Paperbackwriter
kwest On your holiday you can all eat together if you go to the pub and eat at tables of no more than 6, but not in one house together. Realised last night that I can't have my daughter and her family round to ours in Cornwall as that would be a total of 7. I wish they'd count children as a kind of half-fare, like it used to be on a bus then we could see them all together! Oh well.. no doubt by the time I next visit the area if will have all changed again.
I'm not sure if this is happening everywhere, but my cousin, who manages a restaurant for a smallish chain, has been told not to allow large groups to book two or more adjacent tables. This is because it is very difficult for the staff to stop them mingling, moving seats, talking loudly across the room etc. Of course if different people book separately, there is not much they can do other than sit them apart if they suspect they have colluded.
He is not very happy as he does not want confrontation but he is aware of how many large groups have been meeting in his restaurant this way, potentially spreading the virus.