Patronii in person, anti Dementors visit the zoo

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Never started a long running thread before but I figure even lurkers should take a turn. Hope the title ok.

@Allflightscancelled I could watch it over and over again and never get bored. (And I will be soon because dp tells me the footballs back on soon and I've no bloody interest in that!)

My son has been amazing but he’s really struggling now

He’s had a timetable up until now but he’s started s3 this week so just added to a bunch of Teams and given a pile of work with a deadline

He’s just totally overwhelmed and really struggling to manage his time with no timetable. I know he’s 14 but he’s still a kid for gods sake, he’s just totally overwhelmed with the work thrown at him
and no timetable or structure. One of his teachers has told them he expects the full first term’s work in the subject done as if they were still at school

I’m trying to help him of course but he’s just swamped and bewildered. He’s up there now at 11pm on a Friday night doing Nat 5 maths work.

Cattermole, yes, she gets horses and dogs, and I love that. I haven't read Deerskin in years, but I like Chalice.

Me too, GeneGenie. I see something new every time.

@Dowser where in Dorset?

Authors I follow on FB are saying that book sales are well down. That surprised me I thought people would have been turning to books at this time.

Dowser which is what my, admittedly unscientific, sample of one is telling me.
I spend half my life on planes, trains, in hotels, crowded factories--leaning over people to hear what they are saying over machine noise.
Not just UK, world wide. There is no way I haven't been exposed, multiple times, for prolonged periods since it all started in November.
Pretty certain I was not asymptomatic either as I haven't left a trail of death in my wake.

Fucking shit bugger wank. WHO are now recommending masks. I don't want to wear a fucking mask. I don't want to make my 6yo wear a mask to go to school. If that becomes the rule we'll stay home all summer. I'm not frightening her.

@TheMurk Your poor dad

Mine had a stroke in 2000. We had years of taking care of him at home before he finally died. Awful.

@Littlebelina It's from the weekly summary PHE do

www.gov.uk/government/news/weekly-covid-19-surveillance-report-published

I hate masks. It’ll definitely make me avoid places I have to wear one.

I wonder if I’m typical of why book sales are falling? I go through phases of buying lots if books but haven’t recently as I can’t concentrate. My brain power is sapped by dd’s constant presence and chatter, trying to get her to do some work and I’m distracted by the news. I’m drained by the drudgery and getting cross at the loss of freedom now.

There are indeed much worse ways to go. An d lady I know died 2 months ago, after 5 years spent lying immobile in a bed, unable to see, speak or eat or toilet unaided. She'd been a teacher. She was unable to live a muscle by the end and we had no idea if she could hear people around her or even if she was still lucid. Her DH refused All offers of help, cut her hair himself rather than let people in to see what she'd become. A living hell for both of them. For five years.

Justasking111 - I can see that physical books sales are down, but digital ones would be up, surely!

Books generally do well in recessions, they are one of the few "luxuries" people allow themselves, and they a cheap way of treating yourself and something that lasts.

We've had dds boyfriend in the garden for weeks, long before Boris said we could. Tonight he bought round Chinese and we sat and ate in the dining room. I nearly cried because it was so normal. We wanted to visit grandparents tomorrow but weather dodgy so going next week.
I am so angry about the schools, who knows when youngest dd will resume her education. She is mid way through secondary.

I really don't want them to make mask wearing compulsory.

I think the masks thing is just a sop to dementors whom they've terrified and now need to persuade out.

But I'm fucked if I'm wearing a slavery germ
Infested rag over my always coordinated lipstick.

@Allflightscancelled That is so awful its choked me up a bit. Five fucking years?

I think the masks thing is just a sop to dementors whom they've terrified and now need to persuade out

Indeed, like quarantine. If masks were SO SO important, we would have announced yesterday and implemented on Monday, latest, as people go back to work increasingly. Saying "its really important, but we aren't going to bother for another 10 days...." is nonsense.

We have a really normal day today. Went to a trade only garden centre as dh is a landscape gardener and has been back at work for weeks. He took today off as weather so crap. Then we went to a local posh village nearby which has the most spectacular chippy and had takeaway fish chips and mushy peas. Then a walk round a local woods. The cafe there was also doing a takeaway service so we had lattes and cake. Home and my mum popped round followed later by FIL. Plus planted 2 gorgeous jasmine plants we had bought right on the patio. Smell divine.

I’ve yet to see anyone who is working wearing a mask.

Yes there is the odd person wandering about masked up, usually with gloves for extra pointlessness, but in our local supermarkets no masks, local shops that have tentatively opened, no masks, I’ve driven past lots of different workie type settings (a road being laid, power lines being fixed, grass cutting gang) not a mask in sight (and these are council employees) went to the dump today, no masks and a nice man opened my boot and lifted everything out for me practically rubbing shoulders...

So...

Why are they telling all us plebs to wear masks?

God knows. So annoying. But they are lapping it up on Big Dementory Mumsnet.

Yup @thenightsky five years. Thanks for caring enough to choke up

Where is the evidence for masks?

I work for the Council. The government advice is to only wear PPE if you would to do your job normally.

A Council, obvs, not The Council of All of Everywhere