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)

Greetings fellow antihysterics!! Someone posted a photo of a calm, perfectly socially distanced local Primark on their FB with the headline..... ARE THEY MAD?? HAPPY TO DIE FOR A T SHIRT!!!! And I knew the time had come to join my brethren pon this thread

I popped down to our local toyshop with the DCs so they could pick out a toy each this morning AND stopped for take out ice cream / coffee on the way home, thereby hopefully helping to keep some people employed personally guaranteeing a devastating second wave.

Sorry to let the side down but I don't really like shopping. My OH has done our food shopping ever since we got together 10 years ago. I don't like crowds (mild claustrophobia) and I am too impatient to queue. Also I made a pact at the start of the year with several friends not to buy any new clothes or shoes for the whole of 2020 so I have no plans to shop in town anytime soon. I will be going to H&B for my weekly snack top-up though and tonight we are having chips on the beach with my daughter, son-in-law and 2 grandchildren and we WON'T BE SOCIAL DISTANCING!!!!

Also I used to live quite close to the now notorious Bicester Village & am resisting the urge to reply to all those "I wouldn't go there because I MIGHT DIE" threads with "I wouldn't go there because its a depressing soulless shithole at the best of times".

Also visited the elderly in laws in t ng eir garden, had a drink and didn't socially distance beca8tbey can't actually hear us if we do!

@DrearyWallAntler

I think there will be sub 200 deaths reported today.

Anything sub 150 and this has descended into pure farce.

Plus the fact that deaths are "historical" in that they don't represent the current risk in the community. Where deaths have occurred rapidly, the person is highly likely to have been very vulnerable to anything going, and some deaths will be from infection occurring weeks or months ago, especially if there is a lag in diagnosis and reporting.

I just hope with the numbers of deaths coming down to low hundreds and even tens that the public fear will ease and will increase demand for real normality and reducing social distancing to enable that.

I can handle large scale events and extra curriculars being suspended (and furlough supporting that) but we really need a framework to life back for the majority. (I'd love to get DH into the office, I feel permanently discombobulated with him loitering upstairs )

@SomewhereEast I am also local and it is SO GRIM there. And the queues around Christmas, both before and after are insane. When we had one baby DD (15 days old), we tried to travel to visit my inlaws on Boxing Day, which involved coming off the M40 at Bicester, up to the BV roundabout and then turning right to go towards Aylesbury. Took us 90min to get onto the A41, which is a distance of around 3 miles...

I haven't been there in years, it's massive now they've moved Tesco over the road.

I want to go sniff the books in a bookshop.
Totally Normal, right??

I don't really like shopping. My OH has done our food shopping ever since we got together 10 years ago. I don't like crowds (mild claustrophobia) and I am too impatient to queue.

YOU are my patronus!

I never chose one.

Hate queues, hate shopping, hate crowds.

shudder

@Smitemedamnsmaug

Also visited the elderly in laws in t ng eir garden, had a drink and didn't socially distance beca8tbey can't actually hear us if we do!

I took the DC to visit my grandma in her garden. When we tried to stay 2m away it just descended into a sort of comedy sketch where she just said ‘pardon?’ to every bloody thing we said and we ended up just shouting it louder and louder until she thought she heard us and answered with something completely unrelated to anything we’d said. So we gave up on that! That was 3 weeks ago and she’s not dead yet.

@PatriciaHolm

I want to go sniff the books in a bookshop. Totally Normal, right??

100%. I love books. My husband doesn't agree

Spain is being naughty but if you check the spanish press, it is not bad at all, the government are being paranoid. Yes there are new cases and deaths but lower than ours. The first tourists flew into the balearics two days ago, all german so brits not going yet.

Gah! I’ve just been “stealth dementored”. On a fb group where we have to fly for a specific event. Person asks if we’d be happy travelling July/august. I said absolutely no problem, nothing here, nothing in host country and would fly from a small regional airport.

OP - MY MUM JUST WENT TO THE SUPERMARKET AND 10 DAYS LATER SHE WAS DEAD!!!11!!!

Can someone give me the holiday cottages thread link please.

I’m also not a fan of shopping and have absolutely no plans to go until they drop all this social distancing shit, but I’ll defend to the death my right to go and stand in a queue in Primark if ever I get the urge

We need to ban EVERYTHING that someone did 10 days before they died!!

It's the only safe way forward.

Scotland’s now got the highest unemployment rate but must remain shut (seemingly forever).

@Drivingdownthe101

I’m also not a fan of shopping and have absolutely no plans to go until they drop all this social distancing shit, but I’ll defend to the death my right to go and stand in a queue in Primark if ever I get the urge

Exactly. I don't think I've set foot in Primark for a year, but fair play to people that want to go and circulate money around the economy and keep businesses and jobs viable.

Hello all! Glad to have found the new thread. I've only been to Aldi so letting the side down. I did buy a lovely amount of non essential tat from the middle aisle though.

Just found out our Gregg's will be open this week. Might not queue for primark but happy to queue for a caramel custard donut. Only issue is I'll have dd with me and she might not be so keen.

Apparently though the council have told the fruit stalls they can't open yet (to avoid overcrowding). Other market stalls have been able to but not them

[quote Orangeblossom78]but...Greggs opening Thusday

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53053685[/quote]
Dear gods that will get the local dementors frothing. I couldn’t understand why the local artisan bakers, and Couplands, were open but not Greggs. For some reason, local Facebook groups got really hot under the collar about Greggs but other bakers were acceptable. There’s been a really sneery class snobbery thing going on with a lot of our local dementors

What I can't understand is how out of a neighbourhood of 14,000 people, I've only managed to murder 5. I even went walkies 2 or 3 times a day in the early days (walk for the DCs, run for me and several star gazing walks at night) Even the villages I've been RUNNING and PANTING and SWEATING through have barely scraped handfuls of deaths.

The trouble is, I'm now so institutionalised and bored of every footpath within a 5 mile radius, that I can't psych myself up to get myself out now. I do tend to get running fatigue at this time having normally just done a HM in early June, but there's nothing to train for.

I do however have my first "small group" exercise class tonight. Normally I go to the big class, but the instructor had already estanlished outdoor small groups in the last year so it's great that she can get back to that. She's kept going on Zoom, but I just don't like leaping around in front of a screen that much. I'm hoping that this starting up will fire my brain up a bit now... I need it. (Still in a mentally better place tham last week though)

What I can't understand is how out of a neighbourhood of 14,000 people, I've only managed to murder 5

Me too. All my 1.5 hour walks that I once got crucified for on here (and oh my god the abuse I got when I said I’d walked for 2 hours with the DC to find some piglets that has been been born in a local field) and I only murdered 4 people in the care home, 2 of whom didn’t even have Covid but it was recorded as such anyway.

I didn’t even murder a piglet.

My mum has just called me from town. She can't be doing with the social distancing and is on her way home. She said the aggressive security guards and having to walk around Liverpool One one way, along with not being able to go to the loo or get a cup of tea, rendered what is supposed to be pleasurable, completely stressful. She said she won't be going back until social distancing is a thing of the past.

Can't blame her, sounds shit.