Anti-dementors are driving round the Arc de Triomphe

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God that's crap @hestershaw. Fucking, arsing curtain twitching nation of snide, peevish twats is a role far too many people have been delighted to adopt. Ann Frank would have been in her attic for only a week if it had been up to most of the dementors. Am v cross on your behalf (can you tell )

Scotland still restricted to 5 miles

What a weird way to demonstrate your superiority over the Sasanachs.

"Human rights are indefinitely suspended! You can't take our freedom because we don't have any."

Thank fuck Ireland gave that shite up a few weeks ago.

I wonder were they informed there would be no EU bailout for a prolonged superiority lockdown.

Put big banners outside saying "were not open you massive dick heads"

God that's so tempting!

Fair enough @HesterShaw1 I wouldn’t be sending stroppy emails first off without some supporting evidence like a site visit. There should be a chain of escalation - fact finding, reminder of obligations, then formal action.

We’re being asked to enforce the social distancing rules on building sites by complainants and they get very angry when we say that’s out of our remit.

@dowser my DH must be bored too as he's just done the downstairs. He's so much better at it than me, he moves furniture and everything! Another reason I like your posts is because you talk about his home and where we spent lots of time before I persuaded him to the NW as he's from Yarm. Every time you say Northallerton or Runswick Bay I get a warm glow.

Now I don't even live in Scotland but even I know some places are more than 5 miles from the nearest "civilization" how does that work?

Lots of disclaimer words like "where possible".

I'm seriously pessimistic for the Wales announcement tomorrow

We’re having an impossible time with ds1 & his ECHP atm. I had an incredibly upsetting conversation with my mum about it this morning.

I try to avoid talking about it because it’s complex & suggestions are nearly always unhelpful - but after having spent a few hours listening to my unbelievably lucky sister throw the ‘only sacrifice we’re being asked to make is being stuck on the sofa watching Netflix’ and furlough gives her “time to work on my screenplay” etc with a thick dose of BLM but only when it’s social media performance not real things like opening schools so BAME kids aren’t further screwed - I was actually upset.

Anyway I’m not trying hard enough - I should be able to defeat the combined forces of the LA, schools, CAHMS, and NHS all downing tools “cos there’s a pandemic & it’s not safe & it isn’t a priority” by strategic letter writing & complaints. I honestly don’t think I could feel any crapper right now.

And I have to be kinder to dsis because she’s just naive & scared (she’s a 25 year old archetypical poor little rich girl SJW). Dh & I are on our knees but we need to try harder and be nicer and make more allowances.

MagdaS are you in construction? So am I.

Much as Wales has dragged its feet, it is the only one of the four Nations that did not stop construction and manufacturing, right from Day One. Not just that, they actively protected the sectors from public shaming (and there was a lot of that in the early days). As a result, my job has been secure.
If they'd just get their act together now, I'd be a happy chappie.

[quote Ibake]@dowser my DH must be bored too as he's just done the downstairs. He's so much better at it than me, he moves furniture and everything! Another reason I like your posts is because you talk about his home and where we spent lots of time before I persuaded him to the NW as he's from Yarm. Every time you say Northallerton or Runswick Bay I get a warm glow. [/quote]
Exactly. Just a courteous phone call would have done the trick.

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meant to quote Magda.

Checking in quickly before going back to read through

@MagdaS currently involved with a super frustration planning application so I hear your pain...

@NannyPhlegm we didn't stop on the sites I was on in England either.

Ok thanks. It's still fairly rubbish then, and actually it would almost pay to be middle of nowhere as you could then drive in any direction and it still be under the clause.

While I’m ranting there was also “well don’t speak to me about this stuff if you don’t like my suggestions” [actually I actively don’t, you caught me at a low moment & I’ll make sure it isn’t repeated]

And point out that

“Hopefully the theatres will open soon/festivals will run/dd1 won’t lose her job” (they are all artsy ppl) is not compatible with “one covid infection or death is too many”

Asking what is an acceptable level of infection/death vs restrictions is me being ‘hard’ and pointing out that we do that with every other disease just mean. Example of chickenpox which can kill children & has a vaccine which the NHS don’t use - why? because small risk of child dying from preventable chickenpox infection is considered acceptable to reduce the risk of an elderly person developing shingles*. Blew their minds. Particularly since I vaccinated mine - I truly am evil.

(*low level exposure to wild varicella ie kids catching it protects older people from developing shingles)

I don’t think I have ever felt more alienated from everyone.

@Dowser

I don’t under how they THINK they can police this 5 mile fuckwittery nonsense either Utter bollocking bastards

Apparently round here they are checking number plates😠

I want to go to the boody zoo but its way too far away. How the hell do they think its going to survive with only locals visiting?
Was all revved up to go visit my aunt but we still cant use her bloody loo😠 I cant go all day without needing the loo! If i clean it how the hell am I going to infect her? I will even wear a bloody mask if i have to. Fuck off Nippy.

Ibake
I drove through Yarm for the first time in a long time about 6 weeks ago when I met my dil in Northallerton ( look two in one sentence 😁)As I mistakenly thought the A19 was closed completely
Still as lovely as ever but it took twice the time and no the A19 isn’t closed they’re widening it, and yes ..nightmare

My second homeopath lived in Yarm. He might know her. It’s going back a long while . Her clinic was at the bottom end On the left as if you’d come from Stockton. Called her Jan and I’ve forgotten her second name. She moved back into N Yorks, she was a yorkshire lass before she moved to Australia.

And now it’s raining as dh has done the windows.
Still it was torrential in Cardiff/barry .While I was talking to my cousin .so not complaining.

@HesterShaw1

My father in law once got lost on a caravan holiday and ended up having to drive, caravan in tow, kids in car bickering, around the Arc.

Domina this happened to us! Exactly! Though it was a trailer tent not a caravan. Got the wrong junction off the Peripherique and ended up in the centre of bloody Paris. He was pale and shaking. I think even we three children were shocked into silence.

Oh the days before satnavs....

Oh dear, I've done the "accidentally round the Arc" drive too!! Ex was supposed to be taking over for that bit (much more experience driver in France) and somehow we didn't find anywhere to stop, and suddenly... chaos.

We made it. Never again though!!

The wiping shopping thread just makes me think of arses.

Willow..I wonder how many of the rules these rule makers break
Just asking.
Would love to see them all caught with their pants down ( 😂not literally naturally)

DSIs works for Warner brothers btw - they’ve created a similar thing to this but she’d rather stay at home

NothingIsWrong Ah I didn't realise. I seem to remember Boris making a big announcement saying construction was to re-start, about 5-6 weeks into lockdown.... I have made a wrong assumption based on that!

Maybe it’s a rite of passage to ‘ do the arc de triomphe’
Not one I’ll be contemplating.
Or Swindon
Or that big bugger in Sheffield lol

@NannyPhlegm I’m a town planner.

@NothingisWrong solidarity

@Willow2017 you can now use someone else's toilet from tomorrow. Although it says rather sternly -Hygiene measures are essential- so as long as you don't spread faeces and urine on the wall , and remember to flush - you should be ok.