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As of Friday, New South Wales couples who do not live together will be able to visit each other at their respective homes.
As part of the public health order released on March 30, the NSW Government declared non-compliance in social distancing measures could result in fines of up to $11,000 or six months in prison. Meaning dinner parties have been off the table for close to a month.
However, these restrictions appear to be slowly getting repealed, after today’s ‘dinner party’ announcement by Premier Gladys Berejiklian.
“From May 1, on Friday, two adults will be able to go and visit anybody else in their home on the basis of care, on the basis of reducing isolation and everybody’s mental health” the Premier said today.
It’s an exciting announcement for one Avalon couple, who say their health has been taking a bit of a battering in isolation with just her husband
“Not so much mental health” says Catherine Barry (62).
“It’s more about our physical health, I guess you could say”
Catherine’s husband, Tony, agrees, through giggling.
The new relaxations of dinner parties have been received with joy right across Sydney’s ‘insular peninsular’ known as the Northern Beaches, a hot spot for upper-middle-class families who dabble with putting their keys in a bowl.
“Now we’ve just got to decide who to have for ‘dinner’ – it’s going to be a tough one hehe” he says, using his fingers as inverted commas while saying the word dinner.
“It’s just been so long without a ‘dinner party’ – we want to get it just right”
As affluent semi-retired Northern Beaches residents, Cathy and Tony know all too well that their first dinner party will have to be with other locals, so as to prevent the whispering from the ‘Good Germans’ they call neighbours who love snitching on eachother for violating social distancing measures.
“I’m thinking Pete and Michelle” says Cath.
“They live just around the corner and don’t mind joining in.
“Tony loves Michelle’s company…”
“And I love Pete’s…. big, hard… personality”
Both of them break into excited giggles before Tony gesticulates a large penis with his hands.
“Me likey!” says Tony, as his wife pretends to playfully smack his arm.
MORE TO COME.
