Anti-dementors riding the roller coasters

[Waleshasgonecompletelycrazy]

And going to pubs, restaurants and zoos!

I’m Scottish but I don’t want to be furloughed - I want to work! I’ve worked bloody hard to have my career and Sturgeon can shove it up her arse

Just received an email stating that my child will receive 33% of his education in school. He’s doing his Nat 5s! What a fucking joke!

33%? Absolutely fucking ridiculous. Something needs to be done.

@orangeblossom78 - "schools open dawn to dusk dealing with pastoral care, feeding, and any issues" maybe they could consider boarding school!

I'm fed up of DH today
To be fair we've been getting along fine for all of lockdown. Mostly I've tried not to go mental when I find his mess all over the house.
He's locked in his study all day and i wrestle with 2yo and 4yo and home schooling for 4yo and squeezing out random papers for my masters in research, and trying to study.
I'm used to having Dd1 in school and DD2 in nursery 3 mornings a week and the house to myself. It's such bliss. God I miss it so so so much. I'm a very solitary person by nature and this is really horrible for me.
So when DH comes for his three hourly tea break looking all grumpy and complains he's tired because of work (I know he was watching telly from 9pm to midnight) I just want to rip his head off.
I need some space. And I want to go back to work and talk to grown ups.
And I need nursery and schools to open so I can go back to my work and my lab and my studying and not have to have people ALL the time in my face asking me for things all the time ranging from wiping their bum to cleaning up their dinner.
Love a good rant.
Not really relevant to anything here but I'm getting cross today about this

Thanks

@RobinHobb

I'm fed up of DH today To be fair we've been getting along fine for all of lockdown. Mostly I've tried not to go mental when I find his mess all over the house. He's locked in his study all day and i wrestle with 2yo and 4yo and home schooling for 4yo and squeezing out random papers for my masters in research, and trying to study. I'm used to having Dd1 in school and DD2 in nursery 3 mornings a week and the house to myself. It's such bliss. God I miss it so so so much. I'm a very solitary person by nature and this is really horrible for me. So when DH comes for his three hourly tea break looking all grumpy and complains he's tired because of work (I know he was watching telly from 9pm to midnight) I just want to rip his head off. I need some space. And I want to go back to work and talk to grown ups. And I need nursery and schools to open so I can go back to my work and my lab and my studying and not have to have people ALL the time in my face asking me for things all the time ranging from wiping their bum to cleaning up their dinner. Love a good rant. Not really relevant to anything here but I'm getting cross today about this

Thanks

Today I have dealt with kinds of poo... toddler DS’s nappy, 4 year old wanted help with wiping her bum as it was ‘a smusher’ (in her words), dog poo on our dog walk and would you believe I have been cleaning snail poo out of DD’s snailery? This is my life now.

RobinHobb I know the feeling. I'm used to working by myself too. At the start of lockdown dd and DH drove me insane making noise, leaving mess and expecting stuff. It's easier for me because dd is an older teen so now I cope with it by dumping all their crap on their respective desks, playing white noise on my headphones and ignoring the expectation of food and drink. They don't ask as such, just wait expectantly until they can see I'm not doing it, then they half heartedly get their own, with a sort of kicked puppy dog face on

@RobinHobb No need to apologise. It’s hard going some days.

Just back from town, getting DS’s glasses fixed. There was a queue outside the opticians, mostly composed of parents getting their children’s glasses mended... we also had a walk around the local nature reserve (one way system in operation) while we were waiting and had the entire place to ourselves. It’s mostly boardwalks as it’s a fen, so DS loved it.

I noticed that there were foot pump hand sanitiser dispensers that had popped up in town, which seems like a good idea (funded by the EU, thank you EU!). At least if these sorts of things become more common, we might all catch fewer bugs and nasties in general, I suppose. Perhaps it will finally become unacceptable for public toilets to have no soap in them too.

Checking in people! What you doing shopping? We should not be doing that til at least 2030!

Picked DD1 up from school and we went for a McDonald’s drive thru... oh the excitement!

I enjoyed the top 2 tweets in this thread about Johnson’s unenforceable rules! mobile.twitter.com/davidallengreen/status/1271468676617777152

So the number of community-based cases has reduced but almost a half in a week but R is apparently nearly 1 and has gone up. What a load of shit. So basically because most of the spread is in hospitals the lower the community cases the higher the R will be I reckon

Was anyone else watching the shitshow that was the Education Committee this morning?

www.heraldscotland.com/news/18514580.john-swinney-businesses-must-help-schools-re-open-next-years-exams-face-axe/?fbclid=IwAR3Zf2gkcUVsyLt6haXq6xA6rDi2yTCsTbox38yiWzhjHuUMmB5-kVO3Ma8

@Willitneverend re NS holding out the begging bowl, so did Drakeford at lunch time, I have always said she was pulling Wales strings. Gordon Brown is lurking somewhere behind Drakeford too. Creepy odious man. England needs to tell them NO!! get back to normal and stop squeaking about the R number which someone was bleating was up today again. FHS

He must be the thickest person on the planet. Even if business is supportive if you drop from full time to part time hours the drop is reflected in your wages. Does he think the fairies pay parents’ mortgages. Unbelievable.

I'm in Scotland and I don't want more sodding furlough. Luckily DH works primarily for English companies (unluckily in a currently dead on it's arse industry). Hoping he can get back to taking the English coin soon.

Wales is meant to have the lowest R Number in the UK if that means anything anymore. Anyone else reckon Drakeford likes being told no?

For anyone else in Northumberland, the Northumberland Gazette has published ONS figures of deaths for the three months March to May, showing figures for each small area. I now know that my area had 2 Covid deaths out of 13 deaths in total. Presumably it means that this info is available for the rest of the country as well.

I had an email from the local church: I was furious as they are only opening it up for private prayer twice a week, sanitizers to be used, one way system, volunteers needed to man it. For goodness sake, it's not a supermarket. It should just be left open with sanitizer at the door. How can you possibly have private prayer with somebody hovering. Sheer madness. Not sure whether this is the vicar, or the Church of England rules. The church comfortably holds 300 and it is not York minster or St. Paul's cathedral.

@Willitneverend - it's a bit of a cheek to still call themselves the Education Committee if that's the best they can do!

The fucking cheek of them asking for extra furlough when they took it upon themselves to extend their lock down.

Pay for your own sodding furlough, if you're so independent.

Will catch up with the thread in a bit, but just wanted to show you this great bit of Dementoring from the guardian....
No one has yet pointed out that it's been near 1 for an age and that the deaths are actually lower than last week....

Thankfully, we had just picked new glasses up for Ds2, a week before lockdown. Even more thankfully, he's managed not to sleep on them, yet.

At least one person on this thread predicted that Friday afternoon would see a Dementoring article about a rise in the R number.

Who was it?

Claim your prize of a full year in solitary confinement.

@Nihiloxica

At least one person on this thread predicted that Friday afternoon would see a Dementoring article about a rise in the R number.

Who was it?

Claim your prize of a full year in solitary confinement.

No - they must remain in solitary confinement until there is a cure. OR PEOPLE WILL DIE.

But at least I’m clear that the R is a pile of old bollocks. And I think this will become clear to more people. I reckon round here the R is 0.2 apart from a 20-acre site in town called the hospital.

@Nihiloxica

At least one person on this thread predicted that Friday afternoon would see a Dementoring article about a rise in the R number.

Who was it?

Claim your prize of a full year in solitary confinement.

It was me! I will remain in confinement until the R number is 0.