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[Waleshasgonecompletelycrazy]

Gather here anti dementors

Aww just asking..how sad
It does leave you frazzled doesn’t it.
When my grandkids were younger they were a full on handful

They are a delight now.

Thanks everyone. If I ever call them out on this kind of thing I’m told I’m imagining it or it’s my fault. So just having you lovely and sane lot confirm it’s not me helps a lot.

I know from my google maps timeline I drove 4 miles in April. Just seen my may update 7 miles. That is 11 miles in two months. Mother of god, I am off out tomorrow and will take the scenic route home.

I’ve driven most days just asking, sometimes just to the supermarket but two weeks ago i drove to the lakes , 100 miles, / 200 round trip just to keep My hand in
Seeing as I’m cracking on a bit.

I’ve had a lot of physical pain this week and felt tired, I noticed if I thought about it, I would feel like crying but if I distracted myself with some other thoughts, I could move on.

When all this is over, I’ll still have physical pain
There’s a depressing thought right on bed time.

I just don't get how people are so concerned with their own lives ending. I want to give a good time and go when my number is up. I want my kids to survive and do the same...

Loved the quiet roads just asking
Being our only driver I could really soak up the scenery

Got stopped by police on Sunday 1/4 mile from home and asked where we were going and where we had come from. Bloody Wales.

I think folk are getting really fed up with it here. I took DS on a long walk today to some playing fields and there were lots of groups of mums sitting together and chatting, with their wee ones playing together. It was lovely. A couple of folk around my way have obviously had clearouts and have left boxes of books in their driveways with Help Yourself signs. No reference to the virus. As we’re on our second day of no deaths in Scotland I have everything crossed in the hope that I’ll get back to work sooner than expected because my anxiety has been crippling lately, and my hormones are clearly gubbed from suddenly breastfeeding a toddler 24/7.

@justasking111 you’d think they’d want to prioritise domestic abuse and safeguarding rather than 6 mile trips. I’ve run out of patience with all the agencies pleading poverty when they’ve found the resources to enforce petty rules.

Three of my 6 grandchildren are permanently home edded.
I cannot believe how this just hasn’t seem to have bothered them. One is a proper home bird. Doesn’t want to go out at all . Can’t understand what the fuss is all about.
His elder brother just plays his guitar , chats to friends on headsets, plays computer games. Their friends are splashed all over the county anyway, so don’t meet that often
And their 10 year old sister has just recently met up once or twice with a friend.
Again, she’s very self contained and amuses herself..well for days.
She does the headset thing as well

I don’t know how they do it. I’d be up the wall in no time.

This is probably the first time in my life that i feel I'm missing out by not driving. I had an aaargh, I need to get out of town outburst, after DH picked me up from my twice weekly jaunt to M&S, at lunchtime. His suggestion was that he'd try to take a day off so I could go out on the bus with DS1. Had to explain to him that buses are still essential journeys only and DS1 is not going to wear a face covering, let alone wash his hands or use hand gel. He hadn't realised it's still that strict. Love him to bits but he lives on a different planet, sometimes. One coded in C sharp.

As he didn't take the hint, I'm going to strongly suggest that, with no likelihood of school before September, we need to have a trip out with DS2 and stimulate his mind with some new scenery that isn't the sodding minibuses at the nearby school.

Pickachew
You’re in my area
Hamsterley forest
Just heaven and the nearest thing to normal this side of Christmas
Toilets are open too..yayyy

DH is worried that he'll end up in a panic when he has to go on the A19 again, when it's actually busy.

All the more reason for a day out.

Hamsterley forest is lovely, I agree, and toilets are a game changer!

@Magda that's shit.

Pah. Closed this week.

Just deleted someone else for being delighted that "Nicola doesn't show us those useless slides." Which I take to mean is the stats in graph form which show that we're well over the peak.

I've been feeling really shit despite the easing stuff - I'd been really weepy and despairing (I despair!) the last couple of days and I'm having trouble pulling myself out of it. I just think the last couple of weeks with no firm dates have been so awful.

@SpnBaby1967
Just catching up with the thread, but wanted to say, I think we are in the same area of work.
I am sat here nodding along because I too am completely baffled by the people around me just not accepting that lockdown has meant a rise in child abuse, domestic abuse and neglect. As well as increases in self harm and suicide attempts in older children. With the latter being brushed away as "they must have other issues". Well so do most of the people dying of covid, yet here we are.
This last 12 weeks has been brutal and relentless and for those childrens sakes we need to be out of it now.
Was chatting with the headteacher at ds school last week and they think that when the children come back they will all be more "enriched" because of the time spent at home spending quality time with their families.
I just said that for a headteacher to not understand that home is not always the safest place for a child is concerning.
Throw in families worried about their work, money, other family members......

I'm still wondering why on earth people cant be happy that numbers are down.
Yes it was a Monday and so they are low, but it was the lowest Monday for a while and the average is down.
Ventured into the Corona zone and saw this gem
"Wow - Government must have pulled out all the stops today to manipulate the figures!
I smell rapid backtracking over the next two weeks.
Which will of course all be put down to the 'success of our policies'."

Enriched? What a knob.

Just catching up under the pretext of getting up early so that I can get a lot done before everyone else gets up! I'm getting more and more knackered starting my day ridiculously early to get some work in and then staying up later and later as DS is taking forever (aged 11) to settle some nights and DH and I need some time without the kids.....

Just saw this above

I just don't get how people are so concerned with their own lives ending. I want to give a good time and go when my number is up. I want my kids to survive and do the same... from @Mascotte.

I feel exactly this and said to DH the other day, there is more to living than just not dying. At the moment that is all we are doing, not dying, we're existing. I hate it.

I'm really really struggling with the fact that the kids are being thrown under a bus for this and no-one is acknowledging that. I was happy to see the "school" thread yesterday demanding that we all shout a bit louder about it.

My two are going to school today under the pretext of key worker children. DH is a teacher and is teaching two days a week so they're going in - even though I could have them at home. They need it so much. Also now the guidelines suggest that KW children go even if you can care for them at home. Our school are quoting guidelines as to why they can't have year 6 in (which has pissed me off beyond belief) so I'm going to be quoting them right back.

Here's to a better day.

And, it's not a better day. I've just seen that the government are dropping plans for all primary schools to return. Our poor bloody children. WTF are we doing to them?

I think I've just read that it's still open to y1 and y6 but education secretary expected to announce later that opening wider will possibly be down to individual schools.
Its fucking madness.

Yes I saw that too. And also that Wales are not opening dentists until next January!

My brothers children could go in as key workers as his wife is one, but they won't send them but he moans about how hard it is working at home etc with them.

I mentioned mine are going back and he went all quiet.

That Bousted union woman is dementing on about the 2m tule and schools won't be able to open for more after the summer either

Changing to 1m could make a difference for schools perhaps...(I hope so)