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I got it wrong with my 17,000 it's 1, 700.
Drakeford is a third rate Politician and is completely out of his depth. His guiding principle seems to be a Ill do the opposite of Boris.

@Paradiseinportugal

I got it wrong with my 17,000 it's 1, 700. Drakeford is a third rate Politician and is completely out of his depth. His guiding principle seems to be a Ill do the opposite of Boris.

I think you may be right. Mid April he was banging on about needing a roadmap out of lockdown. He wanted out and was bleating to the media that he hadn't even heard back from Westminster....two weeks later Bojo gives his plan out and Drakeford buckles down harder. I feel awful for anyone in Wales right now.

@Allflightscancelled

I'm sorry to butt in when the thread's going in a different direction but can I just ask if we are still going to do dry July? Those who need to, obvs. Because I'm screwing myself up for it and I think I'd like the company.

I started 2 nights ago. Planning to continue despite a huge bottle of gin arriving in the post yesterday (my dad has subscribed me to a monthly gin service!). Just about to hop on the exercise bike too. Need to sort myself out!

@Allflightscancelled I'll do dry July too.

@Paradiseinportugal
Have you been to Rhoose airport?
There’s not a whole lot of catchment area around it.
Llantwit Major, and a few other villages..certainly the 5 mile rule would rule out most of Barry and definitely Cardiff
Nope, llantwit would be out of the running, but surprisingly my cousin on the port road just squeezes in at 4.8 miles

Another absolute bat hit idea.

@Orangeblossom78

It's odd that although busy these threads are never trending

I have thought this too

@Allflightscancelled
Gosh you’ve been through the mill haven’t you?
Pleased to hear all ok now.

I’ve woken feeling doomy and gloomy from a heavy dream
I tempered reading yesterday that Boris was going to fill emptyshops with housing for people.
I was imagining the metro centre which is struggling just full of people living in some sort of housing estate with no infrastructure.
It sounded like he’ll.

I need to get my mind away from conspiracy theories that focus on society being carved up into little packages where you can’t have get togethers of more than a handful of people..because Large groupS of people are dangerous you know.
Oh it’s already happened.

Jean jacques Rousseau..people are born free...but are everywhere in chains.

That’s us right now.
Argh, I don’t want to start my day like this.

I have a group of close friends and we're in a what's app group

One is a mega dementor and has been from the start. The rest of us are increasing giving less of a corona-shit and also We're all in Leicester so all of us (bar her) have been bemoaning the local lockdown and gutted about schools and shops shutting again etc

Anyway yesterday she wrote in the group along lines of "44k are dead just be grateful to be alive and stay home "

Then promptly flounced out the group and is now posting stuff on fb about "stupid people you know who you are" and "just fucking stay home" it's Obvs aimed at us ☹️

I used to consider her intelligent and a good friend. it's really sad how this is ruining friendships

Has anyone else lost friends?

From us for them

💥💥💥💥 DAILY CALL TO ACTION 💥💥💥💥

With the imminent announcement from The Secretary of State for Education on the government’s ‘Back to School’ plan we want all our members to make their voices heard by Keir Starmer, the leader of the Labour Party.

It is Mr Starmer who will question the government on their plans and by telling him how we feel, we can shape his response to the government.

We also know that Labour play an influential role in the actions of the teaching Unions and with Matt Hancock’s statement that children spread the virus being used already by one of the leading Unions, let’s take this opportunity to tell Mr Starmer that we want and our children deserve to be back in school as normal in September.

Mr Starmer’s email address is:

[email protected]

You can also tweet him at:

@Keir_Starmer

Please include in your email:

*What you want the Back to School plan to include.

*What you don’t want the plan to include.

*Why it is so important that parents, teachers and unions unite for the common purpose of our children’s education.

Please also include our hashtag in any correspondence #usforthem

Let us know how you get on!

And the posturing about making sure Nottingham doesn’t turn into Leicester has started with figures thrown about of an r rate just above 1 to scare people.

They’re laying the groundwork for it I tell you.

@NothingIsWrong I get it. And our jobs as we know them have been taken away from us. I read something really interesting about careers when I was awake in the middle of the night a couple of night ago, that a job you love is a combination of something you’re good at (yep), a passion (yep), feel like you’re making a difference (yep) and crucially a working environment that suits you. If any one of these is missing then it isn’t the right fit.

So for those of us who don’t like WFH, we have lost that crucial piece of the career jigsaw, which means our jobs are not as satisfying as they were. For others that environment will have improved for them (those screaming to be locked up forever). Taken with all the other changes lockdown has brought, it is no wonder we are feeling unsettled, weepy and thoroughly fed up.

On a different note I’m not sure I’m quite ready for dry July but I will join those of you doing it in so far as cutting out mid-week drinking - it was getting far too regular. I haven’t had a drink since Saturday night and intend to continue at least till Friday.

I gave up the fags in mid-December and have actually managed to stay off them. Other than during both my pregnancies this is the longest I have given up for. So I do have willpower somewhere and I think I am long enough off the fags to have some capacity now to deal with another addiction.

[quote Dowser]@DominaShantotto
From end the lockdown

The news of the closure of schools in Leicester has galvanised our members into wanting to take action and for the campaign to step up a gear. We are actively planning the next stages but we’d love your input.

What would you like the next steps of the campaign to be? Please feel free to add other options in the comments.

Thank you!

I think you will already be on the group but if not there’s some support[/quote]
Is this a pressure group? Where can I find it please I want to join!

I think maybe I need a chat to my GP. Wide awake until 3.30, awake at 6 so I've had very little sleep and I can't stop crying. I need to be on calls in 15min and I'm still in my dressing gown.

Also I'm really trying hard not to just get in the car and not stop driving.

I mean I can't because that would mean leaving 3 children unattended and as desperate as I'm feeling, I won't do that.

bigrollBOGOFF we ditched the pishy worksheets early in and have concentrated on:

1. spelling bee style wankbadger/shit wizard/fucker mcfuckerton

2. counting cards in blackjack

3. enjoying zombie shows

I did get them to engage with school one chirpy Monday morning and my youngest had to write a note of what he did at the weekend. He wrote we’d done our click and collect and the man was trying to look like a lady but he knew it was a man because it was “not a girl’s voice”. 😂😳 teacher didn’t comment.

magda the cigs are my struggle. I’d rather have a Marlboro than a vat of gin. I knocked them on the head back in jan with this thing heading our way, but they’ve crept back in the last month of ennui. There’s also that glorious five minutes p&q in the garden on your own. Today marks giving up attempt three million and six.

@NothingIsWrong I have that driving away feeling. Ring your GP, really, do it this morning. The calls ultimately don’t matter. Tell your boss and either excuse yourself or get them to get someone to cover for you. If I was your boss I would do it in an instant.

In Wells yesterday there were several familes crabbing by the harbour. Or as I prefer to call it, practical natural history lessons.
When we got to the bit by the beach huts DH stopped me and told me to listen. Straining for the call of some bird I assumed I should be identifying I asked for a clue. "Children" he said "children enjoying themselves".

I may take up smoking again. It's been ages since I quit and I suspect that DH will divorce me if I do but I'm at the stage I don't care about that.

I said to him yesterday that I didn't think I was good enough for him, that I'm disorganised and messy and complicated and that he was a better person than me. His reply was "well to be honest I do know that I'm better than everyone else, but you could try harder"

Where do I even go with that? I have always had a heavy dose of imposter syndrome and now I'm not even good enough for my husband.

I'm up for a fitness thing as not doing dry july.

Also not sleeping well, have work thing to sort out which I'm now convinced must be something I'm doing and the Leicester thing is upsetting. We are not directly affected but both sets of parents live in areas that have been mentioned in the press for possible lockdowns (although this seems to be half the country) and we haven't seen them since January so were hoping to visit.

Plus the pink tied idiot boy giving fuel to school dementors.

@NothingIsWrong Ring your GP. You're worth more than feeling like this.

Re: Leicester, and any other potential hotspots. I don't think the cause of localised increases in infection rates are caused by people going for walks more than once a day, or doing their food shopping in person. I don't even think it's sending your kids to school. But I am starting to think it's going to be a poverty issue when we look back on this. The types of work people are in, the attitudes of their bosses to not attending (these are not the jobs you can do from home, they're poorly paid manual labour), slum landlords/overcrowding etc. Combinations of these are what make distancing impossible for so many people.

Nothingiswrong, that is particularly dickish of your husband. Is it a one off?

@Littlebelina he has form. I've stopped doing a lot of things round the house as he just redoes then to his standards. Like the dishwasher. Every day he reloads it after I've done it. Except when I don't do it, he complains that I've not done it. But if he only ever reloads it because my effort is not good enough, why would I bother. Ditto folding clothes, cooking, shopping etc. So he does more and more as I fail to see the point in doing anything only to have it redone, and he gets crossed that I don't do anything and doesn't get that it's because he always redoes it.

Morning.
Went to bet at 9:30 after no wine and slept right through so am feeling particularly sprightly.
Just about to have a quick look at the local FB page where I'm sure chief dementor will have posted some ridiculous meme and piss me off again

I used to consider her intelligent and a good friend. it's really sad how this is ruining friendships

I think it actually shows you who your true friends are and that a lot of people are suddenly showing who they really are. It’s the reality of any hard time.

Personally no, I haven’t but I have a few people on the edges of acquaintances who I’ve been avoiding for sure.

His reply was "well to be honest I do know that I'm better than everyone else, but you could try harder"

He was being ironic surely. Unless he really is a prize twat and in which case you are the one who is too good.