Indoors, I should add. The government is happy for you to have sex with up to 5 other people in your garden https://twitter.com/barristersecret/status/1267142641965322240">https://twitter.com/barrister...

(In law, at least. The Guidance, although not the law, requires you all to be two metres apart at the time)

To those asking “was this not illegal before?”, the answer is complicated. Reg 7 (prohibition on gatherings) didn’t apply to gatherings inside a private address. Reg 6 prohibited leaving your house, but *without reasonable excuse*. Excitingly, this meant that... 1/2

... there was scope for somebody to make a legal argument that leaving the house to have sex with a partner was a reasonable excuse. (Optimistic, perhaps, but if the govt approved the “eye test defence”, who knows?)

Now, the new Reg 7 explicitly prohibits private gatherings. 2/2

(A gathering amounting, in a private place, to two or more people from different households).