Households Mixing ??

[SparklyKid]

Tomorrow is my neighbours birthday. We plan to go with another couple who are related to us.

Can we do this ?

[Barmaid]

Im very sad because my grandmother has been instructed by her consultant that she is extremely vulnerable and must not mix with people. What will probably be her last Christmas she will probably spend alone. But none of us wish her to contract Covid which we understand to be a horrible death.

It's a horrible situation to be in with horrible choices to be made.

[237SJ]

Barmaid. That's really sad for your grandmother. If that was my grandmother or mother and they realised that this Christmas might be their last, they would ignore the Consultant and make memories with their families. Who is that Consultant to take that away from them?

[Barmaid]

She's said she won't come 237. But mum and I are hatching a plan. Mum is her bubble and my brother lives next door to my mum. So it may not be quite the same but we won't let her be alone, nor will we put her at risk.

[Peter Pedant]

George VI having been cured by mr doodah in Dec 1951 - waved orf his daughter to Kenya
and thought o *** and went out shooting 29 Jan 52 and was dead the next day. I have often thought that is how I might like to go ( er perhaps not shooting small furry animals)

[Cinema audiences watching Pathe news gasped as they saw the King endda Jan as he looked as tho he was just about to croak sortta on camera]

[pixie374]

An awful situation to be in, BM. And horrible though this may sound, it more makes me wish we could allow humans a better quality of dying. I really hope that doesn't offend you... but I wish she could make her genuine choice, without being made to suffer for it.

Does anyone know.... if there is a maximum allowed? I spoke to my parents, in their 70s. And frankly, they are expecting us all to go for lunch. No partners, just immediate family... that is still 12 people and 4 households. But it is also my granddaughter's 5th birthday on Christmas day.... nobody is prepared to leave her and her mum out.

[New Judge]

The maximum "gathering" in the Christmas "truce" period is three households.

[pixie374]

Thanks, nj. Clearly we will fail then. But no actual numbers of people?

[New Judge]

No limit on numbers.

[pixie374]

Thank you x

[brainiac]

Nobody's mentioned the impending travel chaos

[Barmaid]

Im not offended at all, Pixie. We know that she does not have long. In some ways it will please her so she can be reunited with her soul mate of over 70 years. And she will do precisely as she pleases whatever the rest of us say.

[anneasquith]

I like the sound of granny .

[lady-janine]

Granny sounds like a good 'un.