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?

Oh I miss Whitby so much. I lived there for a year in a tiny studio flat, my rent was £165/month. I worked up at the potash at Boulby in the lab for a year before I went to university. I'm all nostalgic and now I'm going to book a holiday there and take the kids. I've got the first two weeks in August as annual leave, we'll be able to go by then, won't we?!?

My mum and sisters are all still in York, so will be a jolly family time had by all.

I kinda think the government may use the 2m/1m switch to pull the rug from the teaching unions.

The 2m stuff has been the main back bone of the union stance that classroom education is a non starter. I really hop the government geta to the end of next week and goes - its now 1m, your move bitches.

Morning all, checking in!

We had fish and chips takeaway last night was amazing, even joined my mum & dad, was amazing. Couple of bottles of wine later and we had put the world to rights.

Maybe fish & chip suppers should be prescribed as they seem to have done all of us the world of good!

My only worry about releasing it to 1m on 4th July is because that coincides with hospitality, hairdressers etc reopening. So my concern is a) would the dementors feel that was opening the floodgates and go all mad, and b) is the hospitality industryalready preparing for 2m, meaning lots of wasted capital if the government change their mind at the 11th hour and reduce is to 1.

Also, do we think that they're going to reduce it to 1, and then that'll be us until there's a vaccine/treatment?

The majority of the news yesterday was about the protests, coronavirus barely gets a mention this morning either.

Morning all. Not what you'd call bright and breezy today! Today will mostly be about crap telly, paracetamol and shit loads of tea. (Or would Zoe send me for a test on that info?!) Why are hangovers so bad when you're old? Hope the dancing divas are still going strong @Allflightscancelled

I've just been completely hammered on FB.
We have a retail park near here. A small selection of fairly decent shops in an outdoor area.
I was going to pop there tomorrow as there are 2 shops I want to go to and cba going all the way into town.
However, the centre is making face coverings mandatory.
They have limited numbers in and out (fair enough)
Hand sanitizer stations and regularly cleaned loos (fair enough)
A one way system (fair enough)
The 2m social distancing rule (grrr but standard).
And compulsory face coverings

Now, if you go on the website of the chain stores that are there none of them have compulsory face coverings in shops. But to access them on this outdoor retail park you have to be wearing one.

So I just commented saying that I didnt feel it was necessary as it is an outdoor outlet. Even Cheshire oaks that will have more footfall isnt making them compulsory. The stores on the park don't have that rule so why enforce it?

What followed was utter carnage.

Clearly I don't care about vulnerable people
I shouldn't even leave the house
I could be spreading it anyone who is vulnerable and could die (firstly I don't have it, so cant spread it, secondly if you are sure you could die then perhaps a retail park is not for you).

So fuck it, I'm just going to vote with my feet and go to town. Its madness.

Morning, merry march of murderers!

Was hardly on the last thread because I drove 2hrs to see my brother with the DC. We had a glorious day of barbecue, walking, trampolining and paddling pool. We didn't hug, but as usual social distancing for the DC was tacitly abandoned after about half an hour.

DS restarts school tomorrow 4 days a week. Slowly slowly we will reclaim our lives.

I'm also hitting Westfield clothes shopping as soon as ever I can, just try and stop me.

Less dancing happening now Ibake. All wearing hoodies and being monosyllabic. I may offer paracetamol shortly 🤣

Grrrr about the shopping centre Livin. See this the problem when people get loads of rules thrown at them. They interpret them in their own way and the result is just utter bollocks. Do vote with your feet. Can you imagine the atmosphere there anyway?

Also I can't hear people behind masks. There's nothing wrong with my ears. In B And Q yesterday the checkout lady was sort of "you know mfff mfffm mfff plurgh card?"

Me: sorry? Oh I must pay by card? Ok

Her: glurggggh yrgggl nayhjjjs?

Me: eh?

Dd: no we don't work for the NHS

Hi all, mind if I join?

We have in the last week started meeting up with friends outside so DD (11) can play. Yesterday we spent 2 hrs at our local nature reserve where there are good trees for climbing and some helpful soul has put up rope swings in the woods. The irony of walking past a locked up playpark on our way to the woods was not lost on me!

On the walk home DD confided in a whisper that she and her friend weren't always 2m apart. She is back to school next week, and is worried that she will break 'the rulez' accidentally. I'm hoping that school are sensible about it, despite all the long lists of instructions we've been sent

My DS is also back to school tomorrow. I am nervous about it because it will be v different. Still, he's excited by the prospect of his own desk.

Anyone whose DC have gone back have any c useful advice?

Totally agree @livinlavidaloki (I seem to always agree wholeheartedly with your posts). If people feel strongly about something not being safe then feel free to stay at home until you do, but don't make me have to live the same way. We've got the government guidelines and yet so many places and people want to add an extra layer on top. Don't mind if people wish to wear a mask but don't mandate something that the government hasn't.

I’ve ordered some fabric as DM has asked me to make them some masks. If it makes them feel safe to get out and about a bit more, it seems fair enough. Although I seem to have chosen the slowest delivery available on the internet, the whole thing will be over and done with by the time I actually get the stuff at this rate 🙄

I put mine on for the first time the other day to collect a prescription for someone. So hot and bothering! Not keen at all.

The ‘almost back to normal’ brigade are the worst type of gaslighters

I think a lot of people are paying lip service to social distancing but then quietly abandoning it. This week had a friend come over with her DC to play with my DC....no distancing between the children and friend and I sat about 1m apart.
Yesterday had DB over for a BBQ.... started off in the garden and distanced but after a couple of hours he was running round the garden with DC1 on his back and then we all sat in the living room and said fuck it, we want to interact normally again. It was brilliant!

I think the ‘almost’ only makes it worse... it throws into sharp relief all the things that aren’t normal still.

In some ways, my life really is almost back to normal - yes, I really am that boring. But there are still a few major bits that aren’t, and I miss them more and more.

Things are very certainly not "almost normal". Very far from it, in fact.

A school mate who lives in Australia posted a photo yesterday of a dinner party they had at their house. In the photo, she was cwched up tight with two other women and they were all laughing. I nearly died of jealousy.
My best friend and I have been meeting up since week 5 of the lockdown, once we were sure we didn't have the virus. But we meet clandestinely, sneaking in and out of each other's houses. She once joked that we never sneaked about like this in our teens to meet boys And we wouldn't dare post photos of us meeting up.

The "almost normal" brigade are deluded beyond belief

@Allflightscancelled

Grrrr about the shopping centre Livin. See this the problem when people get loads of rules thrown at them. They interpret them in their own way and the result is just utter bollocks. Do vote with your feet. Can you imagine the atmosphere there anyway?

Also I can't hear people behind masks. There's nothing wrong with my ears. In B And Q yesterday the checkout lady was sort of "you know mfff mfffm mfff plurgh card?"

Me: sorry? Oh I must pay by card? Ok

Her: glurggggh yrgggl nayhjjjs?

Me: eh?

Dd: no we don't work for the NHS

I have partial hearing loss. Doesnt bother me usually, sometimes in large open buildings with a lot of people in I struggle but overall no bother. Until the masks.......I think I unconsciously lip read because I went to Costco and was screwed. Couldn't understand a damn word! Ended up with the staff assuming I must be totally deaf as they started with amusing, unsure hand gestures.

My hayfever is likely to kill me off long before THE VIRUS gets me. Chest is super tight due to asthma and my nose is so blocked I feel like my head might explode (and I keep getting nose bleeds). Imagine if i put these symptoms into Zoe I'd be shipped off for a test pretty quickly (my nose is so closed up though i dont think the swab would make it in there 🤣). So generally I feel like I am suffocating.......its fun!

Allflightscancelled Sun 14-Jun-20 01:05:28
But I mean really. Doesn't this just prove recent music has been crap. These kids in my garden are playing music from my youth. And I'm an old parent so they're 17 and I'm 57. They're jealous that I've been to see these bands live. I just have to try not to be smug when they play me a new song they've found and I know all the words

Drivingdownthe101 Sun 14-Jun-20 07:03:33
Checking in bright and fucking early on a Sunday morning! When do children become self sufficient enough to get up, make their own breakfast and park themselves in front of the TV? Is 17 months too early?

Yep spn and imagine having to wear a mask with all that stuffiness already going on. Hay fever is a bastard. And even more so when every sneeze or snuffle gets you the Covid Glares.

@Allflightscancelled still considering in investing in clothing attire that says "I have HAYFEVER not THE VIRUS"

Sorry I meant to add comments before posting
@Allflights Sun 14-Jun-20 01:05:28
But I mean really. Doesn't this just prove recent music has been crap. These kids in my garden are playing music from my youth. And I'm an old parent so they're 17 and I'm 57. They're jealous that I've been to see these bands live. I just have to try not to be smug when they play me a new song they've found and I know all the words

Even better when they play a 'new' song by one of their bands and you remember the (better) original - and still know all the words.

@Driving Sun 14-Jun-20 07:03:33
Checking in bright and fucking early on a Sunday morning! When do children become self sufficient enough to get up, make their own breakfast and park themselves in front of the TV? Is 17 months too early?

Mine did, by the time the youngest was about 17 months - and she was the one that organised it - and got cereal and milk for herself and her 3 year old brother Although a thread on the dark side was saying letting a 3 year old do it was evidence of neglect and they should be at least x years - with some saying secondary school age.

Ha sadly Khione my youngest is nowhere near as advanced as that . DD2 would have been perfectly capable at that age.
My 6 and 4 year olds now don’t get up until 8 so I can’t even send them down with toddler DS while I have a lie in sadly!

@Pepperwand I think you're right. My dp has been very responsible with his social distancing, and has worked for the whole period since lockdown began. But his football team resumed training yesterday, and he was at pains to tell me how they would be doing it in a socially distanced fashion.

Imagine my surprise when I happened to look out of the window yesterday and see one of his coaches jump in the car next to him, and them drive off together. I reckon he abandoned the whole thing a couple of weeks ago, but doesn't want to tell me because I've been stuck in this bloody house with the kids.

If you find a garment that says that spn let me know because I want one. khione I agree! And the originals are always the best.

But oh dear my lot now seem to be playing a really weird quacky song that's not 40 years old. The utter fools. They say it's called Dance Monkey. God it's shit.