Anti Dementors picnic at the Loch.

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Starting a new one.

Well an actual friend reached out to be after seeing the "friend" getting at me. God love her. Sensible and lovely as always. She too is struggling and wants to send her kids back.

However nursery are now reconsidering opening because of the council's antics and they are having a meeting tomorrow so I might have an answer by the weekend.

I still haven't emailed my local MP but that's next on my to do list.

On a positive note I'm starting to get a lovely tan. Me and Ds had the paddling pool out today. Although the buggering thing must have a puncture so we had a trip out to the range to buy another one which was definitely non essential.

Is it bad that my brain now has that sex on the beach song going as "shit on the beach"

For fucks sake....
www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/sunbathers-botanic-gardens-breaking-lockdown-18285390

We stay in the caravans linked by that tunnel to the park (Butlins). I walk into Skeggy for exercise - because I love walking and the next time I go (we go in October) I'm going to look out at the sea and dream of slayin'.

I had an encounter with a Dementor in the wild today at close range!

We took the little boat to the river nearby and Dc and my Dh in the boat; I was watching from a bench at the side. Along the bank several families were sunbathing...

A woman gets off her bike next to me behind the bench and starts taking a photo of the scene (it looks like a group if you look from the side along the bank)

I stare at her and she catches my eye and does a slow shake of the head...I just keep stating and then she goes back to her bike and starts scrolling at her phone with a massive grin on her face!

FFS

So am now probably on some FB page of shame somewhere. And you know something I don't care at all... just thought I would share. I felt a little angry for the other families though

Putting 'other people's safety at risk' how @MaxNormal??

By sitting down? In a park?? Surely it's pretty bloody easy to distance yourself from someone who is stationary. I just do not get the absence of any common sense or logic whatsoever.

FFS indeed.

They're loving the distorted camera angle photos of outrage. It's horrendous to live through this fragmentation of society into the normal people, the rule breakers and the self-appointed judgemental twats.

Oh god I couldn't help myself. Facts have been given. I'm going to regret this, I can tell.

My local news (SE) showed a little montage of viewers photos of fun in sun at the end. None of the beaches looked very busy, certainly plenty of space for social distancing and no pics of egregious rock pool crapping.

Running I was working too, I really wanted to take my laptop outside but my neighbour was doing really noisy outdoor work so not conducive to making phone calls.

On the plus side discovered a good swimming spot for the future

@ilovecardigans sorry I should have explained, I was ffs-ing at the outraged tone of the article. People sitting! Eating food! The horror of it all!

Poor bastards. It's going to piss it down for the rest of the week. One sunny day, and the West End is all flats, no-one has their own garden there. I genuinely hope the weather and sunshine brought a bit of joy to people.

No, no @MaxNormal - I'm totally with you! I was FFS-ing at the tone of the article too and knew that's what you meant. No worries!

@MaxNormal I've had to snooze Glasgow live because of this kind of pish.

I'm in Essex and have never been to Skegness. For me it is now poo in a rock pool town.

Toilets closed everywhere. I'm between two small towns and both have their public loos closed. Not fun for the incontinent and... tada... women.

And not a rock pool in site either.

@Dowser Tue 19-May-20 23:10:16
Did anyone see the vid of the guy who hung up a shower curtain In the garden and put plastic sleeves in so he could give his gran a hug

I didn't but I think my neighbours did. They told me they're going to B&M to buy a cheap shower curtain so they can make a cuddle screen. I wondered what the hell they were on about.

@Orangeblossom78 Wed 20-May-20 08:56:28

Sorry but this reminds me a little of the medics' acronym for Guardian readers, GROLIES...GROLIES (Guardian Reader Of Low Intelligence in Ethnic Skirt).news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3159813.stm

Maybe 'G R of worryingly low intelligence ...' would work too Growlies has a certain ring to it.

I'm so glad I found this thread. Now I know I'm not the only one I'm a bit more willing to challenge on other threads - especially when it means supporting someone who is 'asking permission' to do something and getting slaughtered for even thinking about it.

On a lighter note, does Oliver Dowden remind anyone else of this character from Life of Brian?

BBC has stopped shaming people! Look

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52743749

@MaxNormal Glasgow Live has been a pile of handwringing shite, hasn’t it? I lived in the West End for years (southside now) but if someone had told me I couldn’t leave my flat to go to the massive fucking park on a day like this I would have been so angry. Kelvingrove Park was on my doorstep in my last place.

My superhero power.

It only works with lone women in their 70s out for a walk and coming towards me on a country path (sometimes I have sprogette with me during school hours - she clutches a plant key in case we are interrogated and is primed to say "I've spotted everything apart from Red Fescue").

Said senior ladies in lovely jackets don't adopt sensible passing strategies. They head off at right angles beyond the path and into a thicket to get tangled up or, as happened last week, fall over and roll down an embankment. I've tried stopping well ahead, stepping to one side and beckoning but that doesn't work.

Perhaps they can sense the invisible patronus.

iampixie - I have been saying that (about announcing other deaths for context for weeks).

660,000 die every year and we don't have a daily TV programme to count the numbers.

It's putting this weird, morbid emphasis on certain deaths whilst ignoring that others are still happening.

They head off at right angles beyond the path and into a thicket to get tangled up or, as happened last week, fall over and roll down an embankment.

snurtle

Thank you all for your lovely comments.
He’s a smashing kid and was a grade A student all the way through school .It seemed to come easy to him in a way it didn’t to me.
After Aldi et al, we went orca searching.
There were three tankers on the water but try as we might , and drove all along the coast not one or a could we see.
Masses of parked up cars and people fishing, walking, eating ice creams at 6-30 in the evening 👍

Now there’s one thing my whole town will turn out for and that’s something unusual happening.
Decades ago a ship got washed up on the beach and I kid you not , everyone turned up to have a gawp. I think there were even bussing them in from the local towns and villages.
You literally couldn’t move.

Sooo, in the spirit of helping with lockdownitis, I posted the news about the orcas on our local towns page.
I’m expecting pandemonium tomorrow at least.

To the PP whose daughter uses a special fluoride toothpaste on prescription.
I get this one , my dentist prescribed for me called duraphat
I wish it worked but I will persevere
Is yours the same
You can buy it here

www.simplymedsonline.co.uk/dental?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI_7T-zYzD6QIVZIBQBh0d1wqnEAAYASAAEgIbCfD_BwE

You all are fast. Have finally caught up. I am really hoping schools will go back but I have heard 0 from ours. Not surprising as they never were v good at communication anyhow.

Good on the Glaswegians
You’ve got to love the jocks.
One of my great grandparents was born in Glasgow and my grandfather in Lochgelly in Fife.

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank my great grandfather for making the monumentous move to Come down to England..especially at a time like this.
Much as I love Scotland.👍