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

How do local lockdowns work anyway? In the case of Leicester is it all of the county or just the city? What happens if you work in Ashby (Leicester) but live in Burton on Trent (Staffordshire) Do they not go to work? Do they go to work but not return home? Return home but don't leave the house?

At the start of lockdown we had this posh drunk man shouting in the square in the night, it was hilarious he was ranting on (in VV posh voice"

"It will be three months of SUNDAYS!!. You can call the POLICE!!" and then rambling on about the Buddha and all sorts. No-one seemed to look out but he went on and on!

I imagine local lockdown would work like it Italy, so essential travel for work would be allowed but no pubs, schools, etc.

I'm guessing it would be like our first stage of lockdown so staying home except for essential food / key work? and support given they say so food parcels?

I’m wondering how the survey which came out at 13% wanting to go back as before was worded. I want my DD to go back to as normal as possible, but I fully support simple changes like hand washing stations, outdoor learning while the weather is good enough, a pause on events where hundreds of parents are squashed into the hall together and one way systems in corridors. So if I was given a choice between no changes at all I.e the old normal, and changes like the ones I put above I’d have ticked a box for basic changes but as little disruption as possible.

mightbealittlebitmad I don't know.

Since we bought a house DH had a fairly long commute.

He's WFH at minute but he crosses the welsh/English border to get to work.

Parks just aren't going to open, and even if they do there be no fun allowed.

I think I could possibly be OK with part time secondary school (with good online provision for the rest) not not primary. Just as the older ones would be a bit more independent. Still be better to have full time though.

The people on that Leicester thread are salivating and rubbing their hands together over speculating that the ARMY WILL STOP TRAVEL and IT WILL BE A PROPER LOCKDOWN THIS TIME.

There will be a riot in this house in about 5 minutes. DH's parents have just bought a new smartphone and he's trying to talk them through setting it up over facetime. It's not going well.

thegreatwave children shouldn’t be having fun until old people stop dying.

The thing about the Leicester outbreak is that it’s less easy to contain than say a meat factory, as from what I’ve read it’s predominantly from household to household transmission in the deprived areas. Not sure what they can do to prevent that really. Maybe mass testing in the affected area so all those testing positive can self isolate?

I can see the problem with part time secondary being travel unless it’s full days off. We’re lucky we live less than ten minutes from DD’s school but some of the girls in her class come in from up to eighteen miles away on special bus services.

@Teateaandmoretea

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....

I think the situation has improved this week.

[quote Mrsfrumble]@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.[/quote]
My 9yo is just moving up to age 6 shorts, mainly as 5 is snug on his muscular thighs rather than his waist. One advantage of trouser refusal is that I don't have to worry about the length ratio. My 7yo is about age 5 trousers with them up his ankles otherwise they fall off his waist. He needs a deeper waist though as they cling off his hip bones.
Then their t-shirts either drown their shoulders or ride up in the middle.
They are not naturally smart children

Fortunately DS1's appetite came back shortly after lockdown started. He finds school hard going anyway and he was anxious with virus talk escalating through Feb/ March. There were a lot of "tummy aches" at that time.

I've been social distancing from yoga with Adriene, mainly because the rooms/ tvs are isually occupied or I'd have to bother to reclaim a patch of carpet from the forces of Lego.

@BarkandCheese Yes, I don’t trust the Guardian not to be disingenuous about the statistics... there’s a huge gulf between where we are now and where we were, and therefore we can get an awfully long way away from where we are now before we get back to where we were, if that makes any sense.

I suspect many working parents would like a bit more flexibility and maybe more of an option to work from home, but that’s not the same as being happy for schools to stay closed forever and blended learning and so on.

Love the descriptions of these :o
www.earlofeast.com/collections/scents-of-normality

@BarkandCheese

I can see the problem with part time secondary being travel unless it’s full days off. We’re lucky we live less than ten minutes from DD’s school but some of the girls in her class come in from up to eighteen miles away on special bus services.

If they did full days - I think that could work but option timetabling would still be a nightmare for current Y10.

They would also need to do much more with on-line learning at my DC school. I still wouldn't be happy learing DD2 by herself all day at 11- but could given enough time make plans.

@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.

OMG this made me so angry I had to shut it down. Bookings? Limiting numbers? Implementing 1m distancing in a playground? Ffs these people really hate children don't they?!

PickAChew - they are fun.

the Cinema candle is a heady fusion of salt popcorn, foam banana and glistening hot dog, enveloped in a fug of recirculated air. A waft of cloistered contraband chicken meets the allium tang of adolescent boredom, laced with juicy notes of melting slushie syrup. An evocative blend, with just the faintest whisper of third base in the back row

Makes me wonder why we've been missing the cinema so much.

Ffs these people really hate children don't they?!

I think they don't have children and are arse covering.

I've tidied my room. Which has actually made a huge difference already to my state of mind. I mostly spend my time at home in my bedroom as the DCs are shouting into various devices in the living room. Not great for my back, or motivation however.

Now I can see the surfaces though, I may have to dust them. I'll dust around the iron, that gets used occasionally for my uniform, depending on how long it spent getting creased in the washing machine before I dry it! No shirts for school or work here so no need for it really. If anyone wants something ironing they get told to do it themselves!

DD has gone out to play with her friend, DS2 has already been for a bike ride and DS1 (the depressed one) hates the outdoors or exercise but has recently got into pokemon go and actually spent several hours wandering the village with his friends yesterday, so has had some exercise. I make him go for a walk around the fields if he's been indoors too long, which he does grudgingly while listening to music.

I can't seem to get my brain into planning and decision making at the moment. I start looking for things to do, or places to go, or something to buy (been wanting a gazebo for ages), then I get fed up and go back to my book! My motivation and commitment has buggered off...

On a positive note, DH is cooking his amazing chili today so that's tacos tonight, enchiladas tomorrow and probably nachos Tuesday! Wine goes well with all of those...

I still firmly believe all school will be full time come September and refuse to give headspace to any alternative. It will NOT happen!

Place marking.

I would be prepared to bet that our very dementory local authority keeps playgrounds closed.

@LadyOfTheImprovisedBath

Ffs these people really hate children don't they?!

I think they don't have children and are arse covering.

They need to get the nanny to show them what a playground is.

Maybe a lot of cut and paste from other guidance?

It's pouring here in Glasgow. I'm joining in, though I go between fuck it let's go out and we'll be dead in a week after going to b&m. I can't decide if I'm a dementor or an anti d.
I'm demented for sure, but who isn't these days.

Definitely need to reopen the playgrounds, poor wee buggers on their balance bikes crying outside the fences, it's heartbreaking.