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

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New thread!

Our P7s “graduated” yesterday. The village lined the street and clapped and cheered as they left for the last time.

My kids were furious as usually the P7s are put in stocks and you get to throw sponges at their heads as a little payback.

mrsarchchancellor that’s shit and it’s not fair the children are punished because of local bollocks.

Some new cases reported on the border in Dumfries and Galloway: it's sll the fault of selfish murderers going to Primark in Carlisle and bringing back the filthy English virus. Close the border and patrol it!!!!!!!

Being realistic about the deaths data, we clearly do have an ongoing issue in care homes; there were 106 outbreaks in care homes in week ending June 21. 101 the week before, 106 the week before that, and 114 the week before that. Still half of outbreaks.(24 in hospital, 24 in schools and 50 other latest week).

Hospital deaths are clearly on a very steady decline and admissions suggest they will continue that way; care home ones seem not so much (though not increasing) though given they don't give day of death any more it's hard to tell.

However, there are now no longer any excess deaths in hospital or care homes, so data is definitely all going the right way.

@mightbealittlebitmad

I'm losing faith that people want their lives to return, too many seem happy holed up at home doing absolutely nothing. I find it surprising that they don't do anything like eat out, have friends over, go to the gym, swimming. Do they all just stay at home with their immediate family all of the time??

I'm feeling a bit perkier this week because I'm planning on redoing our spare room and making it into more of a hiding place for me. I'm busy tidying, choosing furniture, thinking about decorating.

Maybe once that's done I'll think about decorating our bedroom and the bathrooms. Paint is cheap enough to buy so should keep me occupied.

I have a handful of real life events planned too, I can almost taste normality! Crossing my fingers and toes for the return of the gym, the sooner the better but if it's not open by September I might cry.

Remember the dementors are hanging out on here because they're not off out enjoying themselves and too busy frothing themselves into a paranoid frenzy over the horrors of people behaving normally.

The zoo has felt pleasantly busy. For a mediocre day of weather, mid-week term time, it felt so delightfully normal. A few small details like the playgrounds and indoor spaces and that will have compressed capacity.

I've bought annual memberships for us. They need the money and we break even if we do two more visits which is an easy enough outing under the circumstances. Today was the first day that they haven't been sold out.

It's been mý best day of 2020

nothing hope the increase works. I've been on 200mg for about 2.5 years, still struggle at times, but better than I did.

@GreatWave glad you got some help.

@BogRollBOGOF glad the zoo was good! I like hearing happy stories

The zoo is much more civilised than the wilderness beyond this thread

If any of you have watched The Zoo on CBBC (mockumentary with dubbed talking animals, I can watch it for my own fun) we were looking at the gorillas doing the gorilla voices from The Zoo. Lots of telling eachother to "shut up" in a gorrilla voice, and "I vant a poopsicle" Good, fun silliness. Obviously it's not going to help Leicester 20 miles away with such juvinile frivolity

@Worldgonecrazy

I just had a walk around town at lunchtime. The following shops sand restaurants closed at the start of lockdown and won’t be reopening.

Las Iguanas.
Cafe Rouge
Carluccios
Pizza Express
Small local independent Italian
Small local independent sandwich shop
WH Smith
Catch Kidston
Mountain warehouse
Oasis
Monsoon
Accessorise
Small independent doughnut and cake outlet
Our small Debenhams

Several of our large office employees are keeping staff working from home and will be reducing their office space.

This is being repeated in towns and cities throughout the UK.

There are no tenants waiting to take the empty shop and office spaces.

Our town centres are going to become post apocalyptic movie locations and I dread that feeling of desolation will seep into our nation’s consciousness. 😞

It's OK, Boris announced yesterday that he's overhauling planning regs so that all these empty busican be turned into homes. Therefore solving housing and employment crises in one fell swoop.

*businesses can non busican

Not! Arghh. Sorry, about to go for my first run in months and my sports bra is too tight (lockdown lard indeed) for my thumbs/brain to function properly...

I am worried about the restaurant pub sector in Wales, Drakeford will not be pushed on re-opening, with furlough ending some businesses will just close up shop. Reading the comments on the article some people think this a good thing, chapel minded people who used to close our pubs on Sundays here are alive and kicking still. They still are scared of germ ridden incomers/tourists almost as much as our germ ridden children.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-53246516#comment_139936370

@TrustTheGeneGenie

I have just had to stop myself calling someone something that would get me banned.

I'm seething.

I have just come back from that thread You did well although I don't know how you have the energy to engage in the bat shit craziness

@LivinLaVidaLoki
I quite enjoyed the papers being posted. I was waiting for someone to point out they are not peer reviewed, but really there were no point. It was just rabid frothing

@LethargicLumpOfLockdownLard I swear my sports bra is trying to murder me sometimes. It’s only a mater of time before I have to get DH to come and fasten me into the damn thing, with a foot in my back like he’s winching a corset in

I’m not looking at the schools thread but well done to anyone who has the energy for it... I just don’t.

@RobinHobb
What bugged me most was the insistence that they recommended 2m social distance because some random article said so

They are papers about transmission fack all to do with social distancing. She got on her high horse with me about them and she didnt even read them.

Malakaaaaaaaaaaa
Amathis Malaka!

Amathis is Greek for ignorant. Sorry for the dropping random Greek in, I'm now having to help my son with online greek school. Greek school. Via Zoom. Ffs.

Like trying to home ed mainstream school wasnt enough.

Just parking this here
In case I lose it

Furthermore Nobel-prize winning scientist and Stanford biophysicist Professor Michael Levitt who has been right throughout this "pandemic" is also LOUDLY now asserting that Covid is LESS deadly than flu and the data supports that assertion. He is a Nobel Laureate and his research led to the use of cancer anti bodies in life saving treatments. He has been scathing of the science used to justify this lockdown. It is vital that this information is pushed out there if we ever hope to see a return to normality in schools and life generally. I quoted him in all my letters to the school and I am convinced that this and other data I supplied them led to us reopening with minimal precautions. He has been hugely outspoken about the effects on the young in particular of this lockdown and would be an ideal person for the group to reach out to and have on board. Just one of many articles on him now...cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/this-is-science-which-should-go-on-trial/

I went out for a run this morning and had an encounter with the social distancing police - an old man walking his dog had moved out onto the road and said sarcastically "thank you" to me because clearly I didn't express enough gratitude for his selfless act. I thought for a split second then stopped to have it out, he wasn't backing down so I just said "had a nice life saddo" and ran off.

Anyway then I saw him again about 10 minutes later he said "are you still in a bad mood?" Well that did it, but I didn't swear; he kept saying "stop shouting" when I was just talking loudly. I asked him if he would have said the same to a male runner 🤔 still he wouldn't back down. What a dickhead. I said "what did you expect a bow?" And "what are you going to do about it? Just stay bitter?". "You don't get to tell me what mood I'm in". I think I held my own. Clearly not used to a woman speaking back. I'm really not to be messed with right now, just a ball of tired fury.

I'm avoiding all the other threads now for the sake of my mental health

[quote Spudlet]@LethargicLumpOfLockdownLard I swear my sports bra is trying to murder me sometimes. It’s only a mater of time before I have to get DH to come and fasten me into the damn thing, with a foot in my back like he’s winching a corset in

I’m not looking at the schools thread but well done to anyone who has the energy for it... I just don’t.[/quote]
Mine is a front zip one. That was a really unattractive struggle - I considered summoning DH to assist but I'd just served dinner and felt it would be cruel!

Bloody flies! I'd covered DD's dinner with the microwave food cover thing as my dinner was in the microwave for after my run. Went to get it when she got home from murderously rampaging the village estate with her friends and a bloody fly had got under/through the tiny holes and laid eggs on it! So her dinner went in the bin and she got mine.
Last week a load of maggots fell out of the bin lid when I went to empty it... I will confess to being very unfeminist and deciding instead of calmy dealing with them (which I am more than capable of) I sat on the worktop and screamed until DH came and sorted it. Because it's always me that empties the bloody thing, so he can damn well deal with it. Of course he said "well I did think it's been needing emptying for a few days" - there may have been angry mutterings from me while I tried to look traumatised perched on the worktop...

I've tried those hanging sticky things but the flies just avoid them and all that happens is I end up with sticky fingers trying to get them on the ceiling.
Any magical fly solutions?

I had a woman in a shop dash behind a counter today as I reached for a newspaper. Sadly the local co-op has closed for a refurb so am limited to another annoying shops now.

Is it 1m or 2m now we are supposed to be leaving these street dementors? I can't keep up.

@Orangeblossom78

I'm avoiding all the other threads now for the sake of my mental health

I think I should. Fucking viscious bitches tonight.

@Orangeblossom78

I'm avoiding all the other threads now for the sake of my mental health

Me too. I’m in a little bit of awe at everyone who’s holding the front line day after day against the dementors. I can cope with most things right now, but I find arguing, even virtue arguing, pushes me into misery.

I was mildly irritated by the socially-distancing-friends type on my run this morning (I headed off to a park away from home). I'm on the left edge of the path. To my side is a small gentle slope of longer wet grass. Social-distancers are not willing to relinquish their 2m from each other. I hold my course so end up panting within 1m of the one in the middle.
No I'm not risking a sprained ankle or just the annoyance of wet feet for the pair of them to hog the bloody path. If you're not willing to pull in or reduce distancing, is it really sensible to meet your mate?
There were a few of them out. (No rage was expressed)

Social distancing from your dog on its lead is also not required.

I'm not bothered about the hazards of briefly passing people at whatever distance, I just never liked path hoggers

@LethargicLumpOfLockdownLard
And @Worldgonecrazy

Gone crazy. This was on my mind this morning. I think it’s awful
I remember my first time to downtown Orlando, expecting to see something like oxford st
You couldn’t have been further from the truth
This again was more like a ghost town with huge high rises for the likes of Bank of America etc
At street level, the roads were busy but pavements quiet. It was weird
If you wanted Macy’s, Penney’s etc..then you went to the out of (down ) town mall.
Downtown kissimmee was much nicer..sobs wish I was there now. Nd people lived there
I can’t remember if people lived in downtown Orlando or not. There were a couple of nice parks..so maybe.

I don’t want to see the british high street gone for ever

Can’t all this happen when I’m gone..only another 30 years. I’m going when I’m 98

@LethargicLumpOfLockdownLard Wasn't there a classic MM thread about a woman who was sat on her worktop waiting for her DH to come and open a medication bottle or something??

How often do you hang around on your counter tops?