Chickens Against Dementors!

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Anyway have fun everyone, I'm off to sit in the park now that it's allowed.

@Pleasedontdothat that's amazing! That's cheered me up. Tiny numbers!

I wonder what with Boris being overweight and the obesety correlation if thats why the get and exercise unlimited/ travel to exercise is being put out there? Is boris and the government thinking we need to be encourages to get off the sofa`s and get some fresh air, vitamin D and lose a bit of weight!

Really encouraged to see that countries who did reopen schools haven’t seen a big increase of cases as a result. Gives me hope that we won’t be expected to keep them all out for a year or whatever people are speculating.

It wouldn't surprise me! I've started taking vitamin d recently just pre Corona because my office doesn't have windows and I needed the boost. As it's happened I've been outside loads but I've carried on taking it. I do think it should be more publicised that really everyone should take it at least in winter!

Hello, please can I join you all. I'm completely done with the Corona fear fest that most of my social media and friends seen to be wallowing in. I wish I had found you all earlier.

Haha, apparently we are going to have a new 'message on it!

"There is even a ready-made slogan available for any new government campaign on this: lose weight, protect the NHS, live longer"

Hmm. I'm in the overweight BMI myself and usually go to the gym / swimming, not been so healthy during this lockdown. Maybe could do with losing a bit of weight too. Not going to go OTT though at the moment.

Hi Spotty, welcome

Genie I had low vitamin D in the past and GP tested again after supplements and it's normal now. So yes it can be fixed. I also wonder if it might be a link with obesity as fatter people are more likely to be deficient. I'm a bit fat and also olive skin so need to take care. have been giving the DC jellies too

My town "which wants to be a city" (and those who know will know where I mean 😉) has had a whole 1 new cases! And we're not a particularly small town by any stretch of the imagination.

I've not been on FB for a while now, which is unlike me. I got so fed up with the whole "you're murdering bastards if you even consider sending your kids to school" and the screams of "Kawasaki disease".

My sister actually is a teacher in france and is losing her mind responding to english dementors that no, children there arent all being kept in chalk cages ffs!

I want to post about how, in my job, I usually log a half a dozen domestic violence cases a month. I'm now logging that many per day. One yesterday had a 10 year old boy, beaten to a pulp but his mum, who jumped from his upstairs window and I quote "escaped to his neighbour".....let that sink in dementors, he ESCAPED from him own MUM out of a bloody first floor window. I couldn't sleep last night for thinking of him. This is what lockdown is doing. I had a murder in one of my london properties as well.

But, you know. As long as the teachers get to enjoy summer on 80% pay without needing to work and be around or germ bomb children it's ok.

Charlie Brooker was a lovely breath of fresh air and made us properly laugh.

We went out for our fish and chips. Unfortunately it rained - apocalyptic torrential rain so no camping chairs. But we sat in the car with our friend who has been staying indoors by herself for 8 weeks and had what seemed like the nicest food we have ever eaten (probably just because someone else cooked it!)

The van was doing a roaring trade and we spoke to several people we know.

The world seems a better place today.

Yes freedom apparently that is the case Boris is 'obsessed with cycling' apparently. wonder what it might mean for Bath with it's little usually highly traffic packed roads.

Chris Whitty is amazing, that clip should just be transcribed and put on the front of every newspaper in the UK until people get it, especially those who bleat on about ‘the science’

dh WANTS and hes chomping at the bit to get back to school. He has always been anti- dementor. There are more but the media dont want to tell the public about them! He`s SOO fed up. He gets 30% return on set work. He hates it.

And his sopping round the house has done my head in.

That's terrible SpnBaby. wonder how social services is being atm swamped probably.

@SpnBaby1967 sounds like I work in a similar role to you. I see the effect that this is having on young people first hand, and no one here gives a shiny shit. they shout and scream about "will no one think of the children??!!!!" They are mostly fucking hypocrites in my opinion who have no idea what effect this is having on our children, they cannot see past the wall of fear at the end of their own nose.

Oh mine too freedom he is driving me mad. thankfully has gone out to this work shed thing he has. We all need time and space apart don't we.

Yes! 1 more week of homeschooling. I forgot to do any maths with DS yesterday

@Arcadia I look at his twitter feed every day, I find it so calming!

Wish DS was going back in June. This homeschooling lark is getting harder by the day!

More good news, the market in my town reopens today. Might have a schlep down later!

@SpnBaby1967 that's awful. And the most awful thing is that a lot of people just don't want to know, it seems.

Yesterday evening on our dog walk DH smuggled along a bottle of alcoholic ginger beer and we drank it in our local pubs outdoor courtyard as there is a place you can perch where no one passing by would see you. Felt just like old times. Meeting my friend there for a flask of coffee this morning. We're in Scotland so this is illegal.

It's so bizarre as usually I am a complete rule follower. But I refuse to continue to deny myself a tiny sliver of normal life enjoyment when I cannot see how it would cause a negative impact to anyone else.

Am allowing myself to get cautiously excited about antibody tests. Our family think we've had it based on symptoms mid March.

Another Prof Sikora fan here 😃

Orangeblossom78 my best friend is a child protection social worker. They’re having fewer referrals (as teachers are often the ones who refer) which is massively worrying her as these families are slipping through the net. The service users already on her caseload... well she has phoned me in tears more than once at the horrors some of the children are going through who aren’t at school.

dh, me and ds drove to the seaside an hour away yesterday for a nice walk and chippy chips. It was so lovely . I had a paddle. The coasts (in Norfolk) are not swamped with tourists. In fact where we were the carparks had never been shut except 1 anyway. Happy people enjoying themselves . Was good to see. The size of the beaches here....even on the busiest day its not swamped lol.
The media and people getting in a froth about tourists swamping places must be only Brighton etc. Here its fine.

And wider friends/family members often make referrals too. These children aren’t seeing anyone, so a lot more is getting missed. Horrific.

Surely morbid obesity has a negative impact on the recovery of almost any disease or illness?

I had my weekly zoom meet up with my extended family yesterday. I was pleased to see all of us with school aged children were very much of the opinion that as soon as the schools open up our children are going back. The only one unsure was my sister whose son is y13, so won’t be going back anyway, she was doing a bit of light dementoring saying she didn’t think they’d go back until September, citing that HT who was all over the place yesterday doom mongering. Interestingly she’s the only one of us who’s an avid Facebook user.

I’m meeting up with my mum for a walk today. Breaking the rules a bit by taking DH and DD too, although DD has promised not to lick nana , but we can’t promise the dog, who adores my mum, won’t.