Anti Dementors Party with Patronii

[LilacTree1]

Are you out there, my lovelies?

I just ventured onto the corona board.
Someone shouting about how no one is following the rules except them, saw this post and it made my day.
"well done, your medals in the post"

@rookiemere I too am suffering frozen shoulder from working at a dining table on a laptop. I rang my usual physio yesterday and, low and behold, I can go in and see him next Tuesday, as long as I wear a mask! I'm over the moon as currently getting very little sleep due to the pain.

Give your regular physio a call... you might be surprised. Mine told me on the phone that their professional body have told them they can reopen, but spaced out appointments, cleaning between patients, and masks etc to be worn.

Printing off waste swathes of flipping sats papers here- school has done this lucky lucky us

Demontors in professional or private life never show you the science. Funny that

Morning!

I’ve found myself in a “spirited debate” with a furlough-dementor - she’s a front-line, NHS worker (actually, she works in an admin role for the CCG and has been working from home the whole time) and is ASHAMED TO BE ENGLISH!!!!!

Apparently, people on furlough shouldn’t be allowed to enjoy themselves in anyway, shape, or form and anyone on furlough who has been to the beach the last few days should have their furlough money withdrawn

I should have sat on my hands, but I didn’t 🤦‍♀️

I’ve had enough. May go out for a drive and get a Costa to break the day up. Kids come back tomorrow and I’m just hoping the school we’ve had to fight confirm dds place or she will be a wreck. Since they’re not opening one year group now they should have lots of space!

Does anyone else feel that, while the dementors are shouty shouty all the way to get their voices heard, anti dementors are voting with their feet. Going on walks and going to the beach, getting takeaway coffees, sending children back to school etc.
And that maybe while we arent as shouty or ranty, our actions are showing that the sky isnt falling just because we had a chippy tea on the beach. That in turn may help others to do so and so in the long run have a bigger impact on decision making than shouting about locking us away forever.....

@livinlavidaloki

Yes i totally agree. As everyone goes back to normal, the dementors will be left out, their FOMO will be their downfall.

I cannot imagine they'll be happily staying locked indoors once the rest of us are allowed to be out and about with family/friends.This is going to drive them insane

TheKrakening oh I hope you’re right, I’m desperate for my library to open but I’m starting to realise that’s about normality too.

Have you heard that Waterstones are going to quarantine books if customers touch them but don’t buy them?

Dowser “ my heart sank when this furlough scheme was extended to October” mine too. It means they don’t plan to open anything properly till then.

Still waiting for confirmation from our primary about the 1 June start, last thing was the survey 'would you send them or not' which ended on Tues.

Lilac, me too. When they announced I just thought “fuck, there goes the summer”

We’ve just had the full email plans re school reopening (although I’d already seen them due to being a governor).
Randomly my year 1 is scheduled to go back on the 6th June and my YR on the 15th.
Otherwise it’s all fairly sensible, although drop offs and pick ups look like a headache!
Obviously nothing confirmed until the government give their go ahead (or not) next week. I’m going to make my final decision when I see what groups they’ve been assigned to.

I didn't realise it could be staggered. was thinking one more week. At least a plan I suppose Domina

It means they don’t plan to open anything properly till then.

Not necessarily.

My reading of it is that they need to extend furlough for the industries (hospitality, chiefly) they are going to prevent in the near term.

The interesting thing about furlough is the guidance given by HMRC about when a company should furlough. At first the guidance was "if you can furlough, do". Companies wanted that put into the regs, but HMRC refused. And clearly they refused because they wanted the freedom to be able to vary that advice at the right time.

Furlough is paid back to the company. They have to front the wages, so if they pay someone who shouldn't have been furloughed, they won't get the money back. Also they have been promised careful scrutiny under audit. I'm not saying nobody is taking the piss, but a lot of companies are wary of paying out wages to furloughed staff and then either not being reimbursed or getting into trouble at the audit stage.

Once we get to July and the guidance changes and companies are expected to put in more money themselves, the whole scheme is going to change enormously.

The main reason it’s staggered is because our reception classroom is having building work done. I think they’ve blocked out Monday 6th for teacher training on the new procedures, yr 6 for the Tuesday and Wednesday of the first week, year 1 Thursday and Friday, then all yr 6 and yr 1 the following week, then reception joining the week after. Easing them in to bigger numbers I guess.
Almost think there’s no point me sending my yr 1 until my yr R starts... just means I’ll have to entertain the 4 year old on her own for a week!

Is there any sensible organised campaigns on children’s rights in lockdown? I just want things to be eased for them a bit so they can meet up with friends as I can’t see that they’re going to reopen schools in wales until September but it’s getting cruel to not even be allowed to meet friends.

I don’t think the furlough extension from 1st August to October is a straight extension of the current format though is it?

I think companies are expected to get employees back into work for some hours at least, with the government making their wages up to 80%

I came back to work this week and we have a couple of employees in, but unless there’s some sort of miracle on 4th July, we won’t be back up and running to full capacity straight away.

The format of the extension means we can have staff in on reduced hours and swap them in and out as we need the different skills.

I worked in one of the areas that’s not expected to recover but got made redundant immediately.

To me, apart from the personal issues, it’s a sign that the economic depression will be even worse than I thought at the outset.

I just don’t understand why any of this is okay.

@TheKrakening3, I had lost all my hope this morning due to dementoring on a school WhatsApp and your gave it back. Thank you.

Furlough is paid back to the company. They have to front the wages, so if they pay someone who shouldn't have been furloughed, they won't get the money back

HMRC have paid us in advance for April, and as long as we submitted payroll before 20th May, we will get the same for May.

You get paid within 6 days of applying so as long as you submit your payroll in time, you don’t have to front the wages.

Yesterday we went to the beach (about 20 miles from home) and DD3 just had the best time. We drove home the long way through the forest scenic route and stopped at an ice cream parlour doing takeaway. In the evening we got pizza from a local place doing takeaway. It was like a whole summer holiday in one day and we all feel so much better for it.

I'm finding ti frustrating listening to youngish healthy parents stressing that e.g. their child might be in a bubble with another child whose parents might not have been strictly following the lockdown

We've DH who is 50+ and getting texts and 'emergency food parcels'...who is going back to work and children back to school knowing key worker children ill be there so there are limits of risk.

For the former people it is so much lower risk yet they continue to catastrophise and dementor on about it and they don't know how lucky they are

(on asking the consultant it seems DH is 'moderate' and so it is up to us to decide)

Yep. Muted the WhatsApp.

Oh FFS now we should all 'be ashamed of ourselves' um no.