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

I fell asleep too this afternoon, which is bad news, as like a toddler, I won't settle tonight now.

@Drivingdownthe101 @ILoveTotoro I grew up in Hinckley, that’s where most of my family still live.

Leicester was always going to be vulnerable to this - you have so many risk factors.

• Large South Asian population who appear to be more vulnerable to becoming seriously unwell
• High levels of respiratory disease
• High levels of diabetes, also seems to raise the risk of serious illness
• Not great air quality - Leicester is in a sort of dip, if you think about it, which is partly why you get the high levels of respiratory issues. So many busy roads as well.
• Some quite poor areas, with small terraced housing, multi-generational living, no gardens to speak of - hard to socially distance. Apparently it’s these areas that are being affected badly.

With so many risk factors in one place I’d be a bit surprised if they weren’t having a rough time, tbh

One big Scottish bag

@ lethargic
North east coast
Used to be ridiculously cheap
I think mr Dowser thought / hoped we were on the move
Err no
I’ve spent too much getting this one how I want it to start again
No seaview, but peaceful and quiet and no one parking outside my front door as we have a courtyard out the front 😁

[quote Spudlet]**@Drivingdownthe101* @ILoveTotoro* I grew up in Hinckley, that’s where most of my family still live.

Leicester was always going to be vulnerable to this - you have so many risk factors.

• Large South Asian population who appear to be more vulnerable to becoming seriously unwell
• High levels of respiratory disease
• High levels of diabetes, also seems to raise the risk of serious illness
• Not great air quality - Leicester is in a sort of dip, if you think about it, which is partly why you get the high levels of respiratory issues. So many busy roads as well.
• Some quite poor areas, with small terraced housing, multi-generational living, no gardens to speak of - hard to socially distance. Apparently it’s these areas that are being affected badly.

With so many risk factors in one place I’d be a bit surprised if they weren’t having a rough time, tbh [/quote]
Yes agreed.
Despite being technically in Leicestershire I don’t really consider myself as being ‘from Leicester’... my nearest cities are Derby and Nottingham, and I think I’ve been into Leicester city centre maybe three times in my life! We are right on the border. Derby and Nottingham were pretty badly hit initially too though, for similar reasons.

I need to stay off Twitter. Sentiment on there is that closed Scottish border is a done deal, and will be announced shortly. I don't even want to go to Scotland, it just feels like a final straw to me...

I'm being ridiculous I know.

I usually do well over 1000 miles a month. April I did 44, May was over 100 but I had to drive 50+ round trip for my eye covid-19 test.

I await tomorrow's figure - well once the garage decides to actually mend the car it's had for almost a fortnight.

(I have to do mileage for work, it's not that I keep some weird list going of mileage)

Barks at least Nicola has decent memes, Drakeford is so boring no-one has bothered.

BarkandCheese You'll be sent to the gulags! (Berwick)

@ssd sorry, didnt mean to upset you. I have genuinely seem some pretty nasty stuff in the wild, and I've had some upsetting news recently so didnt phrase that well. I'm not normally online so much but it has gotten to me a bit. I think I'll bow out this thread for now.

my google thing e mails me mileage monthly April 4 miles, May 7 miles. So the rest is June mileage running DS around and rebelling against essential shopping to do a bit of fun sightseeing.

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane

BarkandCheese You'll be sent to the gulags! (Berwick)

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

At least she will get over the Border😉

Tbh if NS wants to pay my crappy wages and make me stay away from my shitshow of work over the border I would be happy.😄

The thing about Leicester though is it wasn’t badly hit at the start. It is having its turn now.

Yes there is deprivation but nearby towns/ cities have the same. Derby, Coventry, Northampton to name 3. It will calm down.

Don’t go @Willitneverend

@LivinLaVidaLoki

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

😂 ^this

Bloody hell.

I only took one day out and you're six pages into a new thread!

Had a bit of a slump day today. For some reason my normal positivity that schools will go back in September has taken a shaking.

Probably something to do with the fact that poor ds2 has confided in his brother that he doesn't think he has any friends. This is because no-one has contacted him to meet up at all. Consequently ds2 is feeling very low at the moment. And of course there isn't even the prospect of definite school in September to give him.

Feeling sweary about it all right now.

Just hearing now, the length of the pauses as she reads "My big... Scottish... Bag"

When it hit Wales it was all down south, was weeks before it hit harder in North Wales. Someone said it did appear to drift from east to west, I think it was more it drifted from built up areas in south east to west. The north east was hit later at the beginning when son in Leeds the figures were under 10 for ages then it sped up and now is nearly 900 I think.

Nothingiswrong Is that true about mutterings about Scottish border ? They can't do that can they surely ? I've literally just paid a grand for a UK cottage that we're due to share with SIL and family- paid more than our fair share as we want the break so badly.
We've cancelled our Majorca trip as just too many factors outside our control, so this is our main break. I know, I know we should just sit at hime and eat porridge with dust.
Please somebody tell me it's just a joke.

@rookiemere it's twitter. Who knows 🤷‍♀️

I'm not sure they actually could to be honest, legally speaking.

I'm sure it will be fine, I'm having a very anxious day today and it sort of tipped me over the edge.

@nothingiswrong when we are done rioting, we'll have to head up the A1 and stage a free the Scottish ADs protest.

@justasking111 exactly we have less power over this than people imagine.

@PickAChew I'm in for that!

I've seen my mum and dad, for the first time since March! They are both in good health but over 70 so have been refusing to see people because that's what Boris said. It's DD's 18th birthday on Tuesday so they popped in to share a slice of cake - had originally planned a garden gathering but it's raining. We aren't huggers at all but mum seemed pleased so see someone other than dad (I have long suspected he has Aspergers traits - very obedient to rules, obsessive with information that must be shared and completely unaware of how people around him are feeling). Mum seems to have aged a bit, she was a bit unsteady on her feet.

She is furious about lockdown and the disruption it's caused children - she was a teacher in a deprived town in the 1990s and has seen how much of a safe haven school is for some children.

Nothingiswrong probably best to stay out of Scotland just to be on the safe side.

I'm such an idiot though, I thought the numbers being so low would be a cause for celebration, instead of an opportunity to entomb us Scottish citizens even more.

It does seem though as if track and trace isn't doing a particularly effective job in England.