Anti dementors are going to hit the shops. Who wants to come?

[Shodan]

This'll be thread number 13, I think.

Let's hope it's a lucky one

(Sorry about the feeble title)

I also recommend you read the "what do you expect from a holiday cottage" thread to see what hoops an owner is supposed to leap through.

Lots of posters advising her to remove all leaflets, boardgames, DVDs, cushions, throws and any kitchen utensils other than the bare minimum. and to supply GALLONS of disinfectant for the daily bleaching ritual.

Really good to see you pop up here Jourdain. I've been thinking of you

SirSamuel very sorry about your dad. I hope it's easily treatable. I know it's scary.

I have an elderly aunt who badly needs to go to hospital to have something looked at. It's minor and treatable but if she leaves if she's at increasing risk of having a stroke. She's already had so many things go wrong with her health, she is being very idiotic not to get medical attention. My parents and her children (who've already spent 10 years visiting her in hospital and at home repeatedly) are tearing their hair out trying to get her to get help but she's saying she doesn't want to be a bother and the poor doctors are busy with Covid. If I sound frustrated, she's a pain generally. The kind of person who if you ask if they want something as basic as a drink will only ever say 'I couldn't possibly put you to any trouble.' Last time she stayed with me she got up at 8.30 a.m and spent a good hour apologising repeatedly for having been so lazy. It was very unrelaxing! There will be countless others like her and they are going to end up in dire straits as the weeks/months go by. Their treatment will be much more expensive too which normally I wouldn't think about but the NHS will be overstretched as it is.

@Jourdain11 lovely to see you back and fingers crossed for the rest of your treatment....

Ah, I'm glad to hear that you are okay Jourdain. I'm sorry to hear about your dad, SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito.

Ah, yes, the Zoom music lessons. My daughter had a violin lesson today. Her teacher was pleased with her (and therefore with me) so that was okay. Later on I had a Zoom piano lesson. My teacher was also pleased with me (but to be honest, I am a grown up and just say if practising hasn't been easy). I am currently torturing my family with my treble recorder. No one can moan because I got it for my birthday. Mwah ha ha haaaaa.

The NHS turning into a covid service has affected my family too. Since January my mum has been raising concerns about dad's memory and confusion. She had to create a massive stink to even get a referral, and of course that was then cancelled. A dementia nurse spoke to them both over the phone. |She managed to speak to someone more senior over the phone and get a prescription for him but she's not sure what happens next, as all the people they have dealt with so far have been redeployed to fight the Covid battle.

It's a scandal that an elderly woman has been left to cope with this alone. They don't do smartphones, no Skype, no Zoom. They need to SEE someone and for someone to assess him properly.

And the best bit of all? Their part of Scotland has had 261 infections total, averaging 1 a week for the last 6 weeks.

Welcome back @jourdain. We've not spoken but I've seen your posts. Hope you're feeling ok. X

@Sockyarn that's tough. My dad had dementia. I well remember the early days and the rollercoaster of getting him seen, and getting a diagnosis. And that was without it being a National Covid Service.

So very sorry about your dad SirSamuelVines Fingers crossed it has been caught early.

Hello Jourdain I've only recently started contributing, but I've followed the threads from the start, and feel like I "know" you!

@Jourdain11 glad you are back and glad your chemo is going well

@SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito I am sorry to hear your news about your dad and hope he can get sorted asap

I have seen "that" thread...OMG I have read the whole thing, the dementor is like a dog with a bone, talk about depressing, I honestly don't think she is that well and I feel sorry for her :(

Hi and welcome back @Jourdain11. Hope your treatment is going ok.

I hopped onto the 'stars' thread. Some posters are definitely in a very dark place sadly.

Oh wow... I'm quite bowled over by people recognising me from previous posts, even though I haven't been an amazingly regular contributor. I hope my general moaning and complaining hasn't made me too infamous!!

Interested in the Zoom music lessons - does it work well? I ask because DD1 loves recorder (did it at school in a large group in Y2 and opted to continue this year) and has taught herself lots of new tunes (pieces? I don't know the terminology!) by ear and from sheet music. I know she'd like to start another instrument too but she can't decide what (she's dithering between clarinet and violin!) and I was actually wondering about taking the plunge with Zoom lessons just to start something. She is Y3, if that makes any difference. MIL is a piano teacher and she taught DD lots of piano when the kids were staying there when I'd first gone into hospital at the start of lockdown, but we haven't got a piano (or anywhere to put one!).

@SirSam that's so awful about your dad. Hope all gets sorted asap

@jourdain so pleased to see you again

I am totally avoiding any vaguely dementory threads. I know my mum would have been a dementor (she was, before the term existed). Living with it is hard.

I am also avoiding shops! Not for any dementory reasons, just because I CBA with the dcs. It's never fun. Fortunately none of us need anything.

DD apparently could play Grade 1 music on the piano after 3 weeks... but I have no idea if that is particularly good or not!

I hope my general moaning and complaining hasn't made me too infamous!!

Quite the opposite!

Lots of posters advising her to remove all leaflets, boardgames, DVDs, cushions, throws and any kitchen utensils other than the bare minimum. and to supply GALLONS of disinfectant for the daily bleaching ritual.

And the others saying they paid for luxuries so expect them to be there. With the odd sensible person pointing out her customers in the first few months were unlikely to be dementors anyway. The poor woman, talk about none the wiser and she’s just trying to do the right thing. I was LMAO at cushions being described as ‘luxuries’ 😂😂

I normally avoid shops but I am going to go shopping sometime soon. I've found a lovely local independent book shop so will treat myself. It's nice to support a nice company - their Facebook page has been so positive in the last few weeks. I've also dared have a look on Booking.com tonight. I am a step away from booking myself something in July somewhere near a beach. It will be Dorset or Devon I think. I am so excited.

@RubberDinghyRapids every time I see your name I hear it in Waj's voice and it never fails to make me smile internally.

To me luxuries are pink champagne, a hot tub and posh chocolates but clearly I have very high expectations

@Teateaandmoretea

To me luxuries are pink champagne, a hot tub and posh chocolates but clearly I have very high expectations

We’ve booked somewhere with a hot tub and champagne on arrival, I bloody hope Covid doesn’t ruin it for me

@SockYarn Have you heard to Harry Potter raps that are on you tube? I can't remember if its rap 1 or 2 but swish and flick features quite heavily on one of them. DS found them ages ago and we had to listen repeatedly! I quite like them. Especially the 2nd one.

Oh the masks. We went to the hospital yesterday and it was fine. Very quiet and quick but fuck me DS with his mask nearly drove me mad. The fiddling was insane. Then he wanted to play with it in the car. I said no obviously.

@Jourdain11 Glad to see you back and that the treatment's going ok.

@SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito I'm sorry to hear about your dad. My mum had a cancer diagnosis a few months ago. 2020 has been an incredibly shit year on so many levels.

Good to see you Jourdain.
I hope all goes well for your dad SirSamuel

I've been on a murder rampage tonight. I've been out for small group exercise on a farm back with my usual instructor (although I normally do a different, larger class) and it was lovely to enjoy exercising and SWEATING with real people. I came back via the chippie, which if not murder, is certainly no good for my arteries and will DESTROY the NHS in a few decades

I've really enjoyed it and I'm hoping that subject to tommorow's aches and pains, hopefully it's the start of getting out of the stupor that I've been sinking into since May.

Jourdain, keyboards that are touch sensitive, so mimic a piano are fairly inexpensive ( we paid 200 for ours) and it's adequate for beginning piano. It has the added benefit that headphones can be worn.

[quote fartingsparkles]@SirSam that's so awful about your dad. Hope all gets sorted asap

@jourdain so pleased to see you again

I am totally avoiding any vaguely dementory threads. I know my mum would have been a dementor (she was, before the term existed). Living with it is hard.

I am also avoiding shops! Not for any dementory reasons, just because I CBA with the dcs. It's never fun. Fortunately none of us need anything. [/quote]
That's tough - I would find it so hard to live with dementors.

My mum is bragging that France is so far ahead of England and keeps saying that it is because "your fat mayor" can't sort things out. I think the fat mayor is Boris rather than Sadiq Khan...

Reminds me: I was really perplexed until a few days ago because, whenever Huw Edwards would appear on the news and DS was in the room, he would say "there's the prime minister". I just couldn't work out why he thought that! It didn't matter how many times we said, "no, he's a man who reads the news", he was convinced. It turns out that last summer, the tv was on when Huw Edwards was stood outside Downing St ready to introduce PM Boris to the world. DS asked his sister what the red words underneath the man said, and she told him "it says, Britain's new Prime Minister"...

On 4 year old DD’s first day back at school they had what I think was a ‘mental health’ session for the kids about any impacts Covid has had on them. They were asked if they knew anyone who had had it.
DD said to me ‘so I told Mrs X I knew one person who had it and was really poorly’.
Me (surprised) ‘who do you know who has had it?’
DD ‘Boris Johnson, obviously’

A few years ago when DS was in the early stages of reading, we got completely derailed the night that he first read about Kipper's teacher Mrs May. He couldn't get hid head around the Prome Minister's rise to power via fictional teacher