Anti dementors say lockdown can just fucking do one now, we're going for chips.

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New thread! I think this brings the total to 12?

She's also not allowed to ride her scooter to school anymore because of germs which I don't understand as she has to wash her hands on arrival?! Seems a bit crazy to me we take it back home anyway.

They dont care about the vulnerable, aged, mental health, children all being ignored. This is life for women pre war we are looking at in Wales.

I'm fucked off with pasta now, which my DH insisted on buying a bulk order of just in case we couldn't get it and it runs out you know!

I bought a massive bag of rice, like massive as part of my preparations back in February. It remains unopened. I think I might put it in the foodbank

I do like rice, but getting through 10kg on my own is not going to happen.

Oh for goodness sake (scooter) that is so OTT isn't it. Ours have to go in through a car park and another group through a gate in the field. It is like they are breaking in to school. Previously car park was banned due to cars

I’m ditching my new statesman subscription when it expires. Nothing on wales, nothing on education or children except a couple if experience pieces. I appreciate I May not be a typical reader but I’d like an article that’s relevant a couple of times a month. I’m so pushed off today and have been horrible to dh. I keep hoping sense will prevail here but so far nothing. I’m glad England is getting back to normal as at least it means the blank cheque will end.

I think if I could replace school with other experiences it wouldn’t be so bad but dd heard a baby was born yesterday and her first comment was I hope it doesn’t get coronavirus. I try to minimise it’s impact, don’t let her watch the news and try not to talk about it much but it’s seeped into her and all she can focus on is this being over. She’s 8 and it’s not fair. (I told her if course the baby wouldn’t catch it and even if they did it’d be fine as children don’t get it badly)

@HesterShaw1 Okay that is way worse than our pasta problem. What meals was you planning to make that consist of that much rice. I'm genuinely laughing here .
You'll be sick of the sight of it soon. I'm like this with the pasta bags I open the cupboard and it falls out every time like a jack in the box, the spirally bastard .

Do you think with this return to the life of a fifties housewife they'll reinstate just dishing out scripts for Valium? And speed for weight loss?

Valium sounds perfect right about now

@Orangeblossom78 Its ridiculous. I have a can of dettol spray I was thinking of giving it a spray as she gets of it and enters the school just to show we are clean and germ aware.
I wonder what other surprises she will come home and tell us about?!. We also received a letter saying if they start crying or look sad take them back home as they can't be comforted. That did make me feel upset.

Here you go @gingerbreadslice. Hope you can read it. Ignore the prices (it's very old!). It's very liquid indeed when you prepare it, don't be put off, it's supposed to be like that. I use loaf liners as cba greasing tins! Enjoy!

I have a massive bag of rice, too.

Can't open it until I've cleared out a couple of massive containers of bread flour. Fed up of not being able to find wholemeal, I bought a 16kg bag. Still using up the remains I couldn't find a sealed home for before the critters find it.

Me three (four?). A friend of mine writes a normally very good column for the Guardian but even they have gone quite dementorish and I can’t bear reading it anymore

I was in quite a good mood today - my eldest has come to visit with his girlfriend so we have been putting two fingers up to da roolz all weekend ... but just now on my way back from a trip to the local shop (stupid queuing but nobody being bonkers about it) and a woman jumped into the road to avoid me - reasonably wide pavement and 0.06% infection rate - we’re in London where the death figures have been in single digits for the last ten days - I’m afraid I rolled by eyes and loudly sighed ‘really?’ as I went past ...

Ahhh found the new thread! Phew...

@Ibake Thank you I actually have all of that in already except golden syrup so that's good.
I will make it tomorrow and take a pic.
I bought a new loaf tin yesterday from Ikea, but I actually didn't check it and I've bought the dummy one which has a very hard tag stuck on the side.
So I'll need to try and get it off before it goes in the oven. I blame the stress of lockdown for making me this dim. I feel like I'm actually shedding brain cells as the days go on!

So looking at the Guardian homepage - after 14 stories and a subscription advert (hah!), then and only then is it mentioned that one third of women are reporting ‘lockdown loneliness’. When you click on the story itself, 34% of women say they’re lonely (which is bad), but more to the point 27% of women (and 18% of men) report that they are experiencing ‘severe underlying mental health problems’. Which you’d think might be ever so slightly more headline worthy, more than a quarter of women experiencing severe mental health issues, but what do I know... I guess we’re just acceptable collateral damage

my mother was given a prescription for speed when she was pregnant in the fifties. When she worked at gp surgery valium was as common as the abortions my mother had to do the paper work for in the seventies.

@Pleasedontdothat The containers are so aesthetically pleasing to look at. And I had a man bellow TWO METRES at me when HE was walking towards ME last week. I was fuming for about an hour.

Ooh @Mascotte I'll take both the Valium and the speed, anything to break this tedium which is the so called life as we know it now 😂

@gingerbreadslice never mind the scooter, spray the child!!! That'll disinfect the little germ vector and keep everyone SAFE!!

@DominaShantotto Don't let people put you off going out. You aren't doing anything wrong.

I took DS to m&s food with me the other day. The queue was much bigger than I expected because I didn't realise it went half way round the shop. We played a guessing game while we waited. He wasn't overly loud and he stayed by my side. The woman behind evil eyed us the entire time. I said nothing because I didn't want to draw attention to it. When we left DS asked why she kept doing that and I was so cross because I hadn't said anything. If I'd realised he'd noticed I would have asked her what her problem was. I'm not confrontational at all usually but the way it seems to be acceptable now to go around making people feel like shit because of 'the rules' is really starting to annoy me.

I just think heavy duty medication should be the quid pro quo for chaining to the sink 😃

@Dowser

Sat on my caravan balcony soaking up the sun The birdsong is amazing. It’s 5 degrees hotter here than at home and a helluva lot sunnier. So anyone who wants to take my place on a muggy north east beach Knock yourself out with it.

That sounds fabulous. I love a caravan.

@Mascotte I could send her in a little hazmat suit thing and put a hula hoop around her so she defo keeps to the 2m rule inside. Which they are following in her class room.
She's 5 it's not going to work but we will see 😂

I remember mum telling me grandma was prescribed Valium at one point (possibly for the menopause?) and then having to go cold turkey

On the subject of Valium, I've just gone back on Sertraline having successfully come off it in the autumn (had PND with both mine). I know its the right choice currently but can't help feeling a bit defeated- anti-Ds make me feel a bit 'flat' so I prefer to manage in other ways if I can. I'd worked so hard putting good habits & routines in place to boost my mood & they've all gone by the wayside.

Just noticed an article by Larry Elliot in the Guardian basically saying the cost of
Lockdown is too high, so if even they are starting to think that...