Anti Dementors Picnic on the Beach

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I don’t know what mon means?

The windows are open - am a few floors up in a tower block - and the smell of weed is so strong! I don’t know if it’s upstairs or downstairs but it’s so reassuring 😂

Like normal life is still going on.

@LilacTree1 breathe in deeply.. 😂

Mon is Scottish (Weegie?) for come on!

@lilactree1 it means "C'mon" and means you are supportive of the noun that follows. Like "Mon the Celtic". So basically they're shouting their support and encouragement to immune systems.

Oh thanks
I like that, good word.

There was someone hiding in a small, secluded patch of trees near our house having a joint a few days ago. I could have quite happily joined them.

Mon the stoners!

That comedy sketch is genius 😂😂😂

Mon the stoners!

Now that lockdown has turned us all into law breakers, I’m not sure how much further the next batch of law breaking can be...

@LilacTree1 - if you have Netflix, check out Chewin' the Fat. They only have the first season, but it's brilliant. Still Game even more so, but not a sketch show.

I'm having fun on FB! It's fine to force all people to wear a face mask, they're selfish. But people can drive a car, which isn't safe, either, you can kill other people in your car, tens of thousands die every year because someone in their car fucked up and killed them, but no one's calling for cars to be banned until there are no more deaths from RTC. What gives? My favourite mask dementors are the ones I remember vehemently protesting against burkas and niqabs - I've found those posts on 3 of them and reminded them of this. They unfriended. Aw. I'm pure greetin'. .

Cars, Lilac, that's what's needed next. All motorised transport. People kill one another in them, so until the rate of RTC deaths involving more than one vehicle drops below a certain rate, ban 'em all, I say! And also because some people can't drive. That's not fair! So no one should be allowed to.

Masks in public. Why stop there? It's now known that men are more likely to contract C19 and become ill with it, so why not women cover up more than me, the greater good and respect and all. If you think that's far-fetched thinking, you've no further to look than the good ol' RSA, which outlawed the sale of all alcohol and tobacco products during lockdown. The Puritans applauded, no one needs those, 'they' should not have them! Last week, they outlawed the sale of particular items of clothing, including short-sleeved tops (unless used as undergarments) and open-toed shoes. I shit you not. It's true.

high I just blatantly meant drugs, sorry! 😂

Someone upthread said about wanting to join a weed smoker outside.

I’m thinking now if we’ve broken the law one way, we may be less nervous about things like that.

A ban on cigarettes and alcohol? That’s insanity.

It makes me think even more that some governments are using the opportunity to do social experiments.

A maaaaaasive pot factory was just raided right across the road from me. I watched it from my balcony.

Now there’s tons of police everywhere.

I was in Sainsburys this evening and got so angry because a Cadbury’s Creme Egg wouldn’t scan that I walked out with it. Then I realised I was completely surrounded by police officers.

As I walked out I overheard one of them say this was now true safest street in London, due to the insane police presence.

Not from the Creme Egg Bandit, Bitch!

(Not actually calling an emergency services key worker a bitch.)

“ Then I realised I was completely surrounded by police officers.”

Oh dear. What happened then?

Not from the Creme Egg Bandit, Bitch!

You are my hero.

Hello khione, yes I’m only a rule keeper if it makes sense and after a bad nervous breakdown in 1975 I realised that the way to keep my spirit level is to keep busy and to keep changing the wall paper...and get out and do stuff, and interact.
I was one of two girls in a class of 40 that didn’t get Asian flu in 1957
Schools were kept open and when our teacher was off sick, me and the other girl went into another decimated class. Never had a day off and was fine.

I had measles, mumps whooping cough and German measles and chicken pox As a child
While unpleasant, they didn’t kill me.
Mum was a great one for camphor and eucalyptus oil on the chest. I still believe in the oils today
When my own kids were little and had a nasty cough I put a piece of Crushed garlic in a bag around their necks.
My SCottish grandad got mum to put some on my feet when I had whooping cough, and so the story goes, never coughed again after that
You have to be careful though..it can burn the skin. We were on holiday on the beach and I suddenly found I was struggling to walk. Sat me in a deckchair and the skin had formed pockets and sand had got in. Grandad cut off the dead skin, let the sand out and I was off running around again
Funny the things you remember isn’t it?

Like the divorce from hell I had 12 years ago, I look back and see it as a time I did stuff. I went skiing in Colorado and biking around Cuba . Went to Spain on my own. Made new friends. I can look back on this time as a time when we still lived. Saw family. Kept our spirit level. Got out into the sunshine and fresh air. Lived. Loved and laughed.

I can’t adhere to things that don’t make sense and thankfully neither can my second husband and the ageism on mnet is quite scary.
I considered myself a young 68 . Still dress fashionably. Hair is still mainly brown with blonde highlights. Like music and the good things in life and it fills me with dread to think in another two years I could’ve been seen as an old fogey to be incarcerated . As my husband is Totally grey haired And maybe does look 70 I thought We should perhaps carry our passports in case we were challenged
Thankfully that wasn’t needed
And breathe.

I have friends in South Africa. Yes it’s been a hard lock down for them.
Do you remember at the beginning of ours, some supermarkets weren’t allowing the sale of chocolate.
Staff and security were looking in your bags to see what you had bought.
It tipped my mental health over the edge
Some people were enjoying it a bit too much.

I’m so thankful of the lovely weather we had . It has definitely helped to keep things in perspective.

I was in Tenerife when they had to lockdown. The army were on the streets the next day telling people in 4 languages to stay home.
Luckily we had an apartment and were allowed to go to the supermarket
We milked it for all it was worth, I’ll tell you

The first day we were allowed to use the roof top pool in the hotel opposite. So after our trip to the supermarket we headed there, only to be told it was closing at 3 which sure enough it did.

We only had one more day to fill in, yep another 15 minutes walk to the supermarket for fresh fish , dawdling in the sun as we went.
Anyway that night we were told they were evacuating us home. We had another week left but it would’ve only got worse.

After all the tourists went , my russian friends told me only one person in a car and one to go to the nearest supermarket.
No exercising.
It’s been horrible for them.
Soon as we got home, it was my grandsons 10 th birthday. I think we found the only restaurant still open Before lockdown and All piled in there to celebrate it with him on the Friday .

No wonder the oldies are so militant. We’ve been through so much.

Look at this
Some officers put black dye in a lake to deter swimming
What Machiavellian hell is this

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8329065/Derbyshire-Police-chief-constable-retires-probe-personal-conduct-duty.html

Yeah I saw that some authority out bleach on a beach in Spain when the children came out lovely

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52471208

It's not recommended to swim in that lake not in lockdown dowser www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/trips-and-breaks/buxtons-beautiful-blue-lagoon-toxic-17052691

However I do Derbyshire police were ridiculously heavy handed at the lockdown. The drones taking pictures of dog walkers miles from anyone sticks in my mind