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.

I keep thinking that there is a certain type of Dementor that relishes the idea of shoving women back into the home and this is a golden opportunity for them.

I feel very angry at what is being done to mothers and children and I don't know what to do with that anger. This much of it is not normal for me and it feels all wrong. So if anyone has suggestions, please tell me.

There do seem to be more posters on here than previously admitting that some children at some schools are being left behind.

DH spoke to some friends in very middle class part of SE England last night their Y7 was getting 30 hours of school work a week so really couldn't see an issue - my Y10 is expected by here school to do at most 6-7 hours a week and many weeks isn't getting that or the work isn't really GCSE work.

My Y8 and Y6 are being set much less now. Obvioulsy I try and give them all relevant stuff in addition but it's hard not to worry about them being left behind due to the school's lack of ambition for them. It does look like I'm not the only parent worried by the schools approach but they don't seem to care.

Yes re South Korea and quite a bit of dementoring from the WHO today as well. I don't understand why they are so rollercoastery about the positive and negative messaging. It just gets exhausting as your hopes are lifted and then dashed.

Might write to my MP and Councillors about children's play. See if they have anything reassuring to say.

I too am fucked off at the idea that if we are struggling to home school we are shit parents. I looked into flexi schooling once and posted a thread on here and was made to feel like a selfish child neglecter for considering one day a week of forest school for my 4 year old before the age of compulsory school age, because of all the educational and social development she'd miss out on. And now months and months of isolation is OK? Wtf?! I just want to cry.

On a lighter note, following "if someone else uses your toilet they must wash their hands and clean where they have touched"
Fucking hell, I might invite some friends over and pump them full of water just to get someone else to clean my sodding bathroom.....

Am having family over tomorrow.

Good to hear they will be cleaning toilet 😂

I did when kids were younger think about Home schooling as kids were summer borns. However everyone was very negative like you say about lack of socialising.

In end didnt as area we were in was poor area for support with home schooling and we couldn't easily travel for wider opportunities and I then spent a lot of time with very tired chidlren to catch them up becuase they all struggled with the basics.

if someone else uses your toilet they must wash their hands

It's disturbing people need to be told that part - though sneakly getting other people to clean has merit.

I’m currently a SAHM who was planning on going back to work once DS starts school in September. Trying not to worry too much that it might not happen. I really need to go back to work now, both financially (we’re doing fine, but I want to earn again) and mentally. I don’t know if I have the right skills to really make a go of freelancing - I don’t know where to start with finding clients and the like, and I’m not confident at selling myself at all. And I don’t think my craft skills are up to selling the stuff I make, either. I just want to go back to work again!

Someone I follow on Twitter retweeted this:

“The day the pubs reopen is the day il delete all social media. An unbearable amount of pictures of pints captioned "missed you" or "good to be back". I won't be rushing back either, let all the dickheads have their fun first. They'll be dead a few weeks later anyway.”

That’s some top quality dementoring right there! At least we can all have a few drinks before we all die

@enjoyingsun yes, I never considered full home schooling because a) I value a lot of the things about school very much and b) I have a job which means I don't have the time to home school full time. Trying to full time home school while simultaneously work from home and not being able to go to any groups or on any educational visits is about as far from a rounded education as I can imagine really and I don't think that's entirely attributable to my shit parenting.

Lol carbonnet that did make me lol, thank you!

I don't even drink, but on the balance of things I might just go and get a pint, bucket list and all that.

I am fortunate that DH is the sahp so I have no return to work worries and it seems we will be returning to the office part time in some form. The vitriol aimed at women is dreadful at times. There is often an undercurrent of "you shouldn't have married above your station" when it is evident that financially it makes more sense for the man to be working.

A dementor on FB today because of Scottish easing "Before you all head out tomorrow remember how far the testing swabs have to go!"

Haha! Anyone who would choose house arrest over someone sticking a cotton bud up their nose is either lying or bonkers.

Kids hit hardest, women bear the brunt of that.

High unemployment following all the closures, well if women people can't work because of childcare they can't be counted on the unemployment figures because they aren't available for work.

Queueing outside is fine in summer. Even if it's raining it's bearable. It will not be sustainable beyond October. Further decimating retail work as even more goes online. Same for meeting outside - at least it is currently barbeque/picnic weather.

Morning!

Dementors everywhere here at the moment after the announcement that we can meet up in groups of 6. Lots of dementing about a 2nd wave and how we’d better prepare to say goodbye to our grandparents.

A friend of ours has invited himself over for a BBQ next weekend. Him and his wife have been full on FB-shaming-dementors this whole time. I’m not sure I want them over. Their behaviour has shocked me and I’m not sure how I feel about them now TBH. Plus, I’m not sure how fun or relaxing the evening will be, worrying about breaking one of their made up rules and ending up on a wall of shame somewhere.

What are people saying in response to "but we're a family of 5/6/7, how will that work?"

I just want to tell them to use their bloody common sense, but a bit nicer than that.

Things are looking up a bit here for us - DH hopefully to be unfurloughed as early as Monday. Also looks like we've found a lovely new family to share childcare with from September, and work have approved my apprenticeship programme in a new area. I've survived one round of redundancies and as confident as anyone can be that I'm not in the firing line, unless things go tits up in a truly apocalyptic way.

Thoughts with everyone who isn't currently so lucky. Things will get better, slowly.

heroku judging from the queues at the garden centres - tried three before I gave up as too long to wait - quite a few other people are happy to take their chances. Elderly folk too - not sure I'd be quite as gung ho as I am with a higher risk factor, but good on them for refusing to be house bound.

It does lend strength to the idea that the silent majority in Scotland are just keeping their fingers crossed that we go back to some sort of normality soon , probably whilst nodding and saying what a good job Nicola is doing and how much better managed it is than England. I do think there is a lot of cognitive dissonance in peoples actions, probably caused by mixed messaging as we get the English advertising here as well as the Scottish.

Inviting themselves over WTF? Go dementor right back at them and tell them they are killing grannies with their suggestion. At least this stuff gives us an excuse not to see people we don't want to.

A friend of ours has invited himself over for a BBQ next weekend. Him and his wife have been full on FB-shaming-dementors this whole time

Invite them over.

Ply them with many liquids.

Deny them access to the loo because GERMS and CERTAIN DEATH.

Watch them squirm

@Shodan is an evil genius!

I'm taking my 3 year old and 9 week old daughters to visit my grandparents next week. They have a huge garden so 3yo can run around and they aren't "touchy feely" people at all - I dont think I've ever hugged my grandma - so theres not much risk of her coming closer than 2m as long as I keep her occupied. They also have 4 bathrooms so we can use one if 3yo gets desperate, clean it and then they wont need to use it for week.

I rang my grandma to see what they think and she was so keen and happy. They havent seen the baby yet apart from a few photos from weeks agoI hope it will make their week.

😂

They’re are good mates and the inviting himself over isn’t normally CF in ‘normal’ times.

We bought a projector so we can watch movies in the garden, he wants to come over for a BBQ and a movie. It would normally be fine, but given their dementoring it’s pissed me off somewhat

I guess FOMO has hit hard.

The South Korean spike seems to be linked to a distribution centre with poor hygiene control. Nothing to do with schools reopening. No doubt, however, the dementors will link the two, particularly the way it is being headlined on news sites.

Why do so many vicious people actively seem to want a 'second wave' and see it as a desirable thing? It hasn't happened anywhere that's eased out of lockdown, of course there's an increase in cases, lockdown was never about making the virus disappear, but so many seem to want a huge second wave.

Right up there with the person who booked a holiday in late August, three months away, but hopes the travel company and airline go bust so they can get their money back as cancelling means they lose it. WTAF? 'Yes, I hope thousands lose their jobs and yet another company going bust pushes us towards recession so I get my £900 back because I'm so ramped up in fear I won't cancel and I'm never going ANYWHERE again!'