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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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Bollss · 19/05/2020 21:41

@Mascotte tell me of this ponytail method! My hair is super long but the ends are looking a bit scraggly!

Bollss · 19/05/2020 21:42

And yes to collective ignoring. Smile

Nihiloxica · 19/05/2020 21:43

I'd joined a lovely choir in September and it would do me so much good to get back to that.

A CHOIR?? Shock

You absolute psychopath.

That's taking this to a whole nother level.

Choirs literally kill millions. Entire countries have been taken out.

Anybody heard from Vanuatu recently?

No.

Choir. That's why.

Mascotte · 19/05/2020 21:45

It's recommended on here and shown on YouTube . You make a ponytail on the front of your head and trim the ends. I was super cautious! I then trimmed the fringe very slightly and my face framing layers. All very slightly but it took the fuzzy ends off.

I'm now an old woman with pretty long hair, but it's looking nice, if I do say so myself

RunningNinja79 · 19/05/2020 21:45

Will you lot slow down?

Sorry, but its the only thing I want to look at right now. Facebook is worse than Brexit and all the elections added together. Too depressing on news and a too many dementors about on MN. I like my little safe bubble here.

Springersrock · 19/05/2020 21:49

Arrggghhh!!!

My poor daughter ☹️ Cambridge Uni have just announced no face to face lectures until September 2021 with all other unis likely to follow suit.

She’s been holding out for September and is absolutely devastated. Poor kid, her last year at school is fucked over, her A levels are fucked over, all her summer plans with her friends are fucked over and now her uni plans are all up in the air.

Feel so sad for her

MH1111 · 19/05/2020 21:49

I keep getting ‘aisle anxiety’ - someone very slow in front of you in a shop.

Do you scoot by whilst they’re not looking?
Ask to be let past?
Pretend to be shopping do they don’t feel pressured?
Huff and puff and move to within 1.9 metres of them?
Which options would be considered murder?! It’s a minefield

rosettesforjill · 19/05/2020 21:50

The other thing teachers could do with books would be to wash their hands after marking and not touch their face while marking them. And not lick the books. I've not quarantined a single item of post and I have survived 🤷🏼‍♀️

Drivingdownthe101 · 19/05/2020 21:50

Springersrock I just read that and am fucking appalled. £9k a year to sit in your room and watch a lecture online? Absolute bullshit.

Mascotte · 19/05/2020 21:51

@Springersrock what? Does that mean they're not back til then? Sounds rubbish...

Mascotte · 19/05/2020 21:52

I mean as in bad, not untrue !

rosettesforjill · 19/05/2020 21:52

@Springersrock I think they said supervisions would be taking place though and those are the best bits of the experience Smile she won't lose too much by watching the lectures online (and she won't have to get up as early Grin)

LilacTree1 · 19/05/2020 21:52

Springer was she due to start? Can she defer?

MH I just walk past. I think people don’t really try to SD in my small local Aldi.

Springersrock · 19/05/2020 21:52

Just to add, she’s not going to Cambridge, but other unis are likely to do the same

I’m gutted for her.

Bollss · 19/05/2020 21:52

Thanks @Mascotte I'll give it a whirl!

@springersrock 2021 that is bloody insanity! Why?!?!

Drivingdownthe101 · 19/05/2020 21:52

Haha same... also meant bad, not untrue! Absolutely appalling.

RubberDinghyRapids · 19/05/2020 21:55

@RunningNinja79 My tongue was firmly in cheek. Sorry, thought was obvious. Not trying to police the thread. Confused

Wishfulthinking1977 · 19/05/2020 21:55

Thought as you are all like minded people I would share my days with you for some uplifting advice! I say days as they are all the same and I say uplifting as I have giggled a lot reading these comments! I am one of the 'lucky' ones! Big garden in a rural location, no home schooling! OK here goes!
Get up after no sleep as anxiety and nightmares, take tablets that haven't been needed for a year! Until since lock down suicidal!, shower, dress, clean house, try to prise 19 year old out of bed as going to bed at 3 am as no work, no social life so no point in getting up! Scream at him 90 times that yes that all the food we have and no I don't know what I'm cooking for fucking dinner as it 11am!! Try to get 16 year old to dress, or at least eat something as half a stone weight loss on an 8 stone girl is not healthy! And the fact she keeps passing out is not good! Try to stop her having a panic attack by accessing the only mh support she can have is online with no contact with her normal support network (friends and Co workers) walk dogs, try to talk down oldest dd with 4 month old baby who is struggling and needs support, sleep, feel worse get up sort animals do dinner for family including dh who works 12 hour shifts, watch telly while he snores, go to bed and hope to sleep! Whilst worrying when I can actually hold my parents 100 yards the road, or my oldest dd or my baby grandson, or the ever worrying aspect of masks!! They terrify me and I can't wear one as I have panic attacks!! Sorry for the long post! No after sympathy but some jokes about altering my situation would help!! 😂 Thanks xx

thenightsky · 19/05/2020 21:56

I wondered where you'd all gone

se22mother · 19/05/2020 21:58

These threads are the only thing I read on MN now

RunningNinja79 · 19/05/2020 21:58

I just walk past people in supermarkets. I can't be stood there all day waiting for them. Then I get people behind me walking past both of us and then getting in my way. I'd be there all day if I waited

Mascotte · 19/05/2020 22:04

Out murdering today I passed a few children out. They looked so pale... it's so sad.

OnItCarBonnet · 19/05/2020 22:05

Found you!

savehalloween · 19/05/2020 22:09

Dipping back in after taking a few days away from MN. Hope you're all well and murdering wildly.

As of the 1st June my mum will be resuming her childcare days so I can actually try and scrape my business back up off the floor. Contactless drop off, following the guidelines we've been given in Wales.

I'm convinced that the reason they won't say when we're allowed to hug our family or use non vulnerable relatives for childcare is because the answer would technically be now. And whilst I can hold off from getting together with my family for a bit longer, I need their support in this respect.

I almost don't dare to dream at the moment but it's a glimmer of hope and normality on the horizon.

LilacTree1 · 19/05/2020 22:14

Save “Contactless drop off, following the guidelines we've been given in Wales.”

You mean you’re not supposed to go within 2m of your mum?

We’ve been talking about this sort of thing on another thread, I think they will say “we never legally prevented you from hugging your mum”.

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