Anti Dementors, Assemble!

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I think I finished the last thread by accident...

He said it to Philip Schofield on This Morning (is it?) but it was as part of a basic 10 minutes of flannel and flannel and flannel so I would take it with about a whole Maldon worth of salt. Since when has anybody with the brains God gave to badgers, taken Matt Hancock at face value? He made a very cagey statement basically covering his arse.
Nil desperandum.

I wouldn't be in a hurry to rush off to Wales, fine or no fine, unless I had family there. I'd be more concerned about being devoured by the inhabitants than by dragons. I'm sure there are lots of lovely people, but MN doesn't exactly give the best impression of it, even before Covid-19. I'm sure that many feel similarly about here in Scotland. The constant bashing of the English on MN is despicable.

Where’s Hancock said about hugging?

I’m not a hugger with anyone other than my DH and children and hate all the air kissing that my DH’s family go in for but that’s just depressing.

The “if I can’t do something, no one should be allowed to” dementors are out in force on my FB today.

I am not so bothered about travelling which is pretty well banned here in Wales, just want them to let us crack on seeing our loved ones. Apparently the ex. first minister has said we can go fishing but only locally and we can physically carry all the gear we need no cars.

I wouldn't blame anyone who sneaks off to see their parents/siblings etc.

Sod it.

I'm breaking out the kayak and heading to the canal tomorrow.

OH can do some home schooling.

And I really really want the rozzers to try and argue that I'm not social distancing while in the middle of the water.

My mum is NHS so she feels like if anyone should be upholding the rules, she should. She lives round the corner so we get the odd chat from the end of the drive but I know she’s desperately missing hugs from the kids!

Another 3 pages long whine email from the younger child’s head being as awkward as possible about reopening to deter parents from ever coming back again. This one basically saying you will be sending your kids into a horrid environment and we really don’t want you to.

I’m so sick of reading her dementory shit every two days which has got so political it’s appalling. The tricky bit is - I’m a governor there. I’m tempted to resign in protest against the tone of all the parental communication but again, right now knowing what is going on is helpful.

Oh god that sounds awful DominaShantotto. I wonder if she’s a Mumsnet dementor?

I think Hancock was asked specifically about hugging strangers which, to be honest, I can live without. Hopefully that means kisses on the cheek from pervy old men is out too. Hurrah!

As for the idea that we can't hug our friends and family - that's just bonkers. A good friend of mine died of cancer last year and never stopped hugging friends/family even though his immune system was absolutely shot to pieces. You can't expect people to do that. It's part of being human.

Oh I can definitely live without hugging strangers, not sure I’ve ever done that anyway!

Think she’s just written this year off and wants her staff to get on with other “more important” things driving
Unfortunately some pesky parents keep daring to contact school wanting support and education.

Yeah, we were chatting on our work Teams coffee thing about distancing and it was mentioned that actually WHO recommend 1m. I said that actually, I don't generally like people being within 1m of me anyway. Dead Silence.

Matt Hancock can go and boil his head in a vat of Dettol if he thinks I'm never hugging my extended family again. How the merry feck do they think they'll police that, anyway?

Can you imagine the backpedalling when the birth rate tanks in a few years because people haven't been able to form new relationships?

Worth a reminder that humanity has faced epidemics of all sorts of diseases, many of them much nastier and more infectious and more fatal than Covid, many of them we didn’t have good modern treatments or vaccines for at the time, some of them we don’t even know what they were (sweating sickness) - and none of them cancelled hugging forever.

well if you can't hug people the birth rate will soon be zero but did he really say that or we can't hug strangers yet

Matt Hancock can't do a fucking thing to stop anybody hugging anybody, and I wish him good luck trying to counter two of humanity's most primal and powerful drives.

Schofe asked how long until we can "give someone we just met a hug"

And Hancock said "Well, really to get to the point when this is totally sorted, when we have a treatment or a vaccine"

To be honest it seems like a bit of a random question. I'm not sure hugging strangers is top of everyone's priority list at the moment. And now it's being reported as "Hancock says no hugging" in the papers (predictably).

Goodness me. So HT are refusing to open schools and TAs are resigning in fear of their lives because of all our dirty children.

It makes me want to fucking home school because these peopled opinions of children are so fucking vile.

I've been on a murderous non essential trip to KFC to cheer my boy up. We had a lovely spin with loud loud music and my first KFC for about 30 years 😂

It makes me want to fucking home school because these peopled opinions of children are so fucking vile

That’s how I’m starting to feel. If my children are so vile and offensive I’ll keep them away.

I'm breaking out the kayak and heading to the canal tomorrow

Yes, waterspouts are allowed now you know that? It was mentioned so don't worry. We are going sailing asap (wee old boat)..

Wales and Scotland are both quite Wet. Well the nice bits are in the west so get a lot of rain! And midges (Scotland)

Some madness on radio 4 and self hugging atm. I find it a bit annoying in general but it is going very OTT during this.

I’ve just bought the most non essential thing I could think of - a paddling pool for dogs!

I’m actually feeling a bit anxious about sending my DC back not because of Covid but because of the attitudes ofsometeachers, they are as a group not coming across well in all this and I worry if that attitude will come across to the kids in their care.

I totally understand your feelings about this OutwardBound, but I really wouldn't worry. Loads of teachers vent about the job in private or anonymously because it is stressful, but they're still great teachers who care a lot about the children and would never dream of treating them badly because of circumstances outside of their control. Anyone who's a cranky bitch about this situation to the children's faces was likely that sort of person before the pandemic too!

He's so full of shit. And thick as two planks.