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

Thanks Insane I will mention that to Dad. he said something about having a wetsuit which I was a bit about (he is quite old) but maybe needs it for the warmth I suppose.

I have just sent him the rather bleak memoir "Motherwell" for father's day as he grew up not far from there. Kind of regretting it though a bit as it was slightly depressing in some places. It will be something for him to do though I suppose

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane

Mascotte m&s is selling mini caterpillar cakes... 😂

Anti-Dementors laugh in the face of mini caterpillar cakes.

Full size only! One apiece.

FWIW my children have been in as key worker children throughout and I think it’s outrageous that not all children are back in and the widening inequality gap.

All that bollocks spouted on school threads about private schools not going back ‘because they know it’s not safe’ and they’re the ones that have managed to get their entire school back in.

is anyone good a maths? = no

I've given up booze because I've put on the best part of a stone in the last ten weeks. It's miserable.

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane and @Nihiloxica murdering caterpillars is on tomorrow's agenda 😂

Our infant newsletter was all "we are FULL of kids from MORE IMPORTANT families than yours - the teachers are all working VERY VERY HARD and the media is VERY VERY HORRIBLE" and not even a fucking mention of the poor Y2s losing all their leavers stuff and that the school is sorry to see them go. We get the odd email forwarded on from the year 2 team - but the Head's washed her hands of the departing year group.

We have to all queue up, the families of the Worthy, in our little painted 2m jails on the path and have our children admitted to the school fortress one by one - this school that was previously a community with parents and families in all the time, governors in visiting and helping out, the caretaker roaming emptying bins and trying to find any random volunteers to chat football to (he was like a homing missile the other day when he spotted me as he was on the roof of the building doing repair work and the footy had restarted) and just a really warm and welcoming place - is now somewhere that even the governors are forbidden to enter and parents are public enemy number 1 (so parent governors, always the least liked variety, are obviously below even that). It's horrible and I hate school drop off now - keep all your family in your box and don't smile or look happy to be there. The only reason I send DD2 is that I trust the staff and I know THEY are happy and want the kids there (and even the Head does when she drops the "trying to deter the parents" front). The other school have numbered spots for the kids to line up on - which feels horrid - but the kids don't seem bothered by, but it's very much "morning, in you come, hands washed and sit down" with a smile at least and you don't feel completely unwanted - even the year groups they have open to general admission (rather than keyworker bubbles) and have parents waiting at the gate - staff stand there with a walkie talkie to call for the kids to come out - but will have a chat with you rather than just openly seething at your existence.

She bloody hates the fact that DD2 goes in despite me NOT being a "key worker" although DH does work in a priority industry we didn't really dare claim he was one as one of the teacher's husbands works with him and therefore it's well known his employer has been so flexible over this they have a potential career as a contortionist if they wanted! I did make very clear to the class teacher that I was prepared to really challenge DD2 not being classed as suffering enough to go back, that if I did it was nothing at all directed at her because I knew she was being thwarted from higher up and it was all aimed at getting the Head to accept the situation (I get on very well with the teaching staff at that school though so tend to get the more honest version of things rather than the professionally coated one!) - fought that one and won... and the benefits to DD2 were massive - her speech hasn't fully got back to anywhere near where it was pre-lockdown, it's still very disorganised and she's clearly struggling to plan out what she wants to say - but the stammer and word finding problems that were creeping in have reduced down at least. DD1's temper is starting to cool back to its normal volcanic level, rather than thermonuclear like it was before as well! They're going to grandparents for a good chunk of the summer holidays - think they just need that change of scenery, more place to play in the huge garden rather than our postage stamp (since no one seems to give a shit about actually opening parks and things) and just a bit of a clean line drawn under "this was the shit bit of your childhood with Covid - when you come back mid-August you're back into school uniform properly and hopefully things will only be slightly odd by then" I still feel so guilty taking mine into school though when I'm not "important" enough to be entitled to a school place and it's only the combination of me seeing my kids struggling AND being confident enough to bring it to the attention of school (and make a fuss in the case of the youngest - the oldest's school were straight on the phone saying "bring her in") that means we're allowed to stand in the line on a morning.

I remembered the strangest thing though - I was in primary school - probably not much older than DD1 is now, and we had to write a story about what it would be like if we woke up and everyone else had disappeared. I remember I wrote that I rang the speaking clock up to hear another human voice and the teacher loved that detail and asked me if I thought it would be like that wanting to hear another person if everyone vanished. Farrrrr too many years later and apparently 8 year old me was right and humanity is completely driven by the need to interact with other humans. Just a totally funny memory of the very strange kid I was back then.

It's my birthday on Sunday... I think I shall demand a full size mummy caterpillar and then five baby caterpillars and I will eat them all

Re: schools and teachers, I find MN the complete opposite from RL. Various DNs/DNephews at school and the attitudes from head's etc have been great. DN in keyworker space says they do the work set to children at home in the morning, then after lunch they can choose to either watch David Attenborough, read or 'have a lay down and relax' (she chooses the latter every day and has no qualms about it ). BIL is vulnerable so has worked from home throughout as enough teachers available to rota in so far, but is hoping to go back full time in September and says all the others in his department (science secondary) feel the same.

Wow, Domina, that's an amazing thing for a 8 year old to put in a story.

I love that. It's so very cool. Thanks for sharing.

The German R number is 42, Jason Leitch got it out the big computer in Bute House that takes days to do Very Hard Sums. It is operated by Derek Mackay dressed in a gimp suit, they chained him in there so he couldn't embarrass them any more, and he was also the best mathematician they had to hand.

@Spudlet we have DD2 about to transition into the juniors and I've just emailed the class teacher asking her to ring me so we can discuss things and get them in place. I've already spoken to the SENCO, but fuck it - if things were "normal" we'd have a transition meeting with both school SENCOs and new and old class teachers and I am NOT going to feel guilty asking for someone to ring me to make sure MY kid is going to be as OK as possible at the end of all this. I know the teacher will be OK - she's just had DD1 all this year (DD1 is now the only child who has ever beaten a battle of wills with the teacher in question who failed in her every attempt to stop her wittering on constantly and just ended up ignoring it - DD1's vocal cords are really an unstoppable force) and DD1 really took to her, but I'm making sure my little person is not forgotten in all of this shitstorm!

Lethargic
How amazing is that?
Lucky you
I came to the party late
I never got away with it till 8 years ago
It opens so many doors for you

I’ve used homeopathy for over 40 years
When I was getting nowhere with doctors.
It’s my go to when I’m not well
My daughter is. a Trained homeopath. Her and her family are quite a healthy bunch.
She is not a Dowser, but she can.

Love the flower remedies..they are amazing.

Maybe you need to switch off your science brain and go with the flow.

My amazing Gp, left allopathy well behind. I became her patient when she was 70 and was very fortunate to be her patient till she retired at 91
She used to put little phials of nasties on your solar plexus , you held out your arm and she would press. If you couldn’t meet her pressure then that was the bug in your system , bringing your immune system down. She would then give you the appropriate homeopathic remedy
She also had nutritional advice, everything

You can use homeopathy on pets . Really good as they have no preconceived ideas.

Zoom meeting coming to an end, I can hear my friend talking about Raymon grace..look him lethargic
His YouTube videos ..blueprint to freedom are great for dowsing away negative energy

We all need that

Heck, you don’t even need to be a Dowser. Just get something that swings on a chain, a locket will do, and swing it anti clockwise while watching Raymon
That will help you a lot.
I think this is the first one, there’s about 9 only short ones . Bite sized chunks
I think he’s great. A simple mountain man who likes to keep things simple
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPoe2AUW-kWpuPZ7KUtIXvuF57ZWzOUvp

An end to shielding! Yay! But guess who's found a down side to it? Yup, it's Eeyore.

@Willitneverend the picture I have in my mind now 😂😂😱

@Willitneverend

The German R number is 42, Jason Leitch got it out the big computer in Bute House that takes days to do Very Hard Sums. It is operated by Derek Mackay dressed in a gimp suit, they chained him in there so he couldn't embarrass them any more, and he was also the best mathematician they had to hand.

😂😂😂

@Mascotte Alex Salmond parked outside with a Mai Tai plotting about how he'd do it much better...

Glad to have provided some entertainment on a windy evening!

😂😂

I don’t drink Tory
And so have I ( put on a stone)
I’ve got huge boobs, belly and bum
Half decent hair ( that needs a trim) , a smashed tooth at the front , but at least the spots that mushroomed on my nose ( of all god awful places) appear to have subsided.

It’s a bloody good job I’m not in the market for a third husband isn’t it?

Unless he’s a gardener, do it yourselfer, hairdresser and likes little old fat Partially blonde Women , with big boobs, belly and bum to match and when she smiles has an old crone tooth.
So far, I’m missing the wart on the end of my nose...for now
😂

@weeds - Colin Robinson would be a very very tedious dementor

I need some sanity on this thread. There are people on a local fb thread still going about the dangers of sitting on a bench in the park!

@IAintentDead

So around 40,000. Only a couple of zeros wrong. And zeros are nothing anyway 😏😏😏😏😏😏

There are reasons why I am not a mathematician. I get what numbers mean but the bastards just don't behave when I calculate them. Mental arithmetic is evil and the sods wriggle around and I lose the order. Much like homeschooling my precious darlings

Is there a real danger of a backlash against the key worker adoration now?

Just saw that bloody awful advert with the actor Amazon worker happily talking through his mask, cheerfully assuring us that it's his family, the NHS and key workers that keep him motivated. I mean, really? I turned off several radio channels today too because they kept squawking on about the new normal and that we all have to constantly be overwhelmed with gratitude for key workers.

Of course I'm grateful to them! But stop telling me I should be deifying them.

Had to laugh. DH has had call to phone 111 this evening ( nothing serious as it turns out)
Phone options:
Option 1: Do you think you have covid?
Option 2: Does your under 18 month old have covid - have they lost their sense of taste or smell ( hard to know with an under 18 month old I'd warrant)
Option 4: Have you got an illness related to coughing or losing your sense of taste of smell?
Option 5: Its possible your call may not be covid related please continue to hold

@Willitneverend

The German R number is 42, Jason Leitch got it out the big computer in Bute House that takes days to do Very Hard Sums. It is operated by Derek Mackay dressed in a gimp suit, they chained him in there so he couldn't embarrass them any more, and he was also the best mathematician they had to hand.

🤣🤣🤣

Oh and when I dropped DH off at A&E there were about 20 ambulances just sitting there and he got seen within 10 minutes. The NHS seems to have things well under control in Scotland at least, so maybe we could move it all on a bit.