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[TheGreatWave]

Started a new one.

Need to adhere to guidelines this time though.

@TheGreatWave

Our cats are fussy buggers with food

Our resident wild hedgehogs, seemingly, are too.

My hedgehogs love the hedgehog food - naturally but it's £4 a kilo so pricy. They'll eat the dried cat food. I thought I'd treat them with some wet cat food assuming they'd love it - and thinking of the hoglets, bought 12 cans - they won't touch it.

Going to have to give it away.

I don't care though 'cos with at least 3 and possibly 5 or more hogs around I don't have any problem with the slimy little buggers that we don't mention.

Lethargic..that’s just so sad
To think she finally got it altogether
It’s enough to tip someone over
Really and truly
I can only imagine how worried you are
My son and his family are in social housing ( it’s beautiful, a similar house in London, 4 big bedrooms, parking, 2 bathrooms, kitchen diner , full width of the house) and dil has it beautiful would probably be 1/2 million down there , got behind with rent when he lost his job, but thankfully they were able to ride it out but it’s been tough
There’s three big lads to feed.
Anyway was chatting to him today and all bills paid, rent everything up to date as he’s working as a carer and there’s loads of work.
He just must not get ill. I can help here and there and do but can’t support a whole family

So the relief to know he’s solvent and actually putting a bit away is immense
.
The 17 year old is working ft at maccyds..so clothes wise that helps

They like ivy oh bugger, our neighbour has ivy growing over his fence will not let us remove it because it gives him privacy. We offered to grow something else but he says no. Bloody hell no wonder the path below is covered in silver trails at night. Wonder if I give the ivy a good dose of jeyes fluid in a spray if that might shift them.

My friend lives halfway down a hill riddled with streams. Every summer the frogs emigrate with their offspring, you have to carry a torch at night on their drive to avoid stepping on them as they move in a wave down the hill. There are hundreds of them.

@PickAChew

Ds2 is still awake. Dh said last time he tried to chivvy him along, he was busy looking at his school on Google maps.

I can hear mine chattering away through the floorboards. Everytime I pull up google maps I see the school and temporarily closed written by the name.

In my last teaching post, I lived about a mile off the fringe of the catchment area. I had the GCSE students on the computers for coursework and one said, "Miss, is this your house?" And there on street view was indeed my house- he lived virtually across the road and I walked past to drop DS1 in to breakfast club around the time he had to leave to catch the bus. Fortunately he was a delightful lad who was no problem to have less than 100m away

Ahhh, @torydeathdrug I love a bit of Hinterland. It’s like scenery porn for me at the moment; we haven’t been outside a 5 mile radius from our flat since lockdown started (no car and that’s as far as the smallest DC can walk) and we’re in central(ish) London, so all those wide open spaces seem like fantasy.

I actually feel quite buoyed watching old Glasto sets tonight

This is the life people want, they aren’t going to be prepared to put up with all this pish indefinitely, to save the NHS or whatever and ultimately the government are going to have to just deal with that, whether PEOPLE ARE DYING or not.

@FizzFan

I actually feel quite buoyed watching old Glasto sets tonight

This is the life people want, they aren’t going to be prepared to put up with all this pish indefinitely, to save the NHS or whatever and ultimately the government are going to have to just deal with that, whether PEOPLE ARE DYING or not.

Loving it too.

Although, for the people that live near it must be the Bournemouth scenario every year. At least it is just one predictable weekend for them but a nightmare regardless.

Yes @BogRollBOGOF that temporarily closed label pisses me off when I see it. Our new SW seems to be very anti dementorish so hopefully she can pull something off for him that he considers it worth leaving his stinking pit for.

Though I got emails from children's network, which is our la's register for disabled kids saying something along the lines of, are you in need of a breather? Well tough shit, we're not running any of the short breaks that aren't a break at all! There is a number you can call to have a grumble while we head tilt, though.

@mrsfrimble
..I can’t even begin to imagine what that has been like
So bloody unfair

I actually wondered if any outdoor events would take place this year.
I’ve not seen anything advertised
As they are outdoors you’d think it would be manageable
Thirsk car boot started up last week which did surprise me
All that jumble and bric a brac laying around goodness knows where..but that’s ok

Something is very wrong..no critical thinking whatsoever

We must be nearly at a 100 days now
How the hell did we end up in such a pigging mess

100 days of solitude

Tomorrow is day 97, how crazy is that, for Wales and Scotland god knows how much longer.

This must be about right for some of you. My daughter's friend ended up in A&E after drinking this. 3 girls - 2 knew when(ish) to stop. The third finished her own, and then finished off what was left of theirs. According to her mother it was my daughter's fault for not stopping her.

I'm certainly drinking my way through lockdown, that's for sure.

I stopped for a bit but it's just too boring to endure without being drunk sometimes.

Everyone appears to have gone to bed early

I’d actually given up booze for lent when lockdown started. I lasted about 4 days into it before I crumbled and hit the wine. DH and I have drunk A LOT of wine since then.

I’m not a drinker
Never really have been
Mr Dowser has a couple of glasses of red wine each night
Occasionally I might have a fever tree tonic with a thimble of gin in

I really know how to party lol

I go through a fair bit of vodka though
I use it for remedies or making herbal tinctures.

Disgusting stuff..much prefer it when it’s been turned into gin.

I’m going to do dry July, my drinking has been terrible through a combo of boredom and never having to drive anywhere.

I've had a glass of wine every night all through lockdown, where I am usually a weekend-only drinker in normal times. The pouring of the wine became a punctuation that separated the day from the evening.
I'll be delighted to stop it once my life gets going again

@Mrsfrumble

I’d actually given up booze for lent when lockdown started. I lasted about 4 days into it before I crumbled and hit the wine. DH and I have drunk A LOT of wine since then.

Me too. And I stuck to it.

I was not in a good place at all and I (for the first time ever) wanted to drink to drown my misery. So I didn't, which I think was wise.

I only started again over Easter when I was feeling less grim. But since then I have been caning it. Had a break recently and now sticking to just weekends. For a bit.

Watching Adele singing at Glastonbury and I totally agree with the post upthread that this is what people will want to get back to. If the government think they can force social distancing and the de facto abolishment of fun, then they're tripping more than that crown on Worthy Farm

Crowd, not crown

I'm awake but need sleep. I'm back to fantasising about just walking out of the house and staying out. Not the best weather forecast for that, though.