Anti Dementors Picnic on the Beach

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On the SM/MN mental health, I am not on FB / twitter but can imagine...the only place I have seen the hysteria / dementing is on here (apart from a tiny bit on Next door but guy was obviously quite strange - leaf guy).

So yes I guess without MN I wouldn't have been aware of it.

Yes school holiday dates do vary quite a lot across Scotland. We were due to finish up on Wednesday 24th June and return on Thursday 13th August.

Twitter is more frothy than FB now - the outrage when any company reopens at all has died down finally on FB (or I've snoozed all the fuckwits) but Twitter is such an echo chamber.

Still no word whatsoever from my Reception DC's school

@rookiemere How likely do you think it is the golf courses will re-open? DH is a greenkeeper and really needs to get back to work for his mental and physical health. It would give us some much-needed routine and normality (and money).

Wales here, I am going out today, to GP, he says it will be a trip out for me. woo hoo. I am going to park up on the beach for a bit and smell the ozone afterwards.

Since lockdown I have had cystitis, thrush and now mastitis. It really is not good for me all this sitting around.

Drakeford has now said they are not doing welsh testing but going to adopt one which is something to do with amazon. Funnily enough at the beginning of this I started a thread saying amazon were the best people to roll out antibody kits, well the dementors had a field day saying Bezos was the anti christ, not to be trusted, how could I support such a capitalist organisation, didn`t I know they were slave masters.

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This video made me smile. These young chaps are my heroes. I might clap for them some evening at 8pm.

Exercise class in Birmingham

Sophie..she did do that, at 6-30 one morning
I just thought...why?
We are 1.5 miles from the beach so a bit too far to get there and walk, so yes, I drive there.
Council still has car parks tied off...don’t want out of Townes coming. It makes me so mad, I want the out of towners coming.
Beaches are for everyone.i want them to come here an di want to explore their spaces.
There’s a fab country park we’ve been using a lot and the car park has remained open. It’s about 15 miles away. Lovely woodland walk. Several lakes and ponds . Lots of wild birds.
Those locals And others can come to ,My beach..there’s miles and miles of it anyway
Bring the kids, bring a picnic
Let’s all chill out

Rubber - I’ve never had WhatsApp.

Tbh I only really use MN and I’m questioning whether that’s a good idea. This thread is great but it might be that I spend too much time on MN in lockdown.

Just asking..my cousin is in the vale, edge of Barry
They’ve had helicopters flying overhead
So surprised as I see the welsh as being really laid back.
We were supposed to be there 2 weeks ago
Was gutted
Was really looking forward to seeing their new house.

hauntedfishtank from the excited chat of my 2 colleagues who are golf club members in Scotland, from the communications they've received it seems pretty much a certainty and due to be announced today I think.

Really happy for them as one was particularly gutted when England had theirs opened but not us. His usual practice is to go early in the morning in the summer so around 6am so highly suggest unlikely to bump into anyone.

I'd be so delighted if we were allowed to drive for a bit. There's a gorgeous dog walk along Blackness beach which is about 20 minutes drive away, I'm so looking forward to being able to go there.

I am also just back from murdering hundreds after a trip to Home Bargains.

I bought face masks, chilled coffees, body scrub and nail polish. DD and I are having a spa afternoon in the house.

Brilliant, thanks @rookiemere. I’ll keep my fingers crossed...

Lilac..I hate the stasi
The number of times me and my dear dh sit and shout fuck off at the tv when it comes on with stupid stuff masquerading as adverts.
He was so mild mannered till he met me as well.
When we are out for a walk and we see stupid signs, shutting off open spaces, we shout fuck off at them also
We are turning into parodies of ourselves.

When I see a child break loose and sit On some play equipment..I inwardly cheer...not seeing it often enough to be honest.

I love to see the teens, meeting up their bikes.
My next door neighbour has her grandsons and children round as do I?
And omg..our VE Day party was a hoot.

Wow 15 pages already

Hello dear despicables :)

Some real, actual - and generally positive - statistics here www.cebm.net/covid-19/what-does-the-evidence-tell-us-about-current-covid-19-activity/ Think they might make some dementors spontaneously combust?!

Our site stuff fan seems to have had a somewhat unsuccessful fishing trip (is fishing allowed yet?)

Oh and while I’m at it. I haven’t read one book. I’ve barely done any gardening, we don’t have much to be honest. The only cakes I’ve made were for dh birthday and he virtually put a gun at my head to do them. We are both df and gf and home made ones are far nicer. Not saying I’m queen baker or anything, they just are.

I’ve not taken up any new crafts . Nope. Not crocheted myself a blanket , quilted, felted, made cards, learnt a new language or learnt to play an instrument, sorted all my photos into albums..nope, nope and nope.

I’ve just spent my days plotting my Escape and escaping whenever we could.
When my great grandkids say to me , what did you do in the Great War of 2020 nana...I’ll say I worked for the resistance and plotted my escape and escaped everytime I could.

Am I the only one whose reading habits have changed. I had a load of books on kindle. The dark, gloomy thrillers I just cannot get into, do not want to read about, murder, cruelty etc. I am reading frothy cosy type books now.

Dowser “ love to see the teens, meeting up their bikes.
My next door neighbour has her grandsons and children round as do I?”

That’s really good.

I think if I had broken lockdown I’d have seen more normality and felt better. But then again, I’m not sure. Before lockdown I was shocked how empty everything was. If only they’d left everything advisory, then people wouldn’t have needed to worry about Stasi and getting fined. That was the bit, I couldn’t risk, the fine. At the start I was also unclear if it would go on a DBS check.

I don’t watch live TV so haven’t seen any ads. But I was really pissed off when I went to All4 to watch Black Books - even the bloody logo had Stay at Home etc on it.

Go @Dowser

I also remember chickenpox parties and being taken to visit my friend with measles in a darkened room - Having 4 older siblings though I think my immune system was already primed and didn't get it.

I don't even have a recollection of the the other flu epidemics - even ones that happened as an adult and that killed nearly 30,000 people because life didn't stop and we didn't have local enforcers ramming guilt down our throat.

I wouldn't be without modern technology and social media today but I'm horrified by how some are using it to spread fear and blame.

Dowser I'm the same with tv. My favourite program at the minute is the one with Michael Portillo travelling round the globe in brightly coloured trousers or failing that there was a super documentary about monkeys last night.

The NS statement is tomorrow, I'm not sure what time.

She told me she’s just a short walk from the beach. She’s a fit 75 year old. I was really surprised she hadn’t taken Her exercise at the beach. Was this Becauseshe was older. She did quote that

I can’t speak for your friend, but I avoided the beach due to all the frothers, dementors and FB shamers.

At one point anyone who set foot on the beach ended up on FB, and even the police were shoo-ing lone dog walkers or families out for a walk off it so I stayed away

I live opposite so only a few minutes walking distance

A couple of weeks ago I just thought fuck it, took the dog down there for an hour or so and it was lush so I’ve been back most days with doggo

So I was planning to see someone I know today for the first time in eight weeks, aaaaaaaaaand... she's tested positive for the virus so had to self-isolate I can't even be upset about that, just got to appreciate the universe's sense of humour. She's fine, anyway, just a slight cough.

@MaudesMum I typed a mahoosive post about shielding people earlier and then my stupid phone deleted it But I'm worried about them being forgotten too, and was also going to ask whether anyone else here had noticed a slight uptick in people on here being dickheads towards people in that group - accusing them of being workshy, and that garden centre thread where they were basically accused of taking up an ICU bed and killing nurses by going outside! I really hope this doesn't become a trend because it must be so shit anyway not being able to leave the house, without random people on the internet being cunts about it.

I had a friend (more of an acquaintance really) who would have been in the shielding group had she not died from her condition last year. She spent six months in intensive care in and out of a medically induced coma and died in the autumn. In some ways it's almost a blessing in retrospect - it would have been unbearably sad if she'd come through all that, only to be effectively locked in a room indefinitely for fear of dying from something else. She was only in her 20s and did so much with her life - not most people's idea of a chronically ill person at all.

Another friend has been advised to shield due to a heart condition (which wouldn't otherwise be life-limiting, but she would need surgery in a few years) but has chosen not to from the beginning. It's caused some arguments with her husband, who is understandably worried, but she's very much a 'give me liberty or give me death' type and I think realised from the start that this wasn't going to be a case of staying home for twelve weeks until it's over. She's also a teacher - not at my school - and has been going in to supervise keyworker children on occasion (surprised they let her tbh).