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

@willitneverend
A proper escape room?
I wouldn’t have expected one to be open
Very impressed
Did one a couple of years ago with family for mr Dowsers 65th birthday
Everyone loved it

I forgot to mention the lock on the door of my mummy room. I am most definitely having a lock.

We've done escape rooms with DS and he loves them. Tried an online one with extended family, it was grim. The equivalent of a zoom chat rather than a face to face get together.

The Times article is surely just what is plain to see for anyone with any sense 🤷🏻‍♀️😂😂

We’ve had the brummies for weeks so I fully understand the pain of the locals. But quite simply it’s because there is sweet FA to actually do.

I enjoy reading The Times but blimey some of the nasty sneering comments under articles make me so angry. They all want people to stay at home permanently to obviously protect them. They can’t see that they’re the selfish ones wanting people to lose their jobs, social lives, education on their behalf. .

Whenever someone comments that younger people and children should be getting on with their lives, they come back with ‘no, that’s selfish, they might pass the virus onto the elderly’ Unbelievable.

I tend to dive in with a comment pointing this out then ignore the angry replies!

@Dowser, thanks for the new thread!
@DominaShantotto, our local council will pounce on that to not open the playgrounds. Fuck them, I am buying bolt cutters. It is cruel to keep them shut.

And I refuse to muzzle up. Humans need facial expressions. They look hostile without.

Dementor in chief warns Leicester could be heading for lockdown...hmm not Bournemouth then?
Also don’t pack your toothbrush just yet

www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

Absolutely. People need to get out, and have every right to do so. Expecting everyone to stay in for the next 5 years is utterly ridiculous.

He’s saying in Wales he can’t go 5 miles, but can soon fly to Spain - can that be right?

Differences in UK government policy which control borders and Welsh Goevernment policy which controls Wales. I think Scots government was upset about it was well - not being consulted.

I think 5 mile thing is due to go next review anyway and I think it's been relaxed for some reasons. I haven't been keeping tabs as frankly it doesn't affect us much as public transport, which we use, is still I think essential travel only - and trip to family would be hours on train and we gave up on the holiday which was the same.

The Leicester thing has been in local media for ages

@HesterShaw1 This SO hasn't been worth it.

It hasn't yet it's still going on. When are people going to realise what a mess this all is for a virus that really isn't the plague. The way people are acting is that it is the plague and every single person is contagious, you come with breathing distance of a person and that's it, you instantly die. Touch something someone else touched? Instant death.

I really thought we would lockdown for X amount of time then reopen as normal perhaps just keeping crowds to a minimum. Flatten the curve? Nope not anymore, we have to carry on until it's so flat we can't even see it anymore. Protect the NHS? Nope, don't want the hospital's to be used at all, they are to be kept all nice and shiny so that once we have flattened the curve to invisibility they can stay as some kind of shrine. The "look how well we did" shrine meanwhile the rest of the country has descended into scenes from Lord of the Flies.

As long as it’s just the city of Leicester and not the whole county!

We know some people living nearby in Market Harborough area but think it is mainly the city

It is worrying how flatten the curve became eradicate the virus.

Even BBC is reporting the fall in numbers dying in hospital
Coronavirus death rate falling in hospitals.

@Orangeblossom78

We know some people living nearby in Market Harborough area but think it is mainly the city

I used to live in Market Harborough! We’re on the very edges of the Leicestershire border. Actually they can lock me in again after I’ve got my mummy room sorted.

It has also been Nuneaton/ Hinkley

It seems a nice area, Driving, market town. I liked the red brick houses, the river and the cafe's it was a bit quieter than Bath. I hope it is Ok for that area, sounds difficult but mainly the city centre i think.

My family are in Leicestershire... am I ever going to get to see them again? At this rate it will be Christmas 2021!

Coronavirus: 'Children may have been radicalised in lockdown '

Children have been exposed to more extremist material on social media during lockdown and could return to school radicalised, it has been warned

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He said teachers "need to be alert" to and challenge extremist attitudes among pupils when schools reopen in Wales on Monday.

From contact with school so far I think the focus is going to be on phycial distancing. They'll have one teacher for few hours who may not be a teacher they know - especially in secondary.

My family are in Leicestershire... am I ever going to get to see them again? At this rate it will be Christmas 2021! sad

Well bizarrely Boris said the midlands R went down this week and it isn’t that high on Zoe so I’m not convinced it’s really that massive a deal. I assumed that the R had gone down because this area had reduced tbh....

My kids have been radicalised by mine craft.

I’ve planned our escape. As soon as we can I’m going to load up the car and we’re going to head for Macduff and the salt-water pools. I hope there won’t be people from Birmingham there. 😔

Pissing it down in Glasgow. Again.

But I have had a lovely morning. I ordered a new washing line whirly thing and had to drive to a big Dunelm at the other side of the city to collect it. The shop was open as usual and I had a lovely half hour wandering around looking at the duvet covers and cushions, then the kitchen stuff. Not intending buying anything but lovely to do something NORMAL.

(Came home with a frying pan, roasting tin, scented candle and pair of pillowcases in addition to the washing line)

I have done something about the fatness and went out for a 4 mile walk. On my own. I did invite my delightful family but they all declined.

I read the article about 13% only wanting to go back to normal. It had an interview with someone who needed ADs to get through home schooling - how can that be a good thing?!?

The street parties and stuff are totally predictable. And I agree that it does seem to be a policy of eradication rather than flattening the curve. Which as NZ is currently showing, is impossible with an open border.

@DominaShantotto

From another thread (and I don't believe this constitutes a TAAT as it's just copying Gov guidelines posted on it)

www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-guidance-for-managing-playgrounds-and-outdoor-gyms/covid-19-guidance-for-managing-playgrounds-and-outdoor-gyms?fbclid=IwAR3S1ixnTqf595_Jmv4WOQAtU78uJPqYJFPBbJX8yV_WmLDP3X6cai1UtJ8

Will give huge excuses to not opening playparks. Kids are gonna get fucked over again.

I hope not. Since when have playgrounds ever been routinely cleaned rather than just litter removed and grass cut. Given that children play on stuff that's uncleanable and unmanagable like trees anyway. Plenty of potential for nasties on bird poo that we've always lived with.

Parents can manage santitising children's hands and you don't ever want tobstand too close to the swings anyway.
If parents want to keep their child risk free, they can keep them shut away until rickets or a DVT gets them instead.

Given that many have taken down tape or climbed over fences anyway, I'm sure if playgrounds are not opened promptly after 4th July, a lot will find enthusiasm for measures like bolt cutters on a padlock. I'm not normally one for criminal damage...

@BogRollBOGOF Everyday is Like Sunday is particularly apt after Bournemouth (if you mean the Morrissey one) because it includes the lines “In the coastal town they forgot to close down, come, Armageddon! Come, Armageddon come”

We’re a family of endomorphs, naturally quite lanky, but I’m definitely tending towards “skinny-fat” these days... a combo of being the wrong side of 40 and much less exercise and too much grazing and wine in lockdown. There’s a slight wobble to my upper arms that some Joe Wicks might fix, but that would necessitate tidying the living room so I’m not stepping on Lego with every star jump.

It’s DS I’m a bit worried about. He’s been a string bean since infancy but at 9 he’s looking properly gaunt. There’s his genetic leanness, with his ASD fussiness and inability to judge when he’s had enough to eat (tends to declare himself full after a few bites) mixed with his ADHD wiredness burning off what few calories I can get into him. He’s still above the bottom centiles so not technically underweight, but is today wearing age 4 shorts which are hanging off his hips, and his hollow little cheeks make me wince. He’s definitely eating even less since lockdown started; probably due to anxiety over having his routine disrupted and missing school.