ADs predict wine and rioting before 6.30pm (but only if the sun's out)

[Dowser]

Over here peeps.

Not much sun today..so plenty of wine it is

What’s everyone’s plans.
After scarydrive in the thunderstorm from hell Yesterday, I think we will have a quiet one.

What’s everyone else doing?
Shopping?
Visiting friends?
Seeing family?
House party ?
Car boot sales...interesting that isn’t it? You can go and pore over someone’s old junk thats been stored heaven knows where ..yet kids aren’t allowed to play on the swings because they are taped up ?

Where’s the logic in that?

There just isn’t and it’s so wrong.

Thanks for the new thread Dowser

Plans today are bleh. It's raining buckets here, so probably just stay at home. For a change

The lack of playgrounds makes me so angry that I have to actively not think too hard about it or I may give myself a coronary

Thanks for the new thread!

Just trying to chivvy myself into action. A horrible day here.

It's blowing a hooley here. I'm off to a friend's house to eat cake in her garden later (maybe I will add the other half to that pound eh?). I may take along a windproof marquee.

yay - new thread thanks Dowser.

We'll go for a walk this afternoon - small one not as long as we used to do so we've left the house had some exercise.

I've seen with IL how quickly walking distances can shrink - and last time we went to the nearish ruins DD1 was complaining how tried she was having resisted every attempt at start to keep her moving.

Sorry @Dowser I forgot to show my appreciation. Bad form . And thanks for using my thread title!

Morning all. After my lazy arse day yesterday I appear to be continuing the trend today reading the paper in bed. The Times is full of BoJo's plans to tackle obesity (well open playgrounds and swimming pools then you knob). However I have come to the conclusion that Camilla Long may well be one of us having read her column today, in fact I have a sneaking suspicion that she's actually @BogRollBOGOF
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/going-ga-ga-in-a-heatwave-is-what-brits-do-the-idiots-are-those-who-didnt-predict-it-90mhzt6ld?shareToken=c59989aa4c154ae4e2c34f8918e15568 (sorry if it's behind a paywall, sometimes they're not)

Hello! Blowing a hooley here too so holed up indoors trying to distract myself from all the miserable news stories.

Ironing. Fucking ironing. I normally enjoy ironing but it just feels like another bit of drudgery, right now, so I'm fucking ironing with a face like a smacked arse.

Weather shite here but I'm heading to matalan...not been in years and now been twice in a month....

I am going to take the plunge and buy some new swimwear for my holiday. I feel a bit more positive that it may go ahead now but still terrified to buy anything in case I jinx it. How pathetic is that?

I've just seen a headline that global cases are just past 10 million. But taking reported global deaths into account its still 4.99 fatality rate.

I just cannot get my head round how global governments looked at what communist china did and thought "yeah that looks like a good idea" and everyone just put up with it.

And apparently only 13% of parents want a return to the old normal. Who the fuck are these people they are surveying?!

Oh and thank you for the new thread dowser x

No-one appreciates ironing here not even DH- so it gets hung up and hope for the best bar few items that crinkle madly or first weeks of school.

I am thinking a hand held clothes steamer may be the answer.

MIL irons everything even pants and teatowels.

@LivinLaVidaLoki

And apparently only 13% of parents want a return to the old normal. Who the fuck are these people they are surveying?!

Load of the idiots in our school who will only let their kids go back if 2m distancing and PPE is in effect. So the rest of our kids have to suffer because of this bunch.

@LivinLaVidaLoki

And apparently only 13% of parents want a return to the old normal. Who the fuck are these people they are surveying?!

Idiots.

DS and I had a film afternoon yesterday and he has decided he wanted to watch all of the avengers movies again. Not the individual ones just the avengers ones.

I may have had a glass of wine or two but I couldn't help but raise my glass and say "too bloody right" when Loki gave the following speech in the first avengers movie...

"It’s the unspoken truth of humanity that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life’s joy in a mad scramble for power. For identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel"

And apparently only 13% of parents want a return to the old normal. Who the fuck are these people they are surveying?!

Idiots who don’t value education or don’t have jobs. Either way, people with a complete lack of ambition for their kids

Load of the idiots in our school who will only let their kids go back if 2m distancing and PPE is in effect. So the rest of our kids have to suffer because of this bunch.

Why are schools pandering to these misguided fools? It actually puts The Feelz ahead of actual science and evidence yet again.

"On Wednesday, the day before the hottest day of the year, the residents of Sandbanks, the snobby sub-Barbadian millionaires’ cemetery where Harry Redknapp lives in Dorset, were horrified to see an apocalyptic number of people, some possibly from Birmingham..."

This sentence made me laugh a lot!

@HesterShaw1

Load of the idiots in our school who will only let their kids go back if 2m distancing and PPE is in effect. So the rest of our kids have to suffer because of this bunch.

Why are schools pandering to these misguided fools? It actually puts The Feelz ahead of actual science and evidence yet again.

Very opinionated and entitled parents at our school (the school run is dodging BMWs and Audis so you get the general picture).

I just want a "school will be back to normal form in September but with handwashing reinforced and us trying to keep mixing down somewhat - send your kids or deregister them and home ed" statement and line drawn under it all rather than these constant U-turns and flip flopping according to public opinion.

Although the kids are loving the more laid back atmosphere and smaller classes!

@Ibake

Morning all. After my lazy arse day yesterday I appear to be continuing the trend today reading the paper in bed. The Times is full of BoJo's plans to tackle obesity (well open playgrounds and swimming pools then you knob). However I have come to the conclusion that Camilla Long may well be one of us having read her column today, in fact I have a sneaking suspicion that she's actually *@BogRollBOGOF* www.thetimes.co.uk/article/going-ga-ga-in-a-heatwave-is-what-brits-do-the-idiots-are-those-who-didnt-predict-it-90mhzt6ld?shareToken=c59989aa4c154ae4e2c34f8918e15568 (sorry if it's behind a paywall, sometimes they're not)

Alas I can not claim the credit for such writing but I like her style and her sentiment

It is mordidly fascinating seeing the moralistic furore that non-locals pretty inevitably decided to legally go to beaches while they had the weather, the time and fuck-all else to do, and overwhelm the skeleton of services on offer. More options and freedoms eases the pressure abd tensions. The litter, fair enough, you carry it in, you can carry it out. But stabbings barely warranted a footnote to the horrors of not social distancing. How screwed up is that?

Several of the lockdown songs repeatedly earworming through my head include
I predict a riot.
We are the angry mob, we read the papers every day, we like who we like, we hate who we hate but we're also easily swayed.
And Every day feels like Sunday which is particularly annoying when I only really know that line

@LivinLaVidaLoki

And apparently only 13% of parents want a return to the old normal. Who the fuck are these people they are surveying?!

Dores it indicate what they want instead - could it be some form of improvements?

I could see 13% of pupils struggling in school environments - I do think on-line learning suits some kids better at least short term.

I'm always surpised some many people think once they get to secondary you can leave them by themsleves - few hours sure all day day in and out for months not so keen.

I could see bleneded learning meaning more teens roaming the streets, as parents are out working all day, being more visible and pretty sure that wouldn't go down well with many of the public even if there were doing nothing wrong.

@HesterShaw1

"On Wednesday, the day before the hottest day of the year, the residents of Sandbanks, the snobby sub-Barbadian millionaires’ cemetery where Harry Redknapp lives in Dorset, were horrified to see an apocalyptic number of people, some possibly from Birmingham..."

This sentence made me laugh a lot!

Oh good, you could read it, she makes me laugh, a lot, most weekends. She's deffo one of us.

But ok, not you then @BogRollBOGOF - she clearly just shares your love of them!

I've been doing a bit of clearing out and found a government leaflet about swine flu.

It's very interesting and just promotes binning tissues, washing your hands and staying in if you feel unwell. It just seems so sensible and proportionate, yet I seem to remember people were very worried about swine flu as well back in the day.