I’m a rebel at heart and have always used my own discretion when it comes to obeying rules.
“Stay at Home” were simply words and I chose to ignore it. My self and a few friends were out walking every day, sometimes for several hours, the same few friends socialising every evening in one another’s private gardens whilst taking extreme measures to mitigate against catching COVID. Taking our own drinks, bottle openers, glasses, sitting 2m apart on lawns & patios. Circumstances allowed us to do it so we did. To hell with staying at home cooped up not meeting your friends.
I appreciate it’s difficult to apply rules to one BD postcode and not another, but if my postcode was in lockdown, I lived in a hamlet where the only facility was a post box, had lots of private outdoor space, then I’d have no qualms in inviting 2 friends round for a bbq. Stuff lockdown. We wouldn’t shake hands, they wouldn’t go in my house ( pee in the bushes) sit 1.5m apart and make sure they don’t sneeze in your face!
No one has been in either my house or car since March apart from my old mum. Lots of people have been on my patios making merry whilst social distancing.
Probably that’s playing hard and fast with the ‘rules’ but generally I try my best. The only shopping I do is for food...normally done 30 minutes before closing time when quietest. Beer shopping, pubs and beer gardens, is done midweek only, normally afternoon or early evening when plenty of space. My favourite watering hole, the Talbot in Settle, has a large beer garden, tables seating 8, literally several metres apart, around which a max of 3 of us will sit, with table service and proper beer. Perfect on a warm afternoon after a good walk.
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