Anti dementors not (second) waving but flouting

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

With no prospect of school for 3 months, I need to persuade Ds2 to let me sort out his hair. He can't cope with the barbers and usually has it cut at school.

A shiny new thread - hello everyone!

Greg Davies' hair is becoming amusing on the home tasking videos on YouTube. We've been enjoying them but clearly Alex Horne didn't expect lockdown to drag on so log, as he's reduced the frequency, now.

As for sleep, I take amitriptyline for nerve pain and have been taking my maximum allowed dose a lot more than usual, lately.

I need to do my fringe for the third time.
DH and the DCs have had their second cuts.
DH has really awkward wiry hair; a bad cut can take about 2-3 cuts to reset which takes about 6 months... he's really pleased with how it's sitting on top. We both concede that it's not so great around the ears, but that's better for not showing on conference call than having it cut like a well usee bog brush on top

DS2 was in a wriggly mood so has a lop-sided bowlcut because he wasn't patient enough for me to level up and get it shaggy enough!

I seem to do quite well on DS1's bob.

I've got a MN pnytail do which I do between times anyway.

"The dentists saying they can only see six patients a day, an hour between patients to clean the room, "

Good grief, what on earth are they doing to the patients?

I have a roll of bags that are like black bin bags but clear. I could pop one over my head and down to my shoulders, holding it clear of my nose, the dentist could stick his gloved hands and bare arms in and do what he had to to my teeth. Then I take off the bag and throw it away, with all the lethal particles inside it, dentist throws away gloves and thoroughly washes his/her arms, like a surgeon. No particles, Covid-laden or not, sprayed around. Job done.

Don't fancy seeing the dentist from inside a plastic bag? Fine. You are welcome to come up with your own solution. I'm desperate enough for the bag.

pickachew as I can't see the physio for my dodgy neck/shoulder I'm also on amiltryptaline . I should start cutting back as my neighbour has been giving me postural pilates coaching in the garden and it's getting a bit better, but the dogs been suffering from a dodgy tummy recently so it means I sleep through DH getting up for ddogs nighttime loo breaks

Spectacular flout fail tonight...

As it's too dangerous for my DCs to be educated and I can't yet take them on a pubcrawl, I thought that we might do some daring trespass in whispers a playground...
We walk to the next village to the playground which is usually deserted in the absence of hazard tape at normaltimes...
But we had already been beaten to it by a flocķ of flouting teenagers!

I let the DCs play on the outdoor gym instead.

I kid you not, it seems Glasgow teachers are having in-service days at the start of the new term.

But the mood was changing on the comments on Facebook tonight.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52986783

Actual good news (being saved for a Boris briefing natch)

@PickAChew, is a mobile hairdresser an option for your DS? DS always played up at the barbers which with diagnosis I now realise is sensory overload. Fortunately a neighbour set up a mini salon in her house so we now walk around the corner to theirs, the DCs take turns to play as it's DS2's classmate and it's just much quieter and more relaxed. DS1 tends to struggle with me doing it as it's a trust issues thing and that's not my role, but he does accept friend's mum.
DS1 has done pretty well letting me do it so far, but I think he'd reached the point of the pain of knotted ends being combed outweighing the terror of me cutting him!

Sorry if it's an avenue you've already explored. I appreciate these things can be complicated and very individual.

Just seen on Sky that zoos, safaris and drive in cinemas to open from Monday! Chester is my local zoo. Hurray! Apparently BoJo announcing tomorrow (but I'll announce it tonight!)

Cross post @littlebelina

@Littlebelina

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52986783

Actual good news (being saved for a Boris briefing natch)

Woop!

That's my family's kind of education
Much more worth booking than a walk around the local NT grounds.

@Dowser thank you for that lovely post about calming suggestions. I struggle with anxiety in general but it has ramped up a belter since about week 5 of lockdown. Awful episodes lasting between a week and a fortnight in the lead up to my period (I know hormones are playing a part because I’m breastfeeding 2.5 year old DS without the break that my 3 days at work gave me and this is how I felt on mat leave). I will bookmark that list.

Psst - you know about full moons. The pink one we had just there, could that have contributed to my total inability to sleep on Friday night?

Wow, a new thread already

I’ve been reading about the current frenzy to erase history with the removal of any statue or street name that might have any tenuous link to racism and it feels like it’s part of the same madness that has taken over the world with Covid and lockdowns. Sort of a mass hysteria and it all makes me very un comfortable.

Checking in.

My cousin has been dementory on our family WhatsApp about celebrating football supporters not social distancing. She’s in her 20s. I don’t get it.

I am fed up. I have no one to talk to properly. My DH is useless at communicating (though also thinks lockdown now is nuts, thankfully), my family are miles away and don’t want to see me, my boss treats me like a child and the colleague I usually vent to now spends their working life in their dining room where there is no chance of having an open conversation. We used to go for a coffee at least once a week and put the world to rights. We last did that on 6 March. I don’t have a group of female friends.

I have really hit a wall this week and I’m not sure how long I can sustain living like this.

It's my neck and shoulder that are bothering me the most at the moment, @rookiemere My shoulder keeps getting better then I pull it out of joint with a heavy shopping bag. I need to do some window cleaning because that actually does help.

And my hip. My knees. My feet.

I don't know if he'd entertain a mobile hairdresser in our house @BogRollBOGOFF - it's not where he gets his hair cut! He does find a salon far too stimulating. Far too much going on. A barbers is too impersonal and he needs to trust someone so would need to build up a relationship. If I get no luck, I should probably put out a plea on NextDoor.

I'm knackered.

as I can't see the physio for my dodgy neck/shoulder I'm also on amiltryptaline

Oh, but you can. I saw one for my dodgy neck/frozen shoulder two weeks ago for ultrasound and massage. Got my 2nd appointment tomorrow. He told me that he is following the advice of their professional body, who says they can crack on with it if they wipe down door handles, couch etc and both parties wear a mask. They are allowing an extra 15 mins between patients to do all the wiping.

Getting DS1's hair cut is another issue. H went from October to march without a cut as he was having major mental struggles. He will go to a barber, once they re-open, though. If I can ever get him out of the bloody house, again.

Wales - our zoo in dire straits no news as to when they can open yet. No money to support them either.

You lucky english shops opening next week, I am not a big shopper but Tesco, Asda and Iceland really do not hit the spot for me. Sadly our Monsoon did a runner and emptied the store completely, no idea if Laura Ashley will do the same. There are going to be some gaping gaps in our shopping park I suspect.

@MagdaS I can't offer you much but a virtual handhold, but I'm here, and I understand every word you're saying.

Ooh, there's a private physio, down the road from me, and it also does Bowen Technique. From the website, it actually seems quite affordable (a couple of bottles of half decent vodka per 30 minute session)

Unfortunately, there's no mention of the C word on its website so I shall have to give them a ring and hope for the best.

@PickAChew

It's my neck and shoulder that are bothering me the most at the moment, *@rookiemere* My shoulder keeps getting better then I pull it out of joint with a heavy shopping bag. I need to do some window cleaning because that actually does help.

And my hip. My knees. My feet.

I don't know if he'd entertain a mobile hairdresser in our house @BogRollBOGOFF - it's not where he gets his hair cut! He does find a salon far too stimulating. Far too much going on. A barbers is too impersonal and he needs to trust someone so would need to build up a relationship. If I get no luck, I should probably put out a plea on NextDoor.

I'm knackered.

Trust and roles are such important issues.

One of the reasons why our homeschooling is not so sucessful!
Funnily DS loves me helping in school. Normally I supervise his dyslexia intervention, and he's so pleased to see me. He insists on holding my hand in the corridor and he's not normally so publically affectionate. It really doesn't occur to him that it's not the done thing for 9yo boys. It's a lovely school and the class just accept him as he is with all his idiosyncracies.

As much as I want him in school, it's with his class. Going to a patchy coverage as "vulnerable" and not focusing on education is a harder social side for him and could be counter-productive.

@Dowser thank for all that fabulous advice! Will deffo be trying some of that :-)

Did I see that they are dropping the 2m requirement for pub opening?