The ADs seek joy and aubergines

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

@Orangeblossom78

On Mumsnet madness on twitter they did a really good picture of one looked a bit like Mrs Doyle from Father Ted.

They do remind me of Mrs Doyle bellowing "Maybe I LIKE the misery" at poor Ted

Today has been a slow day for us although we have got DD quite an array of new clothes so she's happy. Shops were quite civilised.

School yesterday (her first day hour and 50 mins back) was absolute rubbish. She said she isn't going next week and the teacher said it'd be recorded as an unauthorised absence so I'd get a phone call. I am itching for that call. An unauthorised absence indeed, when they're essentially being babysat, shouted at and taught nothing, after 13 weeks . I am rubbing my thighs with glee at the row thats about to break out when they phone me. From a straight A student to someone who wants to shelf stack in 3 months...

Nothing at all wrong with shelf stacking of course. I've done it myself for years. But I'd rather dd got her a levels first, as she is (or should be) half way through the buggers

My ex is in a league of his own. His more recent ex wife and I are both relieved to not have him in our lives because he's probably nearly died of Covid at least 3 times, already. That's on top of all the other ways in which he is a thoroughly despicable individual.

@PickAChew he managed to persuade not one but two people to marry him?!?

I read this quite early on about Lombardy versus other affected regions of Italy. It really chimes with the situation we are in now - with cases being seeded back into the community from hospitals & care homes

“We are learning that hospitals might be the main Covid-19 carriers,” they wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine. “They are rapidly populated by infected patients, facilitating transmission to uninfected patients.”

The Veneto region has a large network of smaller health centres, which have been used to diagnose and treat patients in ways that have kept them out of large hospitals, said Prof Palù."

www.ft.com/content/9c75d47f-49ee-4613-add1-a692b97d95d3

Lombardy admitted a far greater proportion of their affected patients to hospital than other areas - spreading infection within the hospitals & completely overwhelming them.

Well we went to the beach today & are about to have take away for dinner, so all good here! I popped into town during the week for a few things & it just felt so normal - not full on crowded, but lots of people out and about, including families.

Which is why we saw those horrific scenes?

It's amazing the wonderful women shite men can pull.

Hello all.

The beach was gorgeous, although shallow for a proper swim.

Slightly ruined at the end by a usually non-shite man (DH) being a shite.

So its restorative properties have been ruined and am in crap form.

Bakewell - I live by the the sea. I start to feel claustrophobic if I get too far inland. It's not natural.

I swim in togs just, no wetsuit.

my brother is a total dementor. I've just had the weekly zoom, it's exhausting.

Still ... look! Good news! A treatment for covid associated Kawasaki syndrome in children

"A breakthrough in treatment means that a mysterious Covid-linked children's inflammatory syndrome is "no longer expected to be fatal", a top paediatrician has said.

Dr Karyn Moshal, a senior consultant in paediatric infectious diseases at Great Ormond Street Hospital (Gosh) in London, said that youngsters who show symptoms are now recovering within three to five days."

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/20/treatment-breakthrough-means-mysterious-covid-linked-kawasaki/

Ooh that is fab news torydeathdrug

at the start Lombardy were admitting 65% of infected patients, Veneto which it is often compared with admitted 20% only those who were really sick. With that many cases being put into hospital you can see how it got out of control - spreading to other patients who were more vulnerable than the average person in the community & get far sicker & to medical staff - then the whole system collapses There may well be other factors but that's something I've seen mentioned quite consistently.

Its my home county @BogRollBOGOF but I must admit I prefer a Bakewell Tart to Pudding despite the latter being traditional...I am a disgrace!

I would love to live nearer the sea. At the moment it's 2 hours away without any traffic.

Hello, I’ve had a lovely day of getting lightly sunburnt in my dad’s garden while DD screamed around with her cousins. We had a picnic lunch and everyone bought bits and pieces, among other things I took Baba Ganoush in honour of you lovely lot and your aubergine eating ways.

My stepmother was on the verge of sending a “fuck off” message to a friend of hers who’s been having a go at my sister for breaking the roolz by seeing her friends. I’m very lucky my family fall firmly into the anti dementor’s camp.

That's such good news about the Kawasaki!

Great excitement here because... the football is back! I'm not that excited by it myself.

I'm feeling a bit down this evening, despite the fact it is lovely to be back home. I'm just a bit fed up Fed up with the whole Covid-19 situation, fed up with how it is impacting on children, fed up that poor DH is getting really aggressive emails from the teachers' union because he's not complying with their demands to make demands... And fed up that I'm not able to do very much about any of it! I'm sick of feeling sick and tired and all the rest of it.

Sorry to be a bit dementory

Thats really good news @torydeathdrug.

Interesting about Lombardy and might explain why the hospitals got so bad. Even the most ardent dementor must admit that didn't happen here.

Jourdain11 You’re so far from dementory, you’ve been going through so much genuine crap during this time I honestly don’t know how you’ve been able to stay so upbeat.

Jourdain, being down and feeling rotten isn't the same as being dementory! For Pete's sake woman!

What a load of old shit you're going through. Moan away.

@BakewellTarts

Its my home county *@BogRollBOGOF* but I must admit I prefer a Bakewell Tart to Pudding despite the latter being traditional...I am a disgrace!

I would love to live nearer the sea. At the moment it's 2 hours away without any traffic.

I also far prefer Bakewell Tart.

My in-laws once brought me on a trip to Bakewell to try the "proper" pudding.

Give me Mr Kipling any day.

2 hours from the sea?

How can you breathe?

Admittedly that middle part of England is stunning.

@Jourdain11 you certainly aren't a dementor. You come across as remarkably cheerful considering all the rubbish you are going through.

Sounds like the NEU(?) are though. How dare they bully their members like that? I am not a teacher but have been appalled at how the union has behaved. Deliberately obstructive and playing politics. They really don't seem to realise a) how many parents they have alienated b) that in the long run they are putting teachers futures at risk. The longer kids are doing blended learning the more likely the model will be to stick. And you certainly won't need the same number of teachers to deliver it.

Although sadly I'm not even in the middle bit of england that I grew up in I'm much further south now 26 miles outside of London. Its still pretty but not stunning and it is very crowded.

Still it works for now. But yes I miss the sea.

Awww Bark 🍆 love that you took Baba Ghanoush and also that we are the bit of the Internet where aubergine means the actual vegetable ❤

Still laughing about Bubble's bath bomb story. Too funny

Jourdain you are the least Dementory person ever. We're all allowed to have gloomy times and you have had a crappy few days. You can always moan here if you need to

@Jourdain11 you are totally not a dementor. It's fucking rubbish going through this as well as Covid and you are a sterling hooman bean for coping with it as best you can.

We have had a wonderful day on the field in the village. Word went round that the kids were playing and slowly about half DD2's class turned up and they were all belting round together. And I had a brownie from the cafe.

It was wonderful.

Aww, thank you. I'm glad I don't come across as a dementor!!

Husband generally finds the NEU quite irritating. When the schools return was first announced, they were sending daily emails saying "If approached and asked to return, you must reply No, I cannot engage with you, I await further guidance from my union." As he said... "I can just see myself!"

From (most) teachers' perspective, blended learning is really hard to administer effectively, except for some A Level subjects (and there is a value there, as it allows students to do subjects like Russian or Psychology or Arabic, which couldn't be available otherwise). Teachers hate doing it, parents hate enforcing it, pupils can't/won't/don't want to do it. There's very little to be said for keeping it!

Believe me I really want to see it go. I just don't think the NEU is helping get rid of it!!!