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?

Ah, illegal raves . I was watching Back in Time For the Weekend the other day and they were onto the 90s. The teen daughter was saying how much fun illegal raves sounded and how boring teenagers were now just sitting in their rooms on their phones. I hope there is a third summer of love, god knows young people have earned the right to have some fun.

My mum is coming over for a Sunday roast lunch later. I have some kind of weird, inverted dementor thing going on that I’m kind of disappointed her being here isn’t against the roolz as the bubbles thing officially starts today.

Checking in before this thread is full again!
Had a quick look on dementoring threads😲 I cant believe people are still spouting on about saving 500000 people dying from the virus and how grateful we should be! And how worldly wise some people are so they are cooing with "a few minor restrictions" so much better than the rest of us and we should embrace this time to improve ourselves! Fuck off
Sanctimonious idiots.
Mental note:stay away from other threads save my blood pressure!
Glad to see so many people enjoying family gathngs and trips out. Sanity reigns here.

Need to get moving and get back to painting the sodding bathroom. Living the dream😄

Good afternoon. I tried to be brave this morning and it backfired spectacularly. Took the kids out to ride their bikes - thankfully DD2 seems to have retained the progress she'd made just before lockdown to be able to ride-ish (which is awesome for a 7 year old dyspraxic). Then went to Tesco with the kids as DD1 has no trousers that fit her and we're running out of tops to send them into school in - as school insist on a full change of clothing every day and own clothes so they can check this has been done.

Went OK - steered the kids around the store keeping them the precious magical 2m away - even past some dementors in masks giving me the evils for daring to have kids out in public - and then some cow staff member starts yelling at me that I'd stood in the wrong place and wasn't queueing properly in a completely unsignposted queue.

It's taken me months to get the confidence up to even go INTO the store - I left on the verge of tears and probably won't dare go back out for months now. This is no life. This is existing.

Kids are desperate to go to grandparents for the entire summer holidays - they hate being in our house with me that much now.

Oh yeah also had some woman whose kid had gone to nursery with my kids out in the store - fully masked up to the eyeballs in a full-whack max level mask she must have paid hundreds for on ebay, with her child also in the same mask that she must have paid a bomb for (and didn't fit) glaring horrified at me daring to have my kids out without full PPE.

Fuck this life... well existence. I don't think we'll ever get back to normal life - people are loving having this power to make us feel completely shit far too much.

Found you all - we had a "proper lockdown" last night - no electricity for hours then back a bit then none.

Ate late tea buy candle and the remaining day light - got everyone in pg and bed ready and let kids stayed up late playing monopoly by tourch and widn up lamp light.

Everyone's thrilled it's back on this morning.

Why is that we have so many conditions on an activity such as shopping?

I think or family may have changed shopping habits perhaps permanently- tesco with their 80/85 limit has been a bloody pain in the arse and we've found morrisons better- even my IL have ordered food boxes on-line and there they least technically minded and much prefer the sack of flour from the mill they found. We're keeping the milkman even after this is over.

They've all shopped more on-line than ever before even for everything or found more lcoal firms that deliver or that we can pop to in future. My parents prefer the butcher they found- even if he won't deliver in future they'll pop there.

@Orangeblossom78 That was me asking about the buses. Thanks! Just need the hospital to tell me what the roolz are there (surely they’ll be understating about kids though. I’ll play the damn ASD card if I have to, anyway).

@BogRollBOGOF I miss parkrun. I didn’t even have any good friends there but there were people and it was social and chatty. I liked it. Sigh.

Awwww thanks @Ibake

The retail park replied to my Facebook comment saying that it's not mandatory but it is worded in such a way on the website so that people won't be caught put should the individual shops they go in require them.

Sooooo do I want to shop somewhere that exaggerates it's own rules because it doesnt trust grown ups to check the individual shops websites themselves or make a decision when we get there?

That's what pisses me off (well many things do at the moment but for now its this). The infantilising of everyone. Treating us all like small children because you dont trust us to make our own sensible decisions. I posted a similar comment on their Facebook and now the whole threads gone.

Yet I bet the people loving this will be the same people using crying out about a nanny state.

Our butchers, greengrocers, bakers, fishmongers have risen to the challenge. People are discovering real food again. I hope we keep up with it now. They lost all the hotel, restaurant business but swerved into serving us with locals banging the drum on fb. And you know what their food really is better than shrink wrapped processed foods.

Glad you read the update Spudlet.

It is reckoned by many that supermarket food costs have risen 25% now so you are win win. I bought a sack of spuds the first week of lockdown, just getting to the end of it now. £12 for the sack and they are still fine to eat and not sprouting.

DominaShantotto thats sound awful.

I think I've hardened up over the years - other people can fuck off most of the time with their judgements.

Asda good for on-line shopping - haven't tried sainburies did do M &S for a while bras and 100% cotton trousers which hopefull aren't needed now and their on-line delievry is good but I'm trying to avoid for ethical reasons at minute.

Amazon can be great - but read reviews carefully. Qwertee is a current favorite for t-shirt they have lots of sales so prices aren't as bad in them.

I don't think we'll be clothes shopping for a while - though charity shops may be an exception if and when they open back up.

Domina I'm so sorry. If it helps I'm the kind of person to get upset and shaken if I come across someone like that. People are such shits sometimes. You won't be the only person who got yelled I promise and and tempers are running high so the littlest things are making people snap. I hope you don't stay in - you have EVERY RIGHT to be out and about like everyone else.

Christ, that sounds awful Domina.

Domina I had agraphobia years ago, the thing to do is go again tomorrow and every day until you power through it. It is not easy but is worth it. Just keep going again and again. Even if you only get inside and walk out without shopping, that is a win.

@Allflightscancelled

I want to go to an illegal rave!

So do I. I want them to play “Out of Space” by the Prodigy.

Morning all. We’ve been out for a long drive just to get the car moving and there are loads more people out and about. Drove past two supermarkets and neither had people on the doors or queues- people just walking in and out. Fingers crossed that this is a good sign.

Domina that's crap. Hope you're OK?

I went a-murdering yesterday and it was awesome. Went to see two relatives (one in a shielding category and one in an 'at risk' category), and had a schlep up and down the riverside followed by a leisurely picnic. Was ridiculously heartened to see families out - not a mask in sight, people happy to chat to strangers, everyone cooing over the scruffy cygnets paddling up and down the river - it felt like the edge of normal peeking its head out, like a particularly obstinate snowdrop.
And the knitting shop up the road opens on Monday - I don't really need any more wool, but then again....

DH spotted a school parent at the supermarket in full PPE (masks, gloves, disposable jacket thing) with DD in same plus a face visor. He things she glared at him for not wearing the same, but it was difficult to tell..

Domina, if you can manage a bit of a road trip, Morrisons in the smaller city is fine (and easy to find). Go in the evening as there probably isn't a queue. No one way sýstems. There is a queuing zone for the tills which winds through the clothes, but again in the evening, there isn't really a queue. The oddest bit is standing at the end of the belt until your shopping goes through (a rule clearly not created by a short woman with a week's shop). But overall it's pretty pleasant and calm.

I find ASDA and Tesco to be a bit of a sensory assualt at the best of times, which this clearly isn't.

Can we make an anti dementor illegal rave?

I'm up for a rave!

Thank goodness I found these threads! Have been reading along for the last couple (trying to keep up)

We were in Central America when everything kicked off and had to cut our holiday short, not because of any danger or risk but because our UK travel agent said they 'weren't allowed' to continue to move us around the country we were in once the FCO advised against all travel abroad. Fortunately we had been there for 9 days so it wasn't a complete wash out. We would have happily stayed but had to come home (less than 100 deaths in the country we were in so, with hindsight, we were much safer there!

Voluntarily isolated for 2 weeks when we got back then abided by all the lockdown stuff until my grand-daughter's 5th birthday in the middle of May when we met up with them for the first time in nearly 10 weeks! We've now gone back to looking after our grandchildren one day a week - yay! Yesterday we had a bbq for my daughter's birthday and invited my other daughter (who stayed with us for 6 weeks during lockdown but has since returned home) - 5 adults and 2 children in our garden and no point in bothering with social distancing under the circumstances. A wonderful afternoon was had by all!

This morning I went for a run with my running buddy friend for the first time since February. Little pleasures!

Also I need my local fabric shop to reopen so I can carry on with the bazillion quilting projects I've got half done... money to spend I just need an open shop! There is nothing on their website saying if they are opening or not...

We have a traffic thread welsh english corridors traffic wise. Said lucky englanders shopping tomorrow. Too soon, stay indoors, covid, death, disease, etc. OK crack on dementors.

Hobbycraft in Oxford will be open apparently.. I'm supposed to be working tomorrow... dilemmas...

The Anti-dementor's illegal rave! I'm in!

Can there be body paint and glow sticks? I just missed out on the 90s rave scene, a few years too young.

@SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito

The Anti-dementor's illegal rave! I'm in!

Can there be body paint and glow sticks? I just missed out on the 90s rave scene, a few years too young.

I've got glow sticks and whistles...we could go proper old skool with dust masks on as well..that'll confuse the dementors, having fun AND sticking to the "roolz".