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

And there is always an undercurrent of dreadful snobbery when sneering about Benidorm, Tenerife or Ibiza

[Continues hyperventilating]

@Teateaandmoretea

Monday sadly death numbers have basically doubled, dementors will love this!

No they haven’t. PHE discovered some people prior to last Monday had actually sadly died twice. Therefore the additional deaths were negative. So 21 hospital deaths and 6 people were reincarnated giving 15. Last Monday was a freak number.

This shows the insantity of the current reporting of data.

@Teateaandmoretea

These people want to lock themselves in their homes forever, fine, do what you want BUT STOP TRYING TO TAKE MY CHOICE!

They are twats. Stop engaging it achieves nothing other than getting wound up. Ultimately when people start going on holiday etc FOMO will bring them back into reality. In the meantime it’s utterly pointless.

Good advice. Dont think I'll wander far from here for a while.

If I didn’t have kids I’d be up for an ADs trip to Ibiza. Dd1 has a tendency to get covid-sounding coughs though, I can’t take the stress of it😂😂

This shows the insantity of the current reporting of data.

^exactly that and only that. The daily sadly^ death figures really are bollocks.

My dad has always said if he gets dementia or otherwise incapacitated then quietly finish him off. He watched his dad slowly die from a stroke and doesn’t want the same.

Not that I am advocating murdering my father, for the avoidance of doubt!

@Teateaandmoretea

If I didn’t have kids I’d be up for an ADs trip to Ibiza. Dd1 has a tendency to get covid-sounding coughs though, I can’t take the stress of it😂😂

DD1 started randomly coughing one evening last week. She also has a tendency to cough (mild asthma). I gave her piriton, benilyn and told her that if she coughed again she wouldn’t be able to go back to school... she didn’t cough again

FOMO is working at DD2s school. It very much looks like EVERY Year 6 will be in for the last week.

I'm sticking to my Mumsnet safespace the rest of the site is too bonkers for me at the moment and my mental health has to come first.

In other happy news I might have 3 weeks of childcare / camps / activities booked over the summer. I say might as who knows if they will actually happen but the organisers are positive and actively WANT my daughters to go. This long summer might be OK...

I love cooking but hate having to cook and particularly hate having to prepare 3 different meals every bloody evening. Sometimes I go on strike and buy a load of Breaded chicken, extra oven chips and extra frozen veg - usually when everyone in the house is being extra autistic and I can't cope with Ds2 talking at me endlessly while dh shuts himself away with his headphones. That works best when I can just go to pret and have a nice sarnie or salad for lunch, though. It just adds to the groundhog day vibe, at the moment.

@ISaySteadyOn

Oh, the half hexagonals! I move them for PTA events (you can all loathe me now, am PTA secretary) and they always poke me!

Does anyone besides me miss dressing up to go somewhere? I'd like to wear slightly uncomfortable shoes and get my hair done and just feel glamorous for a bit.

I miss it anyway due to the DCs needing babysitters. A couple times a year I can pull off asking my friend for a sleepover, but I don't want to take the piss with it. She has family plus hers are younger and I'm done on keepung toddlers alive

We've had a weekly check in from church which has basically been just a nice chat. Normally I end up directly at church in running gear after helping out at junior parkrun. My logic is that it's more Christian getting up early and voluntering in the community than turning up in Sunday best I was saying a few weeks ago about doing a murder mystery over zoom and how it was a good excuse to wear an evening dress. I practically heard his mind boggle down the phone line He blurted out some surprise that I do dresses, and kept digging deeper trying to appologise. I was just amused.
I just found that having a pair of semi-ferral boys that I naturally wear clothes I can make a quick escape in. Going back to woek for a few years was good for wearing dresses and heels, but on an average day I just do sp much walking around and only really wear sundresses in hot weather.

I hope I can resurrect a social life and my dress sense in a few years; I need the world of leisure to survive until then

@Drivingdownthe101 😂😂😂. It’d never work getting on the plane from Ibiza....

@Pickachew totally with you on enjoying cooking but not the having to cook. It's all the thinking that gets me (decision fatigue), what to buy, what to cook, whether everyone is getting enough veg (nope!), it's just constant and unrelenting. DH cooks on my work days, so 3 days a week, but he makes either his famous chili that takes 3 hours, or freezer food (and he usually asks me what to cook). There's no in between! He's always amazed that I can go into the kitchen with a load of ingredients and come out less than an hour later with a meal!
Too much thinking involved, it's exhausting. I was lamenting to my boss earlier how doing the thinking for 5 people is wearing me out, she totally relates as she's also the household alpha. I like being in charge, but I also resent it. Hmmm.

I dream of living alone with cats...

@PickAChew

I love cooking but hate having to cook and particularly hate having to prepare 3 different meals every bloody evening. Sometimes I go on strike and buy a load of Breaded chicken, extra oven chips and extra frozen veg - usually when everyone in the house is being extra autistic and I can't cope with Ds2 talking at me endlessly while dh shuts himself away with his headphones. That works best when I can just go to pret and have a nice sarnie or salad for lunch, though. It just adds to the groundhog day vibe, at the moment.

I've seen you detail culinary requirements before, and I really don't envy you. It's no mean feat to meet everyones needs. Plus other people really don't get it.

DS1 has his quirks like not liking casserole type food with different textures which is irritating as that's my natural style. Then there's things like DH not doing fish, I have to be careful with a few foods which does stymie my enthusiasm for cooking.
It is more annoying having less escape options too. And I'm so fed up of cleaning the bloody table cloth. I swear that when the DCs return to school full time, I will ceremoniously burn the table cloth!
(It does actually need replacing, it's had a hard time in recent months and had tears and pencil holes near a certain child's seat...)

[quote LethargicLumpOfLockdownLard]@Pickachew totally with you on enjoying cooking but not the having to cook. It's all the thinking that gets me (decision fatigue), what to buy, what to cook, whether everyone is getting enough veg (nope!), it's just constant and unrelenting. DH cooks on my work days, so 3 days a week, but he makes either his famous chili that takes 3 hours, or freezer food (and he usually asks me what to cook). There's no in between! He's always amazed that I can go into the kitchen with a load of ingredients and come out less than an hour later with a meal!
Too much thinking involved, it's exhausting. I was lamenting to my boss earlier how doing the thinking for 5 people is wearing me out, she totally relates as she's also the household alpha. I like being in charge, but I also resent it. Hmmm.

I dream of living alone with cats...[/quote]
Lol this made me laugh
Doing the thinking for 5 people :-)
Yup that nails it

It pisses me off when we do go out and eat and DH wants me to memorise what everyone eats to go and order. No. I just want to think about what I want and have a break from everyone elses preferences.

I dunno about the cats... DM is crazy cat lady and she makes the cats sound like hard work

At least they've been company in recent minths though.

Since the travel corridor thing on the news in Saturday I feel more optimistic that our trip to greece may go ahead in August.
It's been booked for almost a year (was supposed to go in May) but I haven't bought a single thing as I'm scared I'll jinx it.

Bought DS a load of stuff today as he needs knitting out for summer anyway but also bought myself this....

Now I'm hyperventilating at the thought of buying more stuff!

I should be happy or hopeful or excited but I hate that my happiness currently sits in the govt's hands.

yup and those whose Sad Deaths were announced with today's Sadly Daily numbers didn't actually die yesterday necessarily ... they usually span a good 4/5 days with a few outliers from weeks ago.

this is handy if you need the UK sad numbers coronavirus-staging.data.gov.uk/ Looking back over the numbers shows how much they've fallen.

Daily case rolling average if below 900 now those dying recently would probably have been infected a couple of weeks ago when the rolling average was over 1300. The lower cases will feed through to the sad deaths eventually and the average will keep falling (I think it's about 115 now?). It is depressing how people latch onto the Dailies without applying even the most basic analysis grump .

Every time I see or hear the adverb "sadly" I start tittering. It's just not right!

Truly Sadly Daily, featuring Neil Ferguson playing "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Any More" with Wee Jimmie Krankie....

those dying recently would probably have been infected a couple of weeks ago when the rolling average was over 1300

I think that some of them died a lot longer ago than that. And some tested positive for Covid in a care home/ hospital a month ago and happen to have died since.

@LethargicLumpOfLockdownLard I live alone with cats , and they have been reasonable company when they can be arsed. I'm also sick of cooking. When you're by yourself, takeaways are no real replacement for a meal out with friends.

The person who mentioned dressing up......
Oh God, I so want to wear a pretty dress, run straighteners through my hair, wear ridiculously high heels, put on make up and false eyelashes. All while sipping on prinks

I had a summer job cleaning on a on a geriatric ward. There certainly are lives that are worse than dying of Covid.