ADs picnic in the park with Twinkle the Tortoise

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Thought it was my turn to start a thread.

Woohoo! !

Old thread www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4162150-ADs-happily-share-Dave-Grohl-whilst-running-in-the-dark

I introduced DD1 to Wyrd Sisters yesterday by reading it to her. She loved it. Then DH read the beginning of The Colour of Magic to me. It is lovely to hear and read Pratchett's words and share them with someone new.

I've never really 'got' Terry Pratchett, but DP likes him and DS2 (10) is enjoying Witches Abroad as an audio book.

Channel 4 Dispatches Britains £400 billion Covid bill Who Will Pay.

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DS1 is being treated to Hitchhikers...
It is not soothing bedtime reading, but at least he's engaged
He hates people recommending stuff to him, but I put on an audio book and words like Alpha Centuri and Betelguise caught his ear and piqued his geeky interest. He can struggle following audio books though (shame with the extent of his dyslexia) so I'm reading it.

I can do a great doleful voice for Marvin

I used to read DS all sorts when he was tiny. My MIL was horrified but I’m pretty sure it’s tone of voice rather than actual words when they’re really small. He’s never quoted any of them back to me anyway.

I’m so pleased for all of you with school aged children. It’s great news that they will be back in the classroom with their friends in a couple of weeks time.

Checking in. The "roadmap" was more detailed than I expected, I doubted that there would be any dates mentioned at all: just "step one", "step two" etc. No mention of tiers at all, perhaps they were fed up with the punny headlines spelling them as "tears". For myself, I just hope that there won't be too many U-turns and "squeeeeeeeeeeeeezing the brakes" before 29th March, when there's a chance I might be playing and umpiring netball again, it's been a long winter without it, and still weeks to go! We're not sure if it will be still be the modified version, or proper netball.

Nothing said about the face nappies either, apart from a review on them separately; I expect he'll see what the public mood is on them, and how many of them ping round secondary school classrooms.

Nothing said on when we'll be able to sing in church.

I really can't decide if Saint Boris is being reckless or not with the way he's done this so far; if I'm feeling optimistic, I'd bet he's even going for the chance of being able to open some things sooner, so that people will really love him, especially before the local elections in May.

[quote MercyBooth]Channel 4 Dispatches Britains £400 billion Covid bill Who Will Pay.

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That's pretty eye watering to consider.

For all the Save the NHS rhetoric we had last year, the best way to save publuc services and better still improve their finction for siciety is to get the economy going again.

I really hope that these are the final days of lockdown and the economic toll of social distancing.
Hopefully those who have survived financially soundly through this will be keen to get spending and getting money cycling back through the economy and re-creating some of those lost jobs again.

I’ve never read any Terry Prachett, but I’m wondering if DS would enjoy him. He loved Hitchhikers Guide when DH read it to him as a bedtime story a few years ago. Last week we showed the children the film version (the one with Martin Freeman) and DD fell in love with Marvin. As anyone / thing played or voiced by Alan Rickman is automatically my favourite in any film, I was proud of her good taste!

I can't wait for DD to be old enough for Pratchett. Unfortunately she's got the imagination of a damp rock so I don't think she's going to like it.

Hello all. DH is feeling very positive about the road map - I suppose that it helps that he's had his jab. I just feel this overwhelming sense of dread that they'll miraculously find excuses not to stick to it - play the new variant card or some such. I want to be happy and looking forward but I just can't.

Sorry for being a wet blanket on a bright shiny new thread.

End march for a meagre 6 people outdoors seems mean. There's no reason we couldn't have that now.
Mid April for being back to camping.. Well ok...wait until after the Easter hols so it's not too crazy is maybe the thinking.

We'll actually have been in lockdown longer than the first one and we know more and have people vaccinated, so the slow start feels overly cautious.
I'll be interested to see if people take this as a fresh reminder that they still can't meet outdoors or if they continue with the exhuberance that I saw at the weekend. I'm hoping it's the latter

I am really hopeful about all of the restrictions ending on June 21st, I am bridesmaid for my best friend on 25th June (originally supposed to happen last September) so having no restrictions then would be amazing! Like so many people I have putcon a fair amount of weight but now have a goal in sight. So excited about schools reopening, I am a shit teacher!

I didn't see any slogans in the BBC summary of Saint Boris's speech (but then I refuse to watch his briefings on principle); but my bingo card is ready for "it isn't over yet" appearing on bus stops and the like. I'm glad that nothing has been said about tiers - there was an appalling phrase on one BBC article a few weeks ago: "we must obey lockdown, so we can go down through the gears of tiers".

The poor will be paying for Covid for years to come. Plus NHS is probably going to get worse. We are looking to buy some cheap private healthcare.
I liked the idea of government bonds from Kier Starmer. I would invest money.

The school masks thread shows the absolute level of intelligence in this country. No evidence they work but at least the teachers willl ‘feel safer, as will those parents who have wound themselves and their kids into an anxious tizzy.

I’m watching the press conference and losing the will to live.

I'm not sure the NHS will ever recover. Sometimes I wonder whether there will be a backlash when people who sacrificed so much to "protect the NHS" discover what needing treatment on it will be like.

I remember in my youth the nhs waiting list being around 18 months for my back condition. I think we may be heading back to that.

Reading them threads I think just vaccinate the teachers. Just to shut them up. Because I’m sick of hearing them moan.

@MrsEWeatherwax I think so too. I wonder if that is what is behind the slow uptake of the vaccine. They are using the only bit of power they have left. Because they know they will continue to be shat on when all this is over. Its happening already. I added some more posts to this today. Shocking experiences of being left with no electric/gas again. One customer had to sit in her neighbours house to charge and use her phone so she could contact them to start with.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4143223-WTF-is-going-on-at-EON

I'll get this one in - before we get asked again

What are ADs?

Here's the copy and paste job...

Definition of AD
^AD stands for anti dementor.
There are creatures in Harry Potter called dementors, who suck all hope and happiness from you and eventually take your soul. Way back at the start of the pandemic thread after thread was posted on by posters like this and anyone who'd dare question anything or disagree with anything (like putting cheese in your coffee) was bullied off these threads. And so any actual discussion disappeared and it became an echo chamber of misery.

We are the antidote to that. We follow the rules, but not the "roolz" and we question and discuss with respect to each other. It's all very civil.

Ive lost all ability to be optimistic. I feel like there will be a new variant and all this will be snatched away again. Is there any balanced info on the threat of new variants? I feel like sacrificing my own mother at this point, if it meant we could go swimming

I'm going to have my corporation tax raised to pay for it when as a company director I've been excluded from support. It's pretty sickening.

I want driving lessons and tests to start again. DD's test was supposed to be this week but looks like it's going to be 12 April earliest. I'm going to be driving her to and from work for months. It's like doing the school run again.