Anti-dementors are driving round the Arc de Triomphe

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[quote Blobby10]**@BogRollBOGOF your DS has excellent taste!! Rattler is indeed the nectar of Gods (especially if ice cold and drunk on a Cornish beach at sunset) .

Does remind me of the time by own DS2 (then aged 5) declared his favourite ever drink was double gin and tonic! He had tasted either mine or my MIL drink (admittedly it was a home measured drink and she was generous!) screwed up his face in disgust but then announced to his schoolteacher he drank it. Fortunately I had a very good relationship with his teachers and she didn't call SS on me [/quote]
God...Rattler! Sheer loopy juice. I swear it's hallucinogenic.

[quote CarrotPuff]@torydeathdrug I believe there was an article fairly recently that said according to satellite data, there was more traffic coming in and out of Wuhan hospitals from around August last year. China said it was all nonsense, obviously 🤔[/quote]
I had heard that too.

For nearly 5 years (in total) of my life I was always breastfeeding between 6 & 7.

There was not really much flexibility on that. I never went to the theatre or out afterward work. My babies needed to be fed to sleep and I was the only one who would do it.

I think I would have been looking for a refund on a 7pm check in, TBH. I just wouldn't have worked for me or my baby or the rest of the family.

One of the reasons we go self-catering is so that we can just do things our way.

It wouldn't bother us now, although it's a bloody awkward time when no restaurants are open.

The 7pm check in wouldn't have normally bothered me, but the poor owners have also been advised to not accept early luggage drop offs. Combined with lack of places to sit and eat to kill time, it probably just is the last straw as ImprovisedBath says.

It genuinely isn't the fault of the cottage owners, but the advice given to them by the tourist boards makes the experience really shitty for the holiday makers. I'm hoping that after the initial chaos, everything will settle to an agreeable medium.

And for every family with young kids who won't be able to deal with the new check-in times, there will be those with older kids or no kids who will snap up the lets.

Our check in time has been changed to 5pm. We can work around that.

@HesterShaw1

Happy to admit I'm a cranky cow being unreasonable and that the train thing hadn't occurred to me

I'm just really scared of this summer. People demanding discounts because things are unusual and not what they expect. Maybe I'm doing visitors a disservice and they'll be more reasonable than that.

Most people assume everyone drives.

One of my siblings got called to a meeting this week in nearby town to where they live and work - had to get train and walk and the heavens opened. They had to argue with the receptionist that they couldn't sit in their car for 10 minutes as they'd come by train - they were begrudingly let in few minutes early to wait in completely empty hallway - no people no furiture.

They manged to refrained from licking the walls and door knobs and kept their travel mask on as instructed.

I understand the fear though.

As soon as we can travel to tourist sites - anywhere we can get to we're really keen to go - and we have money to spend. I think there may be many like us - desperate to see and do a bit more than usual.

*Reckon this could possibly be dementored?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53106673*

I don't think it is too bad. Just kind of saying it's not gone away and might well be local flare ups - I guess it is just in case people think it's just vanished or something

I understand the fear though - to do with tourism- standing around in empty rooms with mask on not so much.

Yes Nanny that's where a I was coming from really. The people asking for discounts from cottage owners who have had a third of their season wiped out, and are having to jump through all these hoops they know probably are over the top.

*Reckon this could possibly be dementored?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53106673*

The article has disappeared. Your welcome.

I'm quite interested to see what happens in Bath this Autumn / winter. It has got so busy in recent years with the Christmas market, this keeps getting extended (with a backlash from residents) It might be nice it it is a bit quieter. Obviously not so good for business though and for the local economy. (although a lot come on buses for a day out)

The article has disappeared. Your welcome.

So it has, how strange. Maybe adding in some dementoring to keep people in check!

*Reckon this could possibly be dementored?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53106673*

Oh no it's still there. I just clicked the link with a star on it. I need to go polish my patronus.

Hi all - just checking in for some sanity. Got so fed up with the school thread yesterday I had to do a first for MN and hide a thread. I'm now limiting myself to a once (or twice) a day visit as otherwise it's just too much mental for one person to take.

We're heading up to my parents tomorrow after the aborted attempt last weekend when DH woke up with a cough . He got a test within half an hour which was negative. Let's hope tomorrow is a bit more successful.

DS (11) went out in the peeing rain yesterday to meet friends. I called him after the second torrential downpour to say did he think he ought to come home and he was crying with laughter down the phone and shouting at me "this is the best fun we've had since lockdown started!" so I let him stay and just stripped him off at the front door when he got home and threw him straight in the bath. They took a selfie whilst they were there and the general joy emanating from all of them nearly made me cry. DS said that they were going to post it on their classroom thread but then thought they ought not to because they weren't "socially distanced" and they're really weren't.......ah well....

I think the issue for me is that all these extra measures that are being in place, which negatively impact my holiday (such as later check in times to allow for deeper cleaning), are things that I really do not care about. I would be more than happy for the standard clean to take place. I don’t want my pegs disinfecting. There is almost a zero chance of me catching Covid from someone who happened to be in the cottage just before me.
I completely understand that it’s not the cottage owners fault, and they’re jumping through hoops to meet the standards required of them, but I just want what I’ve booked stamps feet in a childish tantrum . As always though this thread has made me see the other side of the issue so I will suck it up, unless they don’t let us use the hot tub in which case I’ll properly kick off!

Afternoon all, I took my smallest DV (disease vector) shopping this morning and we went to both primark and Gregg's so surprised the Nando's chart hasn't shot up to 5.

It's a little back in the thread but I love a good risk assessment but it seems so many of people are incapable of understanding how they work. It's largely common sense but that seems to be sorely lacking

Haha. We should definitely start calling our children ‘DV’s rather than ‘DC’s

She's been at nursery all week and they definitely have not been social distancing!

I watched sky new last night.

Their covid fact sheet that come up on TV has 72 hour on surface still despite the current thinking that these trace amount of virus material isn't enough to infect a person.

They also had interview with pediatrician around the letter several thousand had signed and sent to Government about the desperate need to get children back to school.

It was their covid news reader doing interview who seemed shocked to hear children weren't superspreaders - that in last few months we'd learnt a lot and several studies showed they got it less frequently, less severely and passed it on to adults they lived with very rarley and thus school were less a risk than offices.

Maybe it's mix of poor risk assesmenet and just out of date information that's making people seem crazy.

Very late check in to the latest thread (how apt...). Just been reading the dementors vs anti-dementors thread with some amusement. I also, praise be, just visited a charity shop! It was fabulous, I bought clothes and books for the kids and apart from the perspex screen at the till and the staff member wearing a government muzzle it felt normal. How refreshing.

Mt dd's in her first weekly session back at school. She gets one hour and 40 minutes a week, and all they're doing apparently is pressuring the kids to start sorting out their university applications. They aren't teaching them anything at all.

I don't blame the school, knowing the head as I do I imagine he's turning cartwheels trying to get kids back in.

But this is just pointless, especially as DD was on the 'vulnerable' list previously (she wangled it somehow) and was able to go in for a day a week and actually do work. Now that's been withdrawn as she isn't allowed any contact outside her bubble, which is now this one hr 40 group. She's texting me like made with some very sweary opinion on it all

Like mad, not like made

Okay, I’ll admit I didn’t really think through all the reasons why 7pm check in might not work. I was guilty of the classic it works for me so it should work for everyone else mumsnet thing.

@BarkandCheese

Okay, I’ll admit I didn’t really think through all the reasons why 7pm check in might not work. I was guilty of the classic it works for me so it should work for everyone else mumsnet thing.

Yes, but admitting it isn't exactly the done thing now is it?

No it’s no. I should dig in and defend my position in the face of all rational arguments until I’m left shouting “I’m right and you’re all wrong” into the void.