Dementors can dement but we'll keep it positive here

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Dementor free zone

I live in a country that is now opening up again. Today I popped into the shopping centre and it was pretty much like a normal Saturday. Lots of people milling around, all shops open. Nursery schools and primary schools in the lower grades are back, and older years will be back in the next few weeks. I have a friend here who has been a dementor the whole time and she and her family still haven't been outside the door since mid-March. It was odd to think of them shut off at home when the rest of the town was out and about much as normal (but with sensible precautions). I am wondering how she is going to make the return to normal life? At what point will it be okay for her to let her family leave the house? I suspect a lot of the dementors on here will have similar issues.

We'll all the outdoor walks and sun will no doubt be good for our immune systems and vitamin d, mental health also. It seems they're having lots of problems with mental health in Italy due to their strict lockdown. Don't want that here do we

Hurrah! I love the term Dementors, it’s so apt.

Hi everyone, just placemarking :)

I'm in Bath right in town and can wander the old streets free of traffic. It feels lovely not having to battle through tourist groups for the first time in years. We have the botanical gardens open again from last week so can go there also which is good as it's lovely with the spring flowers. The cycle paths and city streets have been taken over by families on bikes. I can walk up the hill and look down over the city also. I think if I stayed in I'd be very depressed. We'll all of us. We get the teens out every day too

@BogRollBOGOF I live in a small, historically saturated city which is as full of nature reserves as of bloody ancient buildings. I've been 3xploring it, on foot, with Ds2. We both have much chunkier legs and have worn out our shoes. And damned if we we haven't turned a few new gyms gold, in the process!

Orange what a lucky place to live. I’m not in walking distance of anything nice.

I have found my people. Sick and bloody tired of all the Facebook whingers complaining about things that are allowed. There is one man who takes lovely photos of the local area and always has done. These days his pics are met with "I DONT THINK TAKING PICTURES IS A NECCESARY JOURNEY STAY AT HOME"

Someone found his bank card and he got further berated for "having a jaunt" and losing it and endangering the person who found it.

Ironically not one picture he posted had another human being in it!

Exactly like that, @Orangeblossom78

No tourists, no students and no fucking chuggers in the marketplace!

Yes, Russellbrandshair, that Nightingale. All those beds will be needed if people keep recklessly and selfishly QUEUING UP TO GET TAKEAWAY COFFEE!!1!

There's a certain amount of condescension too, because eww takeaway coffee (and Maccy D's). Well it's alright for those that don't know any better I suppose but my tastes are more refained.

I think that what dementors don't realise is the downer that they put on other people. Someone I know has been really getting me down with all her catastrophising. I'll be tootling along in my own happy bubble and she will be texting me about every healthy child that's died and death rates etc. I've been putting together a spiel for her when I next see her (she's my neighbour)

'I'm trying to be positive about the whole situation so I'm going to switch off from all the statistics and stuff for a bit and just try and do the best I can. Otherwise I get really down.'

She's lovely normally but this situation has really brought out an anxious side. She's really struggling so I've been a listening ear but it's now affecting me. I might buy her a little something to cheer her up and take her mind off things but I will be muting her on WhatsApp.

I am intrigued by how the dementors think everyone will get covid from a drive through. Do they think Costa staff all have it and are licking the cups? How they think you get it from a trip to the tip is even more of a conundrum.

A full on dementor has arrived on the drive thru thread.

I feel a change of tack coming on when lockdown is lifted. 😂

Oh, and a clever clogs on the “feeling low” thread right after a post where I tried not to say the s word.

People are completely misunderstanding the queue thread. It’s about the queuing not about possibly catching CV while in the queue. 😂

Countess “ How they think you get it from a trip to the tip is even more of a conundrum.”

I don’t think that’s their issue, it’s that everyone should be at home, competing only to self flagellate harder.

Oh joy I've just checked and my local Costa drive through will be open tomorrow. I shall slurp my delicious caramel coffee frostino while sticking two metaphorical fingers up at the dementors (and the coffee snobs).

I think a lot of people think the virus floats around outside potentially infecting you if you go out. I know people who haven't left the house in 6 weeks and I drop off shopping and they won't even open the door I have to drop it off on their doorstep. Madness.

Who the hell is online shopping? What you gonna buy

I just saw this comment. WTF?! everyone I know is online shopping! It’s not “against the rules” so why the indignant disbelief?

Online shopping.
I've bought gin, rum, chocolate, books, a dress, some camping chairs and a she wee

A she wee! I want one of those

My local coffee shop never closed this entire time, though they did go takeaway only. [smug]

They’re a 30 second walk from my front door which IMO really does not count as “travel”, hence fine.

DS1 hasn't left the house since the announcement of schools closing. He's autistic and highly anxious. Unlike other people behaving the same, he's not on mumsnet or other social media, using BLOCKCSPS with typos, of course, at anyone trying to get on with their lives as best as they can.

I think you need this thread, too, if you're not already on there, @Thisdressneedspockets: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3880794-To-ask-if-youve-treated-yourself-to-something-as-a-pick-me-up-right-now-and-what-it-is It's my other favourite thread right now.

People are buying designer handbags and Cartier watches, aren't you ashamed of your selfish self-indulgence when People Are Dying, @Russellbrandshair?

It’s a fair cop hangs head in shame

Russell, it's great. It will make getting outside so much easier. Most places I can get to on foot, it would be time to head home for the loo by the time I got there. I'll still need to choose my apocalypse costume carefully for discreet peeing.