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've been through some of the double roundabouts in Swindon near the outlet shops, they were bad enough

Just gearing up for a Greggs coffee tomorrow, a side order of sausage roll would go down well. I've got one within sort of walking distance so could combine with exercise

45 more bogrolls to my name
First purchases since I stocked up in mid-Feb by a trip to Costco a bit earlier than our usual schedule.

Oh how I watched the panic buying with detached amusment.

I've bought hand sanitiser in Aldi too. Normality is creeping back gradually

Hope you're doing ok @jourdain. I too am a Sikora (and dog) fan @ thanks for the article @Ibake. I can't rem if I've posted this but sounds reasonable. unherd.com/2020/06/karl-friston-up-to-80-not-even-susceptible-to-covid-19/ We don't seem to be getting much in th way of scientists opinions any more (other than Prof Sikora I mean)!?

I have to chunter to myself to get through double mini-roundabouts. Well. Mini roundabouts generally.

I could probanly handle the one at Hemmel Hempsted. I have probably been around iy decades ago. Is there something similar at High Wychome? I seem to remember going around some complex roundabout network around there.

@cattemole absolutely boyses.

Hope you have a good night and get released again, @Jourdain11

I have just had the very belated realisation that Bicester Village is a shopping centre and not an actual village, and that's why everyone's so wound up about it - I was quite bemused As you were...

Just realised, hasn't it been 2 weeks now since the first BLM protests? Wonder if the dementors will be sat now watching the daily sadly death show today waiting for a huge spike in cases.....
A friend of mine posted about it on FB "this is why we will end up back in lockdown".
Sorry love, didn't realise we were out of it.

Also is it today or tomorrow when the ONS publish their infection data?

I'm pretty sure ONS data is today.

That first roundabout looks like you get the centre and will be stuck there forever!

Trying to decide if I have the strength to reply to a post saying if social distancing stops in schools then everything else should go back to normal, that's not how risk management works

@Jourdain11, hope you have a better day

Just saw a poster ask if a chicken bought in Wales was safe to eat as there has been a cluster of positive cases* in a chicken processing plant.

Decided I’m going to use ‘cluster of people testing positive’ or ‘positive cases’ rather than ‘outbreak’ . Languages is one of the tools we can use to help I scare people

@Littlebelina

That first roundabout looks like you get the centre and will be stuck there forever!

Trying to decide if I have the strength to reply to a post saying if social distancing stops in schools then everything else should go back to normal, that's not how risk management works

@Jourdain11, hope you have a better day

Reply! There should be an oath to call out absolute misinformed crap when we see it

Just love that area pickachew
First made a connection with it in 1979, so 41 years ago when we bought our first holiday home

Willow..so sorry you’ve been going through it also
Have a look at Bach flower remedy white chestnut for aiding sleep that is prevented by thoughts going round and round in your head
Good on the tears though. We all need to cry this out. Just to get the release from the pain, fear and anger our bodies are holding onto

I had an excellent article on the Bach flowers for sleep or so I thought
Went looking for it, but only saved the link
So nothing there ☹️

I might have it saved somewhere else.

I find melatonin on a night with 2 wilkinsons sleep aid tablets just help to take the edge off

willow I'm a believer in a good sob to get everything out. I find it difficult to cry in front of others even DH so, if necessary, I lock myself away with a glass of red wine, a bar of dark chocolate, a box of tissues and a playlist of sad music. Doesn't happen often, usually if I have had to have a horse pts and DH knows to just leave me alone. Very cathartic.

Those roundabouts remind me of the carnage that is the arc de triomphe in Paris.
A hell I never want to revisit.
We stayed about 6 miles out of the centre.
Say no more
First husband was the driver and I was the white knuckled passenger.
I think there was something like 6 or 8 lanes of pure chaos

Right, going to try to bag myself another hour or two kip 🤞🤞🤞

Yes the first BLM protests should definitely have shown through now. There's a guy on Twitter called David Paton (economics lecturer I think) who is an endless sources of graphs & statistics. One interesting indicator he cites is NHS stats on Covid-related calls to 111/999, but he also uses hospital beds & admissions. Basically all the indicators are trending down or at worst flat lining (infection rates - although that has to be balanced out by testing levels). Of course there's a legitimate argument that they all might be falling a bit faster if it wasn't for the odd mass gathering or whatever, but who knows...

Also anecdotal I know, but....everything I've seen suggests that social distancing has really slid in day to day life in lots of continental European countries, with no ill effects thus far. And obviously they're all ahead of us in lifting restrictions.

Weirdly Wales is sort of flat-lining despite the ultra-hard lockdown, whereas London (home to mass protests & Over-Crowded Parks Of Death) continues to be really positive

Dh going into work today which is good

I've just been on the contaminated Welsh Chicken thread too. Dear god.
When I got to the disinfecting the wheelie bin posts I lost the will to live.
Our wheelie bin is a sunbathing spot for the local fly population so disinfecting it is a bit pointless really.
I was tempted to say that we put our groceries in the local Cesium irradiator followed by an autoclave cycle. Anything less and We Will All Die.
Our groceries in reality remain dangerously unsterile.
Naughty me.

Morning murderers

DH (who has only been unfurloughed for 10 days) has been rained off from work and is back at home cluttering up my space again. If I'd known this was going to happen, I would have left going to IKEA yesterday and sent him today. Then again, he would probably have been arrested and I still wouldn't have my bookshelves

@SpnBaby1967 Another resident of concrete cow land here

I've only driven the Hemel roundabout once. If was also my first time driving in snow and there was a mini-blizzard in progress. It probably made it less frightening as all the lane markings were buried under several inches of snow and everyone was just getting round it anyway they could

@Drivingdownthe101 right I've gone for it. Let's see what I get in response

BBC is saying

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is expected to announce a further easing of the lockdown today. The decision is likely to include a date for when shops selling non-essential goods can reopen and people are set to be allowed to meet in larger groups than the current limit of eight. People could also be allowed to meet another household indoors for the first time since the lockdown was imposed across the UK on 23 March

Morning all,

Thank you so much for all the lovely messages! You cheered me up

Unfortunately I didn't have a great night... the sickness got worse again and I started vomiting blood, so it was all drama, drama and I got whisked off for tests. Shall find out what's going on soon, I hope, but fingers crossed it won't be anything too significant! I think my chances for release today are low though.

I'd promised to do a phone call with DC before school and DD1 put me through a rigorous interrogation. "Are you SURE you're telling me the truth? Your voice sounds all weak mummy, it does!"

In other news - the hospital has been de-Covidised! I got very confused on arrival because everything had moved. Apparently the large bits which were requisitioned for This Terrible Disease have now been returned to normal...

@MinesaPinot

I read something interesting on another thread (I think, unless it was earlier on this one) about Cameron Macintosh's statement about the theatres. It suggested that this might be his way of trying to force the Government's hand to start to reopen theatres in view of how much his big shows, particularly Les Mis contribute to the economy, particularly tourism. Not something I immediately thought of I must admit.

That was me (unless someone else said it too). DH was talking about it a couple of days ago, before it hit the press. I don’t know if Cam Mac’s statement took that long to be picked up by the press or if he kept saying it until someone listened. Anyway, through his work DH knows quite a few theatre high ups and that’s where the Cam Mac trying to force the governments hand came from. I know it’s a bit my granny’s neighbour’s dog walker’s cousin works in ICU, which we (rightly) scoff at on here, but it’s got a reasonably good chance of being true.