Anti Dementors Party with Patronii

[LilacTree1]

Are you out there, my lovelies?

I have just been sat with DD(8) doing her school work, she is doing timelines, notably about the stone age. She asked "Is it 2025?" Blooming heck kiddo, it might feel like it but we really haven't been in lockdown that long.

you know what i've always wanted to go to cornwall. And you know, maybe next year would've been the year....

but now i think no do you know what, the people of cornwall have been so horrible to anyone daring to visit there through this, that i think fuck you i'll go to greece instead, they need the tourism too, and they're probably nicer.

Joining you. thank fuck for this thread. I'm getting increasingly depressed with boredom and isolation and work saying we're WFH until Christmas. This whole situation is collective madness. They'll look back on it in years to come and wonder why the hell supposedly sensible people completely took leave of their senses.

Life is full of risk. Get on with it.

Man on BBC Radio Wales who's company is making the antibody test just said the test was 100% accurate (relieved Welsh woman here)

Pp asking if there’s a campaign for young people

The only one I know of is this

www.usforthem.co.uk/

We booked our Cornish holiday before Coronavirus even existed (probably). I'm ignoring the threads telling me I should just lose £££ and not come if the holiday park is open. It's just unreal.

Forgot to say the company is in Bridgend

@LilacTree1 - thank you it was me asking. I was going crazy googling and just getting dementor stuff! I'll take a look and see if I can support them.

Just ventured onto a thread where someone dared say that lockdown was hard for single people. Some of the responses are so vile, even towards people who are admitting that they are so depressed they are considering suicide. Just awful human beings.

Hmm

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52767058

Mortgage payment holiday extended for further three months

The deferred payments will still have to be paid back later on, so mortgage customers will face higher bills once the so-called holiday comes to an end.

A cliff edge was looming. The first borrowers to have put off their mortgage payments would have had to start paying again next month.
The proposal to extend the scheme puts off the day of reckoning, but it could create an even bigger financial challenge for families later on.
Because the so-called mortgage holidays do not involve free money. You have to make up the shortfall afterwards.
It means that mortgage bills will be slightly higher when you resume paying, and they will be higher still if you extend for another three months.

also

Joanna Elson, chief executive of the Money Advice Trust, said: "People in private rented accommodation are among the most exposed to financial difficulty in the wake of the outbreak..

There has been a distinct lack of empathy about mental health...

I have applied for a key worker place for DS. He's year 3 but struggles socially and has reached the point where he won't even speak to friends on zoom etc. He has tried so hard despite his difficulties and made do much progress. If he stays off until September I think it he will be back to square one and that will be hearbreaking.Im so angry that children are so forgotten in this.

After a promising statement of MP for local seaside town 1, saying that people are entitled to come for the day and we can't really stop them, so take precautions if it bothers you, MP for seaside town 2 has issued his statement "although it's tempting to come here to breathe our fresh air..." Our? Fucking OUR???!!!!

Oh holidays in England press was all about July opening for campsites yesterday if that helps any- said big increase in booking this year

There has been a distinct lack of empathy about mental health

Yep. Especially if someone dares to be single and childless.

If people just take their own shopping and camped say for example with own toilet (toilet tent!) it would be possible to visit one of these countryside places, book in advance and not even have to come into contact with any of them.

After reading certain threads on here I can safely that Cornwall is somewhere I never ever want to visit.

Anywhere outside of UK soil that will except me will be getting my money.

I think some on MN might have lack of understanding of single and childless and underlying jealousy of their 'freedom' underlying it -perhaps.

Re the ambulance wait comment upthread. Someone in our village got bitten by an adder yesterday, they posted a photo of an empty A&E dept on the village Facebook page.
We have a whole weekend of murdering planned. DS1s girlfriend is staying, she has been furloughed and her parents restaurant has been closed so pretty low risk. He had depression with suicidal thoughts a few years ago and I'll be buggered if I make him go back there again. Sunday we visit DS2 and his girlfriend for a picnic in a park. They emigrate in a few weeks so wild dogs couldn't stop me seeing them before they go. Monday I will visit my parents and sit in their garden. Dad is 93, mum has mild dementia, the last time I saw them was just before lockdown and as I left dad said "I hope we can see each other again". They are still very independent so they haven't even had carers coming in to speak to face to face, just a volunteer shopper who leaves the bags on their doorstep. They aren't tech savvy so no zoom etc.

I met up with a friend for a walk yesterday and it was just lovely! Although I've had conversations over garden fences with neighbours and lots of social chats on Zoom and so on, it really isn't the same as pootling through fields and woods having a long conversation with someone. Came home feeling much saner....

Cornwall can be pretty grim on some places to be honest. Quite pretty coves and beaches but very rough seas in some areas and massively crowded due to the nature of the coast- small coves and high tides...
a relative has a mobile home there once and we tried but never returned.

(sounds snobby but quite sort of rough in some areas and massive crowded areas lots of swearing and the like- also a nightmare of a drive with traffic jams)

Have been in the past and found other areas much nicer. For example Dorset.

Just watching last night's brief.
Can someone explain to me if approx 0 25% of the population (excluding care homes and hospitals etc) currently have covid, your chances of coming into contact with someone with it are fucking minuscule, so why are we still in this situation???

I saw the all be ashamed of ourselves thread too. I haven’t been to Cornwall in years, and have no plans to go any time soon.

I do kind of see their point in a way. Travelling hours and hours doesn’t really seem to be in the spirit of the whole thing, especially if people are shitting on beaches and generally behaving like dickheads, but at the same time, we are all free to travel wherever in England

(god, I said in the spirit of it, does that make me a dementor?)

We’ve now got one of our staff refusing to return to work and his mum is posting hysterical nonsense all over our company’s Facebook page.

He’s a young lad, early 20s, lives with his girlfriend, no kids. Neither have any health issues that we have been made aware of but he doesn’t feel it is safe to return.

We’ve done a full risk assessment, our building is massive so social distancing is a piece of piss and we’ve put all sorts of other procedures in place. There is absolutely no valid reason why he shouldn’t return to work

I suspect he will soon change his mind if we remove him from furlough and place him on unpaid leave - which technically we should do

leigh yes I’m on that thread

I reported the nastiest comment - made to a lady with a family - bit I think it’s still there.

The mortgage holiday thing also makes me think the government don’t want to go back to normal. Mum keeps saying “they won’t want to be remembered as the government who ruined the economy” but it looks that way to me.

A lot things that are coming, I thought would come eventually, but I hoped not in my lifetime. I’m now trying to use cash as much as possible.

Someone in our village got bitten by an adder yesterday, they posted a photo of an empty A&E dept on the village Facebook page.

I had to take my DD a couple of days ago after she spilt a kettle full of freshly boiled water down herself. The place was empty and we were back home within an hour.

Took her back last night to have her dressings changed - again, the place was empty and we were back home in half an hour