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

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Over here peeps.

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

Aw, that's a worry, @dingit
Sounds like she's in safe hands.

@dingit oh, sending good vibes. Distract yourself with a rubbishy book or tv.. hope you hear soon

@dingit handhold from me too.
My sister is only young (much younger than me and DM died last year so I'm more of a parent figure) and she was taken to A&E this week with worrying symptoms. No one could go with her either and I was sat at work constantly checking my phone. She was fine (medication side effects/reaction they think) and discharged that day, but it was horrible knowing even if it was bad, I wouldn't have been allowed to be there for her.

@PickAChew excellent and beautifully eloquent description of the blanket of Covid19. So spot on.

Thank you everyone. It was my fault as I left a knife out with peanut butter on it

Sorry for your loss, GreatWave

Another hand, dingit. 🤚

@TheGreatWave I am so sorry yo hear about your friend. She absolutely mattered. My bil died very suddenly in April. Not C19 but we don't know what it was, still.

@dingit wishing your dad a speedy recovery

We've had a nice weekend. Little walks along bits of our coast, in between the rain. Chippy dinner last night with friend. Hoping the weather will improve so we might see other friends this week and exercise the dcs (so happy its cooler now though).

Keep on keeping on all you wonderful ADs. To pinch from the Premier league champions, 'we go again'.

Just had a call to go and pick her up

@Nihiloxica PMT combined with all this shite definitely made a perfect storm that really dented my mood the last few days. In fact, I'm sure I wasn't as vulnerable to my hormones when the world wasn't so fucking shit. My PMT has been worse since lockdown - a sensible person may say that's because I'm eating junk, drinking more and not exercising... But lockdown is the reason for that, so yeah.

Glad to hear that Dingit.
Don't beat yourself up about it. Life is never perfect no matter how hard we try.

@dingit hoping all is well as have just seen your update. She'll be fine I'm sure

Ah dingit glad she is ok. Friends daughters boyfriend has this allergy, he has had a couple of hospital episodes one at their house, they now have nothing nut related in their house at all having seen the results of an attack. Their DS sorely missed peanut butter but will not even eat it when at our house any more.

Argh they've changed their minds keeping her in

Oh fgs!
Probably just a precaution re the anti-histamines. That's frustrating for both of you.

@dingit at you know she's in safe hands

*at least

Try and get some rest Ding, they can throw patients out very early in the morning.

[quote LethargicLumpOfLockdownLard]@Nihiloxica PMT combined with all this shite definitely made a perfect storm that really dented my mood the last few days. In fact, I'm sure I wasn't as vulnerable to my hormones when the world wasn't so fucking shit. My PMT has been worse since lockdown - a sensible person may say that's because I'm eating junk, drinking more and not exercising... But lockdown is the reason for that, so yeah.[/quote]
I noticed PMT a lot less when I was working. I was randomly shattered but didn't have time to dwell on it. It's crept up more since being a SAHM and been vile since March, because when it looks like the world might shut down at the weekend, and it's the 8th month of winter, you really need a good dose of doomy hormones for that last kick.

I've moved on to ELO on the catch-,up and it's lovely to see the crowd like soggy smarties. I lovr the runners in a race looking like smarties as they run ahead.
I remember arriving at work listening to Chris Evans interviewing Jeff Lynn and he genuinely believed that his career was over. Chris asked if he got something like 20 000 listeners to text in, would he perform live again, and Jeff agreed thinking it would never happen... half a million texts later and it totally relaunched his career with sell-out tours and new material. And he believed he was finished.

Is Jeff Lynn allowed down to Bournemouth; he's Brummie

@mightbealittlebitmad

Having a bit of a wobble today, we are supposed to be going to a wedding in September but we have no idea if that's going ahead. Now is normally about the time I would be arranging a catch up with the bride but we would always meet in a city for shopping and lunch, no idea if they will be going ahead any time soon, especially since she can't drive and I usually get the train so that I can indulge in prosecco. We are also supposed to be going on holiday in October, potentially still possible but I want to rearrange for next year but I have no idea what next year will bring so I'm on the verge of just cancelling it entirely.

Watching TV where people can just be around others makes me sad. I want to shake people who say the sight makes them feel sick or scared. I'm tired of people saying that because they can't do stuff it means those of us who are barely at risk shouldn't either yet we are the selfish ones? Everyone is selfish, it's human nature to put ourselves and our families first before people we don't even know.

Driving instructors are due to start up again in July, they will be able to have several people in the car over the course of a day yet we are not allowed to get within 1m of someone and we have to take our own crockery and drinks. I get that it's money but if it's such a big risk to be seeing people inside shouldn't they be holding off a bit longer? We have people insisting that restaurant staff wear masks and/or visors and that there should be screens in between the tables yet they will all be placed 1m apart.

It's all just so frustrating! I can't believe how some people are literally waiting for the governments permission to hug members of their family. When did we become so incapable of making our own decisions? Parents risk the most important thing in their lives; their children by allowing them some freedom to grow up. We could keep them inside forever but that's not a rational response. Isolating people long term, taking away their jobs, houses, lives is also not rational and at some point we will all just have to take a deep breath and get on with things.

This so very much.

Just hug your loved ones. They are precious.
Get the kids out and scrape up all the fun you can.
Live, not exist.

@IAintentDead

Hoping to go to Turkey in September. On a Turkey FB site, they can't wait to have the tourists back, they know it's their livelihood.

BUT

There are some complainers.

The dirty, rule breaking, Brits should not be allowed in yet. UK rates are too high and they don't know how to behave (showing a wide angle lense of Bournemouth and narrow one of Fethiye). Who is doing all this moaning. Fucking ex pat Brits.

Its the same on the greek pages.

Always the fucking expats with their cushy pensions and leather handbag tans. Proving once again it's the people least affected by this who want it to carry on.

I have family there, some of which could lose literally everything over there. Their businesses (which they have worked hard for years to build up), their homes....Its heartbreaking.

Dingit hope she’s home soon
This is just awful that you can’t accompany a loved one to hospital
Where is this all going?
I knew you couldn’t visit..but not that you can’t take a loved one to advocate for them.

So what if your child is a baby, a toddler , under 13 , under 18 ?

Gawd this has depressed me.

Hi all. I went to the beach and sadly died a few people for those of you unable to do your anti dementoring duty.

Weather has really brought me down with a bump, and crap dementoring headlines mean a rubbish Monday for me.

Hope you all have reasons to feel cheerful today.

@TheGreatWave, I am sorry about your friend. She mattered.
@dingit, I hope your dd is better soon.

Hugs to everyone who is grieving / can't be with a sick loved one.
I so agree about just getting on and hugging your family, not that I had any choice when I visited my 93yo dad for the first time after lockdown started!

Love the new title, just checking in, will catch up and report back.
Dd 2 back to school today, woohoo!

I really think the end of the daily sadly deaths show has led to an increase in hysterical dementing in the media. The papers this morning really are the most depressing read since early March.