Patronii in person, anti Dementors visit the zoo

[ISaySteadyOn]

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

I’m quite surprised by my reaction to this as i usually work from home. But now I’m trying to do the same things while dh is also working from home and both dds are constantly home. Unless gardening I am never in my own now. Yesterday it took me 5 hours to update and successfully run a piece of code that should have taken me half an hour tops. I then spent 3 hours staring at a project plan before thinking fuck it and turning off the laptop. I’ll need to finish it over this weekend. Marvellous

@BogRollBOGOF
I grew up in Dudley...is the market still there? I always remembered there was a stall on there when I was little that sold dolls clothes and my mum would let me choose a set if I went "up Dudley" with her. Then as a teenager shopping at the music junction on the corner.

Am trying to be motivated just to brush my teeth

If I don’t then no doubt will need a filling and there’s no dentists.

@AnotherEmma

It's probably bad form to quote from other threads, but I thought you lot would appreciate this gem:

"The whole economy would have collapsed very quickly and would have been irrecoverable if only the vulnerable were in lockdown. The NHS would have been overwhelmed and collapsed very quickly. Mortuaries overrun. Infections would have been so high. There would be people lying dead in the streets. Decaying corpses at home unable to be buried. How long do you think you'd hold your job down for with people dropping dead around you?"

🤣

"There would have been a lake of acid. And when you had to get across it, your boat would have disintegrated. And there would have been so many dead bodies that it would have caused a massive, massive tidal wave and people would just stand on the beach waiting for it to break over them, and before that there would have been walking plants that made a ticking noise and if they caught you, they could kill you with their stamen."

Well my day has implant little. I decided to get out of the hip as drive over to the next town, which is smaller but has a more compact high street so more chance of finding open shops. I forgot they also have a Saturday market, which is a bit crap even in normal times but was reduced to about six stalls today. However I bought DD a bag of assorted craft crap for £2 which will make her happy, and assorted other crap in Poundland and pound stretcher for me. I needed stamps and the Smiths with the post office in were in full on dementor mode, asking why you wanted to come in at the door and making sure you knew that you couldn't buy books, despite their tills being open. Now I'm drinking a Starbucks in the park and putting off going home.

[quote LivinLaVidaLoki]@BogRollBOGOF
I grew up in Dudley...is the market still there? I always remembered there was a stall on there when I was little that sold dolls clothes and my mum would let me choose a set if I went "up Dudley" with her. Then as a teenager shopping at the music junction on the corner.[/quote]
No idea I'm afraid, it wasn't a place I frequented. My dad stopped off on the way for his weekly visit to his parents.

I remember the fresh donut stall on Walsall market though. Delicious!

I haven't lived around the West Mids for about 20 years now.

Afternoon all...bloody hell the "think of the loved ones" brigade are out in force today. The worst one so far is one that said.."think how the families of those who have died feel when their loved ones..." followed by graphic description of drowning by fluid, yellow pus etc. Which was not how my mum went ( 20 minutes from removal of mask to death), but had her death been long and agonising then how is posting lurid details with barely disguised glee "thinking of the loved ones"?

I;m not a violent person by nature but honestly some people just need a bloody good slap!!

I cannot take people seriously anymore reading guff like that 😁🤣. There was a very interesting peace on Unherd on YouTube last night saying they reckon now about 80% of people are not susceptible to the virus. So it's been a massive overreaction.

BarkandCheese why the ever-loving fuck can't you buy books? Seriously the world has gone mad.

DH has just asked me "what's the plan?" Now this annoys me at the best of times, but today, arrghh. I just said 'Dunno'

What I wanted to say is. 'i have no fecking clue, weather is shit so I can't even potter in the garden, I have no motivation to do nowt, the house is a shit tip that you don't clean and everything is too much effort.'

However Moana is on the Beeb tonight and I bought Frozen 2 in the week so that at least to look forward to.

Are all other deaths apart from covid deaths super lovely and peaceful? No, they are not. One of the things I've had to do is try not to dwell on the moment of death of my loved ones because it is distressing. I have to remind myself that that moment is all it was, a moment out of a long life filled with other better moments.

No Piss but plenty of wind And shit!
Sounds like a bad dayIn the bathroom.☹️

Don’t, know about the men, but seems like We women are all in a bit of a tough spot right now.
Not normally out of bed till now but today, was up earlier for the painter who has been and gone
Now me and dh have been cleaning and putting the stuff back, so my lovely tidy kitchen isn’t any more..as I’ve bought so much food over this period.

We have floors to do but have stopped for a cuppa
We normally only spend three days a week here, so it stays fairly tidy.
I can see how little cleaning I’ve done throughout this, so I’ve chucked the bathroom in for good measure.
Three year ago my house was rewired and all repainted white...now I’m thinking it needs doing again..but that’s because I’m spending too much time indoors
Suddenly I want everything repainted....like I’m painting out all the bad stuff.

Ladies, this madness must end. I feel like going on an end lockdown silent protest. Mums army..I feel it’s about time.
Camper van..in same boat as you, I don’t understand why we Cant have a couple of nights away ..we are well isolated in our pitch with a proper bathroom.
And all you lovely mums, who are facing financial ruin...I am so sorry, I really don’t know what to say. I can’t imagine it. I think you are all marvelous how you are ( just to say probably) keeping your heads above water.
It makes my moans and groans so petty.
I feel so heartbroken for Kate Garraway..I know too well what she’s going through.
I really hope he makes it and is not left long term disabled. It’s just too tragic.
The only good thing about today is I’m still alive and relatively healthy and so are my friends and family
Love to you all.

God knows why you couldn't buy books. If they only had the post office counter open I'd understand because they're separate business. However Smiths had their till open, I bought my stamps at it because there was no queue.

I find I'm switching on the work laptop later and later as the weeks go by. I was very good in early April and was up and on the VPN by 10am. Currently I don't get on until at least 6pm. Last night was 7.15pm. I'm my own worst enemy really as the bloody work is just hanging over me all day and spoiling my already poor mood.

I have been sewing a lot. It's the only way to drown out the anxiety right now. Cushion covers coming out my ears now!

I'm fat and unmotivated and despairing. I'm still working but getting very little done. It's awful and I'm nearing my limit.

Maybe someone had gone about licking all the books.

OK, so the weather is rotten, there isn't anywhere to go and everyone is bored. I don't know if it will help ( I am a nerd so this helps me) but there is a website called Good Old Games or GOG.com. And there are several really good old computer games on there. Not online multiplayer so no worries about dodgy people, just games from the '90s. I recommend the following: Baldur's Gate, Planescape:Torment, Loom, The Dig, and Diablo.

If nothing else, having a look will kill some time.

I remember having an Amstrad computer when I was about 8 or so - my dad worked in computing so we were very early adopters, this would have been 1986 or so? I remember a game called Roland In Time and once called something like Toobarooba? Would be awesome to play those again. And the wonderful Granny's Garden that we had on the BBC microcomputers at school...

Maybe someone had gone about licking all the books.

Oh that was probably me.

I just wanted a little nibble of the pages.

Nothing wrong with that.

DH is normally the most relaxed and laid back person, happy on the sofa with Sky Sports for hours, but he's feeling the strain now. He did some googling this morning and said that he's discovered that the amount of deaths worldwide of CV is less than the population of Leeds and less than half the population of Birmingham. It's infuriating that we're still in this position even when the figures are showing that there's no real threat to the majority of the population.

We've got a Government that are being led by the nose by Professor Doom and his cohorts and who are too paralysed by fear to do anything. All the while the toll on MH, existing conditions and the children of this country is increasing daily.

And don't get me started on the fact that I can go to work, go in shops, get on transport but that it is illegal for me to have my mu.m or anyone else in my house.

I'm beyond fed up with this shit

Now so completely bored I'm going to clean out the fridge. People, that's how bad it has got. If I find anything archaeologically interesting I will let you know, of course.

Five times more people attended Glastonbury festival last year than have died of covid in the U.K.

I never realised the threat of visitors was such a motivator to clean before this. Later...tomorrow is my mantra these days. After all there’s nothing else to do and the stuff I need to get done can wait.

@NothingIsWrong

I remember having an Amstrad computer when I was about 8 or so - my dad worked in computing so we were very early adopters, this would have been 1986 or so? I remember a game called Roland In Time and once called something like Toobarooba? Would be awesome to play those again. And the wonderful Granny's Garden that we had on the BBC microcomputers at school...

I remember those games! I loved sneaking on my brother's Amstrad while he was out playing tennis

I can't remember which game it was but there was a Sinclair C5 on one level and one of those faces peeping over the wall. That might have been that one begining with T ?

1983 ish my friend's brother used to play Jet Set Willy, in our house it was Chuckie Egg.
Loved this game, collecting eggs before the dodos killed you. My big brother was clever enough to hack into it giving us multiple lives and choose any level we wanted to start with, even my mum was still playing it gone 2am once😂
Sitting in my car raining outside, couldn't be arsed to go in the house much happier here

Thanks for the GOG.com idea ISaySteadyOn