Nothing more can be said… until it is seen how the situation develops…
I know that is not an easy truth to live with… but there it is…
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Ours (mainly French family) is normally 12 or so for the Reveillon but this year we will be staying at home and so I think will the rest of the family.
We saw them all over the summer but outside, with two big tables and a lot of distancing. We couldn’t manage the distancing at Xmas so best to chat by phone and think of a get-together next year.
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A voice of reason
Stay safe
Stay negative
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I’m lost in the negatives…”nothing other than christmas gatherings” ie you think christmas gathering are ok? Surely that’s the point - we don’t know one way or another yet.
But just about everybody I have talked to here in last couple of days has made plans, so basically the Government’s message has hit deaf ears.
I suspect we are all getting a little weary
but for those with difficulty understanding Graham’s post…
I suggest it means exactly what it says…
: ( we should) assume that Christmas gatherings round the table are off-piste (forbidden)
(since we cannot assume anything else… at this stage of the game )
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A comma helps. 
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Why is it so hard for people to accept that the Government have done a poor job in convincing people? We are preaching to the choir here, but the majority are elsewhere.
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eats shoots and leaves 
@Stella has it spot on (as usual). There is no need for a comma IMHO
I can’t accept that (if you mean the French Govt). The hard hitting « grannies birthday » public information film on French TV is convincing enough. Granny will fall off her perch because the lower orders of her wider family continue to act like morons 
Much more effective than the weak livered three word slogans dished out by HMG 
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Until this past week Kent had the lowest infection rate in the UK, now it has the highest 
Judging by my step-daughter’s behaviour, she might well have single-handedly contributed to that increase (OK, slight exaggeration). If she, as a young adult (nearly 30 tho) is as individualistic and in denial like many others of her age group, then Kent is well and truly effed.
I agree.
Currently as of 15 Dec you can move around and change dept without an attestation. That means people feel that it is fine to ‘go home / see family’ for the Christmas holidays. And that is what everyone I have spoken to is going to do. Add in the no curfew between 24 and the 31 and that is basically saying ‘go to Tante Marie-Claude for the apero and then on to Tante Jeanne for dinner’ - we will be locked down again in January toute bloody suite if you ask me…
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The Charente Maritime has had the lowest infection rate in France for months and still has, guess where I live?
Mind you - I am no better as my daughter and her BF are coming but we are obviously not going to visit anyone more elderly.
Except the government are saying something different -
‘as long as the numbers are okay Christmas is on but be careful’
We will do whatever the government dictates or recommends.
Can we clear up something
Where has it been stated that curfew is being lifted for 7 days… ???
What I read seemed to state… 24th and 31st December… not the whole week
or have I totally lost the plot…
I think that was just wishful thinking on Cat’s part. 
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No Stella is quite right - just the 24 and 31. But that does still leave a lot of time before 9pm for socialising!
Sud Ouest is my local paper… and it gives a reasonable understanding of the situation as of today… for at least the next 2 weeks …
still no “mixing of households”… even when taking the permitted 3 hours outdoors… we’ve got to “go it alone”… for the foreseeable future…
OH won’t be able to walk for 3 hours… might have to take the wheelbarrow with us… so I can trundle him back home… 
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