The Anti Dementors, danger-buffooning their way through life!

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Not fair. All we got with our house was some 1970's wallpaper and some grab rails in the bathroom.

Fingers crossed for your boy and his client @Dowser

OMG I love the gravestone floor. Is your house listed? There are lots of those floor graves in a churchyard I used to live near and wander up to on sunny evenings like this. It was beautiful. The church was medieval with a mental and totally out of keeping Victorian tower - the sort of thing that would get a million objections if someone tried to do it now. But it worked.

Is it listed? Are you allowed to cover it up or change it (not that you’d want to)? Do you blame all strange occurrences, like disappearing chocolate, on ‘the ghost‘? So many questions!

No, it's not listed. Most of the houses in the street are from a similar vintage. Technically, I think it's a preservation area, so we aren't supposed to have upvc windows, lurid front door paintetc.but plenty of people do and nothing seems to have happened to them

I normally blame strange occurrences on the cat, and I'm normally right!

Ah OK. Not all conservation areas stop you having PVC windows, depends if there is something called an Article 4.

Anyhow, I shall cease with the heritage geekery.

I think the cat is a scapegoat for the ghost!

My dad is in a conservation area with an Article 4... just had to replace his front windows at an astronomical cost!

It's not a mansion or anything, just a two bedroom cottage, in case anyone thinks I live in a National Trust property or something

I'm getting very pissed off with this on the BBC's local new page. It's just short local news stories, as it always has been. It's not CV-related unless one of the short stories involves it. Mostly they're about serious disruption on the motorway due to a broken down vehicle, one lane is closed, traffic is coping well.

I think some of the houses are listed, where they have interesting features, like the one down the road that has a cave full of rhino, wolf and hyena bones.

Makes my gravestone seem run of the mill!

The most fascinating place I’ve ever been was an old manor house which ended up through later urban sprawl in the inner part of a pretty rough town. It had pretty much been untouched since the 1900s - lost its land to development and then no income. The bloke who owned it lived in one room. It was like stepping back in time.

You drove past all these tower blocks, turned down a normal looking road which became more like a country lane and then there you were. It wasn’t the only one in the town either - there were this series of manors dotted about, all in various stages of neglect.

A lot of cities are like that, the ancient trapped by the modern.
You often find breweries and bakeries, with terraced housing that would have been for the workers originally, trapped in a pincer movement by office blocks and high rise flats!

OMG I've just caught up with that BBC news website article about socially distant BBQs. Reading the highlights out to DH.

Email tonight from DD’s teacher indicating that Reception will not be going back ‘until further notice’. I fucking despair. Why is education suddenly worthless?

Good news and bad news from the House of Mole today.
Mum is a thousand times happier and more mobile, chunky painkillers not withstanding. I mean you know my mum's sad when she doesn't brew up within seconds of you walking in the door. Today my back teeth are awash with tea. We bought new potatoes, fresh peas, new bread and posh Cheddar cheese from the local deli and that's mum's tea sorted.
The bad news is that I got a raw fleece this morning from a mate - beautiful silver-grey black and white colour. Showed mum a bit having cleaned a handful. She now wants to make a jumper for DS for winter.
Which is great but it all has to be cleaned, combed and spun by hand. And she wants to start tomorrow, while she's excited about it.
Oh well. I've had textile-related RSI before and I got better....

@HauntedGoatFart

Ironically, isolation now might well actively increase people's vulnerability for the future, if it's true that previous exposure to mild coronaviruses has given many people preemptive immunity to Covid-19. Dr Gupta from Oxford made the same point - isolation results in a direct net loss of population health through reduced immunity because of not being exposed to all the many things that are constantly sloshing about between humans.

Sorry this was from a few pages ago but this is a concern of mine. My nearly 3 month old has never been near anyone but me, my husband and my older child. So she hasnt had any colds or normal illnesses. I am concerned that if she gets CV or anything else that her immune system will be knocked for six! She has had her immunizations so I suppose that will be a good start, but babies are supposed to get colds and things arent they?

Checking in.

Had a wonderful day today.

We went to South Shields. Had a nice potter then fish and chips. It was absolutely lovely. Plenty of people about (including smallish groups of young people together obviously not from the same household), but still enough space to keep to social distancing as much as possible. Its an hours drive away though I imagine there will be plenty of people who will be rather upset with that.

Also have arranged to meet with a couple of friends next week for a socially distanced run. This excites me greatly. Firstly, I get to talk to other people who I dont live with and I get to run in a different place. All my runs have started and finished at my front door and they have been the same 3 routes. Normally I like these routes, but I am getting a little bored now

I could not deal with the pressure of being the only customer in a shop

In normal times I will not enter an empty shop unless I know what I want.

Not taken much notice of too much Covid over the last 24 hours so am a little confused about chickens. Looks like I need to do a search.

Yes I'm sure that's a problem. Children do need to mix and be exposed to things.

A gravestone in the floor - that is so cool

I had a nice day but this evening a few friends are dementoring on FB. They actively seem to be enjoying getting very sad about how the R number has gone up in the 2 places they live and saying it's definitely because of people going to the beach. Except one article is about Weston Super Mare where we know it's a limited outbreak and the other article (about Brighton) does take pains to say the R number will fluctuate and it isn't necessarily a cause for concern if it's take seriously and contained. They just seem determined to find reasons why coming out of lockdown is a terrible thing. I am sitting here feeling anxious and it's horrible. I just want this virus to go away now and stop ruining my life further.

I think some of the houses are listed, where they have interesting features, like the one down the road that has a cave full of rhino, wolf and hyena bones.

Say what?!???

@Cattermole I have been getting my spinning wheel out more during these times. It's almost meditative and calms the panic in my head. I've got a fleece waiting to be done, but I'm not up to that at the moment so just spinning some alpaca that a friend of mine gave me as batts. So only spinning required...

I don't want to be dementor-y, but can anyone explain to me why these scientists are saying 8000 new cases a day? That's not what's being reported?

Ah, have I uncovered a secret hive of antidementor spinners?
I have had my great wheel out in the garden working through a Jacobs fleece. I came back from lunch to find a chaffinch perched on it

Anxious Elephant- 8000 is an estimate based on sampling, compared with the 2000ish figure which is positive tests.