Anti-dementors riding the roller coasters

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And going to pubs, restaurants and zoos!

BlackBerry..wilkinsons has loads of compost
Unless you’re wanting a special sort of course
Course the weather has changed because I watered the bloody garden ..😡

Trapped
I’m so sorry, that’s not long since you lost your mum. Be easy on yourself. Allow at least 2 years for a close death and a lifetime of thinking of them.

My lovely dd has been again today and my grandson From my sons family. We put the world to rights over several cuppas.

Lots of stimulatiing chat over the toppling of the statues.
I don’t think gs gets much of this at his home.

My dd is so balanced..taking it all in her stride.

Not feeling too grand tonight.. so early night on the cards.
Feels like a cold coming on

On and the new mattress arrived , delivered by a non sd distancing man, which was fine by me.
We cleared out the under the bed clutter and cleaned the floor underneath, so will have a nice covid free sleep tonight .

Let’s hope for better weather tomorrow.

Catttermole your poor mum. I'm so sorry. She has been catastrophically let down.

Livin congratulations to you. Huge achievement.

Robin I am so very sorry. That is so worrying. I have a loved one whose cancer has been appallingly mismanaged because of lockdown. It's tragic. They have suffered dreadfully.

I could do with punching something, I am so angry. I am glad these threads fill up as fast as they do, it is a tonic to see other people feel the way I do. The virus is around in such low numbers now. I appreciate if we end lockdown they might well build over the next few months and cause another peak - I don't think anyone can truly say they won't. But it's only one possibility and people can still keep their distance from each other and wash their hands if they get back to normal life. That does have a massive impact. Nothing can justify what is happening now.

I have found all the JK stuff hugely upsetting too - the level of aggression in society is very worrying. Stop the world, I want to get off.

@AllTheUserNamesAreTaken

Arrgghhh, I’ve just read the threat about schools may not open until January and have massively stressed myself out.

I’ve come back here for some more rational posts to bring myself back down

Noooooo, don't read school speculation on here! It's full of people with no idea at all guessing at some bleak worst-case scenario and then finishing it off with "that's just the way it is I'm afraid", like doom-mongering really brings them deep sorrow.

Or if you're going to read those threads go for an "if you can't beat 'em join 'em" approach. "Oh really, you think January? Well I think that's VERY naive of you. My sister's boyfriend's flatmate's mum worked for the DfE once and she says they're planning for October next year at the earliest." See how late you can get it. Bonus points if you can get everyone sadly nodding their heads and agreeing it'll be ten kids back a week by 2030, if we're lucky.

RobinHood
That is fecking awful. What has this excuse for a country come to?
How many more people have been pushed aside for months because of this?

@Cattermole I'm so sorry to hear that. Your poor mum. This is unacceptable.

@Cattermole I can’t imagine how frustrated and angry you must feel. The cost of this policy is only starting to make itself known but it’s so obvious to anyone who has any sense. The health services isn’t meant to treat just one thing. They’ve always been governed by cost benefit considerations but suddenly all the costs are on anyone who doesn’t have COVID. The longer this goes on the more I want to scream it’s not ok.

I have a new one for Dementor Bingo

"Am I Missing Something Or Is this Completely Unworkable?"

This response can be used to counter any suggestion that people might eventually be able to live their free lives again.

anxious I have just looked at the council page, crazy idea. Most of it is pedestrianised anyway, so I am not sure how what they are planning will help, it will just cause traffic chaos. Not like it is back in the day when cars could go up the High Street.

A small bit of good news from the COVID Joinzoe study - this is the app where approx 3 million of us report daily on an app, and they have been doing tests for those who think they're unwell, and then correlating it back up. This shows that infections over the last week are down by 50% over the Uk as a w hole - and what is particularly interesting/encouraging is that they seem slightly surprised by this. 50%covid.joinzoe.com/post/covid-cases-uk

@Cattermole @RobinHobb I am so angry at both your stories. Total dereliction of care.

@Nihiloxica more unworkable than lockdown? 😂😂🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

Cattermole your poor mum

@Cattermole, @RobinHobb, I too am angry at your stories. How many more like them must there be?

I am thinking of writing a poem entitled It Wasn't Covid so No One Cared. What do you all think?

Evening all!

My things move fast.

@TheGreatWave hope your mum is OK.

We are OK. Groundhog day blues but isn't that everyone?.

I forgot that ALL roads to and from my village were being dug up for the next 3 months! But lovely workman who was just setting up let me through and saved a massive diversion. I think that was the highlight of my day.

Gosh I have one busy day and find a new thread 4 pages in.

Councils are being told by the government to do all the social distance pedestrian stuff, particularly in town centres, and to do it to 2m. There is a (tiny) bit of funding.

I went into the office today with a few others. We sat in the biggest meeting room, with a table each, at least 2m apart and used the big screen to do some collaborative work. Windows open. It was bloody great. We probably weren’t supposed to go in but everyone said it was fantastic.

One of my colleagues confided in me that his DP cried as he left the house this morning as she was so jealous he got to go out. That’s what this shit is doing to us.

@Cattermole just catching up on the thread and read about your poor mum. Thats awful. I can't believe that we (the society we) have let such a vulnerable woman down so badly. This is the fallout of lockdown.

Hi can I join please? I reactivated my account purely because of this thread, it's like a breath of fresh air. It's a relief that it's not just DH and I that feel like this.

@TheGreatWave do we know each other 👀

Hello @PinkFondantFancy 😊

PinkFondant - I saw your name on the thread and thought "great, Pink's back".

How can it be that you have just joined us?

Glad to have you aboard.

One of my colleagues confided in me that his DP cried as he left the house this morning as she was so jealous he got to go out. That’s what this shit is doing to us.

That was me when DH went back to work after paternity leave with DC1.

LOL. Perhaps this explains something about my lockdown fury.

cattermole sorry about your Mum, it's dreadful. And you. You be kind to yourself, tonight was just a blip and you can get back from there. Revisit any of your previous coping mechanisms, and come on here, someone is always around for hand holding and distraction.

Ah you've probably seen me ranting on the schools chats re. why my children aren't getting an education at all, for now or the foreseeable

@Lickyicelollies I'd send that to one of the political journos. Libby Brookes seems to be considering effects of lockdown on kids. Paul Hutcheon, Tom Gordon etc are a bit more aggressive. People need to see how dismissive MSPs are being towards people with reasonable and valid concerns about children.

It can't just be my mum, though. There must be hundreds - thousands - of elderly and vulnerable people who've done exactly as they were told and are now lonely and excluded and frightened and all the things.

She's been sober for 18 months. Before that she'd been drunk - not a nice, amiable sort of drinking but a self-destructive, chaotic sort - and that's 18 months out of her grandson's life she's been able to be a proper nana.
It's not FAIR.

@RobinHood just read your post your poor friend. I do not want to live in a society where the priority for healthcare isn't a 21 year old. I really hope she gets the treatment she needs urgently.