Anti dementors not (second) waving but flouting

[Waleshasgonecompletelycrazy]

Welcome one and all. Bad days, good days...we're here for you all

But there is a strong correlation between those people and those who had an excuse for everything before all this started.

Lol

The Venn diagram is a circle.

yup a functioning society with the greatest good for the greatest number & a conversation about how that should be achieved, what's acceptable to lose, who is it acceptable to harm, what is success? How are we willing to live? What risks are okay. What does safe mean?

But that's seemingly impossible - what we have to do is scream at people, make videos for social media & just keep clapping - and it's so depressing.

So pleased for you wales.
I’ve had loads of shitty things happen in my life so when I feel able we do it
After a particularly bad year last year, this year was going to be our year
And look what happened l

This is worse beyond my wildest dreams than last year.
Part of me still can’t believe it’s true..
I haven’t been out much at all this week as I haven’t felt well and part of me is starting to feel I don’t want to as I’ll have to acknowledge the tape of the floor, stupid masks and visors, queuing to get into shops.

Honestly I went out more when there were more restrictions.

I kind of had a feeling this might happen

@Greatwave hugs. Hope all becomes clearer asap.

The bubble thing has made what my friend and I are doing "legal". Is that crap, or were we just ahead of the curve? I guess at least now we can leave the house for a day out together, without potentially incurring dementor wrath!

We had our 2nd takeaway of this whole heap of shite tonight. God it was good!!

Thanks for the sanity again, you lovely lot!

@dowser - I know what you mean. I hate the masks and the arrows, I hate feeling I need to apologise for using a service. The lack of loos are a big worry for me too.

So, who wants to answer Susanna Reid’s question

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8407225/From-red-carpet-real-life-SUSANNA-REID.html
Why does she feel she’s the only person sticking to the rules?

Because she’s allowing things that don’t make sense to suck the joy out of her life .

Lol @Dowser

She could've cut most of the word count and just written "Look at meeeee! Aren't I just the bestest good girl? Can I be Head Girl ?"

@Laniakea

I’m sick of the drudgery too, constant cooking cleaning laundering (looking after kids ... education ... going slightly mad with loneliness). I never see dh, he’s always here but always working. I can’t actually remember the last time we had a conversation - February maybe? - it’s just crisis management. We got McDonald’s tonight - I hate McDonald’s but it made the children happy & I didn’t cook it.

I hope your MIL is okay Greatwave :(

Oh the sticky table... home schooling at the same table where your dyspraxic child eats... so much mess needing cleaning umpteen times per day. There have been days where homeschooling just hasn't happened because of loading the dishwasher and scrubbing down the table umpteen times, plus the actual logistics of coercing them into learning.

It's a good job I love them. Dearly!

This story made me so sad but I’m glad the issue of safeguarding is being covered. Someone said earlier this period is an abusive parent’s charter. I wish they were wrong m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/children-domestic-abuse-lockdown-rise-nspcc-childline_uk_5edfb7e2c5b68ee682421b65

I had a massive rant about the drudgery, yesterday. No one acknowledged it but the atmosphere has been better, today.

Just as well, since I had a truly shit plopping follow up planned. Something to do with only being missed once the delicious food and clean clothes dried up.

Finally got contact from a social worker, today, and dh was baffled that she phoned him and not me. I pointed out that he was, allegedly, a competent adult.

Kids are goin back to CM soon which I'm delighted about.

My toddler isn't allowed to take her comfort toy in but we are allowed to give the CM an identical comfort toy to keep at her house.

On one level I am fine with this as we are all going to have to cope with daft rules.

On another level I'm mind boggled that the SG was moving covid patients into nursing homes and cant contain hospital acquired infections and theres been a spate of suicides, but we've got a fucking quarantine rule for teddies now.

Morning all. Another day closer to whatever our normal will be.....eventually.

Kids going to school today as KW children. I can't wait, they can't wait, DH cant' wait (although he has a particularly busy day but other people's children are preferable to your own occasionally).

We're going to start to send DC more than 2 days a week because the ludicrous thing is no-one can use their places on the 3 days they are not there as they couldn't possibly sit at the same table. Seriously....

My suggestion that they should let young healthy enthusiastic graduates who’ve been screwed by lockdown take over for a while while the teachers stay safe at home wasn’t enthusiastically received. Can’t think why.

It’s quite clearly what is going to happen though. The unions are playing a political game while chucking older teachers under a bus.

I'm mind boggled that the SG was moving covid patients into nursing homes and cant contain hospital acquired infections and theres been a spate of suicides, but we've got a fucking quarantine rule for teddies now.

It is completely boggling. There are no words

Morning all
Thank God for this thread keeping me sane. So happy about the bubble, but realistically we've been seeing our families indoors for a couple of weeks now, because we are sensible people who havent been anywhere, seen anyone and we can wash our hands. But at least it's legal for my mum to hold her new grandchild now.

I just feel like we're the only ones not following the 'rules'. Is everyone else seriously that brainwashed? My DD is going to my MIL for the day tomorrow and I genuinely cant wait. We are so sick of each other!

Times is dementoring about a second wave today www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/coronavirus-prepare-for-second-wave-this-winter-advisers-warn-fwvzgmx7d

I am fed up with the drudgery also and thinking of ordering some takeaways (local Thai and chip shop doing deliveries) also getting easy to cook things like pizza from the supermarket as well. I'm fed up with DH asking what is for dinner. I ask him that now.

Just realised my intelligent, usually sane sister is a dementor

Can anyone please link me to a site that tells me how many cases we have in the area NOW, not throughout the whole thing but as of today, how many live cases are there?

The BBC website is not clear at all. It says "to 10 June" which would say to me that's throughout.

I think these rules seem to cause more fuss than anything. Look at this new bubble one for example

I think these rules seem to cause more fuss than anything. Look at this new bubble one for example

Exactly it’s all just ‘what about meee meee meee’

The number of people going ‘it’s not fair I’ve been married for 42 years and I can’t hug my grandchildren’. Yeah, I’m sure my Dad would rather wait a couple more weeks and my mum still be alive

Yes to the drudgery. And to the lack of conversation with a DH who is holed up in the study working every hour while I am so bloody lonely with no adult conversation for days on end downstairs. I had a full on meltdown about it on Sunday and even told my DH (who is great and we are generally very happily married) that if I was going to be stuck on my own with only children to talk to and never see him then he might as well just move out. Even found him a flat.
The problem is he’s feeling the pressure due to the inevitable redundancies that are coming (he works for a bank) and is also acting as a semi counsellor to the graduates on his team who are struggling because they’re stuck living alone or in house shares with people they don’t know well in London with no support and obviously working from home. But I feel so bloody lonely.
My mum lives alone and we had been sticking to the ‘rules’, we’d seen her in our garden and hers but we live in a small town where everyone knows everyone and she works at the GP surgery and is quite well known so she didn’t want to be seen to be breaking the rules by coming in our house . So it’s a welcome change for us.

Flippetydip unfortunately recovered cases aren’t being tracked properly so there’s not really any way of knowing. I think the best way to get an idea would be to look at how many new cases have been diagnosed over the past 2 weeks and assume anyone diagnosed before that has recovered (or died?)

Yeah it’s a welcome change for us too, it will definitely be good for my dad’s sanity.

We’re sticking to the rules, not the mad dementor rules but the actual ones.

@MagdaS you sound like a lovely manager. I am feeling very isolated and really struggling. My manager hates people and hates being in the office. So he informed me last week that he is recommending we work from home indefinitely.
I have been very open about my struggle and he doesnt give a shit.
I accidentally discovered yesterday that people struggling with their wellbeing or mental health will be considered for return to work. He had neglected to tell me this.
So now I've to try and escalate this.

Oh my goodness, the drudgery! I feel like I load and unload the dishwasher about 37 times a day. And wiping the table that’s alternately covered in jam / pencil shavings. There’s constantly Lego and craft stuff strewn all over the flat, causing DH to tut when emerges from his office (our bedroom) to top up his coffee cup.

That NSPCC article is heartbreaking. I hate this mantra that “vulnerable” children are already accounted for and have school places. It’s so wilfully naive.