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

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I'm glad to hear I am indeed a legit buffoon. My garden gathering will include gin and cake. I will consider the signs over the sink that identifies as a toilet in my downstairs loo🤣🤣🤣
I have a dementor neighbour who scolded me because I had a 'non essential delivery' I wonder how he knew what was in the cardboard box?

Checking in!

I will be indulging in some buffoonery next week by driving to pick up my sister and BIL and bringing them back to my garden. AIBU not to torch the car afterwards? They are young and slim.

Morning fellow anti-dementors!

@ilovecardigans ugh, I saw that article in the Guardian. They put an second surge is on its way’ in the fucking headline??! I think I’m done with them too.

It’s so nice to come here after reading all the threads where people say WE ARE ALL WORKING FROM HOME FOREVER IT IS THE NEW NORMAL YOU MURDERING BASTARD.

I know the uni where I work isn’t going to let us back any time soon but I hope when the new semester rolls around in September they can unclench a bit and let us back into the office even on rotation. I just got a delivery of nice dresses from Bravissimo which were meant for work so I’ve put one of them on now for sitting in the garden.

Agree that the Guardian is the fucking pits right now! I think they're subconciously following they path they laid down with climate change, which was commit to the idea that a) there's a terrible crisis looming b) the ethical response is to single-mindedly sound the foghorn about said crisis & screen out any story implying nuance or doubt. I don't disagree with them on climate change particularly, but I do think they've instinctively slipped into that pattern in a different situation

I laughed out loud at the chicken thread. It actually made me feel quite positive because let's be honest when the buggers start looking for the next apocalypse they've lost this one, haven't they?

Morning all. Friend is having a garden party this afternoon for birthday celebrations, keeping to under 6 and hoping her neighbours don't report us for being 2 days early. Can't wait!

DH thinks cases are still very high, I think they are much lower if you consider how many more are being tested. Our county cases have only gone up by 20 in the last week or two, which seems good to me but probably as a nurse who sees illness and death all the time I'm a little more accepting of it as part of life and less inclined to panic. I actually visited a friend while she was sick with covid19, to drop off some supplies and check on her. He had a proper melt down about it, despite the fast I wore PPE and stayed at least 1m away. I argued that as a nurse I am capable of assessing risk and taking precautions and that if I were working in a hospital I would have had a lot less protection (this was in the very early days of lockdown).
I didn't catch it... He's calmed down a bit, but still not to my level!

@AgentCooper our office is insisting on a one week in four rotation which, to my shame, I was a bit dementory about myself (mainly because the school times are ridiculous and it's going to be very difficult to get in for a normal working day) but they've sent more guidance this week which is surprisingly sensible. And a whole day talking to adults sounds like bliss at the moment!

Marking so I don't lose the thread

@Gammeldragz my DH can be a bit of a dementor as well! He has a scientific background and I wonder if that has something to do with it... he is ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that things like my sister going into work over lockdown (office based key worker) and the Dominic Cummings debacle have caused additional deaths. He's got his statistics head on most of the time though and can calm himself down

Hello fellow buffoons! So glad we got to use danger buffooning as a verb. So much more fun than social distancing.

That BBC article is both hilarious and horrifying. Do you think the press have been briefed to scare everyone ahead of the weekend to stop the population jumping the gun on the new rules?

I'm still annoyed that DD can't start back at school until the 15th, even though she's year 1 and the gov say she can go back on Monday. But trying to be happy that there is at least a date to count down to and so far her school doesn't seem to be run by rampant dementors.

Sunny day here, will probably spend it in the garden pottering, so my murder count will be disappointingly low today. But planning a trip to the beach next week, so hopefully I can bump off a few people then.

The Times front-page today is of most primary schools in England "defying" the unions and reopening. Let's hope so.

We are having friends for a barbecue tomorrow. There will be 7 of us and we have zero intention of instituting a one way system, asking them to bring their own cutlery, or setting a handwashing timer. We'll clean the downstairs loo, keep a respectful adult distance, and let the kids get on with it. Fortunately friend is very sane too, as a keyworker whose DC has been in nursery throughout.

Re the loo and flushing, they have said this for years about norovirus etc. it does aerolise they said. Nowt to do particularly with covid just bugs in the water fgs. My grandsons will pee in the garden I do not expect anyone else to. Just a swipe around with a cloth should be enough for health risks.

My boob is hurting again so feeling fed up. the week of awful sulphur tasting antibiotics appeared to do the trick but today it is hurting again I wonder what is going on and whether it can be scanned now.

It's because of the fucking unions that my kids' schools pulled their opening yesterday. I am so pissed off with them - and I used to be a fucking member for years and years (and they did naff all for me - I was just a supply teacher).

Hoping that all the scare rhetoric in one school's letters was just rhetoric (I'm fairly confident it was) and that the Head has the decency not to make DD going back horrific for her (I trust the class teachers not to)

Noticed on the previous thread someone mentioned temperature checks - one of the schools have been doing that for keyworker kids - I really didn't like that they do that but at least they had DD back so I didn't rock the boat too much - but I'm livid at the tone of how the other head has been communicating with and dementoring parents - trouble is all the other governors are so far up her arse and only 3 of them are ever listened to that there's not much I can do on my own. I'll be done with the place in a few months anyway at least (I'm just a parent governor - so annoying pond scum in the world of governors - especially if you're a mum who doesn't work for big important business).

I have a huge amount of respect for NHS staff but I wish they'd stop thinking they know better than the WHO. I have a friend who has run an ICU for the last 3 months and she has said herself she has no idea if/when there will be a second wave and they're just in "wait and see" mode. Being an NHS doctor is not the same as being an epidemiologist - they're entirely different skill sets. So why are NHS staff writing scare mongering articles in newspapers? Some of this stuff is borderline fake news.

Surely the bbc article is a joke? I'd like to think people aren't actually going to masking tape out their gardens and set alarms to go and wash their hands, but the fact that a client implored me to stay 10m away from people makes me think otherwise. If I arrived at someone's house and was directed to a masking tape square, I think I'd go straight back home...

Oh and ps a friend of mine says her friends who are nurses are being sent home. There is literally nothing to do at the hospital where she lives...

Yeah, the "lid down to flush" thing is a perfectly easy and sensible precaution at any time. I used to work with Olympic athletes a bit and I've done it ever since I learned that the British Olympic Organisation absolutely drummed it into its athletes to always lower the lid before flushing, because a bout of noro or even a cold during an Olympics that you've spent 4 years preparing for is devastating.

Oh dear, one of chickens looks poorly. I'm pretty sure she is egg bound which is bad enough but what if it's the start of the chicken plague?

My dementor sister told me I needed to be careful having a bbq, especially with the ketchup which need sanitising after each use.
She then got me to hold her Icecream ( mr whippy style) while she took a photo

I keep reading articles saying lockdown is being eased too early with big, scary headlines saying three SAGE scientists have warned against bbqs. So now I'm wondering how many SAGE scientists DON'T think it's too early, but aren't being reported?
It's all by the by to me now anyway. We've broken all the rules this week after a bereavement. And but the looks/sounds of it most people in my area have too. Most other people in my street were very loose with the rules all the way through anyway!
I suppose we can sort of thank Dominic Cummings for giving us sort of 'permission' to go on our own murderous rampages/60 mile trips to test our eye sight

Placemarking

My mum is coming round later. I’m pretty sure at the age of 60 she’s already figured out that she ought to wash her hands after using the toilet, but I might put a sign up anyway, just in case she’s taken leave of her senses.
She’s female and not overweight so I can she can eat our coleslaw rather than bringing her own.
Actually I’m not even sure she likes coleslaw... what a conundrum.

I would assume if everyone has washed /sanitised their hands before eating (standard good hygiene), the contagion is probably not going to seep from their very pores in the time it takes to squeeze the ketchup bottle.

DIL and family have just hit the beach it is empty I have a horrid feeling the police may have cleared it once today so fingers crossed they have moved on. Wales here. Either that or the police have given up but no-one has realised yet.