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We got a bit cut off there didn't we? Thread 15 now.

Is it sad that my sum achievement today is that I've just filtered some rain water into a bottle to keep for my venus flytrap? Supposed to be doing housework but really can't be arsed.
On the bright side, the venus flytrap isn't dead!

[quote Worldgonecrazy]@HesterShaw1. Normally that level of batshit crazy would make the local papers but all must fall at the altar of Covid dementoring. Can you circulate all the parents you know saying you’re worried about the maths teaching at the school if that’s the level of ability shown by the HT?[/quote]
Alas I don't have kids, let alone ones at that school, so I'm not in on parent groups and stuff. I'm trying my hardest to prod my very passive laid back friend into emailing back and demanding an explanation. Like I said, he's a clever guy, but seems to be just going along with it. His teens have been in their rooms for 3 months while he's trying to homeschool his 8 year old, and he's not questioning it :(

@NellyLongarms

Drivingdownthe101 It is batshit - it's like nothing can be reported just as what it is. Reminds me of very early in lockdown when that poor poor girl got stabbed in a park and there was little to no coverage because the media was too busy fetishing the covid deaths.

That’s why I couldn’t be a politician (or anyone in the public eye really). If I’d been asked that question I wouldn’t have been able to resist a sarky reply.

Wasn't there a MN classic thread about squares of poo? Or something similar. I have a vague memory. IIRC i didn't find it that "spat tea on my keyboard" funny as some others. (See also: fucking unfunny penis beaker).

That reminded me, I have a feeling a high proportion of us on here are very long term MNers - is that the case? Sometimes this thread feels like old skool
MN at its best...

I think there real concern that people being forced to congregate outside - to have anything like a life - makes them an easy terrorist target. The nightmare is a Bastille Day style attack with a large vehicle going into a crowd.

Oh gosh Nelly yes the incessant shoehorning of covid into something it has absolutely no connection with. So when BBC covered the death of Dame Vera Lynn ( notably not sad or untimely as not Covid related) they still managed to shove in some NHS covid photos because - well who really knows why because - her life seemed meaningful and important enough not to have needed that particular addendum.

I can't believe you're all taking your lives in your hands with your irresponsible and selfish attitude to mask wearing. Anyone would think that we weren't in the middle of a DEADLY PANDEMIC. I dread to think how the NHS will cope with the influx of patients just FROM THIS THREAD. (Can you tell I've ventured into the rest of MN?)
The whole mask thing is infuriating me. I have always been at the slightly-germphobic end of the spectrum so when I went into a shop earlier and the ridiculous masked woman there fiddled with her mask, held it down while she nattered at me, scratched her nose and then picked up the bread to bag it, I did think "how many bloody germs have you just put all over my bread, you idiot". If I was at all afraid of Covid, I would be far more afraid of people breathing onto a piece of material and then constantly touching its soggy breathed-on surface. Luckily I have no reason to be at all afraid of Covid but for the love of God, if you're going to wear a mask by choice, do it properly!
(When I've had to wear one - public transport and other settings - obviously i haven't worn it properly because i can't stop it steaming up my glasses and also i can't go down stairs without tripping as I can't see through the fog and the mask! But that's a different issue!)

Ten years, Bubble!

Eleven years here - I lost a pregnancy the year before DD was born and found MN then, and DD is very nearly ten.

It’s why we go to Tenerife in October, December and March..just to get me, particularly, through the winter.
Dh is one of those ‘ even keelers’
Nothing fazes him
Apart from me 😂

Course we can as we have no kids.
Which is a bit of a double edged sword as it can get a bit lonely and empty in here just the two of us rattling around.
I even wondered if 68 was a-bit old to have another baby...it would have to come prepared to look after itself..I didn’t wake up till 11 , after I’d had my second sleep.

This is what lock up, does, gives you crazy thoughts.

Not happy with dh this morning...hes overbrewed the colloidal silver 😡
It should be at its optimum best around 20ppm. I asked him to switch it off last night before he got into bed as it needed a bit more brewing. So what did he do, switched it off then switched it in again this morning to brew it a bit more ..and forgot about it..so now it’s 30ppm

He’s supposed to be doing my highlights this morning..can I trust him?

Bloody window cleaner just turned up, first time in three months.
I reckon that’s covid gone then 😡

Oh, @iamapixie that's funny.. I'm a bit germ phobic too and keep saying that's why I hate the mask thing. Festering breeding grounds for all sorts of yuck,never mind saliva and snot 😂

Ohfuckoffwiththebubblebollocks
Really interesting view on the "for your own good". It's concerning.

I didn't think the 1 metres plus meant one metre plus other measures. I just assumed it meant one metre or more if that makes you more comfortable.

Sometimes this thread feels like old skool
MN at its best...

@OhFuckOffWithTheBubbleBollocks I have felt that as well, this thread reminds me of a time I loved MN.

We had someone in this morning to do some work.

So I actually did a load of house work prior to them getting here, last night and early this morning, so I have a clean house.

Younger two have got on with their work - and we had a fun night last night with a film and morrsions night in box.

Older two are confimed going back next week to school - one morning just need to wait for final information - and waiting to hear today from youngest school.

Though looking forward to summer school holiday is more bleak - about three plus weeks of things we already had planned have been cancelled - and a lot of other things we usually do aren't running.

In case you didn’t want to watch the david Icke video I posted about mask wearing, basically at the beginning he said
It was 1/4 to midnight, the day before mask wearing became legal and he was the sole foot passenger waiting for the Isle of Wight ferry to go home.
As he tries to board two guys in masks, ask him to wear a mask to which he refuses. It’s not law he said. That’s tomorrow. However he takes one. and says on video, that’s not going to help anyone.
All the car passengers are in their cars

He’s the only passenger in the lounge.
It’s only about 1/2 hour on the ferry and just after midnight the captain comes and has a word . He was nice, respectful, they had a chat and a bit of a laugh and he asked David if he would wear it when leaving , to which he refuses and tells him why.
There’s no one around to catch the virus, If he was fine before midnights why should he be dangerous after

It’s an exercise in acquiescence ..and to do that we are then on our way to subjugation.
This makes us very easy to control.

This is exactly what is happening now..an exercise in control, that has nothing to do with health.

I met David a couple of times a couple of decades ago. In fact a photo of my daughter, sil and and a friend turned up the other day.lovely man, we held hands while we did a healing circle , to send some energy to a very weird place, and I felt like I’d stuck my hand into an electric socket.

I wish he’d condense some of his videos into half the time though . But if you want to watch the story, it’s the first ten minutes or so, then his son Gareth talks about a trip to the dentist and being offered a mask 😂

( the lizard stuff was weird though)

Eleven years for me on MN, found it when I was pregnant with DS1.

Bloody hell, I joined MN 13 years ago!

Thanks for making me know that, Bubbles

It's like a physical "pulling" feeling in my chest and tummy when I look out of the window and think about it. I have really realistic dreams that I am running, especially when stressed (so lots at the moment). I would give anything to be able to run again. It does feel like I grieve for it (I don't want to be insensitive to people grieving for people though as I know it's not the same)

That sounds like grief to me.

Of course it won't be the same as grieving a person, but I feel a physical yearning sometimes to be with my Dad, and I would give a lot just to have him back for a few hours.

It's not insensitive to have different kinds of grief, and talk about them.

Arguably the grief of losing the ability to run through is "worse" than the expected grief of losing a parent.

Although again, part of the pain for me is how much sooner I lost him than I had every right to expect.

Everyone eventually loses the ability to run, but losing it young is cruel and unfair.

I think it's important to talk about different kinds of grief.

If I never have to hear people minimising the grief of miscarriage or infertility again, it will be too soon.

Anyway, that went long. But at least it stopped me looking for speakeasies.

Anyone this morning who is feeling less than loveable , remember the line from a very old film, may have been gone with the wind, not certain

God never made no ‘neverminds’

I’ve never forgotten that. In fact.I may even have made it up! Lol
I’ve never felt so gritty. Hair needs it’s highlights. Skin is awful. and with a smashed front tooth, I look like the old crone I am,

( I wear my crone badge with pride)

Oh well, need to do my round of vits, mins and herbs that keep me ticking over and see what today brings.

I think there real concern that people being forced to congregate outside - to have anything like a life - makes them an easy terrorist target. The nightmare is a Bastille Day style attack with a large vehicle going into a crowd.

I supposed queues on pavements next to roads - for shops and other things -could be a target - though most festivals and things still aren't happening and I think there are still more people than usual inside or avoiding large gatherings.

Our dentists aren't open yet in wales. Not sure what it says about me though but there a few hoops I wouldn't jump though to get DD1 orthodotist treatment re-started.

12 years for me.

I’m a ‘newcomer’ by these standards I think... 7 years!

I agree about it hopefully being a pause

Costa Rica sounds amazing but yes maybe not right now, hopefully some time soon!

the place we go to in France where we swim in pools in the gorge is called Gorges D'Heric, it is in the south west which is a quiet area.

DS1 is 15 so possibly around 14 years on here (different names though) on and off, has changed quite a bit I think.

I've had a username since 2011 but have been lurking since goodness knows. I was on the BBC Parenting boards when the DC were little in the early 2000s. It's nice here, like the old days with gentle humour, unapologetic swearing and no harsh judgement.
I've struggled on and off with life as I feel disconnected from a lot of discussions. I have carried on going out to work as normal, as has DH, and we have no real educational/health/financial worries.