Anti Dementors, Assemble!

[Mascotte]

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

@Bark holding you completely responsible 😃

I think I'll have to wait until the hairdressers reopens, I daren't try cutting mine as it's very curly. I've been colouring it myself but cutting it is a step too far!

Pink I have curly hair and always cut it myself

Surely it’s much easier than if you have dead straight hair?

I did the ponytail thing once - got bollocked by my hairdresser for going at it with the scissors!

Just been speaking to a lady from a mental health service that someone's suggested to us - and they've got a big number of kids really falling apart and also with the flying insects phobia kicking in. What are the dementors' really shitty photoshop efforts like the grim reaper come out and play job from last thread doing to our children? And why does no one give a shit about it?!

Nooo! Too much pressure...

I have decided I am embracing my long hair. I am going to let it grow until next autumn, possibly Christmas. I haven't had long hair since my teens, so I am quite looking forward to it. I will get to do all the twiddly hairstyles I used to do again.

Just FYI, I used my dressmaking scissors which are really sharp, I wouldn’t hack at with something you cut paper with.

Hello, Fellow Reckless Slayers, it's me with my patronus (let's see if this works). I drove to exercise today. In Scotland. Zero fucks were given. It was 20 mins. from home, local area.

murder hornet

I'm just going to take the very ends off... it's looking pretty ok really.

@Domina they don't care about children at all. The virus is all. It's horrible

Not feeling very optimistic about our chances of travelling from England to Scotland for our holiday on August. I reckon Nicola is banking on keeping all the holidays for the Scots.

I'm getting increasingly pissed off with teacher friends on Facebook chuntering about how their safety will be compromised by classrooms. Lucky none of the nurses caring for patients in older hospitals haven't kicked off about an inability to social distance in the wards.....

@TinRoofRusty 😂😂

I have dressmaking scissors somewhere but last used to trim horses' tails..

@Clemmieandareallybigbunfight I lost my sh*t with one (now ex) teacher friend who described her class as "little germ factories". Mate if I described my clients - I work with ppl who are street homeless - as "down and outs" or "nutters" I would be rightly out on my arse, but it's OK to talk about kids with such contempt? (Oh but it was a JOKE...of course...always was, with her.)

Not feeling very optimistic about our chances of travelling from England to Scotland for our holiday on August. I reckon Nicola is banking on keeping all the holidays for the Scots.

You'll be fine, @Clemmieandareallybigbunfight. Schools in my part of Scotland go back Thursday 13th August. So if you're after that, will be nice and quiet.

@Mascotte I used the 2nd video from this OP

I cut my own hair http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/styleandd_beauty/3899795-I-cut-my-own-hair

Domina what’s this about flying insects?

It's the first two weeks of August. What will be will be I guess.

LilacTree1 dead straight hair won't spring up like curly hair. There's too much room for error, the back and underneath go into ringlets. A hairdresser told me once there's no difference in cutting straight or curly hair. I never went back!

I found a block of henna from Lush the other day used half that up, at least it is shiny and red if not cut for a while.

I'm so glad for these threads. I'm so confused lately. All my friends and colleagues (who I respect and normally have very similar views to) are talking about wanting to stay in lockdown for longer, starting petitions to stop schools going back, getting people to join unions so you can refuse to not go back to work, and so on.

I despise this government. I agree that the economy shouldn't come ahead of people's health. But surely our health is at just as much risk by continuing this lockdown? Jobs lost, operations and check ups cancelled, children spending hours on screens while their parents try to work. I'm just so tired and miserable about it all now.

Also what i don't understand is if we stayed in lockdown for a year (which people seem to want to judging by my FB feed) then when we eventually came out there would be a spike in infections then anyway. So coming out now or later surely won't make a difference?

Anyway I've probably already murdered a small town because my car broke down and I had to get a Green Flag man out.

Love this thread I got told I should be done for attempted murder for taking my kids to the park..

@LilacTree1 it was on a thread the other week about people whose kids were really struggling - we'd had it with DD2 being so terrified of anything flying - even particles of dust - that she would barely leave the house without being dragged out and it had appeared about a week or so into lockdown. Someone else started the thread and mentioned their child had developed exactly the same totally new and irrational fear... and then I mentioned DD2 had done so and poster after poster began saying their kids had become terrified in exactly the same way - it can only be some kind of child-logic of anything flying around equating to all the talk of those virus particles or similar. This lady from the mental health service has just said they're seeing exactly the same issues with kids and adults.

Pink I have never found much of a difference cutting my own hair or getting it done.

Domina oh, so people have started picturing the virus as a creature?

It would be funny if it wasn’t so diabolically awful.

Maria was that on MN?

I'm confused as in this country we aren't really changing much but people are getting wo worked up, whereas in e.g. Italy which had a really strict kind of lockdown they are doing things like seeing extended family, opening shops, etc all at once but no-one mentions that. In fact some people go on about Italy as being 'better' I don't understand this, it is not as if we have said "OK, shops, hairdressers, schools etc all to open next week and see all your close family from now on'. Just that we can go outside. Also I think in Italy workplaces were open throughout (certain ones)