Lockdown Three: have you followed the rules, broken them a bit, or broken them a lot?
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Idaho
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Generally followed the rules. Usually been stricter in situations that are higher risk (tend to stay isolated and be very cautious on social distance in shops/transport, etc, and been more lax in low risk situations - meeting outdoors with a couple of people for a distanced walk, and taking a more ranging interpretation of local than, say, the Derbyshire police when going for a walk or bike ride, etc.
Epona
Radar 2006-2020, Sonic 2006-2022, Jakey 2007-2024
Shopping and exercise (carrying shopping home) a couple of times a week, that's it and is within the rules. OH has work at the moment and cannot wfh so he is going to work (it is outdoor food retail work). We haven't socialised with anyone outside of our household at all or gone out uneccesarily.
bimble
floofy
Ticked 'broken some of the rules at least once a week' but its just one rule, repeatedly: instead of a correct bubble i'm one third of an illegal 3-person bubble, all 3 of us live alone and WFH and agreed to just go for walks with anyone else not indoors. Using rational brain think the risk is lower than bubbling with a family of 4 for instance, but still, there's my confession.
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
Option 1 (who's got the halo polish atm ?)
Been much stricter this time around and not broken any rules as far as I am aware (unless there's a weird one hidden underneath the others).
[four adult household, all but me are over 65, and I'm only months under that barrier]
Been much stricter this time around and not broken any rules as far as I am aware (unless there's a weird one hidden underneath the others).
[four adult household, all but me are over 65, and I'm only months under that barrier]
wtfftw
roof's about to blow ♩♪♩♬ ♬♩♪♩
I have broken a rule. You can meet one other person outside your household for exercise right? And under 5s aren't part of the numbers. The nearest my disability allows to exercise is sitting in a park (playground) so I've met friends there. We're not going for a walk. It's a socially distanced reasonable adjustment.
Oh and I caught a bus to a further away fancier supermarket. I can't drive so.
Oh and I caught a bus to a further away fancier supermarket. I can't drive so.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
I do what I think is best personally in the context of what I'm able to do in the first place. That ends up being compliant under the "rules" and probably even more so but it's not because they're the rules, it's because there is an overlap between what's sensible and what the law is.
I go out whenever I feel like it - that's allowable under the law since that's only ever for shopping or a walk for my physical and/or mental health, but nobody gives a shit about it anyway so I don't think I'll ever have to make that argument, unless a copper takes a dislike to me, in which case they won't care what I say or what the law is regardless.
I don't meet people because I don't know anyone local.
I go out whenever I feel like it - that's allowable under the law since that's only ever for shopping or a walk for my physical and/or mental health, but nobody gives a shit about it anyway so I don't think I'll ever have to make that argument, unless a copper takes a dislike to me, in which case they won't care what I say or what the law is regardless.
I don't meet people because I don't know anyone local.
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I've twice been for a walk with two people rather than one. They're a couple though and we could actually be in a support bubble if we formalised it, given I live on my own and they're not in a bubble with anyone else so... 
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Apart from that, I'm basically at home, venturing out every 10 days or so for provisions and the odd walk on my own.
.Apart from that, I'm basically at home, venturing out every 10 days or so for provisions and the odd walk on my own.
Poot
My wife thinks I work too hard
Didn't realise you could only exercise for an hour, but since I go alone at 6am I don't suppose it matters.
I am massively careful. My teens have sometimes seen a friend for a walk/skateboarding (only ever one friend at a time) and have been to takeaways but ffs I can't feel bad about that. This must be hell for a teenager.
I am massively careful. My teens have sometimes seen a friend for a walk/skateboarding (only ever one friend at a time) and have been to takeaways but ffs I can't feel bad about that. This must be hell for a teenager.
Voley
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You can exercise for as long as you want Poot. The one hour thing was some guff Michael Gove said on the spot during the first lockdown. Don't think it's ever been a rule - it just confused people.
baldrick
hmmmmm
Did a few things not in the spirit of the rules I think. Drove 150 miles to pick the niece up from uni. Met with 5 people from 5 different households to go for a run on Xmas day and then two people from another household for Xmas lunch. Met up with a friend for a walk - definitely more social than exercise. We also bought takeaway coffee from a van in the park so it was verging dangerously towards being a picnic 
pinkmonkey
2.4 hour party person
I've been stricter with it, mostly because two people I know have been really ill with this new shitty strain, both puking for hours, one kept in hospital overnight as he lost so much fluids, he's our young cousin and he's a paramedic. Sounds worse than norovirus! ! Been out about twice a week, usually one brief meeting a week outdoors with someone who is doing some work for me. We didn't bother with masks in November but now we're brief with our meetings and we're masked up. I now wear a surgical mask and a buff over the top and chuck the mask away after use. I've got to go look after my dad from Tuesday - had to do this the previous lockdown, too, but I think I'll go out even less once up there. I do yoga classes using an app, in order to stop myself from going totally mental.
Are we only meant to exercise once a day? I rarely leave home anyway. Maybe a walk twice a week, medical appointments and taking the bins out.
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Th our thing isn’t law. And your teenagers aren’t doing anything wrong either. You’re allowed to meet one other person for exercise and if takeaways are open you can obviously go and buy things from them.
Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
I've been to a range of local supermarkets (woohoo!). Not got much food storage space, so I go more often than is ideal (about 3 times a week). Been to work; once on public transport due to a flat tyre. Cycled about on my own a bit. That's the full extent of my not being in my room activities.
Puddy_Tat
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pretty much stuck to it
mum-tat thinks it's not a good idea for me to go and visit although we could be a 'support bubble'
working from home most of the time (we got turfed out of the office in autumn when someone tested positive - it's possible but less convenient to work from home)
doing food shopping once or twice a week (re-discovered milk deliveries when i was self isolating for a week before xmas)
technically i shouldn't have gone to post my covid test back (although was careful to avoid people when doing so)
mum-tat thinks it's not a good idea for me to go and visit although we could be a 'support bubble'
working from home most of the time (we got turfed out of the office in autumn when someone tested positive - it's possible but less convenient to work from home)
doing food shopping once or twice a week (re-discovered milk deliveries when i was self isolating for a week before xmas)
technically i shouldn't have gone to post my covid test back (although was careful to avoid people when doing so)
oryx
Sitting on the bok of the day
Option 1. Being stricter was wearing a mask just for going on walks when the number of cases was at its height. I've stopped doing that now, but will wear one if I go in a shop, the post office etc. (which I don't think I've done this year).
It's easy for me to do as family are all 200+ miles away and we keep up via phone, WhatsApp and Zoom, and the same with friends, although I'm hoping to meet one friend for a walk in the next couple of weeks.
I live with my partner so have company 23/7 (only an hour apart when I go for a walk or he goes for a walk!). I miss going out and going on holiday quite a bit but think (hope?) things will get better in the summer and even if lockdown still exists, walks will be nicer in the sun and light. I think I now know every tree, leaf, garden, pothole and street lamp in my bit of Brockley to the extent that if I didn't live here (and like it) I'd never want to see Brockley again.
I really feel for people who struggle with it for genuine reasons e.g. loneliness, not being able to see vulnerable relatives, not being able to visit people in hospital etc. etc..
It's easy for me to do as family are all 200+ miles away and we keep up via phone, WhatsApp and Zoom, and the same with friends, although I'm hoping to meet one friend for a walk in the next couple of weeks.
I live with my partner so have company 23/7 (only an hour apart when I go for a walk or he goes for a walk!). I miss going out and going on holiday quite a bit but think (hope?) things will get better in the summer and even if lockdown still exists, walks will be nicer in the sun and light. I think I now know every tree, leaf, garden, pothole and street lamp in my bit of Brockley to the extent that if I didn't live here (and like it) I'd never want to see Brockley again.
I really feel for people who struggle with it for genuine reasons e.g. loneliness, not being able to see vulnerable relatives, not being able to visit people in hospital etc. etc..
Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
You're allowed to have someone for a support bubble. It wouldn't be straying.
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In England there is no limit but you're not supposed to leave your local area.
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Puddy_Tat
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have they actually said what they mean by 'your local area'? is it distance related, or administrative boundaries?
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" Staying in your local area means stay in the village, town, or part of the city where you live. "
Living safely with respiratory infections, including COVID-19
Guidance for living safely with respiratory infections, including coronavirus (COVID-19).
Here's the full extract:
Puddy_Tat
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thanks - not sure if it's me, or if that isn't entirely clear.
mum-tat was wondering, as from where she lives, she could walk over 5 miles in one direction and still be within lewisham borough (as she's 80+ with a dodgy leg, she's not going to) but can go for a gentle toddle a few streets in a different direction and be in bromley borough, or similar in another direction and be in greenwich borough.
i said i didn't think they were patrolling borough boundaries so she's probably OK...
miss direct
misfungled
I'm afraid I bend it by going to see my boyfriend. I technically don't live alone as I have a landlady but I very much live my own life and am barely in the same space as her at all. Since I'm now being evicted and sit in my room all the time (avoiding landlady/packing/skulking), I think I needed to get out of the house for the sake of my own mental health.
Other than that though, I stick to the rules, far more strictly than I notice others doing, especially now I work in a school.
Other than that though, I stick to the rules, far more strictly than I notice others doing, especially now I work in a school.
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I went for an 11 mile walk recently, and made a point of not getting within 5 metres or so of anyone on my way. I needed the walk for the sake of my beleaguered noggin!
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