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?

Yup, people die in construction every year - I think between 60 and 100 every year. Something like 70% are falls from height, and the rest divided up between other things including being hit by a moving vehicle and electrocution. We also routinely deal with asbestos and all sorts of other nasty things, but we still keep going. My favourite ever moment was crawling underneath a temporary unit to come face to face with putrefying fox. Good job I don't do this job for the glamour!

They demanded scientific evidence from me on something then accused me of "using science as a smokescreen" when I did 😂

Thanks hauntedgoatfart I am finding it hard work with DS atm. Just busted him trying to play his computer game thankfully didn't cry this time. Although as I'm spending a lot more time mumsnetting than working this morning I'm probably not a good example so better crack on.

@rookiemere maybe plan the morning/afternoon off to chill and regroup? It's a bloody nightmare.

They demanded scientific evidence from me on something then accused me of "using science as a smokescreen" when I did

Massive face palm

"They demanded scientific evidence from me on something then accused me of "using science as a smokescreen" when I did 😂"

Love it! Reason out the door completely. How old is your son @mascotte?

I am thinking about sending the DCs back to school for final three weeks (so in two weeks time). We are WFH partner doing 60 hr weeks and both key workers on the government's every man, woman and their dog list. The feel from the school is they want you to keep them at home if WFH but the guidelines say key worker and vulnerable children should be encouraged (even if parents able to keep them at home) and given priority over yr R, 1 and 6 who are NOT being encouraged to be kept at home.

I am not good with dilemmas!

@ibake he's 12 and due to go to high school.

When I worked in theatre some bright spark wanted to have stages reclassified as build sites. Technically during fit ups and get outs they are built sites, we have all the same things going on with heights and electricity and so on. However it was pointed out that if that happened all scene changes where large pieces of scenery were moving would have to take place in full lighting, and possibly with flashing lights and sirens on the moving pieces.

The absolute worst injury I ever witnessed was a stage manager who very deeply cut his hand open washing up champagne glasses when one broke in the bowl (they were part of the show, we didn’t just routinely glug champagne). Which goes to show no matter how much you risk assess things there’s always something utterly unexpected that can happen.

@SummerHouse if you can get them in do it. Junior Mole's mental health has improved almost immeasurably since he went back.

Thanks @Mascotte I'm hoping to get him off to a murderous lunchtime game of illicit football with his pals ! I should probably just chill a bit more, but it seems like his private expensive school have just given up on him and I refuse to do likewise.

Oh well school holidays soon and hopefully some easing on the outdoor group numbers so he can meet his pals without breaking the roolz.

Oh, @rookiemere I forgot about the infuriating private school thing. Even worse! Hope your day improves.

SummerHouse bugger the school, if you think your children will benefit from being in school send them.

I haven't been following the anti-Dementor threads for a while as it seemed to have died down (or maybe I'd started sub-consciously ignoring threads that would be dementory ), but by heck it's back with avengeance today!

the shopping thread is actually quite fun, mostly because the OP is refusing to grovel or back down on anything and the dementors are getting more and more incensed at this. How dare she want to have enjoy herself and refuse to wear our self imposed hair shirt?

I bit on that thread. I shouldn't have but the endless "I will be staying at home for ever more" in response to someone being happy really got my dander up.

@mascotte concentrating on being his mum is spot on. He's missing some key social stuff (which I'm not underestimating) but he knows how to read and write and he's ready for his next big adventure. I honestly, honestly truly believe that schools will be back to normal in September and they'll work doubly hard to settle in the new starters. He's loved and that is all that matters.

I've just walked through town (it's a small one with mostly independents). The naice boutique has got a queue (Cheshire wives know their priorities!) but nowhere else has and people are just mooching about. Biggest news is that the playground is full of kids playing, not sure if a full rebellion took place or maybe the town council saw sense but it was a truly lovely sight to see.

@Mascotte not smug, just sensible.

We had a bloody lovely weekend. We (me, dcs and friend) walked to our local prom and sat on the grass there, got an ice cream from a van and dcs ran round far more than they can in a garden. Dcs and I about to go for a drive to a different prom and have a little kick about before it rains (forecast for later). The eldest's school have sent out a 'timetable' which is very similar to what we've been doing, we just do it when suits us during the day (so reading is after he wakes and before bed) Have to fit in with the toddler. I suspect the volume is slightly less that they might like though, but we'll live. School are generally sensible

I was scrolling through Facebook and just had a really visceral reaction to this advert. It took me a while to remember I'm not seeing a woman in a muzzle, that it's a covid mask and it's a fashion advert. I still haven't managed to completely shake the wobbly feeling it gave me.

Jeez Gilead or what?! I really think I would cope with the whole mask thing a lot better if I hadn't binged all 3 seasons of Handmaid's Tale over the last 3 months

God that's vile. Really vile :(

@Thisdressneedspockets I have bought masks and tried them on to see what I look like. I massively freaked out because all I could think of was the scenes in Handmaid's Tale where the women are masked to silence them.

I know rationally that it's not the same at all but it still freaked me out.

I'm out of the other side of a hump, but it did last 10 days or so. Several bouts of sobbing. An illicit sit on a friend's sofa for 6 hours and getting through over a third of a large bottle of gin helped!

We had a better weekend too, the weather helped a lot. Drove to the next county for a wiidland walk, had a BBQ, and had a online Murder Mystery dinner party which was good fun. Yesterday we went for a walk locally on a route the family hadn't done and ended up getting drenched in minutes in an intense thunderstorm. Admittedly I wasn't feeling quite so smug about the struck by lightning odds Covid odds while cowering in a woodland with 7 seconds between lightning and thunder

My two have barely done any homeschool for a couple of weeks as we just haven't had the emotional energy for it. Battling on it again today.

Sometimes you do just need to retreat for a few days and acknowledge it rather than keeping up the battle and draining yourself even further

As for that shopping thread...anyone else feel like they are at the London marathon cheering on the determined, exhausted, smiling OP as she doggedly runs onwards? Good for her.

The post about "No I am staying in to sew PPE for the NHS" made me snort laughing rather than get cross, which is a good sign. Do they not realise how bloody ridiculous they sound?

Frankly I'd rather extract my own wisdom teeth without anaesthetic than venture to a shopping centre today, but that's not the point.

@Thisdressneedspockets

I was scrolling through Facebook and just had a really visceral reaction to this advert. It took me a while to remember I'm not seeing a woman in a muzzle, that it's a covid mask and it's a fashion advert. I still haven't managed to completely shake the wobbly feeling it gave me.

I think the other thing that bothers me with that advert is how much the model looks like she's wearing - what is it they call it? - "modest" clothing.

@SummerHouse

I am thinking about sending the DCs back to school for final three weeks (so in two weeks time). We are WFH partner doing 60 hr weeks and both key workers on the government's every man, woman and their dog list. The feel from the school is they want you to keep them at home if WFH but the guidelines say key worker and vulnerable children should be encouraged (even if parents able to keep them at home) and given priority over yr R, 1 and 6 who are NOT being encouraged to be kept at home.

I am not good with dilemmas!

What's the dilemma?

Your children have a right to be at school.

The school's unwillingness to do their job is a disgrace. There is no need for you to accede to it.

Admittedly I wasn't feeling quite so smug about the struck by lightning odds Covid odds while cowering in a woodland with 7 seconds between lightning and thunder grin