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Today in London there is no rule against having a cup of tea in the living room with someone from outside your household though so why people are claiming to be in a bubble is beyond me.
Of course that is different on Saturday. My father is about to get his first smartphone. Setting it up with him is going to be awkward, I suppose I'll have to sit in his garden.
jellybaby
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I hear a lot of nonsense said about "bubbles" here in SW London.
People seem to completely ignore the single adult household aspect of the bubbles. People seem to flit between bubbles at will, forgetting that they are meant to be reciprocal, exclusive and long term.
More often than not though it's because they're helping out people by doing their shopping and the like and, rather than leaving it on the doorstep and maybe having a cup of tea with them whilst remaining outside, they also feel the need to be in to their house and do things which may not be completely necessary.
We're in a similar situation in that we can't be in a support bubble with either of our sets of parents as we're not a single adult household and being in a bubble with one set of parents would exclude us from being in a bubble with the other set. But, saying that, if either of our sets of aging parents needed some support that they can't get otherwise then one of us (or our siblings) wouldn't think twice about doing what was necessary, even if that meant having more than one different non-single adult household visit them in short order. As it is we're making do with video calls and thoughts of 5 hour round trips (10 hours for her parents) to visit them as best we can without going into the house at all.