ADs too cool for air con?

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Here's a new thread for discussing aircon, aubergines, and Goth music.

Probably going to get my arse kicked for this - but can we please leave politics/brexit out of these chats? Embrace our commonalities, not differences.

Yesterday felt such a light at the end of the tunnel, but I’ve just seen a statement from a school in Glasgow saying they will NOT be doing FT.

I am green with envy at those whose hair is too heavy to cope with.

[quote torydeathdrug]UBI - I honestly think it would worsen inequality & fix poor outcomes in groups that do badly currently. I think people have adopted it as a panacea for solving poverty & I don’t believe it would. I have a child who would seemingly benefit from UBI - disabled unlikely to live independently as an adult - what I want for him is a society that changes enough to give him the opportunity for real, valuable work not a pat on the head. I really dislike the glee with which UBI proponents have latched in to the current crisis as an opportunity for them - ‘disaster socialism’ - it makes me question their motives.

As someone who has lost the opportunity to do work I love through adverse circumstances - illness and disability - I’ve realised how much I truly value work & the opportunity to work. It has intrinsic importance. UBI is a get out - a way of avoiding changing society so that people can work & jobs do exist. It will creat an underclass for whom there are no jobs - but they’ll be further away from the poverty line so that’s okay. Those with work (professional & technical minority) will continue to advance while the UBI class have no true participation and will become valueless.

I agree with some of the points here www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/100137b4-0cdf-11e8-bacb-2958fde95e5e[/quote]
That makes lots of sense. Thank you for that!

My hair is distinctly non heavy too. It gets to my shoulders then just stops and assumes the consistency of a hair stack.

Cornwall rarely gets hot or cold. The bloody wind is almosy relentless though!

@Drivingdownthe101

Warmest day of the year so far predicted (all of 22 degrees!)

It was 24 degrees here when I left to take my DC to school at 8.45am!

Same here bloody glorious sunshine at ten past 8 when I did the nursery run. I am about to hang the washing on the line. Nothing better than fresh line dried sheets.

I think when Ds is bigger I'll miss hanging his tiny little clothes on the line. How sad am I!

*HAY stack 😂

@TrustTheGeneGenie Your door sounds beautiful. Should definitely put a pic on here I was thinking the same- brush+rollers. Goodoh.

@HesterShaw1 Thank you.

My hair’s only saving grace is that my roots are properly through and at 46 there’s no grey, so there’s that. I do have a rogue grey eyebrow hair though that sticks out at a 90 degree angle.

And @HesterShaw1 Sorry, so rude of me - I hope your headache goes soon. I usually zap anything sinusy with pills cos I cba with that kind of pain.

Oh my grey is considerable now, but it blends in quite well with the ginger! Actually less so now my highlights have all faded.

Noticed my first one on my 40th birthday, which was nice.

@Shodan

And *@HesterShaw1* Sorry, so rude of me - I hope your headache goes soon. I usually zap anything sinusy with pills cos I cba with that kind of pain.

They're just not bloody working Shodan. Might have to try something stronger.

I'm a very headachey person generally and take paracetamol most days so I've probably just completely wrecked its effectiveness.

This might be pollen caused. Habe had antihistamines. Will go to Superdrug for some Sudafed too I think

Bubbles

DD1 is an accomplished plaiter, so maybe I could persuade her to give me a Heidi.

I like the sound of shaving it. I love that feeling of lightness when I get my hair cut short. I don't think I'm beautiful enough to pull it off.

@HesterShaw1 would a cool flannel be any help? (Btw I love your posts @Dowser as I take lots of (prescribed ) drugs and am more tramadol than homeopathy but you are inspiring me!) Headaches piss me off as they are so debilitating. It's so warm today too.

Also I meant to say dowser I loved your description (but I think you are being far too hard on yourself and the hair looked great) I think you won't be offended, as you might like the reference, that we are all heading towards crone rather than mother stage If you never come back to the thread now I will totally feel awful PS apologies to any maidens!

I am definitely feeling very dementory this morning as I keep reading about the hundreds of daily sad deaths and how many more are to come as everyone is partying while breathing on each other and the schools reopening is going to kill their parents. I know I know! But I read the US news before and the WHO comments and the lung damage prevalent in post CV patients (close to home for me) and I feel very worried all of a sudden. Slaps with wet flannels are welcome...

@shodan will do! The sun's right on it at the min so I'll take one later it gives the impression we have a lovely house. And we do if you don't venture into the living room or master bedroom

We might finish it eventually!

Yesterday felt such a light at the end of the tunnel, but I’ve just seen a statement from a school in Glasgow saying they will NOT be doing FT.

How can they do that if it’s contrary to what the SG and local authority say?

Hahah "beautiful" I am certainly NOT that it was kind of forced upon me as I kept gradually getting my hair cut shorter as it was getting thinner. A pixie looked worse so we got the clippers out and it was No 2/3? to start with but I actually liked it so much it's now shaved to the bone. I think having a strip in the middle which I spike (or plait or tie into a 90s man style pony ) helps with the "shaved head but not young and beautiful enough to carry it off" syndrome. I fucking love it now. Being totally honest, though I hate to say it, I have lost a lot a weight and it does help (does anyone remember moonface from the far away tree books?)

In the reverse for people growing hair, I think going for it and holding your nerve through the (for me at least) mushroom followed by triangle stage is worth it as the weight of the hair starts to pull it down and make it more like a style than a bush (again, speaking for myself you understand )

Bubble I know that fear, and I'm not even at any particular risk. Suddenly seizes you doesn't it? I don't know what the answer is other than trying to think happy positive thoughts.

Weird how thoughts veer madly from one extreme to the other.

HAHAHAH (sorry to fill the thread all by myself!) I was just looking for a Moonface picture and as I was going on about tattoos earlier I think this will cheer everyone up...

Hurrah! The grandparents have booked to come and see us. And some friends are going to book tonight.

This is good news.

@CruCru

Hurrah! The grandparents have booked to come and see us. And some friends are going to book tonight.

This is good news.

Hurray!

My Mum is coming next week. I can't wait to see her.

I've phoned the one local riding centre that I knew would be open, they said it is currently under discussion and they would get back to me. I suspect that one further issue will be in relation to hat borrowing. A quick google tells me that for a BSI marked hat (which they will undoubtedly insist on as it's the national RDA centre) it is a minimum of £40 each for the cheapest dublin hat....

But hey it's only money and still cheaper than having your own horse

@HesterShaw1 it definitely sounds like sinuses. It's really gross but have you tried a netipot to rinse the sinuses? It's disgusting but works wonderfully I've found. The other less gross option is to get an Olbas Oil inhaler - white stick you stick up your nose to snort and it gives the most lovely instant relief

@Teateaandmoretea the other benefit of your own hat resolves the issue of putting on a clammy hat that someone else has just sweated in. (vomit not envy)

My local centre said that they can't resume beginner lessons until SD scrapped altogether due to the need for instructors to get close to adjust stirrups etc. Gutted as my kids did some riding before, parked it because they we're too busy, and now I'd love them to do some sport/activities again. They've gone from hours a week to nothing.

But as long as the middle aged men can go to the pub eh?

Good morning!

Nice to see some happier posts on this thread (although I know not everyone is feeling good so I hope things continue to move forward in a positive direction with schools, etc, even if it does mean more will SADLY DIE). Things have been relentlessly tough haven't they?

I am doing BETTER. Hurrah. I finally met up with a decent number of people at the park last night. There was wine and cake and a lot of laughing about breaking the rules - it was fascinating hear seven whole humans sit there and talk in the flesh about how even if there is a significant rise in cases/deaths they categorically do not want schools etc to shut down again at any point. We were a group of women who had had enough and given my closest friends have been dementors through this, I could have kissed them. I've been making a big effort to get out even when I feel down and life feels more normal for it, even if it isn't really. I am getting a hair appointment sorted. It sounds like it will be the most joyless experience ever but never mind, I know my lovely hairdresser will be itching to get back and it will mean a lot to her to be working. I know her enough to say she's been stuck living with a very complex, difficult parent for the last few months and it will have been very challenging for her.

A dementor is insisting that 40 million Oxford vaccines have been ordered and all the vulnerable will be jagged before Christmas.

Brings to mind an article in Viz decades ago about a man who invented a cure for cancer. He wasn’t a scientist or a medic, but basically the cure would come in tablet form eaten with a meal.