Anti Dementors Picnic on the Beach

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@SockYarn- my sentiments too!
(I’m guessing you’re also a fellow knitter? Not that it’s really relevant to the discussion lol!)

Can I join in?

I'm Scottish, and I think Sturgeon has lost the plot. Bloody ridiculous for us still to be locked down like this. The numbers do not bear it out. I'm slowly losing the plot with the whole thing, and I won't be the only one.

They'll never take our freedom? They bloody well did

@justasking111 How is that can Wales not have reached the peak? Does Mark Drakeford understand what a peak is? But yes, I agree there's no way they're going to reopen schools until September. I'm hoping if they don't then the tide will turn. I feel like I'm screaming into the wind, especially on Twitter where they're getting loads of praise. Only criticism they are now starting to question whether elections can happen next Spring, but maybe this is to distract us from their absolute conviction that the untrustworthy Welsh should be locked up forever.

Ahh, good old Curriculum for Excrement. I worked in Scottish (& English) schools from 2005 to 2011 and I remember it well.

@Allnamesaregone - knitter, cross stitcher, patchworker.... just love all crafty stuff really. Keeping me sane in lockdown. Just as well I had a massive stash of yarn, fabric and kids before lockdown started!

Dowser our beach is busier than it had been, but it’s not busy by any means - despite all the “we’ll be over run” predictions from the anti-tourist dementors

DD rode her pony on it yesterday and seems to have escaped un-dementored so far 🤞

It was stupid keeping people off it in the first place. Huge, wide beach, even with the tide in, so plenty of space to go for a walk and keep much more than 2m distance from each other. I can get out into the fields and woods within a couple of minutes walk from my house, but lots of people were pushed into walking in our narrow streets all crammed together, having to walk into the road to keep the 2m distance. Madness

Ahh, good old Curriculum for Excrement. I worked in Scottish (& English) schools from 2005 to 2011 and I remember it well.

I remember the full on ye olde 10 ring binder English National Curriculum if we're doing old skull education initiatives we have known and lost.

Psychomath “ but she's very much a 'give me liberty or give me death' type ”

I love that type!

I find it surprising when people say the streets are normal “except for queues”. That’s one of the most depressing things about it and another reason I go out in the evening.

Domina yes, I’ve rethought my ideas about moving. There’s anonymity in a tower block. Plus I think there’s enough variety of views that any shaming on the WhatsApp group wouldn’t go down well. I did hear the group were baying for the closure of schools sadly.

I really hope your DD is allowed back to school.

rookie don’t look for logic.

Short clip of man from SAGE on Channel 4 news

twitter.com/mi6rogue/status/1261241636362821632

It’s not about logically using measures to prevent a disease from spreading.

Great news Domina

@DominaShantotto - yaaaay! Absolutely delighted for you. 👍

My beautiful vibrant rooms are now sterile holding bays for the poor unfortunate children who arrive

Again, I was at primary in the 70s and 80s. I remember lots of brown lino, plain wooden tables and grey slatted window blinds, not much about my school was vibrant apart from the very 70s orange floral curtains in the hall. Somehow my generation managed to get through primary unscathed even with the lack of rainbow coloured soft furnishings.

@LilacTree1 school rang about half an hour ago - she's now classed as vulnerable and can go back in - we're voluntarily isolating next week as a precaution when they return from a more affected part of the UK, and then she's going back in with the vulnerable/key worker group - which is staffed by the teachers she adores.

Think the school are giving up the idea of Y2 getting back in general looking at how the guidance is going. I'm still going to follow up my difficult questions to make sure the kids are looked after though.

The thing is the slight lifting we have in England is designed to make the longer term situation a bit more tolerable.

People will just meet up inside I reckon (Scotland) as more private as not allowed outside- where the virus is less easily spread!

My dad is doing his own thing with the sheltered housing residents anyway as they take their chairs out together to the bit of grass. Bless them

That's good Domina

ye olde 10 ring binder English National Curriculum

Ahh, fond memories. NOT!!!

My beautiful vibrant rooms are now sterile holding bays

Bit dramatic. Surely some pictures are ok..

@Waleshasgonecompletelycrazy can you send me a link where there will not be elections in the spring. That was my last hope to boot labour out in the next welsh assembly elections, even plaid are in disarray about this draconian lockdown in counties where no-one has even sneezed.

Congratulations Domina. Truly thrilled for you.

I'm going to email my DC's school, it's been long enough with absolutely no word of what they're planning.

Fantastic news Domina .

I’ve just come back from the country park, unless there are many more multi generation households than I thought, and unexpectedly many households where mums of young children live together there were a lot of people meeting up for walks. People are taking things into their own hands while still using common sense. It’s almost as if we’re adults who are able to assess risk and think for ourselves.

Ah found it, that little sh1t, cancelling election next May, what a travesty.

www.itv.com/news/wales/2020-05-17/possible-senedd-elections-may-not-happen-next-spring-as-planned-says-vaughan-gething/

@DominaShantotto good news!

@justasking111 they already cancelled local govt elections in England - to which my mother's comment (councillor, step father is a candidate after he lost his seat to a Brexit one) was "thank fuck - don't have to leaflet drop"

The guidance the schools have been give to use is here, it says things like "consider which lessons or classroom activities could take place outdoors" it is up to the schools how they use it..

www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-implementing-protective-measures-in-education-and-childcare-settings/coronavirus-covid-19-implementing-protective-measures-in-education-and-childcare-settings

Oooh - there will be fallout from this, I suspect:

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52646282

Still fucking locked in for another 2 fucking weeks