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

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Drivingdownthe101 · 30/05/2020 09:25

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PickAChew · 30/05/2020 22:20

Wow, you've been talkative, again.

Not left the house, today. I have HMS and, while exercise helps immensely, I CBA today as I'm too bloody sore right down from my neck to my bunions. I need stretching on a rack, I think. I've mostly been offering helpful advice to DH who has been ripping up the rotten decking by our patio doors. So far, he's been on a murder spree at screwfix and B&Q for parts to fix various drain pipes and waste pipes because no bloody wonder the decking was rotten and it's a wonder the whole extension wasn't damp. He now needs to commit further atrocities to fix the guttering that broke when he had to remove the drain pipe to clear out the 4" plug of composted leaves that were preventing it from emptying and to try and source a grid to prevent it from filling with leaves in the first place, since the way the cowboys put it all together means that nothing solid can get out of the bottom of it.

And, with the weedstop lifted while the sodden ground from the pipe that shot every drop of water from our kitchen straight over the top of the drain cover, into the ground under our house dries, the kitchen is now full of black dust.

Anyhow, DH's danger buffoonerly, this weekend, will hopefully mean I have somwhere to sit in the garden with a glass of wine, in the evenings, again, at some point. In reality, it will guarantee rain every day from the day before he completes the job until September, when it's too cold to bother.

Jourdain11 · 30/05/2020 22:31

Hiya, how are you all doing? Sorry I've been absent... perfecting my patronus!

I just was foolish enough to start a thread about my daughter and shopping on the Corona topic and it's got quite "exciting" already...!

Shodan · 30/05/2020 22:37

@Jourdain11 Hallo again! Hope you're doing ok.

Jourdain11 · 30/05/2020 22:40

I'm doing alright, thank you! Just resting at home... getting ready for next round of poisoning. Kids and DH have been out in the sun half the day while I've been stuck inside, so I'm feeling mildly jealous and fed up! Hope you're okay too?

TheGreatWave · 30/05/2020 22:46

jourdain you naughty girl throwing that one in there. Obviously now demanding to know your whole history.

Make it really exciting, I'm thinking prison would be good. Actual prison for having a BBQ in the garden or such evilness.

I hope you are ok, and feeling a bit better (pukey wise)

Shodan · 30/05/2020 22:46

@Jourdain11 I'm doing well, thanks. Apart from an irritating inability to sleep properly. Angry

I may have just dropped a comment on your thread... Grin

justasking111 · 30/05/2020 22:50

Had a peek at Spain and Italy just now the figures are looking good no second wave or huge rise in cases so fingers crossed for them.

Jourdain11 · 30/05/2020 22:53

@Shodan I saw that, lol! She doesn't need any encouragement!

@TheGreatWave urgh, honestly. Will I never learn? Are there really no kids in shops at the moment? I find it hard to believe...
Ha, don't tempt me with the prison story! I am writing from my cell, whence I have been sent for meeting up with more than one person in the park....

Jourdain11 · 30/05/2020 22:56

Gosh, I really wish I hadn't started that bloody thread!

Clemmieandareallybigbunfight · 30/05/2020 22:58

Oooh I just saw that thread. I think they've all got bonkers tbh. She was vile to your kid.

Shodan · 30/05/2020 23:02

@Jourdain11 I've seen plenty of kids in the supermarket.

Sometimes just one + parent, sometimes mum and dad plus kids- a variety. Hell I took ds2 in one day (he saw one of his schoolfriends in there so was chuffed to have a little chat)

It's funny, I would've sworn that on Mumsnet the immediate response would've been "A stranger spoke to your child??" but there you go. Covid trumps everything.

HighdosevitaminD · 30/05/2020 23:02

Joining in here. I've been killing people left right and centre with my frequent trips to the supermarket and letting my children go to playgrounds and meet their friends, which is ironic given that I work in a mortuary.

Jourdain11 · 30/05/2020 23:02

I mean, I don't think my DD should shout at strangers. Or call them old bats. But I don't think we're the worst parents in the world for DH taking the kids to an apparently half empty supermarket.

And we always play fetch and carry with DDs at the supermarket! It speeds things up and stops them for making a nuisance out of themselves. Don't see why this has suddenly turned into all the kids frolicking around the aisles and bumping into people's leg braces in Tesco!

BogRollBOGOF · 30/05/2020 23:05

DS2 came into the bakery with me today. He'd probably have been OK with the chippie too but was quite happy to stand outside.

I'm going to leave my county in the morning for the first time since March 16th. I normally go over the border weekly!
I'm meeting a friend for a walk, just the two of us. We normally meet as families. While I'm not concerned that 2 children over 2×4 member families) is a problem, I just need to actually see a female friend and talk random shit that doesn't include industrial engineering, minecraft, nuclear war, weapons or WW2. Not that I'm suggesting I live with a bunch of geeks... well actually I do live with very in-depth geeks. I might actually be able to get through a whole topic without any statistical analysis (I consider my maths ability to be competantly functional... well, I can handle y4 maths anyway.)

I'll send my love to Stabbo as I by-pass it Grin

justasking111 · 30/05/2020 23:07

I am being extra careful with children at the moment if I see them, reading how this covid is affecting them badly makes me glad to see them out and about again. Little ones should not have the worries of the world on their shoulders. My dad told me about April 1961 - 62 the bay of pigs and nuclear war threat when my children were little he said it was a terrifying time as children we were shielded from this at home and school. I had no idea what my parents had gone through until then.

MagdaS · 30/05/2020 23:14

My son came to Wilkos with me today. No one seemed to mind. He pulled the wheelie basket along and everything.

He’s after a bit of independence now - asked me if he could go to the greengrocers on his own while I queued for Wilkos. He’s 10 so the answer was a very firm no Grin Hmm.

TooManyButtons · 30/05/2020 23:17

Is anyone else on the 'Covid Frontline Support' group on FB? Christ on a bike, it's dementor central. Constant posts about how all healthcare workers are against easing lockdown measures. I feel like I'm fighting a losing battle.

Mrsfrumble · 30/05/2020 23:19

Ooooh, I have gravestone envy! Nothing on our kitchen floor but scuffed laminate and grime.

I still have the Corona topic blocked. I did it back in March because I didn’t like how it was taking over Active Convos, and have been too technically inept to switch it back on again. Sounds like it’s no great loss... Sorry if people are being dicks Jourdain.

I have taken my children into the local newsagent every day this week to buy ice lollies. They’ve had their filthy, germ-ridden mitts all over the freezer cabinet and everything!

Willow2017 · 30/05/2020 23:21

Jourdain11
I would take your 2 well behaved kids over some of the numptys in the supermarket any day.
Some adults are clueless, block aisles, lean over you and the best one...walk past the perspex screen and position themselves in the small gap between it and the display cabinet to order drinks! Wtf do they think its there for?

Tell them all to f off, the woman was an interfering busybody and horrible to say that to your kids. Why are they more likely to infect anyone than she is? And yes there are kids in supermarkets every day. Nobody knows why parents take them and nobody cares if they arent running amok bothering people.

PickAChew · 30/05/2020 23:30

nothing but cracked tiles on our kitchen floor. And dust, though I did end up vacuuming at about 8:30 after some painkillers had started to kick in.

Jourdain11 · 30/05/2020 23:36

Thank you for the moral support! I do understand the "too many kids" point, but I feel like the level of reaction is overkill. I'm also interested that the woman has turned into a poor, terrified, old lady. DH says she was probably in her 50s and DD1 said she was "shouty". Doesn't exactly sound like some poor vulnerable dear who was terrified for her life.

BogRollBOGOF · 30/05/2020 23:42

I've replied on your shopping post Jourdain. I hope a bit of peace and quiet helped you today.

I'm begining to feel tempted to take a child to the supermarket just for the sheer intoxicating excitement of it. One at a time is fine, but both tends to result in arguing brawling and risking a unaminious AIBU against me Grin

bibbitybobbitycats · 30/05/2020 23:59

[quote Waleshasgonecompletelycrazy]@bibbitybobbitycats I’m not sure where you live, but from here in Wales I resent the patronising tone from the Welsh Government. The unions are dictating to us all so we have no idea when our children might return. It is still illegal for us to meet with friends and family. It will change on Monday but we’re under far more restrictions than England in lots of ways with all the associated risks. We have a government who is more interested in playing politics and getting likes on Twitter.

Sensible would be proper protection and testing in health and care settings, using the teams of volunteers to help people who need to shield and having a brave roadmap out of lockdown with weekly easing where possible. We’re a small country and could be leading the way out of this.[/quote]
I am in Wales. I know that things are far from perfect in terms of testing etc, but in terms of easing restrictions I think Wales has it right and it's no coincidence that NI and Scotland are taking a similar approach.

Jourdain11 · 31/05/2020 00:13

Aw, thank you! I was actually quite glad that my DD1 stood up for them, since she's usually a serial apologizer and will say sorry even when she's done nothing wrong! DD2 has no problems in that regard... I am having nightmares of this incident being recorded in some piece of school creative writing entitled "what I did during lock down". She has form!

Willow2017 · 31/05/2020 01:57

Jourdain11
Aww just ignore them. Any excuse to sit in moral judgement gies here at the moment. All those perfect parents who have terrific imaginations and make thibgs up as they go along to justify their posts. Its quite weird really how something perfectly obvious on here gets made into a fairy story by page 2!
Hope you had a nice restful time up until all that nonsense. Good for your dds standing up fir themselves.

For a parenting site many posters seem to hate kids its very peculiar. Its always the kids fault no matter what happens!
Forget it and get a good sleep.

Hope next week goes all your way.