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Anti Dementors picnic at the Loch.

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TheGreatWave · 19/05/2020 15:09

Starting a new one.

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rookiemere · 19/05/2020 20:22

Oh Maudesmum that's such good news about the physios. Fingers crossed Scotland is not too far behind - I said to DH I need to go back onto the drugs in the short term.

AlexisCarringtonColbyDexter · 19/05/2020 20:24

checking in

Hello everyone 😙

rosettesforjill · 19/05/2020 20:35

Death toll huge on my evening walk tonight. Psychopaths out picnicking (some with NON ESSENTIAL champagne), groups of teenagers doing teenagery things, full car park and a distinct lack of fucks being given about staying 2m away from others when passing.

Lovely evening for it though

Anti Dementors picnic at the Loch.
Wishfulthinking1977 · 19/05/2020 20:38

@Leighhalfpennysthigh I wouldn't worry about sw spike! I'm surprised I haven't killed them all off with my murderous behaviour!! Of meeting people and shopping! And heaven forbid not wearing a mask!!! I'm glad to have found this thread! What happened to the last one??

ikeairgin · 19/05/2020 20:40

Hello - can I introduce myself. I've just pissed off several people on facebook by pointing out some flaws in their logic. Comparing a 13+ boarding school with international students to a local primary is like apples and pears but now I'm an out of date toff with delusions of gradeur and a one woman killing machine. ffs

And my MIL is going quietly demented not being able to see her family, she's feeling this seperation so badly - she moved into sheltered accomodation in December (Her husband dies after a short illness in October) when it became apparent how much she had been depending on him - and she couldn't cope with carers coming in and out of her house (She sacked several) so she decided to make this move and now she's really regretting it. It's so horrible for her seperated from everyone, alone and grieving in a new place. I hope that we'll be able to do more than wave through the window at her soon, but I doubt it.

Mental health is as important as physical health - I knows this and it's also mental health awareness week. The emphasis is be kind anyway I haven't a clue what's been posted upthread as it's taken me two days to read the last two and I really wanted to get this off my chest.

Mascotte · 19/05/2020 20:42

Hello @ikeairgin Sounds like a hard time.. welcome to a haven from it all

KnobChops · 19/05/2020 20:47

Loads more tubes running this week so the journey to work is a bit more bearable. No ‘social distancing’ down there for us reckless spreaders of plague.

I don’t get the school hysteria. The ‘risk’ was much higher prior to lockdown when the virus was so prevalent in the community. And yet at the time most teachers and children were happily attending school and I can’t recall any outbreaks. Now the risk is low and it is akin to murder to think about reopening. There is no logic.

I do think the fear around this is mostly among people who basically aren’t going out into the world. I guess most of the people I know have worked outside of home throughout this, some have children who didn’t stop going to school. It helps you retain a sense of perspective.

LilacTree1 · 19/05/2020 20:49

Knob “ Loads more tubes running this week so the journey to work is a bit more bearable”

Glad they got a handle on that. The decision to furlough so many was madness.

Drivingdownthe101 · 19/05/2020 20:51

I don’t get the school hysteria. The ‘risk’ was much higher prior to lockdown when the virus was so prevalent in the community. And yet at the time most teachers and children were happily attending school and I can’t recall any outbreaks. Now the risk is low and it is akin to murder to think about reopening. There is no logic

Exactly this! I must have tried to explain this to around 50 people. All I get back is a hysterical ‘it’s not saaaaafffeee’ Confused

KnobChops · 19/05/2020 20:55

I know, it’s nuts isn’t it, both the lack of public transport, the over reaction to using furlough and the hysteria about schools when right now it’s safer than it probably has been for months.

Feels like you’re shouting into the wind at the minute. I’d like a grown up to tell us all: fuck off back to work and school right now!

Leighhalfpennysthigh · 19/05/2020 20:56

*God, I had a Boris sex dream. I’d much prefer Rishi

I did dream Chris Witty came round and cut all the trees down in my garden which was a bit weird.*

And I thought I had problems. Boris 🤢🤮

Mascotte · 19/05/2020 20:56

@KnobChops that's exactly what I'd say if I was in charge of the world!

Leighhalfpennysthigh · 19/05/2020 20:58

@Dowser if you can stand it, keep the paracetamol dissolving over the tooth. That works too.

SockYarn · 19/05/2020 21:04

I am getting SO desperate for a haircut. I have a hairdresser who usually comes to the house, last time she was here was February. Seriously considering taking the dressmaking scissors to it.

RubberDinghyRapids · 19/05/2020 21:13

Phew! Finally caught up. Will you lot slow down? I've been at work all day and had to wait until DD gave in and went to sleep to read the thread.

Went to Tesco yesterday AND today so expect the second spike in 14 days. Managed to get DD some shoes though, hurrah. Poor wee mite. No shiny Startrite's for her speshul first pair.... naff supermarket shoes. Definitely not PFB Grin

Tonii1985 · 19/05/2020 21:27

Just read the guardian headline about it not being safe to mark books.

Honestly, as a teacher this is all getting a bit embarrassing now.

BakewellTarts · 19/05/2020 21:28

@KnobChops so true. Before 16/3 I was working in a central London office and commuting 3 days a week. Far more exposed. Since discovered that our office had its own outbreak (hardly surprising really). All mild cases even if some folk did get a worse dose. And so am not really worried about DD2 going back to school. We may of course of had it already.

SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito · 19/05/2020 21:32

Just read the guardian headline about it not being safe to mark books.

Honestly, as a teacher this is all getting a bit embarrassing now.

Agreed. Ex teacher here, but the idea that you couldn't work out a way to collect the books (kids, leave your books on the desks, I will pick them up with gloves on after you've left) store the books for a day (shove in plastic storage box and put in corner of room) and then mark them once they've been released from book quarantine is utterly ridiculous. You'd just need SLT to relax any policies that required a faster turn around than book quarantine would require. Really not bloody difficult.

Mascotte · 19/05/2020 21:33

@SockYarn I took the ends off mine with the pony tail method and it's much better. It's long though

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TheGreatWave · 19/05/2020 21:34

My lockdown dream involved finding an open cafe, that had seats outside but they also had seating inside which really shocked me and made me very happy.

And that the cafe sold me a massive hamster, so it was all a bit weird.

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TheAdventuresoftheWishingChair · 19/05/2020 21:35

Hello!

On my 2 walks today I saw a group of 4 adults and about 4 dogs all standing to have a good chat for ages, 2 large groups of teenagers milling around together - some were playing football, 2 mums with 3 young children all playing together (next to a locked playground) and several smaller pairs of teens chatting but keeping their distance. There have also been tennis players hitting balls about a few hedges away in public courts too for the first time in weeks!!

It was good to see. Whatever the dementors say, you can't keep everyone locked up. It isn't natural and people just won't comply past a certain point. Those with any authority who are frothing and trying to stop people mixing are not going to have much success as the weeks go on.

Can I ask, (and you've probably already decided this) if we get another troll, can we collectively ignore them completely? I think some people do get off on dropping in and insulting people and this is a lovely place to hang out and get away from nonsense. The more people reply the more trolls feed off it (I replied on the last thread so I am not blameless!) Ignore them and they'll get bored hopefully.

I have been doing better but I'm just struggling with horrible loneliness tonight. I've made a plan to get out each day for the next few days so I know that will help. But I'm so over this. Please please can life go back to normal. I'd joined a lovely choir in September and it would do me so much good to get back to that.

Drivingdownthe101 · 19/05/2020 21:36

Can I ask, (and you've probably already decided this) if we get another troll, can we collectively ignore them completely?

Good idea. No acknowledgement.

Nihiloxica · 19/05/2020 21:38

Loads more tubes running this week

Grin

I read this as a dementorish complaint about runners and their terrible g22.

(Tube = Dublin for idiot)

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TheGreatWave · 19/05/2020 21:39

I'm just having to grow my hair out, managed to get some clippers at the weekend to do dh's. He looks a little more presentable now.

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RubberDinghyRapids · 19/05/2020 21:40

GreatWave Have you been watching Fleabag? Was it in fact a guinea pig?

Concur with WishingChair. Dementors and trolls should not be fed at the picnic.