AD's say "well open the playgrounds and swimming pools then you Malaka"

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New thread!

I honestly don’t know if it’s safe for us (as a family unit) for them to go back. But I’m putting on my own “oxygen mask” and I need 6 hrs a day to recharge because right now I’m good for nobody.

lethargic The times do very good competitions. I won a fucking enormous harrods hamper with them. Ended up giving some to the food bank as it wasn’t all our flavours. I really fucking hope someone having a hard time chuckled over their harrods marmalade and didn’t just think “smunt”. 😉

@dowser it's here petition.parliament.uk/petitions/315979

@Dowser your email address is showing at the bottom of that copy and paste...

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane ooh that reminds me of when "comping" was my hobby when DCs were small. Won some quite cool stuff actually.

Haven’t read all this article in the lancet but agree with what I’ve read so far

www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(20)30186-3/fulltext

ooh I'd like to win a hamper!

Years ago I worked for a company that organised magazine competitions. We used to do one where the star letter writer each month won a picnic hamper stuffed with champagne and chocolate biscuits. That's my kind of hamper . Anyway I was quite lowly and so had to fill and despatch the hampers to the winners.

On one occasion the winner must have lived on a military base, though the address didn't make that clear. Anyway, it arrived unannounced, seemed suspicious so they took it out onto the firing range and blew it up as a precaution. Wicker, biscuits and booze flying in all directions!!! I don't know what the camp boss said when he phoned my boss. My boss was normally a good laugh, but she was rattled. When she called me in to her office, told me what had happened and I fell about laughing, she really didn't see the funny side.

I, on the other hand, still laugh about it now

Giggling at the thought of a hamper of booze and biscuits being blown up. What a waste, but hilarious.

@Dowser you've inadvertently left your email address at the bottom of that email.

The ban on music and loud talking is going to be a bugger, though I wish they'd send that memo to shops. I hate loud musak because my hearing is pretty crap after 16 years of listening to screaming. And I don't mean the mumsnet screaming which seems to be a slightly raised voice.

@Allflightscancelled

I can't believe only 7000 people have signed the 'end the lockdown' petition 😳

I wonder if there is an element still of people being scared to stick their neck out a bit for fear of being shouted down. I have had a fair bit of that and it is soul destroying when it happens over and over and over.

Could be, Livin. Although I'm very suspicious that the email response hasn't arrived. Until it does, and I click on the link within it, my name doesn't appear on the petition even though I want it to. It seems fishy to me.

@Shodan you & me both.

The last interaction I had with a dementor was the cretinous piece of shite telling me it would be okay if 'our kids' were prepared to behave like the kids in South Korea ... they are just so cute & good over there, wearing their little masks without complaining, happily sitting in their perspex boxes, messaging rather than talking to friends.

I told them it was nothing to aspire to, they should look to Denmark for inspiration then I unfriended and blocked them. I will never forget those who have been so quick to damage children. I truly hope that those young people who've been utterly fucked don't forget it either.

The Leicester outbreak looks like it has been caused by a factory exploiting workers. They were supposed to close if they couldn't maintain social distancing but they didnt. They gave the impression that they were closed by boarding up the windows but then told people if they didnt come in they wouldn't get paid, even if they were ill.......

@LivinLaVidaLoki

The Leicester outbreak looks like it has been caused by a factory exploiting workers. They were supposed to close if they couldn't maintain social distancing but they didnt. They gave the impression that they were closed by boarding up the windows but then told people if they didnt come in they wouldn't get paid, even if they were ill.......

This is why I’m so cross that schools have closed. It’s given ammunition to the school dementors for no reason. The government need to be tackling the actual issues in a targeted way, not just locking a load of people up.

Time to shut the factories.
I can offer on line foraging lessons for teachers.

So, more dishwasher woes

I decided to be defiant and run it half full BECAUSE I WANTED TO.

I put the food waste bin to fill up the space, except I didn't know it had fairy liquid in the bottom. The dishwasher filled up with foam, and now all the house electrics are fucked.

First question from husband "why was the dishwasher on and why didn't you check that there wasn't any washing up liquid in the bottom of the food bin? You've basically fucked the electrics for something you should have been doing by hand"

I'm not being unreasonable to be very very upset by this? I'm working full time from home with three children while he is in an office.

nothingiswrong I think you need a locksmith and a solicitor more urgently than an electrician.

It worries me you see running it half full as defiant. He isn’t in charge of you and sounds like a nasty bully who wasn’t joking with that comment earlier

nothing You are absolutely not being unreasonable. You won't have done majorly long term damage. What's the situation at the moment? (Just thinking of immediate making safe)

I've thrown the main circuit breaker and cut the entire house electrics to stop any further damage. Luckily my work laptop is fully charged and I can tether to my phone for data, but it's not a good enough connection to allow our work VPN to connect so I can't work really

Electrician who is a friend is coming in the next hour to test the circuits and try and work out how bad the damage is.

@LivinLaVidaLoki

The Leicester outbreak looks like it has been caused by a factory exploiting workers. They were supposed to close if they couldn't maintain social distancing but they didnt. They gave the impression that they were closed by boarding up the windows but then told people if they didnt come in they wouldn't get paid, even if they were ill.......

That doesn’t surprise me, unfortunately

I agree with yeateaandmoretea I'm afraid.

@Nihiloxica You're very kind... I don’t really know what I want to do. I know I’d like it to be at least partly if not fully from home, and flexible.

I started teaching myself to code but I didn’t have the time to concentrate on it so stopped last summer - I did build a couple of Wordpress sites and enjoyed it. But there’s not much money in that. I’ve also done some copy editing and really enjoyed that - don’t know where to even begin with finding work though.

Alternatively, before DS was born I did some dog training and loved that. I don’t know if I want to make it a job? But I really enjoyed it.

I enjoy lots of things, but making money out of them isn’t the most straightforward...!

I wonder if there will be jobs in shops etc around here - maybe should try and get a job of some sort when both DC are at secondary. But it seems unsure if they will be stop/start with the school

I veer form being worried to not caring attitude at the moment. I have another health condition which is far more risky than covid and if it flies up, need a laparotomy (had 3 of the so far). I'm far more concerned about that than covid, to be honest.

NothingIsWrong this is unfortunate but it's the sort of thing that could easily happen to everyone. This level of micro management and bullying isn't acceptable. You can't be living like this. Please don't let him treat you like this.

It may have become normal to you, but it's really, really not good at all

My tinfoil hat dementing earlier was not necessary, I can now report. I got the email and my signature is now proudly up there on the end the lockdown petition. It still needs more than 2,00' signatures though, so if you some anti dementors and could send them on over there....

he feels very sorry and sympathetic for young people who have sacrificed so much for a disease that does not affect them

Who is this please?

i get cross about he scaremongering in the press over this

Last house had a dish washer and we made mistake of putting washing up liquid in - foamed over the floor didn't do anything to machine or house electrics. ( we did it more than once as well - we didn't learn)

Have you checked that a switch hasn't just flipped off in fuse box? Something blows in this house switch goes - did same in last house after we had it re-wired.

www.glotechrepairs.co.uk/news/washing-up-liquid-in-dishwashers/#:~:text=As%20you%20can%20imagine%2C%20when,up%20of%20bubbles%20and%20suds.&text=These%20bubbles%20find%20their%20way,%2C%20or%20the%20electronic%20components). This suggest bar of soap - for us we just scopped out and washed empty few times.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3180746-To-squirt-washing-up-liquid-in-the-dishwasher It's not just us though who weren't aware.

@Nothing - my mate at work (male, I might add) ran the dishwasher at work and actually PUT Fairy in it, in the absence of proper tablets.

Yes, he is a bellend, and we mocked him A LOT. There were massive amounts of foam, it mullered the carpet and it looked like something out of Tom and Jerry, but it didn't do any permanent damage to the office electrickery.
I could see it flipping the fuse, but how come it's caused so much damage to the house wiring?

NB I'm not an electrician or anything like one, I'm just worried that your husband's trying to make a bigger drama out of it than it necessarily needs to be to try and make a point.