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Chickens Against Dementors!

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psychomath · 13/05/2020 15:31

New thread!

Chicken ads for anyone who missed them.

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

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BarkandCheese · 15/05/2020 17:43

I had my walk with my mum today, she was so happy to see us all she cried and we’ve promised to do it again next week.

Humans need other humans. Before all this I always thought I’d be quite good at being in solitary confinement or being a hermit or similar, turns out I was wrong. I’m not locked down on my own like my poor mum is, but I was still so happy to be able to see her.

SpnBaby1967 · 15/05/2020 17:44

@TheCountessofFitzdotterel

Omg I can't believe you're even considering blue at a time like thisPeople are DYING

You're right of course. I'll go dig my hair shirt out of the loft & suitably chastise myself for daring to consider blue. I'll offer myself up as a sacrifice to the dementors.

Shodan · 15/05/2020 17:45

Just out of interest- has anyone thought of a new thread title? We're nearly at the 1000 mark again and I don't want to wander round the wastelands of MN, being accosted by Dementors right left and centre... Grin

freedomyes · 15/05/2020 17:47

"think of the children"!

HauntedGoatFart · 15/05/2020 17:52

Is it ok if I admit that I am genuinely excited about the rapid and big investments that are now being made in cycling? I already cycled part of my commute but I would so love to see a sea change in cycling culture and start cycling all of it. It certainly wouldn't make all of this worth it but it would be a benefit.

justasking111 · 15/05/2020 18:01

The dementors do not like bikes cyclists breathe out all over the place. Grin

MinnieMountain · 15/05/2020 18:03

@HauntedGoatFart I'm with you on that. Our city is flat, yet very few people commute by bike. I'm the only one in my office who does.

My friend who's in Uganda for the year with her family tells me the president has said he's prepared to close the schools for up to a year if necessary. Maybe the dementors can all move there?

BogRollBOGOF · 15/05/2020 18:04

Yeah, go blue Grin
I've owned 3 cars, all have been some similar shade of metalic grey.
I love my people carrier. It's a big car for a small person. I joke that it's my small girly car... well, just about next to DH's hulking great people carrier chosen for its capacity for 8 man tents. It makes me so happy that it's about 2 deaths to the gallon for fuel economy. Wink

Drivingdownthe101 · 15/05/2020 18:05

Cyclists breathe differently to other people don’t you know! They spray coronavirus everywhere. Irresponsible wretches.

ragged · 15/05/2020 18:06

new thread title... something about being deprived of public toilets, I reckon

BogRollBOGOF · 15/05/2020 18:07

Had an email from school. Not relevant for my DCs but being a combined school, they've got about half the year groups in and will spread them across the school. Some will have a different teacher to usual, but being a one form intake, everyone gets to know everyone quite easily. Staggered timings. One classroom per class grouping for everything.

BogRollBOGOF · 15/05/2020 18:08

I miss public toilets. Essential for my long murderous runs Grin

Shodan · 15/05/2020 18:09

I have to go out for a run soon.

So many people to kill on my way, I'm aiming for my first ever 5k. (ooh that rhymes)

Not as bad as cycling I grant you, but I'm going to Do My Bit as best I can.

fartingsparkles · 15/05/2020 18:16

I have vague recollection of the Despicable Anti Dementors as next thread title, but would that to too close to a TAAT?

Still loving my little niche of sanity. Thank you all

TooManyButtons · 15/05/2020 18:17

Are any other #frontlineheroes #NHSangles GrinWink utterly despairing at their dementor colleagues? I'm a nurse on an acute admissions ward so look after Covid patients every day. The hospital is half empty, there are very few in ITU, and as we're now screening every patient on admission, a lot of the confirmed Covid cases are people who were admitted for something completely unrelated, so were asymptomatic. Most of these people get better, even very elderly frail patients.

Because of this and because I'm dead inside I've become almost blasé about the entire thing, same as I would looking after patients with cdiff, or any other infectious disease - take necessary precautions, but don't panic or get worked up about it.

But all I hear at work is the constant rumble of HCP dementors saying how the lockdown has been eased too soon, we need another 3 weeks (why? What will have changed?), and moaning at the number of people seen out and about. Any attempts to point out positive news is met with suspicion and disbelief. And the constant posting of doom-mongering memes...

We had a patient last week who although aged 70+, was fit and well, enjoyed a busy social life, hobbies, travel, grandchildren. They had been out for their daily walk, collapsed, and never regained consciousness. They were found to have had a pre-existing condition which they would not recover from, and was kept comfortable until they died later that day. Their spouse was so upset that the pt's last few weeks had been spent stuck inside, not seeing family, or actually living life. Not even this could persuade my colleagues to maybe consider a different viewpoint to a never-ending lockdown.

RunningNinja79 · 15/05/2020 18:19

Evening all.

I was having a bad day yesterday and everything just feels so doom and gloom everywhere. There is a way out isn't there? This will end wont it?

On a positive note, just missed a phone call from Butlins to change my break. Can't wait to get it sorted so we can get excited. We were supposed to go in June, but are changing it to New Year. Last Christmas we did the same old things as previous years and decided we need to change something this year. We weren't thinking about going away, but with things being the way they are not only have I now paid half the amount of the new year break, but I can afford the rest due to the amount of fuel I've not bought.

Fingers are crossed that people start to lose the hysteria a bit more.

Smilethoyourheartisbreaking · 15/05/2020 18:22

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Orangeblossom78 · 15/05/2020 18:26

Radio 4 are loving all the drama, they have been on about the R and schools...quite balanced about pointing out the advantages of schools opening though not Guardian like dementing. It's just a but incessant. But then they are like that.

Camper van sounds great. We have an old sailing boat (with chemical toilet!) we have been doing up, we can have a mooring also so might be able to stay on that this summer. We take it to Brownsea island which is fun because when the National trust crowd go home, you can explore it alone...and moor in the bay and sleep on the boat.

Orangeblossom78 · 15/05/2020 18:28

Toomanybuttons interesting to hear. Yes I get what you are saying, when you see things like Cdiff, MRSA, Norovirus etc...I remember when DC in years ago we had a separate ward with crosses up and deep cleaning etc because of a bug can't remember what it was but it's nothing new to you is it...I mean in terms of dealing with these things in some ways.

SpnBaby1967 · 15/05/2020 18:29

There are two types of people in this world

1)Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data

Seems apt right now Grin

Smilethoyourheartisbreaking · 15/05/2020 18:37

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Waxonwaxoff0 · 15/05/2020 18:39

@TooManyButtons I'm always interested to read posts like yours as you actually know what's happening in the hospitals. Especially when we're hearing "ending lockdown doesn't mean it's safe, it means there is a bed for you in ICU" Hmm

ThatLibraryMiss · 15/05/2020 18:40

If the suggestion is all children end up repeating a year this would decimate universities as there would be no 2021 entry

DD's university is expecting that quite a lot of foreign students, and some local ones, will defer for a year so either the 2021 cohort will be huge if it's the deferred students plus the usual intake or they'll have to make fewer offers next year. They're currently planning to deliver some lectures on-line but haven't worked out the logistics yet.

They say they're in a good position to stand it, financially, but not all will be so fortunate.

Waxonwaxoff0 · 15/05/2020 18:41

@RunningNinja79 Butlins have been great! I was supposed to go at Easter, rearranged to next year and even though it was more expensive they waived the extra cost.

heroku · 15/05/2020 18:41

I know this is off topic (sorry) but no one will talk to me about this and I feel like I need to get it off my chest.

Grandma IL is currently in a care home with vascular dementia. They've had 4 cases of CV and 2 deaths. She's been told she cannot leave her room and has not seen outside those four walls for 5 weeks now. No visitors allowed. No idea for how much longer.

At what point does this become a human rights issue? This doesn't feel ok to me. I've tried to talk to my partner about it but he just changes the subject straight away. I think it's too painful for him to think about so is just pretending it's not happening. MIL thinks this is the right thing to do "to keep her safe".

This just feels wrong to me. I know there's a risk she could get ill but she's already at an advanced stage of dementia and this just feels cruel. She can't understand what's happening, it must be so frightening. I can't stop thinking about it.

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