Despicable Anti Dementors

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We had burgers delivered from the pub round the corner. Double bacon cheese burger and twice cooked chips, so good.

The thing is we don’t keep children from doing everything ‘until it’s safe’ do we? Before all this I let mine play on climbing frames even though there’s a chance they could fall and break an arm. I let them swim although there’s a chance they could drown. I send them to school when it’s winter and flu and norovirus are going round locally even though it took ages to get the flu vaccine appointment last winter. I don’t keep them locked up inside in a hermetically sealed room until they’re adults.

My 5 year old is increasingly down and withdrawn and either quiet or furious all the time. I will accept no schools yet if they haven’t got test and trace up and running I suppose but God they need to start weighing children’s mental health against the slight slight chance they’d get severe complications from covid.

Are you in Norfolk? Is that you, Kate Middleton?

Exactly GoldenOmber. I took one of mine out on her scooter last night and just closed my eyes and braced myself when she went flying down a massive hill and I realised she doesn’t know how to use the brake! Plus we didn’t even get the flu vaccine last year , they were both off ill on the day they were done in school and I forgot to make an appointment at the pharmacy! Didn’t keep them off just in case they caught flu though.

beentothecoastalready we’re considering going to Norfolk for a summer holiday if such things are allowed by then. DHs stepmum lives near Norwich so we thought we could combine visitIng her with our break. If we come to Norfolk will we be chased off by pitch fork wielding locals like apparently we would be if we went to the West Country?

10 health areas in Scotland have less than 5 people in ICU, the western isles, Orkney, Shetland, Highland and Dumfries &Galloway, Fife, Tayside, Forth Valley, Ayrshire, Borders,but it's still to dangerous to breathe apparently, there are less than a 100 with Covid in ICU in the whole country, government figures today

call me duchess! you can doff yer cap at me. ( no).

although dh used to play pokemon go in sandringham play area and the kiddies were there (with nanny and security).

watch out for Wells next the sea. I had to come off the fb page. the hatred for tourists there is quite something right now (and its shut). sunny hunny is open.

sandringham carparks are shut still. people just park in the woody laybys!

Checking in.

The thing is we don’t keep children from doing everything ‘until it’s safe’ do we?

Precisely!

One of mine rides horses like a nutter - loves the scare-the-shit-out-of-your-mum stuff and falls off on an alarmingly regular basis

The other one passed her driving test this time last year.

None of those pastimes are particularly safe, but I weigh up the risks, mitigate the dangers as best I can and let them get on with it

Checked in you loveable bunch of murdering bastards.

Not schools but nurseries are the hot topic on my WhatsApp today. A lot proclaiming they won't be heading back until there's a vaccine. Unless someone in the household is shielding which I can then understand, I'm wondering why they think employers will be content with hardly any work getting done because of children at home will last once they are open and there is the option for childcare. Many said of course employers will be fine with it . I will be dropping DS off the minute childcare reopens (although need to find a new childminder or nursery, hoping loads of spaces with people not wanting to go back).

I’ve been to two supermarkets today. In lipstick. I will personally be responsible for any increase in the R number, I’m sure.

I saw that about two cases in the school. I know some people connected with the school as it overlaps with my community. What are the odds that it's a pair of siblings, so one family? That's idle speculation, but it is plausible.

Schools have had key worker children in for 8 weeks, and that's the first I've heard of children in a school in that time. I'm still not deeply concered. How many times is a third of a class off with norovirus etc!

I bought a load of clothes for ds and me this week. tesco chic. I coudnt find my way out of the maze they made with the arrows on the floor in the clothes section.....and I stepped over the barrier to escape!! checkout sorter out lady was NOT amused, proper cats bum.

I'm thinking of going to Wilkos at the weekend. I need some completely essential cake tins.

I was one of those 70/80 free range children. Cycling all over town, climbing anything which looked like a challenge, unvaccinated (pre vaxx not crunchy parents), never wore a seatbelt let alone sat in car seat. My childhood risk of death must have been high by modern standards but was totally normal then. I’m not suggesting we go back to those days, but how did we get so ridiculously risk averse?

Yeah I assumed it was probably siblings too. My grandma lives in that town.
I’m not concerned either. Of course there was a strong chance that some pupils would test positive. Especially now that families of key workers are entitled to a test.

I love egg dog. My dog is a pom

I was so puzzled about "egg dog", I read the rest of the post as "my dog is a porn."
It's a new day. Got the wand and the patronus at the ready!

16 out of 40 pupils in reception at our school were off with scarlet fever at the same time at the end of last year! The receptionist told me that at break times she had a queue of about 40 kids across the school waiting for their antibiotics (they have a 2 week course for scarlet fever).

yes @BarkandCheese! I was the same era. We lived on a farm and us kids sat in the tractor`s trailer alone. It didnt have an end on it! we just held on! on a main road/ across the A1 !!

Anybody read about the news coming out of a California lab about a possible treatment? Sounds positive.

Well, the dog does like to lie on her back with her legs akimbo, we call her the floofy floozy, but I wouldn’t go as far to say she’s porn.

I need some completely essential cake tins

Of course you do. Sometimes (sigh) - you just have to take one for the team...