Despicable Anti Dementors

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I quite fancy the Italian Riviera..

IfNotNowThenWhenever definitely.
IL’s have also been far more optimistic about the situation than many seem to be here. And we’re straight out there as soon as they were allowed, even though MIL is vulnerable.

*were

They’re also still holding out hope that our trip out there in July will go ahead (although we’re less optimistic!). Said if we have to quarantine for 14 days just give their address and we can sit by their pool for 2 weeks!

Oh really @Drivingdownthe101 what made you come back?

I've been dreaming of moving to france since I started watching escape to the chateau! I can picture myself in a vintage jumpsuit doing some DIY with an array of fabulous head scarves. (Ok not realistic)

But I've always loved Spain. I find it so homely. For the last 2 years we've holidayed there but in small towns which weren't touristy and I bloody loved it. And their attitude to children is so much nicer than the British. I long to go back. I really should learn some more Spanish. I got a GCSE years ago but I don't remember much.

Work and pregnancy really. We spent 2 years in Madrid work DH’s job, then he was asked to go to Milan. While there I fell pregnant. I wasn’t massively keen on Milan so we came home. If we’d still been in Spain we’d have stayed.

The person who froths the most about schools on my timeline has adult children so I’m not sure why she’s worried. I get frustrated that my parents who are in their 70s have seen less changes than my dd 8. They walk their dog for hours daily and chat to people they know, drink wine with friends in their garden and my sister and I often pop over for a couple of hours to sit outside and chat. My daughter’s education and confidence has gone to shit and she hasn’t played with a friend apart from online. How is it right that this huge burden falls in her when my brother in law is playing golf on his way home from work? The world has gone completely mad

Ah right! I just sort of have a picture in my head that out quality of life would be better somewhere else. But I am a sun worshipper and I am certain I have SAD so I am generally a happier nicer person in summer so perhaps that clouds my judgement.

I've found my people 🙏🙏🙏

EVERY single person will be forced by law to wear masks! ALL of them. Everywhere. Just like seatbelts and shops will insist on it. This virus is a Dementors' wet dream.

My favourite thing is the people who wear masks alone in the car. Who are they going to get it from or pass it to in that situation? My dd and I take it as proof that people are crazy! It’s good to try and give her a sense of perspective

We've had a lovely evening scooting and walking around the park. The car parks were closed off for some weeks as it tends to be the park that people flock to. I suspect it would have been a bit busy for my liking earlier on, but it was calming down nicely at 6pm. Weird to think it's been nearly 9 weeks since I was there as I'm usually down there most Sunday mornings helping out with junior parkrun and often doing the 5k.

It's been nice and surprisingly normal to get in the car and go somewhere as a family. I've been getting out to the supermarket anyway, and it's easy to forget that the DC's haven't seen anything more varied than our neighbourhood or nearby villages/ countryside until the last few days.

I hope their year groups get some time in school before the summer to give some punctuation to the year and a formal boundary between school years. DS1 needs to remember how to cope and function in society. DS2 needs to interact with some NT children, not just DS1.

I bought some jaunty bandanas off eBay and they arrived today, just in case I find myself somewhere a face covering seems sensible or maybe where I would be denied entry without one, possibly.

When it arrived I realised it was Alexander Henry fabric, very pleased. If I don't need it I will wear it as a scarf anyway.

Can't quite bring myself to spend a precious day off sewing face coverings, if I'm honest with myself.

The number of MNers who thrive in miserable winter weather, getting all cosy with box sets and "hot choc" mystifies me. They would do winter lockdown well, because that's pretty much their normality.

I found last winter tough anyway. The torrential rain started with the school holidays and the weather was consistently sodden and grim from September, with round one of flooding by early November. It was the relentless mud that got to me, and it was a tough enough winter to get through anyway.

To me, it's logical to build up exposure and herd immunity while the weather is favourable to us, and for vitamin D and while the virus is weakened. I hope it doesn't gain momentum in the colder months when it's uninviting to be outside, and indoors has that stuffy, heated humidity.

I think dementors without school-age children don't want schools to go back because once they do, life will return to something approaching normality and they really want to hold on to lockdown.

Lockdown means nobody can make a free choice because ANYTHING you choose can be interpreted to be causing a risk to the vulnerable/the NHS/society.

It's the opposite of solidarity - compelled performed pro-social behaviour.

It's heaven for people who want to control how other people behave. Every thread with complaints about neighbours/in-laws/colleagues/friends based on entirely made up rules was started by a proto-dementor.

Our quality of life was definitely better in Spain TrustTheGeneGenie

In fact DH and I are spending this evening with a bottle of red wine reminiscing about the 2 years we spent sitting outside bars

@KateTheShrew can't tell DH as I only know due to being a governor. It'd probably be breaching some GDPR thing. Not going back as there's not enough staff. The priority order is key worker/vulnerable, Reception, Nursery, Year 1.

just had a little fun suggesting that if I had known this was happening 6 months ago I would have moved to Sweden

MinnieMountain I’m Chair of Governors and I tell DH everything

Obviously nothing child specific, but all the general stuff.

Really? Oh good. I'm new to this governor stuff. I've asked our HT if the LA has been approached to help with the extra staffing per the guidance.

I spent my entire 20s sitting inside and oitside bars. Or on a podium. In silver shorts. So I'm not too bothered about going out, but my God if I was 23 I'd be going nuts with boredom at the moment.

I think if I was any age from 11 to about 31 I would be going bananas with frustration.

Although perhaps I am. I don't mind choosing to stay in. But this is not that.

I tell husband a lot of governor things...

but we've had a couple of - let's say, not routine things to deal with, and I only referred to them in the vaguest of terms afterwards.

I've been very careful since the head reported to us that one of her staff had been told by a pupil that she was teaching them next year too....

I did own up to that one. Well, given the available candidates it was obviously a toss-up between me and Andy, and I got on well with Andy and didn't want them to think bad of him

.... good lord, that was seven years ago