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

My last gig before the lockdown was the Levellers. It's a precious memory. It was full of sweaty shouty singing aging crusties...I imagine the murder rate was fairly high

We've seen them a few times, proper crusty gigs. The last gig before lockdown for us was Supergrass. I miss gigs.

Toilets! www.lockdownloo.com/

There is a whole new generation spawned from the university group where I met my DH. These children are now finding a shared love of table top gaming together with (some of - not me) their middle aged parents. Which bears no relationship whatsoever to the activity we undertook at university but has kept the friendship group alive.

Um....? 🤔🤔

I heard rumours that they changed the floor a few years ago .. all those sticky decades of sloshed beer and snakebite cleaned away. There could have been a cure for Corona Virus breeding in there...

And The Towel in The Irish... one towel, sewn into a loop to service the ladies loos increasingly soggily all night. Just don't wash your hands, you'll infect them

Ooh I forgot! I gave someone a lift today. Basically, on my run (shortly before I stacked it) I met an older gent out with his dog who was out for a walk and was trying to get to a nearby garage to collect his car, but had got a bit turned around (it was a local nature reserve, beautiful it lots of twisty paths and easy to get geographically embarrassed). Gave him directions but when I got back to the visitor centre, there was another couple discussing him with a member of staff - basically he hadn’t turned up and should have done by that point.

Anyway, I was just going to drive to the garage and ring the visitor centre lady should he not have arrived, when he showed up, having done goodness knows how many laps of the place. So I gave him and his dog a lift as it was a hot old day. He was telling me that he used to go trekking in the Himalayas in his youth, so tends not to take a map on little jaunts through Norfolk (fair enough!). He sat in the back so we weren’t face to face and I put the windows down, though the visitor centre lady was a bit doubtful about it. I wasn’t going to leave him to it though.

He was lovely. We’ve probably murdered thousands between us by now though

@HesterShaw1

Um....? 🤔🤔

Bloody hell Hester. The really scary question is, is Hancock really shit with maths, or is it the reporters shaping our views of all this? or both

It’s an exercise in acquiescence ..

Yes! This is exactly what I have been feeling and trying to sum up to others about the active health signalling. (Except I did have to look up the word acquiescence).

I went to the co-op the other day, and had washed my hands with soap and water before leaving the house, like I have done since it started.. Fair enough, there might be some Covid on my handbag, or door key, but unlikely. On going in, they want everyone to pick up a bottle to sanitise their own trolley or basket and then everyone to touch a pump with hand sanitiser in.

So, whereas I could just pick a basket and accept that my chance of catching covid was the number of people with covid in the area x the likelihood they have touched this 1 basket out of 100, i.e. so very small the zeros make your brain work far too hard, I am supposed to touch 2 things that everyone has handled. I don't get it?

It's all just motionless bollocks.

That one we can blame on the media

@HesterShaw1

My favourite ever thread was from years ago - the poster caller Docket who had made the sinister Easter bonnet. I only have to think of it and start giggling. Those poor chicks....

I remember that! Brilliant. I've been here over 10 years. Go through phases of months off and months where I'm here every day. Much dependent on whether I'm addicted to a good book series or there's something crazy going on in the world (when it can go either way, I avoided MN during the brexit chaos and elections!). I've learned a lot here though, especially being able to hear from people from totally different backgrounds that I wouldn't meet in real life.

Lazy afternoon at home after being allowed the afternoon off (TOIL) due to having barely any patients between two nurses. Suggested beach and chippy but DH has a customer coming later and DCs are far too comfortable at home with their screens! I may bribe them into leaving the house tomorrow by giving them an afternoon off school work.

Holiday wise, we had a fortnight in Portugal (visiting family who live there and having massive family gathering) booked for end of July into August. I've cancelled the villa (Airbnb so got credit) as no idea if the flights will be going and easyjet don't know either. Also DS's long awaited therapy is due to start the day we would have gone.

This was going to be our first holiday abroad by plane, my eldest will be 14 next month and never flown!

Considering a city break at some point over the summer, Liverpool looks appealing (never been). We've done camping and countryside and I reckon the teens/tween would appreciate somewhere lively.

I've had to shoo dementory DH out of the kitchen. Back from walking the dog and he starts telling Germanys R rate and wanting to listen to the detailed radio 4 debrief. I've moved him and the blasted radio into the living room so I can make my creamy honey mustard chicken in peace.

I just want the schools to go back full time, it is weighing on me so heavily that I cannot see past it to dream about holidays.

I'm so stressed that we'll still be stuck with part time rubbish, children in bubbles, crap after crap, even in September

Sorry to be moaning Myrtle. I've hit the wall today and I can't drag myself out of this yucky mood.
I want my children's school life back

Bloody hell Hester. The really scary question is, is Hancock really shit with maths, or is it the reporters shaping our views of all this?

I watched the briefing and he definitely said 1 in 400 .....

Haven't watched it but gist from Sky is that Sadly Daily Deaths programme quite upbeat today. @bubble how do you feel re the shielding announcement?

Thought it was probably a typo!

Hopefully the Beeb corrects it

Yep, the death show was positive today. Onwards and upwards.

Made me chuckle Ibake

Oh no @dowser. Focus on his other good points. You've told us loads of them over the last few weeks. Ok so he can neither be trusted with colloidal silver (get me, had never even heard of that until I met you) and highlights but remember, he's your even keel and you love him! Ps pics?!grin

Trouble is, you’ve got two alpha types trying to do it their way, only one can’t see to do it properly ( me)

I don’t think it’s taken..going to rinse off in a moment
Probably didn’t mix it right ..I just did a bit at a time, as I knew it would take all afternoon..and it has

Just a worry that I have it on too long it will melt my hair, which is thin and fine anyway.

It’s had a good hour ☹️

Btw..been here about 7 years, married for 5 years and Was here a couple of years before that, which is how I can remember cos I was on a slimming for wedding thread.

Yes , he’s a good’un, ( he must be to put up with me) I’ll stick with him For a few more years yet.

( just wish he was a gardener, diy..er, hairdresser lol)
He is a good cook.
And he looks alright for 67 👍

@NannyPhlegm 💐 we all have those days. Pure rubbish.

Been here since 200 when expecting DS. Lost my e mail (hacked) then too busy for years. Forgotten my name so had to re-register with new e -mail. DS has walked with his girlfriend today, he is in bits, plaster on toes, gone to bed for a sleep he is so exhausted. From fit to a blob in three months he said.

I'm not sure, I heard Harries saying we need to 'learn to move forward with our lives with restrictions.'

Which resulted in me switching it off. Truth hurts, maybe.

Then i was told I should have said in my comment I was not being racist confused and I should have commented negatively on the leafleting, rather than leaving it to others to make up their minds! It was exhausting.
Wtaf are they on a discussion thread without the ability to comprehend plain English? This desperate need to have every word in a post explained before someone reads it is pathetic.

@AnxiousElephant77

I'm not sure, I heard Harries saying we need to 'learn to move forward with our lives with restrictions.'

Which resulted in me switching it off. Truth hurts, maybe.

In that case she can explain to me exactly how I am supposed to move forward if ds can't go to school full time? Is there going to be a "moving forward" fund for childcare for kids who aren't allowed in school full time? I doubt it somehow. These people don't live in the real world do they.

@TrustTheGeneGenie I completely agree. How is anything going to get moving if we can't just move forward?! Even hospitality is saying, 'well yes we can break even at 1m, but we won't be making any profit.' So we can hardly call 1m plus a win, really!

I am possibly feeling a little irritated as we had an email from ds school. He's Y5, they are letting them go in on 1st July for 45 minutes. Arranged into time slots by surname, so he's there for 45 minutes with anyone in his class with a surname starting with the letters P to Z.

What's the bloody point? It'll take more effort getting the kid out the house, and unless his mates are alphabetically there at the same time, he won't see them. I appreciate them trying, I really do. I don't mean to be awful but it really does seem a complete waste of time.

Well they have spoken about shielding so after it ends you can no longer get ssp if you still feel unable to go to work. Hopefully their employers will be able to reassure them.

Re over 70`s you do not hear anything about them any more just granny hugs. Will they need to carry on taking extra precautions?