ADs too cool for air con?

[Nihiloxica]

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

Thank you anxious elephant
Yes 12-13 year olds , although quite capable on their own...it’s just not fair to have to leave them like this.
There should be forest schools, sport camps, drama schools etc open for the hols
All free..naturally

Aw help ma boab. I quoted stats re the lack of SD in schools etc back in March and a dementor replied "that's why 40k DIED and if we are not careful it will HAPPEN AGAIN.

Please someone help me out with a snappy counter reply because my brain has failed me and I just want to weep

If you’re needing a smile, there are some wonderful pics in the DM tonight. Hoardes of young people swimming at hackney marshes (I didn’t know!), packed beaches and it reminded me of the busy British beaches of the 80s.

I found the pics really heart warming especially the young people in London.

Or just let them Go mad at theme parks

I’m all for kids having a good time

Adulthood lasts too bloody long

I've been too hot to do anything much but I've followed the shade around to do some weeding and given the kitchen floor a long overdue wet mop.

Even Ds2 has spent time out of his room for the fist time on days because it's set into the eaves and we can't safely open the ancient, warped window and it's bloody hot in there.

DS1 has expressed an interest in going out to demolish some gyms. Hooefully properly the end of his self imposed isolation. Also, LA staff are coming out of furlough and our preferred post 16 placement is going to panel. Hopefully we can still sell this to him.

Anyone needing a light hearted laugh
Watch. .’the other one’ on iPlayer
Loving it
Kat cracks me up

I couldn't resist a flippant comment in the playground thread, btw :o

Dementors are getting ever more dementory
Aye, but we all knew there would be a Second Dementoring Wave. This is JUST THE BEGINNING

I’d love to round up your spare teenagers. I love that age group..little fledglings..and so beautiful
I think my development stopped around there, it certainly was the best age .
The other ages are lovely too, but I like to ask the teens about what they think about what is going on in the world., I love them to share their ideas with me, their music ( hate rap)
What they enjoy watching, their face when I tell them I was 17 before my parents got a house phone and one set of grandparents had an outdoor loo till I was about 14.
So stick a label on them and send them here, I’ll take them down to the beach for some bbqS in the sand dunes

Honestly, you’d be doing me a favour.
That’s what needs to happen..the old thumb twiddlers being brought back into service...helping the parents, the economy and having the time of their lives.

@mylittleyumyum

Aw help ma boab. I quoted stats re the lack of SD in schools etc back in March and a dementor replied "that's why 40k DIED and if we are not careful it will HAPPEN AGAIN.

Please someone help me out with a snappy counter reply because my brain has failed me and I just want to weep

40k died because middle aged and older men insisted on shaking hands long after we knew there was an issue - and they are a lot more of them died than children who mostly neither get the disease nor spread it.

@Dowser

I’d love to round up your spare teenagers. I love that age group..little fledglings..and so beautiful I think my development stopped around there, it certainly was the best age . The other ages are lovely too, but I like to ask the teens about what they think about what is going on in the world., I love them to share their ideas with me, their music ( hate rap) What they enjoy watching, their face when I tell them I was 17 before my parents got a house phone and one set of grandparents had an outdoor loo till I was about 14. So stick a label on them and send them here, I’ll take them down to the beach for some bbqS in the sand dunes

Honestly, you’d be doing me a favour.
That’s what needs to happen..the old thumb twiddlers being brought back into service...helping the parents, the economy and having the time of their lives.

I once blew a class' minds by saying that I went travelling across Asia without a mobile for 3 months... it was only 2009 so not even that long ago

I loved teaching teenagers. Much more than my own beloved darlings

@PickAChew

I couldn't resist a flippant comment in the playground thread, btw :o

Yep - saw it and smiled - Mine wasn't quite so flippant.

Sounds great bog roll..I bet you certainly inspired a few
I doubt if you’d get far without a mobile these days.

I'll happily march my teenagers round to yours, @Dowser :o

Just watched taskmaster with 16yo. 14yo melted into bed just after 9.

@Dowser

Sounds great bog roll..I bet you certainly inspired a few I doubt if you’d get far without a mobile these days.

It was very internet cafe to make arrangements and get in touch with home. Travelling with phones wasn't simple with sim cards so we just didn't do it. Some travellers had notebook computers, but kindles hadn't taken off which meant I had to lug the complete The Lord Of The Rings with me... then I ended up buying Good Omens in a bookshop in China and taking it through Tibet (although no Tibetans were sighted tunnelling )

One night in 2007 I had a night in Berlin between train connections spent in a launderette and an internet cafe as it wasn't worth checking into a hotel. Probably can't do that these days!

Thanks iamapixie

Ooh one of my Scottish friends is a complete dementor. And a nurse!

She replied to my fb post sharing the news about no sd in schools with a comment about them being closed again come October due to a second wave.

A colleague of mine said her gp friend had been emailed to expect a second wave in October.

Blimey I didn't realise so many people had knowledge above what the govt has!!

Feeling much more positive today. Managed to get an hour in the garden in peace yesterday.
I think that's what's been tipping my patience and making me irritable....constant noise.

I know it sounds ridiculous but a lot of my days are meetings and panels, in the old days I would finish work and have a drive home or go to the gym to "come down" from the stress of it.

That gap doesn't really exist anymore as working remotely also means things can take so much longer.

So, my work day is packed, then it's time to get DS then DH is home and the home is pretty much a hive of activity again.

I know it sounds selfish but I miss that come down time. I always feel like I'm on the go lately, but that hour listening to a really funny podcast did wonders.

Also ONS stats are out today. Be interesting to see how many cases are thought to be in the community now.

As an aside I also secretly get the rage when the press/social media refer to second spikes or waves resulting in another lockdown in other countries. They are not second anything, they are localised outbreaks that are being controlled on a local level

@PickAChew just wanted to wish you good luck for panel.

We found out that they have turned down dd2 for our preferred 16 plus placement yesterday. It was referred in February. It’s a non maintained special so I always knew it was questionable. But I was hopeful after we got a call from the school a couple of weeks ago after they received the LAs referral and went down to look round and meet the head. It would be perfect for her. I was told yesterday that the referral was made in error by someone new to the job, it shouldn’t have been done and we shouldn’t have met the head. No apology, and a half baked solution where dd2 attends a large FE college for one to one teaching mixed with online learning and home tuition. It won’t work, I know it won’t work but they say we have have no evidence she needs a specialist placement. Every mainstream placement we have had has fallen through. That’s not enough evidence though. I am so sick of fighting this shit.

It why local lockdowns scare me . They couldn’t run a piss up in a brewery

her gp friend had been emailed to expect a second wave in October

Interesting as my GP tested all patients yesterday to say form now on it will be telephone triage and only after will appts be given if thought needed- so no return to normal service there for the foreseeable.

I'm so glad I found you all - took me ages to realise AD stood for Anti Dementor

I am going to try and not engage with any of them today it only makes me feel worse. On a thread about gyms re-opening one posted a link to cases from gyms in other countries etc and how it goes through the air con or something, don't need all this - it has fitness benefits too and about risk / benefit overall

As an aside I also secretly get the rage when the press/social media refer to second spikes or waves resulting in another lockdown in other countries. They are not second anything, they are localised outbreaks that are being controlled on a local level

Good point

Another school thread this morning .

Are the government keeping people stupid and scared so they don’t get angry when they realise exactly what we’ve fucked up? I’m angry at the government and find myself becoming less tolerant towards the people who are Unquestioning and allowing themselves to be terrified by propoganda.