virus seriously. A friend of mine with four grandchildren living but a mile away is not content with one visit but backward and forward.Not unusual to bring the eldest GC home to see 'poor grandpa who is feeling poorly today ?'

This sort of behaviour is disgusting! Due to the majority of people taking care, snd the minority not we could be stopped from going out at all for exercise!!

Yes lots of my neighbours having friends round. They don't normally disgracefull I think there should be a confidential line to phone and report to police. These people think doesn't apply them. Well it does

icanhandthemback we are doing the same as you. DD and the GC stand at one end of the drive and us at the other. If goods are being delivered then gloves are worn, goods delivered to half way along drive, she retreats and we collect the goods. Everything is wiped down. Our DD has named it the 'Corona Tango' as we move backwards and forwards to maintain the 2m rule . The GKs are used to it now but it is very hard not being able to hug our family. It only happens once a week but is helping me maintain my sanity. Our youngest GC we can only see online as he is just 6mths. Hey ho it will pass as everything does.

Agree with so many of you. We try to limit our supermarket visits and as so hard to get an online slot we are still going to the supermarket. Mind you with restrictions it is actually easier than normal. We live in a holiday area and so this is the quietest Easter week I have ever known in over 40 years here. Whilst the house opposite is a second home and has had no visitors at weekends some houses do seem to have a lot more cars there. My husband cycles to a nearby village where he is fairly sure a hotel has rented its apartments to the BMW/ Mercedes holiday set as few people living in North Devon can afford really expensive vehicles.
We do hope we don't have an influx over the weekend of Easter itself but that would rely on police and we don't have loads.
In town sadly the druggies still congregate outside the pharmacy making it scary going for a prescription

I feel sorry for the poor police who have to put themselves at risk to confront these idiots. Have they got protective clothing?

@knspol
I completely agree with you.

I am very exercised at this flagrant breaching of human rights - age discrimination - and will be having words with my MP at an appropriate time.

Many of our local community activities and voluntary support services, upon which many rely, closed down a month or so ago as the retirees/older people who run them sensibly decided to self-isolate early. Ditto Granny childcare.

It was rather a surprise to realise that older people play such a big part, behind the scenes and unsung, in many/most? communities.

And they want to summarily bump us off?!

From all I've seen and experienced, too many in our younger generations seem to harbour inexplicable disdain and/or hatred towards older people.

I'm not sure they'd get far with no grandparents to look after children whilst they're at work, no older people running activity groups of all sorts and filling in the gaps that public services deserted.

The lesson is that no demographic is dispensible. We all have our part to play.

Sad to have to say, but the Nurse needs reporting. Her Colleagues at work would be so angry, as she is possibly bringing the virus into the Nurse area. She is
Putting lives at risk. It is really sad as she ought to know better.

I spoke of this on a different thread yesterday and nobody even gave a comment.
So neighbour next door and then the neighbour next to her are friendly over the weekend both of those households were on front porch all sitting in close proximity laughing and enjoying some wine. When I took the dog out I noticed that one neighbour was giving the other one a hair trim.
Sunday morning one of same neighbours was in garden assisting the woman with garden work and there was no social distancing when it was finished it was back to the wine drinking. All this going on and the next door neighbour had her daughter arrive that went in the house and then her sons girlfriend both of who do not live there.
They always carry on like that in hot weather and this virus has not changed them, and yet they have the cheek to look down their noses at every one else. They make me sick.

It doesn’t apply to me attitude. How stupid can people get?

Sad to have to say but this Nurse needs reporting ASAP. Her Colleagues at work would be so angry, as she is possibly bringing the virus into a very special area. She is putting many lives at risk. It is really sad, as she ought to know better. Stay safe everyone.

My neighbours have their barbeque - with their extended family members - on the patio right outside our kitchen door. I got so fedup with the smoke, the noise and the non-social distancing that I blasted out from my upstairs bedroom window a Chinese opera. It's like Shakespear, but loud. The barbeque and crowd very soon moved indoors. Try it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aYJlqKo0es (Anyone who's interested, the "rap" sounding part is the narration, and it builds up to a noisy climax within a few minutes.)

The rules are clear - no get-togethers with anyone who doesn't live in your household. I agree with Samegrandma, anybody flouting the rules is potentially causing your death - why would you not REPORT THEM?

@NannyDa
My son is a senior police officer (CID) which means he's not frontline but has to deal with the worst of the worst offenders and junior colleagues who are out there trying to police idiot behaviours.

He already worries about the mental health of his large team and now he's got their physical well-being to fret about too.

And of course, I worry just as much for him and his dear family. Policing is often a very hard and thankless job at the best of times.

I need to change my user name.

GoldenAge :who do we report them to and also will anyone do anything at the moment? do we report to housing authority or police? My ones are flouting every rule and it beggars belief that they work in the bloody hospital they should know better.

Not seen my lovely little grandkids for 3 weeks now. Beginning to wonder what’s the point if others don’t show they care. However onwards we go, couldn’t bear to think I might have caused someone else serious grief so we are staying in.

Yep same story; My next-door neighbours and I seem to be the only ones in lock down in our long street. They all just coming and going, meeting up for parities, BBQs &football on the green, family& friends visiting . They all seem to be having a ball. Yet a friend of mine was walking her dog and got stopped by the police. I have seen no one in three weeks and I have left my house twice in that time, both times for medication and essentials.

I've not been able to get any more home deliveries and am too scared to go out to the shops . I have asthma and live with my son ,who also has asthma and low immunity due to previous cancer treatment. I'm so lucky that DD, other DS and SIL have all been calling round with necessary shopping and meds, all leaving it on the step and then talking from the car. I've also been having 'coffee' with my opposite neighbour. We both sit on our front steps and chat across the road and exchange Dvds and other goods by way of the Corona tango,as another commenter put it. We live in a quiet cul de sac and havent seen anyone else around. So glad we have FaceTime to keep in touch with the family and speak to my young grandchildren daily. Some of these tales of selfish people believing they're invincible is just awful.

I agree I will not go into see the GC but left medication at daughters front door as GC has asthma and I am following all rules anyway. Also my brother took a half hour walk to see me
but we only spoke with him outside and over 2 metres away.
Unlike my neighbours I am trying to show I care and do not want anyone upset by my careless attitudes.

GrannieIggle
My husband served 30 years in the police, and I did myself for a time. These people are the same people who will flout the laws and bad mouth the police, but expect them to be there immediately when they need them.

Hi, I think the advice is a bit confusing in terms of distancing and open to interpretation. I suppose its down to our common sense in the end. I don't agree with family parties at all or the rest you described. But one member of the family sitting miles away in the garden for a short time.....? Is that acceptable? I really pity people in high rise flats with several children. Must be very hard. Take care everyone