We're all going on a summer holiday

[MinnieMountain]

Even if it means 2 weeks of quarantine
The anti -dementors are here to be reasonable and sensible about everything.

Morning all.
Dammit i missed all the dangerous bufoonery! Typical.

Bogroll skipping??? What madness is that? You might as well be throwing virus off you like a flower girl at an american wedding! Skipping indeed, hurrumph! NO fun allowed didnt you get the memo? 1million bonus points awarded.

Working later so not much excitement for me today. All this talk of holidays, must ask.my manager what if any holidays i can have this year not that it will matter on the miserable amount of hours i am getting just now. And Scotland will still be in lockdown at xmas at this rate😐

Maybe we could set up a resistance movement and all sneak over the border in the dead of night in camo gear and descend on Barnard castle? 🤣🤣

Hopefully schools will also drop the frankly batshit emphasis on 100% attendance which has meant children who should be off school going in and spreading bugs around. I was very lucky with DDs primary because it had a kind of special provision for children with disabilities and chronic illnesses. So by its nature it had an unusually high number of pupils who had to go to appointments during school hours or needed extended amounts of time off, therefore they never ever pushed the attendance thing. The horror stories I hear from friends about children not allowed to go on special reward trips because they had time off for illnesses or we’re following the 48 hour rule after a bout of d&v make me really pissed off.

Checking in
We have a camping holiday booked in west wales at end of July, really hoping we can go!!! I think on a caravan site you can socially distance so easily.
Can not wait to be able to get out and about again, in Wales so stuck at the moment.

I've got completely non-essential except it is German larger arriving today.

I'm fed up today. I thought the summer that DH had major knee surgery and I got diagnosed with breast cancer was shit but this one beats it for crappness.

WIBU to friend a colleague on FB just so I can wind him up about his dementory attitude to the schools going back?

Wondered where you were all hiding. I've now got 2 FB friends who are starting to question the madness. Sanity is spreading.

Wow these things move fast! Shame I missed the “dangerous buffoon” hoo-haa, threads that turn into total train wrecks are a guilty pleasure, but we’ve had an excellent name for the next thread handed to us on a plate

I’m increasing rage-filled about the schools situation. On the surface I’m calm and carrying on as normal, but inside I can’t stop thinking about it and feeling angrier and angrier. The government can find a magic money tree to pay workers to stay at home for months. We can fit out and equip a new hospital know less than a fortnight (unnecessarily it would seem). It’s now apparently safe enough to reopen all sorts of things from car showrooms to Greggs. But suggest that we find a way to get children back to school so they can continue with the education they are legally entitled to, and everyone starts sucking their teeth and shaking their heads and saying “nah, too hard!”

And you just know that in years to come, if this generation shows any negative after effects from this gap in their schooling or disruption to their lives, we’ll blame them for it and claim they lack the grit and moral fibre of previous generations or some such crap.

Anyway, rant over. I need to go and rage-clean my kitchen floor.

Well done whistle.
I hope we get our hold to Tenerife in October

Please may I join and get my dangerous buffoon badge?
I’ve just booked to play murderous crazy golf tomorrow with DH and the DCs.
And we’ve been to the beach twice this week.

Springer. I've got spare Bogroll, It's buy one get on free
It was so worth prematurely buying about 50 of the things in Costco back in late Feb before panic buying was trendy

Holiday to Tenerife..whistle

Can we not blame schools and teachers for the 100% attendance batshittery....that comes from bastard Ofsted.

We’ve booked a week in Scarborough at the end of August and I’m ridiculously excited about it. Going to appreciate every second of it.

I would be tempted to do a holiday in school time but I wouldn't enjoy it as it would feel wrong.

The eldest will be going into year 10 and it is bad enough how much she has missed this year so don't want to make her miss more.

Checking in to catch up laterz buffoons

100% attendance batshittery is from the Welsh Assembly/Senedd here their leaflet of advice of what was allowed to be off school ill with , next to nothing, got withdrawn in the end.

www.walesonline.co.uk/news/health/controversial-school-sickness-leaflet-withdrawn-8212676

@BogRollBOGOF 😂

We’ve got loads of loo roll, I have an Amazon subscription and buy 144 rolls for work at a time.

If we put too many in the loos, some CF nicks it all so we ration it.

Domina, you will be far from the only student with transport problems. The universities will recognise this and make adjustments. Just checking – are you a member of the Students’ Union?

Nihiloxica
They're getting complacent with the furlough extension until October. I think most of them imagine they'll be ready to resume normal life by then.

Or the weather will be turning nasty so they won’t want to sit in the garden any longer.

DD(10) has gone off outdoors with a friend and friend's sister (thereby breaking the rules and murdering half the village), for the second day in a row. Her face yesterday when I said I'd found her someone to go around with after 10 weeks without seeing any friends, made my want to cry, she was actually jumping up and down!
DS(12) has a friend next door and has been out with him nearly every day, but next door are fellow buffoons and have even joined us in the garden for 'socially distanced' Chinese!
DS(13) is quite happy to never leave the house and just socialise online, though I do make him go for walks for his mental health. He does miss his girlfriend, but they were very locked down from the beginning as her sister is vulnerable, so no chance of a meetup there.

None of mine are in the back to school years, as a Keyworker I could have sent them in, but the secondary school has only had one or two out of 700 in and primary the same, some days neither school have had any pupils at all! They weren't keen on being at school with no one they know.

DH and I had ordered antibody tests - not that expensive as we had some credit on our Thriva account. Have just received an email saying that the government is not allowing them to carry them out anymore as concerned about the accuracy. DH and I had read up on the Abbot tests and knew that a positive was likely to be correct, but that there was a small percentage chance of a false negative.

I'm so annoyed that the government won't even let us pay our own money for our own tests. It feels somewhat sinister as well - almost as if they don't want us to know what percentage of the population has actually had it.

Apologies if this is not an appropriate place for my rant - I can move it elsewhere if that's the case.

Sorry to post again but I just remembered the word for how I feel - impotent.
I felt with ordering the tests that we had some control over our own destiny and a positive result - when we are pretty sure we've had it - would help us in decisions such as seeing my parents more frequently. But no, we cannot be trusted with our own decisions it seems, perhaps the government should ban smoking and alcohol whilst they're at it.

Can you chase up the dog groomer today please?

Oh god, total brain fart. Should have sent that as a text

Springersrock, the number of times I've sent a WhatsApp message to the wrong person because their chat widow was open but someone else's pic was at the top of the list on the left...

Small Dog is going to the groomer today. She's been taking selected clients who she feels will suffer if untrimmed and allowed to knot. Apparently not everyone is capable of holding a dog in one hand and a comb in the other. Small Dog looks like a wild man so I'll be very happy to have him trimmed. She wears mask and gloves and dogs are handed over at the gate, no time for chats.

A couple of men presume a couple with a dog went bat shit on OH yesterday morning because he drove to walk a 15 year old seriously arthritic dog. No right to be here, no right to drive anywhere. Well numb nuts, we lived here 20 years in this village, walked dogs here for over 40 years regularly. Our dog is deaf, blind but can recognise her familiar surroundings. This morning OH got up at 5.30 am drove somewhere else to exercise the dog.