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)

Me (surprised) ‘who do you know who has had it?’
DD ‘Boris Johnson, obviously’

Just terrific 😂

Lol! I bet you didn't know your DD had a close personal friendship with Boris Johnson.

At least she doesn't think Huw Edwards is the Prime Minister...

I just made brownies and I have no choice other than to eat them all.

They're not even very good. Just a bog standard recipe from Mary Berry's Baking for Fuckwits, which are apparently "ideal for coffee mornings"

God I need to do some exercise. I have done nothing for days. I'm turning into a square eyed, screen obsessed lump of depressed lard.

Lol! I bet you didn't know your DD had a close personal friendship with Boris Johnson

I wonder if her teacher now thinks we’re personally acquainted with him? I hope not

@Jourdain11

Lol! I bet you didn't know your DD had a close personal friendship with Boris Johnson.

At least she doesn't think Huw Edwards is the Prime Minister...

I quite like the idea of Huw as PM.

He'd certainly do a better job than BJ. Mind you, my four year old nephew would.

@BogRollBOGOF

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

That's funny, because she always does remind me of a Girls Grammar School Headmistress...

Sorry to hear about your Dad sirsamuel I hope he is able to start effective treatment quickly.

Jourdain Nice to 'see' you to see you nice Hope the treatment continues to go well

I noticed that blue stuff you put in the loo was starting to claim it would help, have never used that and don't believe it.

We went on holiday a few years back - ds wasn't long toilet trained (and it was before autism had even been mentioned let alone diagnosed) and the toilet had one of those cistern blocks in it - well he absolutely refused to use the toilet, luckily he wasn't dry at night so we had some nappies with us, so we had to use them and then spend the next day hunting down a potty to use for the week. (sorry just prompted a memory)

The NHS turning into a covid service has affected my family too.

My family too.

There was already a odd reluctance to treat one of my parents which let the current issue get way of our control - they started looking at everything but the problem they'd gone with then it was then just getting under control and then covid - another reason to delay or not do treatments that had been working and now it's an awful state.

They have to wait for a hosiptal appoinmnet which is delayed because departments dealing with issue have huge back log and aren't yet back to normal work loads.

I get why - but my family member is scared in pain and very fed up and it's very hard on my other parent and I can't do anything or even get up there to see them.

Jourdain11 gald to hear you're treatment went well.

My friend's husband developed severe gastric issues, and she couldn't even get an appointment at a private clinic, let alone the NHS. All the private clinics in the county were block booked and turned into Covid wards. He finally got seen last week, but he had suffered for 11 weeks before. It's a shameful state of affairs.

When I was quiet young Margaret Thatcher was PM - and I thought she was like the Queen - always in the job.

Came out I thought this at a school event - and my teacher looked absolutely horrified and my parents laughing- rememeber my Dad saying Thatcher thinks that as well. I remember being really embarrassed at the mistake.

NannyPhlegm - I suggested a private GP or some private service - but I think they may have looked and found similar.

Now they seem resigned to waiting to hear from the hospital.

When I was growing up in France, the first president I really remember being aware of who they were was Chirac... and I would have been 7/8 by that time. I remember Miterrand, as in "the president's name is..." but I don't remember anything much about him!

Also, when Princess Diana died, I spent literally a whole day wondering what or who "Les DiDi" were/was. (Think: Lay Dee Dee) So I can hardly talk 😂

You are a French lady?

Voulez vous parlez en franglais sometimes? Toujours jolly good fun.

@LadyOfTheImprovisedBath

When I was quiet young Margaret Thatcher was PM - and I thought she was like the Queen - always in the job.

Came out I thought this at a school event - and my teacher looked absolutely horrified and my parents laughing- rememeber my Dad saying Thatcher thinks that as well. I remember being really embarrassed at the mistake.

In France they always pronounce her name "Maggaray Sat-sherre". I otherwise speak English normally, but I literally can't say her name any other way. It always comes out like that!

@HesterShaw1

You are a French lady?

Voulez vous parlez en franglais sometimes? Toujours jolly good fun.

Mais bien sûr, whenever you like!

Les DiDi is so funny.

I wonder if one of the biggest scandals of all this will be how the NHS shut down in so many ways (I know not completely but for many it did). People will look back and wonder how more creative thought wasn't put into getting people seen. We could so easily have had a system where someone was put in a holding ward, tested overnight to confirm they were virus-free, moved to a 'clean' ward, treated or tested or assessed and then sent home to a care in the community team that had great PPE and were regularly tested themselves. It wouldn't have been that hard to organise for acute or urgent cases even if less serious illnesses needed to wait for attention.

@TheAdventuresoftheWishingChair

Les DiDi is so funny.

I wonder if one of the biggest scandals of all this will be how the NHS shut down in so many ways (I know not completely but for many it did). People will look back and wonder how more creative thought wasn't put into getting people seen. We could so easily have had a system where someone was put in a holding ward, tested overnight to confirm they were virus-free, moved to a 'clean' ward, treated or tested or assessed and then sent home to a care in the community team that had great PPE and were regularly tested themselves. It wouldn't have been that hard to organise for acute or urgent cases even if less serious illnesses needed to wait for attention.

It has been such an emphatic lesson in the British "can't do" attitude hasn't it?

How on earth did we organise the Olympics? Remember those heady days 8 years ago? Seems like a lifetime :(

@LadyOfTheImprovisedBath

When I was quiet young Margaret Thatcher was PM - and I thought she was like the Queen - always in the job.

Came out I thought this at a school event - and my teacher looked absolutely horrified and my parents laughing- rememeber my Dad saying Thatcher thinks that as well. I remember being really embarrassed at the mistake.

She was in power for so long that’s hardly surprising. I was in primary school when she took office and working in my first full time job by the time she was ousted. In comparison my DD is 12 and there have been four PMs in her lifetime.

Flamin hell. Got told tonight most schools won't be back ft till February and even then it's doubtful due to winter and the second wave of DEATH coming.

Backed up by China is now in second wave and schools closed again 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️. Feeling low 😢

Not China - Beijing. Hopefully they can keep a lid on it.

It's worrying I know :(

China hasn’t got a second wave though, it’s an outbreak in one city in an absolutely massive country. Sporadic outbreaks are bound to happen, it’s a question of properly handling those outbreaks so they don’t have a chance to turn into a second wave, which it sounds like China are doing.

No, no, no. (Channelling my inner Mrs Thatcher here.) It is impossible. They are total doom mongers. It's literally not going to happen because Boris Johnson's back benchers will boot him out. He's already under massive pressure because they want him to move faster.

I actually think his Covid-19 experience has had a huge impact on him. He seems fearful. Beforehand, I think he was more inclined to take risks in approach (and I truly believe he didn't want to close the schools but was bounced into it).

@BarkandCheese In another universe where Leave hadn't won, we could just be going into a GE now with Cameron having recently stepped down as PM. Imagine - a Brexit and Corona free other reality, with a GE fought between George Osborne and Chukka Ummuna, or something like that...

I think the whole thing has shaken Boris to the core, it’s not what he was expecting from his time in number 10. I remember the same thing happening to Blair during the post 9/11 Iraq war weapons of mass destruction time, he aged about ten years almost overnight.

Yes, it almost begs the question why the fuck does anyone ever want to be prime minister?