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.

Sure. We're playing The Dig right now and it is challenging. So I am using my brain to figure out those puzzles.

Tbh, I think being a bit of a nerd is helping me.

I had a friend go all dementor on me when I suggested the continuing lockdown was an overreaction. It's all the governments fault apparently that people are lining up to die in droves! My FB is so quiet now, I've sneezed just about everyone and if I didnt need it for my club I'd have left.

I'm fed up, I'm lonely being surrounded by just my family. I want to see another human being, closer than 2m (a hug would be amazing) and laugh the afternoon away is showers of prosecco! Then I want to wake up the next day and drag my hung over arse to karate and spend 3 hours punching my friends. Had karate over zoom this morning & it just isnt the same.

Sneezed everyone

Snoozed!!

Sneezed on everyone will have me arrested these days

I loved Granny's Garden!

You can get retro games consoles for £50 or so that have hundreds of old games on them - Golden Axe, PacMan, Sonic, Mario and more.

I'm now getting to the point pn FB that folk who have been muted twice and are still dementoring when they pop back up are getting permanently deleted.

I've just done this to someone who does have a serious underlying condition but whose husband is in a very well paid job. All the way through shes been moaning about someone going outside and today it was that one of her neighbours was in a car with 3 other people from different households. I can't bear this level of shite any more.

I am noticing a definite turning of attitude in the SW in the business community.

My area doesn't rely of visitors per se, but they do make up a decent chunk of business through summer, especially for cafes etc.

At the start lots of shop and eatery owners were very much full dementor wanting to string people up who even thought about visiting the area, let alone actually breathing their miasma within 5 miles.

It seems the penny is slowly dropping that unless something changes soon they are unlikely to last until next season.... Lot of slightly panicky pleas on FB to support local businesses (even if you have lost your job )

I had a breast infection had to take sulphur tasting antibiotics for a week. That seemed to clear it for a few days, it is back now so this time I am worried, something is going on here. I will try my gp again on Monday. I have private health cover but the spire are still closed. I am 7 years post menopause so god knows what is going on with my boob.

The mask thing, asthma sufferers and others are excused. But how to explain to others on a bus or train why they cannot wear one without brandishing a gp certificate is going to be a challenge, will they be lynched?

Oh I thought I was the only one who remembers Granny’s Garden!

Had a slight cheer up moment - took the dds for a drive through McDonald's. Eldest DD is delighted with her Trolls happy meal toy, toddler DD delighted with the chip stealing opportunities. I shoved a big Mac meal and mcflurry in my face in sub six minutes and I don't regret a damn thing! (Might do later, I admit.)

Also been enjoying pouring cold water on any attempt at dementoring on the family WhatsApp group chat. Pesky statistics!

We had McDonalds Drive Thru yesterday, no milkshake which was a shame but got everything else we wanted, and very much enjoyed the novelty

I am considering writing to my MP this weekend if I can muster the motivation and mental energy.

Like many of you, I'm struggling. It's hard enough when the weather's ok but I think the bad weather just tips me over the edge.

We're going to mum's tomorrow and my sister was going to join us but she's decided against it now, because she was comfortable being in the garden but not in the house It's very hard as I know I have to respect her decision even though I think it's mad.

In a minor happy moment, I've just realised Warwick Castle have opened up again - just the grounds and gardens, with temp checks and advising masks, but it's a teeny tiny ray of light.

I had an indoor cup of coffee with a friend yesterday, the first adult I've had a real life proper conversation with in 3 months. Made the world of difference. I can still hold a sensible conversation with another intelligent adult! hurrah.

Things are really bad here
I’ve just cleaned the fridge.

I’ve also had a right go at a bloke on fb for virtue signalling about kids in a park playing footie and having a drink

So fucking what.
I told him to mind his own busines.
Would he rather they took their own lives like a kid here did a few weeks ago.
If he comes at me again, he’ll get it with both barrels.
I’m just in that kind of mood.

I’ve just cleaned the fridge.

Fuck. This shit just got real.

It occurred to me that perhaps the reason why my adult daughter and I have such different attitudes to death is that she's never experienced a grandparent dying slowly of a degenerative disease. Only one of my grandparents died fairly swiftly, of cancer, and I was too young to remember him. The remaining three died of Parkinson's, dementia and many months after a stroke left her totally immobile. DD had three grandparents who had cancer and died without great or prolonged suffering, and the remaining one is living quite comfortably in a very nice, and expensive, care home. She's never seen the misery of a long slow journey into death, or realised that living is not always what's to be hoped for.

My attitude to death is, if my quality of life is terrible with no reasonable prospect of significant improvement, drug me up to keep me comfortable and let me die (assuming it's still not legal to be more active about it). Hers is, life is to be prolonged at all costs.

I want lockdown to be over. She thinks it should carry on until the risks have gone.

I think the attitudes are linked.

Ah Warwick, PatriciaHolm, my old stomping ground. We nearly took a drive down last weekend but decided to wait until things were open again.

About 90% of my friends are now posting a video from ITV about the black lives matter protest in London claiming we will be in lockdown again in a couple of weeks.
I wasnt aware we were ever out of it.....

To the dementors the only lockdown that counts is one where you are never allowed outside.

@SpnBaby1967 The sneezed typo just made me choke on my coffee.

I’ve just cleaned the fridge.

I just cleaned out the vegetable drawer. I didn't want to, but something smelled nasty.

There was brown liquid at the bottom

It was gross.

I clearly haven't been eating my vegetables.

@NowImLivinInExeter

To the dementors the only lockdown that counts is one where you are never allowed outside.

I just want to keep banging my head against the wall.

I’ve just cleaned the fridge

I cleaned my oven glass the other day. Unheard of.

@ThatLibraryMiss

It occurred to me that perhaps the reason why my adult daughter and I have such different attitudes to death is that she's never experienced a grandparent dying slowly of a degenerative disease. Only one of my grandparents died fairly swiftly, of cancer, and I was too young to remember him. The remaining three died of Parkinson's, dementia and many months after a stroke left her totally immobile. DD had three grandparents who had cancer and died without great or prolonged suffering, and the remaining one is living quite comfortably in a very nice, and expensive, care home. She's never seen the misery of a long slow journey into death, or realised that living is not always what's to be hoped for.

My attitude to death is, if my quality of life is terrible with no reasonable prospect of significant improvement, drug me up to keep me comfortable and let me die (assuming it's still not legal to be more active about it). Hers is, life is to be prolonged at all costs.

I want lockdown to be over. She thinks it should carry on until the risks have gone.

I think the attitudes are linked.

I totally agree.

I wouldn't say anything to anyone whose elderly parent has died during the last few months but I don't think anyone would say that they hope they spend the last 10 or more years of their life not knowing who or where they are, in preference to dying.

I tiptoed into the MN discussion about the R rate , got stamped on as a plague spreader and got told infections WILL rocket again nr end of June (scientifically certain) and there's nothing to get happy about. If we'd just locked down for just TWO more weeks we'd be safe.

Argghh

Some people on here are very very angry at specsavers. Apparently they’re luring parents in by offering children free eye tests...

The thread with the bloke...
Got deleted!
Shame, I hadn’t even got warmed up yet.