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[LilacTree1]

Are you out there, my lovelies?

Yay for new thread! Hello all my sane and level headed ones

Cattermole do it.

I was meant to be on a socially distanced walk with my mum today. However the distancing went to pot when the very fluffy dog decided to disgrace herself with a loose bowl movement, which required mum to hold her still while I attempted to minimise the mess with tissues and the dog’s drinking water. My dog’s unreliable bum may have caused me to murder my mother.

Hit the fuck-it button and have her over for Sunday lunch? IN THE HOUSE??

Do it.

It will do both of you the world of good.

Same here lilac and Wales even my bloody parents have shown no interest in even a properly "socially distanced" (profanity for me now!) wave from either their or our garden!

I’ve hit some kind of limit today. Just can’t cope anymore. DD won’t be back at school until at least 15th June - apparently only 8 parents in her class think it’s ‘safe enough’ to send them back. I feel like either I’m insane or the rest of the world is. I cannot do this until September, particular if there isn’t even a guarantee of full time school after that. DD has had virtually everything taken away from her. Her education, her friends, her fun activities (library, playground, play dates , swimming, cafes), her extended family. All she has is me and her dad, and I’m cracking up.

And the absolute last straw was a cheery email from her class teacher today titled ‘happy half term!’. Fuck off.

Wales

In defence of best friend I should say

His father is shielding and in a serious category, not a silly MN one.

So his original plan was to see his father before me, so he’d effectively have been at home, bar shopping and walking, and exposing his dad to minimal risk.

However, his father has now decided that perhaps he won’t see his children and grandchildren all summer. It’s very upsetting all round but I appreciate that bestie has to wait for that decision to be made. Seeing me involves public transport. So it’s much better for him to see his father first, I do understand that. If that’s off the table completely, we will then go back to normal in terms of seeing each other.

The other problem we have is same old....if we’re not allowed in each other’s homes, what do we do about a loo?

There’s other friends who are scared of the virus, more who are struggling with work, childcare etc and wouldn’t have time to meet up, and public transport is a barrier for all of us, along with the loo problem.

If anyone was nearby and refusing to meet, tbh at this point I’d probably not want to be friends with them anymore.

My sister is about 50 miles away but she said if there’s no change on Thursday, she’ll maybe come and visit. But she’s also scared of police and fines.

bookworm “ I feel like either I’m insane or the rest of the world is”

It’s not you.

Dah dah duuuuhhhhh!

Is that the Law and Order sound, SirSamuel?

God I love TV shows about murders.

The signs were there all along.

We ALL went to the garden centre and bough a ridiculous amount of plants and the kids got one each and they each chose a packet of seeds to plant. Then we went to visit a friend and didn't go for a walk because it is too windy but stood outside her house and had a chat.

My eldest went out with her best friend today and seems so much the better for it.

Today has been a good day.

Now I'm going to get drunk because I need to keep working on my quarantine goal of becoming an obese alcoholic. I've made decent progress over the last few weeks.

Local paper headlines - shock horror, one child at one school has tested positive. Hidden further down - no deaths from CV19 in our city for 3 days now

@thenightsky

Same! And fb is FREAKING over it. Are you in a midlands city perchance

A lady pitched up on the green behind our house this evening and was planning to sell hot dogs and burgers. "Good for her" I thought, she was obviously trying to make the best of a bad situation and make a bit of money where she would usually be working at festivals, fetes etc. which have all been cancelled. DD and I were looking forward to a burger.

No more than 5 minutes after she arrived, three of our neighbours were out there telling her she couldnt stop here and had to move on. The poor woman was in tears. Apparently she usually pitches up in the next town but thought she would try a new spot, but now wont be returning (obviously). I felt so sad for her, she was just trying to continue her business in difficult times. We went out and apologised and said we would have welcomed her business.

I'm sure our three neighbours, all retired and with no mortgage, are feeling very superior having chased her off our patch.

working on my quarantine goal of becoming an obese alcoholic

It is very important to have goals

Just realised we should’ve been at the northern kin festival this evening
The fucking wind is far worse than the thought of coming away infected.

I’ve joined all the fb end lockdown groups
Have I lost the plot?
There’s people in SA starving.

I’m in the middle of braking a treacle and ginger cake
And a boatload of colloidal silver
I reckon I should be drinking it by the pint!

Rhyming rabbit
Bastards!

@Nihiloxica I'm there! Cheers 🍷

My local school seem delighted to tell us that they couldn't possibly keep our children safe - too many of us wanted the year 6's to go back - they were hoping more of us would keep at home... so not going to repopen on 1st June and probably not the middle now.

Some of them are loving it - teacher said probably better if we wait until Sept to be safe! Why is Sept safe? Why not yr 6 now as per government and see how it goes - why so negative

We have the opposite problem too many of us think it's safe so apparently it isn't now!

"bookworm14 Fri 22-May-20 18:32:33
I’ve hit some kind of limit today. Just can’t cope anymore. DD won’t be back at school until at least 15th June - apparently only 8 parents in her class think it’s ‘safe enough’ to send them back. I feel like either I’m insane or the rest of the world is. I cannot do this until September, particular if there isn’t even a guarantee of full time school after that. DD has had virtually everything taken away from her. Her education, her friends, her fun activities (library, playground, play dates , swimming, cafes), her extended family. All she has is me and her dad, and I’m cracking up."

Cannot win whatever way at the moment. I think some just don't want lockdown to end and happy to prolong the misery as long as possible

A travel group thread on FB about lifting of caravan bans in the nearish future has released an avalanche of racism. I was so shocked reading it. I know it is the foul mouthed knuckle draggers, usual suspects all male btw. The women are hand wringers politely saying they will all die if the english cross the borders into Wales. It is truly dementorish.

It's funny that the Magic Thing is meant to happen in Scotland in August but in September in England.

Haha so true Mascotte. Except we’re in England and ours go back in August (weird holidays that don’t follow the rest of the country), so obviously we have a bit of Scotland magic!

Delighted to report that 90% of reception children will be going back full time to my DD's state school in our affluent area of SW London.

I was concerned that we'd have a lot of dementors as numbers were down below 50% the week before they closed.

Thankfully everyone else is as eager to get rid of their children as I am.

“ Delighted to report that 90% of reception children will be going back full time to my DD's state school in our affluent area of SW London.”

That’s great.

Wonder why. My friend is a school governor in a rough part of SW London and seems to be a lone voice.

I'm delighted for you, TheLast.

But it is slightly concerning that in affluent areas most children are going back whereas in poorer neighborhoods more people are going to keep their kids off school.

Apologies if being thick

Re the pp saying only 8 parents want to send children back

Why can’t the government just order schools to go back? Even if they said “keep your DC home if you choose” why shouldn’t the others get to go to school?

My neighbours had visitors round today.
I have rewarded them by dropping 3 freshly baked baguettes round.
They don't know they are being rewarded, but happy to have the bread anyway!