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Wanted to make the new thread quickly to get the link onto the last page of the previous one!

I failed to attend a lockdown disco some friends were having on Zoom. I missed one last Saturday too.

I just can't be arsed with that kind of online depressing party of depressingness.

Seen cases of abuse online where the partner is forcing the (usually woman) to scrub and clean things in the name of getting rid of the virus, forced to wear masks and of course controlled at home....really unpleasant. It's still going on

In dunelm some of the staff had plastic visors yet we chatted to a male member of staff who didn’t.

@LivinLaVidaLoki, I agree with every post. I look at the stats daily and I cannot understand this. I am compliant by nature as long as I have access to a library. Which I don't. So my compliance is fading. I look at my children and I have a combination of raw anger(which I am not used to) at the people who put them in this position and heartbreak for their little faces as their childhood is being stolen. Plus the guilt from being rubbish at home learning from school.

And on an unrelated note and trivial question, how old do you all think a DC should be to watch Jurassic Park (the original)?

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It is getting more ridiculous by the minute 😠

Sunday morning on a Bank Holiday weekend. Pleasant sun. Possibly triffids wandering around but not a soul about outside and the wood pigeon with a limp is rocking its way across the garden.

Half term here. I think that means more trampolining for the trampoline family down the road. Possibly all week.

I'm going to make a special breakfast for the three of us because I'm in control of this space ship that has been grounded on this surreal planet for weeks.

The usual local Facebook page was ranting about the queue for Burger King and Costa. Apparently the infection rate is 75% in our town. And 50% die from it. You really can’t reason with such stupidity but our local councils seem to be going out of their way to appease these fuckwits and are putting more parking restrictions in

This virus has destroyed my normal positive outlook about life. I’m depressed and drinking too much and feel I’m waking every morning in a special kind of dystopia. In wales we still can’t see friends or family without breaking the law. If you’d told me at Christmas I would be typing that sentence I’d have thought you’d gone mad. Mark drakeford and his ilk deserve to be hung out to dry for their lack of caring about their people. I think the madness in the population is exacerbated by the lack of contact and so much being done online.

I’m meant to be meeting a friend for a walk today and this murdering at least a small village in Gwynedd, but I’m going to cancel. How do I tell my dd she can’t see her friends if I see mine? I can’t find a single one who’ll break this bastard lockdown for her.

Dowser,

Then I remember
My freedom is gone.

You’ve summed it up perfectly. I’ve worked from home for years so am home most of the day. Some days I only leave the house to take the dog out. But I’ve never had to worry about taking dds and dog to beach, going to the woods or moors with them after work. Now I do. I can’t read at the moment, knit, sew or do any crafts which I used to love. Because it comes back to that.

IsaySteadyOn. Ds has seen it and he is 8 now. Can't remember when he first watched it, was a couple of years ago. We are fairly lax about that sort of thing though,being the terrible murderous type. Remember taking him to see Thor Ragnarok at the cinema and onwards cringing at a couple of bits (but they went straight over his head). His friend had a themed 8th birthday party around Jurassic park though so we obviously aren't that far off base.

Working mothers are being driven back to the kitchen sink by the coronavirus crisis, according to a report to be published this week.

The study, by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), reveals that mothers have taken on far more childcare and home education than fathers since schools closed in March. Women are also more likely to be furloughed and at risk of losing their jobs.

Coronavirus loading mothers with washing, cooking and home schooling www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/coronavirus-loading-mothers-with-washing-cooking-and-home-schooling-2spg29b3n

Well here in Scotland we have the added bonus of the worst weather possible all weekend, which means we are trapped indoors with a baby and an increasingly emotional 3 year old.

If only we could visit her cousin and let them play for a few hours (maybe we did, maybe we didn’t...)

@Orangeblossom78 I started a thread on a similar themed and it turned into a feminist rant fest about taking responsibility for my choices in life and making DH stay home with a toddler and a baby while I go back to work on my pittance. Lol.

"...studies have detected virus particles in the “aerosol” effect created by flushing a toilet bowl. If the lid is not down, a “toilet plume” of tiny droplets can travel up to 6ft in any direction, although no evidence of infection in this way has been found.

Yet the public remains understandably nervous, and Martin argues that an accent on safe and modern lavatories must be a key element in restoring normal economic activity"

www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/hygiene-fears-may-spell-the-end-for-urinals-jghjbvr67

Oh no! It's getting all doom and gloom in here now too

Yes I know Sadie there's a weird denial on here about how women and the young have been dealt a severe hand here bizarrely on a site you would think would be supportive of women.

MN I mean not here on this thread

If the sun would just come back out I would be fine. My new garden furniture finally arrived on Friday.

Yet to sit on it but I will! With a gin! And possibly my mother!

Sorry Coming I thought the toilet thing was funny! I'll stop now.

@Orangeblossom78 agree. Especially the kids.

Watching my little DD’s soul being crushed slowly, a little more each day.

@Nihiloxica same here. DH and I have started going for a drink by the river rather join in the weekly quiz with friends we'd much rather be seeing for real.

Sorry I feel like i depressed the whole thread last night. Shall we get back to murdering now?

And on an unrelated note and trivial question, how old do you all think a DC should be to watch Jurassic Park (the original)?

My DD’s have watched it and they’re 6 and 4 . DD1 was doing dinosaurs at school and DH put it on for them, against my better judgement.
They loved it

Turns out as long as the blokes are happy, women and children can go to hell. Can you imagine if we lifted restrictions based on risk? Men would be outraged. They’ve taken away our ability to organise. No meeting up, no school gates, shrieking on social media. Even on here I’m scared to say more than I’m in wales. I’m scared of being outed and losing friends. Maybe that’s pathetic but I need a life after this too.

What can we do today with a 3 year old in the pissing rain? I can’t let her watch any more PJ Masks.