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

[Ibake]

New thread!

Beautiful @NothingIsWrong bet you feel much better for it x

Glad your father is OK, @countrygirl99 care really is rubbish, right now.

@BogRollBOGOF Metroland got replaced by the Qube. Basically more restaurants, plus they moved the cinema over there (tk maxx/ homesense is on the old odeon site) and built a bowling alley.

Fingers crossed for your Dad, CountryGirl
Dowser I think my Covid plan would be May Dad's patent cold cure -hot toddy (whisky, sugar, cloves, lemon juice and hot water) with a couple of soluble aspirin chucked in.
Sedative, energy source, vitamin C, anti-microbial / antiviral /antifungal and a painkiller, in one convenient glass

@dowser one of ds2's rituals in the Metrocentre is having a look at the water wheel in the antique village area. And telling us about it. At length.

My not may

Stunning scenery there, @NothingIsWrong

Good for the soul.

@NothingIsWrong looks and sounds like a lovely evening.

The BBC let slip that about 166,000 people had died during lockdown. Which is around the usual number for such a period. But we wouldn't've shut the country down in an attempt to prevent them.

So 123,000 deaths are generally unremarked but 43,000 are 'sadly'. And the evidence that it would be more than 43,000 if we hadn't locked down is getting weaker as we learn more.

And that's 166,000 people who didn't get proper funerals with much hugging and supporting during and after, at the pub.

@Weedsnseeds1
Wow that sounds good
Mr Dowser would be up for that..his favour tipple is whiskey
I shall make a note of that

@PickAChew
I want to go to the metro centre..now
Well sometime in the next couple of weeks
So many memories
Taking my kids up there
My mum loved to shop up there..we went all over
Me and my daughter
Even me and mr Dowser had a few forays up there.
If that goes, I feel they will have swallowed up my past
It was just somewhere to go on a rainy day, let the kids go mad in metro land
Have a meal
Job done.

[quote Mrsfrumble]@BogRollBOGOF are you in Derby? You don’t have to answer, and sorry if we’d already established that threads ago...

Today I started looking at jobs again, which I haven’t done since lockdown started. Would it be crackers to apply for a school-based job starting in September, when I’ve got no idea what’s going to be happening with my own children?[/quote]
I am. At the rate these threads move at any random advanced searcher for this confession should make it hard work to dig it up.

Today I started looking at jobs again, which I haven’t done since lockdown started. Would it be crackers to apply for a school-based job starting in September, when I’ve got no idea what’s going to be happening with my own children?

Do it @Mrsfrumble! You'd be classed as a key worker if you're employed by a school (even if not a teacher) so should be able to send your own children in regardless of the wider situation. Also school jobs are fab

@amicissimma

And that's 166,000 people who didn't get proper funerals with much hugging and supporting during and after, at the pub.

This is what fills me with rage. The lack of healing that is contributing to our collective collapse in mental health. Funerals aren’t just about the cremation or burial, they are when we find healing and strength from each other.

@ibale
Is it your own place.
You mentioning La Plagne reminded me how much I loved France
Morzine is a about 3 hours away. We took the children to avoriaz one summer
Morzine was at the foot of the mountain and avoriaz up 18 hair pin bends at the top.
One of the most beautiful places I’d been too.
The ancient village / town of Yvoire is well worth a visit.
Several years later we bought a chalet type thing in Brittany on a campsite. That was lovely.
We were at le pouldu , near Lorien , totally different to the alps and sw france but because we had the place in Florida we only spent 20 nights there in 3 years
Probably haven’t been there for over ( France) for over 15 years now.
If you get the chance..go.
When we had the tourer, our neighbours on the campsite in N Yorks used to go every year to France for a 3 week holiday. They were both long distance lorry drivers, so it was a doddle for them

@mrsfrumble are you sure you want to work in a school with all those germy covid spreaders? You're certain to DIE.

No in all seriousness go for it! Like psychomath said it would mean your kids can go back too!

Susanna Reid on education.
www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8480451/SUSANNA-REID-way-pupils-like-boys-abandoned-shameful.html

Just had a quick google of jobs online around here, and can see some school ones (admin and LSA ones) and also sone 1:1 support worker jobs with people with disabilities around. Most of them need drivers though.

Here I go, another day praying for the travel corridor announcement. I know its selfish and incredibly self centred but I want to see my family.

This year has been so hard particularly for the young people I work with. I've had to put in so many hours I feel like I've been neglecting my own child. So I just want to take a break from the relentless ness of it all and spend time with my family.

I love that I can talk about this here without being called selfish. I always wanted to respond with "I am anything but selfish, I fight hard all the time to give our children and young people a voice, to give them opportunities and help them achieve good outcomes in their life. Ive created and implemented programs that have changed so many lives for the better. What the fuck have you done?"
But yeah I'm selfish.

An article by kate silverton on trying to wfh with children and the effects on their mental health

Coronavirus: Kate Silverton on her fear for children's mental health www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-53224324

Hi all. I'm going to try and avoid MN for a bit. And the news. And everything. I had a full on panic attack last night about how I think it's increasingly apparant that the schools aren't going to open properly in September and I have no idea how mu family copes for any longer than we already have with both of us working full time with primary kids around. Colleagues' kids all at private school, all back as normal. This is going to have huge ramifications for my career and my children's mental health and I am so so angry and frustrated about the whole thing. What the f did the government expect when they shut schools - that the teachers would merrily skip back in when instructed to?

It’s just awful.
Parents need to speak up.
I don’t know what platform but your stories need to be heard.
I don’t think I’d have coped and I didn’t work.
Three under 4.5 , the baby with cleft lift and palate and other special needs, taking him to clinics most weeks..and no school or nursery for older ones..I’d have flipped. I did physically.
I got pneumonia , was in hospital for two weeks and I’ll for nearly 5 months after.
That was with school, And my mum to help me. She’d go at 4 and the children played at the foot of my sick bed till their dad came home around 6
Happy days ☹️

@PinkFondantFancy
Sorry to hear you’re leaving us

We will be here when you decide to come back.
Just take it a moment at a time.

@PinkFondantFancy just stay off other threads is what I do.

FWIW there is some good news, short term as holiday clubs will be allowed to open with groups of up to 15 (so normal pretty much). Government guidance published yesterday. I’ve heard providers were waiting for this before they advertised anything.

www.gov.uk/government/publications/protective-measures-for-holiday-or-after-school-clubs-and-other-out-of-school-settings-for-children-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-outbreak

Just ignore the dementors

Sorry to hear that @PinkFondantFancy. For what it's worth I think primary schools have a decent chance of some sort of normality although I think secondary is more difficult. Sometimes a break from social media is good though and we'll still be here when you come back.

What frustrates me (and Susanna Reid alludes to it, both hers and the Kate S article are spot on) is that it's taken this long for the government to come up with a schools plan. They closed in march! They should have been working on various scenarios since then and had guidance ready to issue two weeks ago when they said all children would be back in September. Not leak guidance 5 days before they officially issue (so it's torn apart in the rumour mill) and only give schools a few weeks before the summer break to work out how to implement it. Leicestershire schools break up next friday (which might explain partly why they were so quick to close them again)