Neighbours Behaving Badly

There has been much confusion about the family visiting ruling. This was cleared up recently. Family in this instance means household. So family from another household should not be mixing.

Mardler123, the word 'family' was used in the earlier TV advice - when 'household', along with a definition, should have been.

Oldjude, you say:

'nothing else to do but nosey and judge others',

well yes, guilty as charged, and proud of it too! I will keep on reporting them to the police - with absolutely no hesitation.

If a drunk driver was recklessly speeding in your area, putting lives in danger, what would you do?

I think tbf the word ‘household’ was always used officially. I think what actually happened was that ( as so often happens) some members of MSM sloppily turned the word into families. But apart from that, does anyone need much intelligence to understand the thinking behind reducing mixing to reduce spread? I think some people wilfully misunderstood what they were supposed to do - as some still are.

This is my first post so I'll dip my toe in the water to say that household quite obviously means people living under the same roof whether related or not. It doesn't mean family per se.

surf exactly - some people just wanted to pretend they didn’t understand.

no suziewoozie, I will not report either neighbour and absolutely will not take on any of his `guilt`. There are only 3 of us in my area and I keep myself very safe. Apart from that they are lovely helpful neighbours.

I find al lthis hateful! i have been doing my best to maintain Social Distancing, but it is a struggle and makes me sad. I still work, as I work for the NHS. My daughters and GC were in complete lockdown for a fortnight as all had symptoms, there time finished just as the General Lockdown happened. I am concerned for my Daughters MH - they both have issues. I am missing them terribly. They have ddropped thngs off at the front door and we have spoken at a 2m+ distance, which has eased things a bit. Face time is no substitute. But waht I really hate is the way people have turned into curtain twithcers, spying on everyone! One local lady's sone spent 10 or 15 minutes in the space behing her house on his bike doing stunts. He filmed himself - absolutely no one around at all. The abuse she got! Apparently if he had ridden around for 1015 minutes that was fine, as it was exercise. This was 'playing' and therefore not acceptable. wher has the common sense gone! You woudl think people were intelligent enough to recognise risk takin over none risk taking? Having non household gatherings, and picnics and group games is clearly wrong, but the hysterical cries of 'they left the house' are beyond me. Check the distance and if ok then just button it.

Really should proof read!

Somewhere on this thread someone mentioned about people shopping every day for a few things.

I agree that this is not a good idea at all at the moment but perhaps people who don't drive but can walk to a shop can only carry a small amount at a time. I agree completely that it shouldn't be necessary to go out absolutely every day.

Knickas63 - Try not to get upset. Picking holes in others is entertainment for some folks. Doing stunts in a bike is exercise and if he was on his own I don’t see the problem.
OK somethings are downright dangerous at the moment and we can all be proud of the things we do to minise the danger but you’re right about the curtain twitchers.
We have extended our walking distance to a figure of 8 as we’ve been feeling fitter but this involves walking down our road twice. Yesterday one of the men further down the road, working on his garden said, “See you’ve been out twice today.”
We were out for about 30 minutes so perhaps his sense of time isn’t that good. DH just smiled and said, “We’re trying to make it 4 times round.” He’s so much more tactful than me.

We have people next to us just ignoring lockdown completely. It does not make common sense but one lady asked them why they are doing it they say they are bored and got nothing to else to do.

Kaggi60, there's far worse things than being bored - like being dead!